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Samantha Payne - Speaker - By Promotivate Speaker Agency

Samantha Payne

Conference Speaker Samantha Payne - By Promotivate Speaker Agency

Samantha Payne

Award-winning AI using robotics expert and Open Bionics co-founder


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United Kingdom

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Samantha Payne MBE has won multiple international engineering and innovation awards including the Global Robotics and AI for Good award. Samantha has received tech innovation awards from Italy, China, UAE, USA, and Germany.

Samantha co-founded Open Bionics at 23. Open Bionics uses 3D scanning and printing to offer wearable technologies that enhance independence and quality of life for people with disabilities.

She works with The Walt Disney Company to offer bionic limbs in the style of their most popular superheroes, turning a child with a limb difference into Iron Man.

Samantha’s company uses AI to remove human technicians from the design and build process and reduce the need for physical space and workshops. By investing in digital automation the process of creating a custom bionic limb is now faster and cheaper.

In addition, Samantha has raised $13m of venture capital for Open Bionics and has appeared on a Netflix topical news show as an expert on AI.

Samantha Payne – Keynote Speaker

Samantha provides keynote speeches globally, including the 2023 Global AI Summit in Saudi Arabia, GeekPicnic in Russia, and Singapore’s SMART innovation conference. She was also President Barack Obama’s warm-up speaker to a crowd of thousands in Munich.

Samantha has given prestigious talks for companies, including JP Morgan, Accenture, Siemens, and Facebook, on innovation and product development.

She has also represented UK Innovation on multiple trade missions; Samantha Payne has presented at numerous global conferences. These include the Founders Forum in Singapore, IFA Berlin, Global Leaders Forum, TechCrunch Disrupt, WIRED Live, Singapore’s Smart Nation, Russia’s Geek Picnic, and Tokyo’s Robotics Week.

Samantha lives in the UK and presents in English.

Speaking Topics

  • “I had the great pleasure of teaching and coaching Samantha and the Open Bionics Team during Intel's Make it Wearable Challenge (makeit.intel.com), where Open Bionics wowed the judges and took home the $250,000 second prize. Samantha is a talented and confident yet coachable professional. She will be an asset to every team she joins throughout her career.”

    Mark Searle, Entrepreneur, Executive Leader, Innovation Instructor, Keynote Speaker, Contributing Author

    • Samantha Payne “I had the great pleasure of teaching and coaching Samantha and the Open Bionics Team during Intel's Make it Wearable Challenge (makeit.intel.com), where Open Bionics wowed the judges and took home the $250,000 second prize. Samantha is a talented and confident yet coachable professional. She will be an asset to every team she joins throughout her career.”
    5 / 5

  • “I first witnessed Samantha's working processes and practice at KWMC, where I was struck by her enthusiasm and commitment, but also her creativity and insight. Sammy has a remarkable set of skills, but she also has a vision, based on solid principles, which steer her application of those skills. She applies herself to work that she feels passionately about and which will make a positive difference to the lives of others. She does this in innovative ways, coming up with strategic ideas about how to apply creative uses of new media, for example, in order to bring about positive social change. Based on her work at KWMC I invited Sammy to give a presentation to a group of young people I work with at Tate Modern, form the PHF funded Circuit programme, about the possible ways in which they might use creative applications of new media in their evaluation processes. Sammy prepared an excellent presentation which inspired the group to produce their own data visualisations. Sammy supported them to do this following her presentation and enthused the group, leading them to produce some excellent pieces of work.”

    Roz Stewart-Hall, Nurturing creative, inclusive evaluation processes, to support arts organisations to make positive differences

    • Samantha Payne “I first witnessed Samantha's working processes and practice at KWMC, where I was struck by her enthusiasm and commitment, but also her creativity and insight. Sammy has a remarkable set of skills, but she also has a vision, based on solid principles, which steer her application of those skills. She applies herself to work that she feels passionately about and which will make a positive difference to the lives of others. She does this in innovative ways, coming up with strategic ideas about how to apply creative uses of new media, for example, in order to bring about positive social change. Based on her work at KWMC I invited Sammy to give a presentation to a group of young people I work with at Tate Modern, form the PHF funded Circuit programme, about the possible ways in which they might use creative applications of new media in their evaluation processes. Sammy prepared an excellent presentation which inspired the group to produce their own data visualisations. Sammy supported them to do this following her presentation and enthused the group, leading them to produce some excellent pieces of work.”
    5 / 5

  • “Sammy is a really hardworking, ambitious young woman who is reliable, responsible and a good team leader. In her role as Junior Digital Producer at KWMC, she has demonstrated skills as a web developer, photographer and social media campaigner. She would be an asset to any company.”

    Noomi Yates, Director at Freelance

    • Samantha Payne “Sammy is a really hardworking, ambitious young woman who is reliable, responsible and a good team leader. In her role as Junior Digital Producer at KWMC, she has demonstrated skills as a web developer, photographer and social media campaigner. She would be an asset to any company.”
    5 / 5

  • ‘Samantha approached me with some great ideas for stories for the Bristol Post Business section. I don't normally take speculative submissions but was impressed enough to make an exception. She has since written a number of pieces around Bristol's growing tech industry. Samantha writes well, has great passion for the subject and the ability to capture the people and energy of the story. I have also recently worked with Samantha as a speaker at an event she curated, which was well run and a great success.’

    Gavin Thompson, Deputy editor at Insider Media. Award winning journalist and former newspaper editor. Director of Bath BID.

    • Samantha Payne ‘Samantha approached me with some great ideas for stories for the Bristol Post Business section. I don't normally take speculative submissions but was impressed enough to make an exception. She has since written a number of pieces around Bristol's growing tech industry. Samantha writes well, has great passion for the subject and the ability to capture the people and energy of the story. I have also recently worked with Samantha as a speaker at an event she curated, which was well run and a great success.’
    5 / 5