Nina Schick

Nina Schick is a sovereign AI strategist who guides visionary leaders through the most consequential technological and geopolitical shift of our time. Named among the world's top 20 AI speakers alongside Sam Altman and Geoffrey Hinton, she has advised President Joe Biden, NATO, and the UN, and serves as Founder of Tamang Ventures, advising Synthesia (valued at $4 billion in 2026) and Truepic, the global leader in digital authentication. Her 2020 book "DEEPFAKES" was the first to establish a geopolitical framework for generative AI, becoming foundational reading for national security institutions worldwide. Through her speaking engagements, Nina equips audiences with strategic foresight to harness AI's potential responsibly whilst navigating the geopolitical contests reshaping business, power, and humanity itself.

Years before ChatGPT entered public consciousness, Nina Schick published "DEEPFAKES" (2020), the first book to establish a geopolitical framework for generative AI, predicting the transformative power of synthetic media and its implications for global security. That foresight positioned her as a foundational voice in understanding how artificial intelligence would evolve from a technological curiosity into the defining force reshaping power, industry, and democracy. Her strategic lens was forged navigating the structural fractures of European power: she operated at the heart of UK and EU policy through Brexit, energy crises, and war, worked on Emmanuel Macron's 2017 presidential campaign, and built the Democracy Perception Index, the world's largest machine learning study on global attitudes towards democracy. Half-Nepalese, half-German, and fluent in seven languages, Nina identified AI as a tipping point for humanity long before it dominated boardroom agendas, and her work continues to guide leaders through what she calls the era of Industrial Intelligence, where intelligence has been decoupled from biology and scaled infinitely.

Nina's credibility rests on decades of geopolitical expertise combined with frontline engagement in AI development. As Founder of Tamang Ventures, she advises Synthesia, the world's first video generation platform valued at $4 billion in early 2026 after doubling its growth in twelve months, and Truepic, the global leader in digital authentication technology securing integrity for the financial and insurance sectors. She serves as an AI Council Member at Qlik, guiding organisations on emerging trends, legislation, and ethical practices. Her strategic framework has been engaged by institutions at the frontiers of global power: she has advised U.S. President Joe Biden, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the United Nations, the U.S. Army, and Mastercard, and collaborated with Microsoft, Adobe, and DARPA. Named among the world's top twenty AI speakers alongside Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Geoffrey Hinton, and recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice on AI, she has spoken at CES, TEDx, CogX, and WebSummit, engaging with global thinkers such as Sam Harris, Christiane Amanpour, and Andrew Yang. Her insights regularly appear in MIT Tech Review, WIRED, and Time, and her book became foundational reading for national security and defence institutions worldwide.

Nina believes AI is fundamentally about power and people, and her speaking engagements equip leaders with the strategic foresight needed to harness AI's potential responsibly whilst navigating the geopolitical contests that will define the century ahead. She explores how nations like China are aggressively deploying AI across key industries, with daily AI token calls in China hitting 140 trillion in March 2026, more than a thousand times the level at the start of 2024, and government mandates targeting ninety per cent deployment by 2030. She examines how breakthroughs in AI capabilities are emerging from labs like Google DeepMind, and how enterprises must secure digital integrity in an era of synthetic abundance. Through her content channels, Nina has built a thriving AI community of over 100,000 members, translating complex developments into actionable intelligence. Splitting her time between London, Berlin, and Kathmandu, she delivers audiences a future-ready mindset grounded in both technical understanding and real-world geopolitical impact, preparing organisations to lead in a world where artificial intelligence has become the central engine of industrial transformation.