Matthew Blakemore

Matthew Blakemore is an award-winning AI strategist who translates complex technology into actionable business advantage, combining international standards development with real-world commercial impact. Named Top 100 Influential People (2025) and Forty Under 40 UK (2024), he serves as CEO of AI Caramba! and co-authors the ISO/IEC 8183 AI Data Lifecycle Standard affecting 165+ countries, whilst advising Innovate UK's £100 million BridgeAI Programme and contributing to the EU AI Office General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. As Programme Director at Mindstone, he has upskilled over 70,000 professionals in AI adoption. His 250+ keynotes across 20+ countries equip leaders to build durable AI strategies, navigate emerging regulation, and understand the neuroscience behind how AI captures attention, enabling organisations to invest wisely and govern responsibly in a rapidly shifting landscape.

When Matthew Blakemore stood before 5,000 attendees at World Summit AI to demonstrate a live brain-computer interface, he bridged two worlds that define his career: the neuroscience of how humans think and the technology reshaping how machines learn. That demonstration, combining pioneering research at the intersection of AI and the brain, exemplifies his ability to make complex technical concepts tangible and urgent for audiences who need to act on them. Over the past decade, he has delivered more than 250 keynotes across 20 countries to over 500,000 people, chaired some of the world's largest AI events including World Summit AI and the London AI Summit, and earned recognition as Top 100 Influential People (2025), Forty Under 40 UK (2024), and UK Tech Visionary (2023). An Honorary Doctor of Business from the University of Hertfordshire, conferred in recognition of services to business, he has also been recognised as an award-winning AI filmmaker with over 20 IMDb credits and a two-time Cannes World Film Festival Best Song winner, bringing creative as well as commercial insight to his work.

As CEO of AI Caramba! and one of four global experts selected as sub-editor for ISO/IEC 8183 AI Data Lifecycle Standard, Matthew shapes AI governance frameworks affecting more than 165 countries in a market projected to reach USD 3.68 trillion. His contributions to the EU AI Office General-Purpose AI Code of Practice and his advisory roles with Innovate UK's £100 million BridgeAI Programme and Kinetic Investments' £30 million AI fund position him at the centre of both policy development and commercial deployment. During his tenure at the British Board of Film Classification, he invented and patented an AI-driven video classification solution that produces multiple territory-specific age ratings from a single viewing, alongside a multimodal AI tool developed with Amazon Web Services and the University of Bath. As Programme Director at Mindstone, he has upskilled over 70,000 professionals in AI adoption, and his work with London & Partners supports the capital's position as an AI innovation hub. He serves as AI and New Tech Expert for Belgian broadcaster VRT and Future Media Hubs, and guest lectures at Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, and King's College London. He holds US Patent 11,678,015 B1 and has authored three forthcoming books spanning AI strategy, AI history, and neuroscience, including a co-authored work with a Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School.

Matthew equips leaders to answer the questions that matter most: where AI delivers genuine advantage, where it does not, and how to govern it responsibly as regulation arrives. Using his proprietary Tech Traffic Light Tracker, he helps organisations decide what to green-light and what to pause, turning scattered experiments into durable strategy. His most-watched talk explores how AI hijacks the brain's attention and trust circuits, giving audiences the neuroscience they need to stay in control of the technology rather than be controlled by it. Whether addressing ownership and copyright questions every organisation using generative AI must answer, unpacking the real history of AI and the road to artificial general intelligence, or demonstrating how AI reshapes creative industries from film to music, he translates complexity into clarity and insight into action. Audiences leave with practical frameworks, informed confidence, and the understanding required to invest wisely, lead responsibly, and create lasting competitive advantage in a rapidly shifting landscape.