
Tey Bannerman
AI strategy & design advisor | Former McKinsey Partner, co-author of 'The AI Revolution'
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Tey Bannerman helps companies tell the difference between genuine AI opportunities and empty promises, and turn the real ones into measurable results. He spent eight and a half years at McKinsey & Company, where he rose to Partner, served as Head of McKinsey Design Europe, launched the firm's UK customer-experience practice, and led hands-on AI transformations across regulated industries like banking, insurance and fintech, as well as consumer sectors like retail and fashion.
Across more than twenty years in technology, over half of them spent designing and building AI systems, Tey has launched digital businesses serving millions of customers and built enterprise AI at global scale. His path runs from writing code at startups and agencies, to leading product teams across three continents, to advising the boards of the world's largest companies, giving his work the precision of an engineer, the creativity of a designer and the pragmatism of a business leader.
Today he advises purpose-driven companies with AI at their core, from Series A startups to the Fortune 500, and co-authored The AI Revolution, which reached number one on Amazon's AI charts. On stage he speaks about how leaders actually work with AI, why the same system succeeds in one culture and fails in another, and how to design AI that people will trust and adopt. He has keynoted World AI Cannes Festival, Design Matters, Founders Forum Global and Leading Design, and curates the AI&I Symposium at 3daysofdesign.
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Autonomous Agents: A Utopia or Terminator Future?
Talk at Design Matters
Talk at 3daysofdesign
The Evolution of the Design Leader
Talk at AI Festival
Talk at World AI Cannes Festival
Designing with AI: The End of Creativity as We Know It?
Talk at Founders Forum Global
Talk at Bucharest Tech Week
Talk at 3daysofdesign
Talk at World AI Cannes Festival
Talk at Miro Canvas Leadership Summit
Talk at World AI Cannes Festival
Talk at Design Matters
10 things I wish I'd known when I started out as a designer
What events has Tey spoken at?
11 events · 17 appearances · 2018 to 2025 · 3 countries
| Event | Year | Location | Repeat appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Matters | 2025 · 2024 · 2022 · 2018 | Copenhagen, DenmarkCopenhagen | Invited back |
| 3daysofdesign | 2025 · 2024 | Copenhagen | Invited back |
| iF Design Trend Conference | 2025 | Berlin | |
| AI Festival | 2025 | Milan | |
| World AI Cannes Festival | 2025 · 2024 · 2023 | Cannes, France | Invited back |
| Packaging Innovations | 2025 | Birmingham | |
| Leading Design London 2024 | 2024 | London, United Kingdom | |
| AI Hot 100 Conference | 2024 | New York | |
| Founders Forum Global | 2024 | Oxford | |
| Bucharest Tech Week | 2024 | Bucharest | |
| Miro Canvas Leadership Summit | 2024 | London |
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