keynote speaker i futurist i board advisor

Keynotes I Retreats I Corporate Trainings I Podcasts

Intro & Bio

Samrah Kazmi is the Chief Innovation Officer at RESRG, an Innovation advisory that helps businesses transform for the future, while focusing on Ethics & Sustainability. She is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University and at The Pratt Institute.

Passionate about equity & the environment, Samrah is also the CEO of “Women In Sustainable Innovation'', a global community she founded in January 2020, at the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal # 9 (Industry, Infrastructure & Innovation).

After spending three decades in leadership roles on Wall Street & tech and co-founding a FinTech startup, Samrah now serves as a trusted advisor to financial institutions & insurance firms, Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial start-ups, boards & the C-suite, providing strategic advice & executive consultation on Artificial Intelligence, Digital Ethics, Cybersecurity, Web3 & the metaverse. She has worked with governments, educators & accelerators to build innovation ecosystems & smart cities.

LEADERSHIP

2016

2020

Entrepreneurship

Founder &

Chief Innovation Officer

Founder &

Chief Executive Officer

Co-Founder & COO

Board Director

Entrepreneur in Residence

Mentor to Entrepreneurs

US Market

Entry Advisor to Startups

Keynotes

Innovation for Impact:

Using Technology to Create Meaningful Change

Consulting

Vision & Strategy

Governance

• Innovation Roadmaps for:
• Responsible AI & EmergingTech
  
• Smart cities
  
• Higher education
  
• ESG & Sustainability
  
• Digital Transformation
  
• Partnerships
• Visibility
  

• Guiding principles & regulatory considerations for Artificial Intelligence
• Bespoke reporting & compliance frameworks & policies for:
• Cyber Resilience
  
• ESG & ClimateTech
• Insurtech & Fintech
• Digital ethics: security & privacy
  

Acceleration

Leadership

• Soft Landing programs for
• Non-US startups,
  
• Foreign trade missions
  
• Accelerators
  
• Scale up strategy & services
• Product & Go-to-market
• Strategic Operations for early stage startups
• B2B Enterprise procurement process.
  

• Fractional CXO
  
• Co-Founder matching
  
• Board & C-level advisory
• Team building
• Performance Management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Succession planning
  

Past Events

United Nations HQ, NYC

Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67), March 2023

Bloomberg + Deloitte

The Way Forward Summit

Washington DC, May 2019

The AI Summit Singapore

Virtual

December 2020

Testimonial

"Samrah delivered a very engaging and thought-provoking experience, breaking down complex risk, regulatory and technology concepts into digestable, data-driven stories. The audience feedback was overwhelmingly positive."

Gerlinde Gerber

Campaign Strategy Manager

Bloomberg Industry Group

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