Clara Durodié: Decoding AI

AI risk and strategy advisor who helps leaders assess model safety, build governance, and design resilient AI strategies that balance innovation with societal responsibility.

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  • AI Technology Strategist, Keynote Speaker, & Board Director
  • Clara Durodié is a top AI keynote speaker and technology strategist specializing in applied artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services, with a focus on AI & Ethics and the strategic adoption of AI for business profitability.
  • She is internationally recognized for her expertise, advising Boards of leading financial institutions, think-tanks, governments, and academia.
  • She also mentors AI startups on funding and growth strategy.


Formats Available: Keynote, Panel, Executive Workshop, Virtual Roundtable

Preferred Audiences: Policy, compliance, and leadership teams (20–150); Conferences (150–1,500)

Outcomes:
  1. Identify top AI risks relevant to your organization.
  2. Implement governance checkpoints and risk mitigation steps.
  3. Build scenario plans for responsible deployment and incident response.
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  • Travels from: London, Greater London
  • **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000

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Keynote Topics:

  • Cybersecurity and AI : fighting fire with fire
  • Artificial intelligence in plain English
  • Trust with Algorithms – what is it and how to build it
  • Trust by design – how to start right
  • Boards and AI strategy: modern governance

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Clara Durodié is a highly respected technology strategist and AI governance expert hailing from the UK. With over 25 years of experience in financial services, fintech, and AI strategy, she specializes in demystifying AI for boards, regulators, and financial institutions—focusing on governance, ethics, geopolitics, and strategic adoption. She chairs the Non-Executive Directors Board committee on AI best practices and has advised institutions such as the World Economic Forum, IEEE, and multiple parliaments and ministries globally.

Author of Decoding AI in Financial Services, the first guidebook written for C-level audiences, Durodié translates the technology stack into clear business implications. She mentors AI startups and writes the popular Decoding AI® Briefing newsletter. Her speaking engagements—at SIBOS, Money20/20, Oxford, MIT, and more—are both strategic and accessible, equipping leaders with governance frameworks, vendor selection criteria, and ethical roadmaps.

Known for her clarity and credibility, Durodié’s presentations bring AI into boardrooms, balancing disruption with trust, and strategy with responsibility.

Clara Durodié is a technology strategist specializing in the business and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services.

She is internationally recognized for her expertise, advising Boards of leading financial institutions, think-tanks, governments, and academia. She also mentors AI startups on governance, funding and growth strategy.

She is consistently named on numerous global lists of leading women in fintech, and was the Chair of the Non-Executive Directors Boards’ special committee on Best Practice for AI Adoption (UK) and a member of IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (USA).

Clara is a frequent presenter at leading conferences around the globe, including SIBOS, Money 2020, Innovate Finance Global Summit, AI World and at London Business School where she addressed an audience from leading universities around the world such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Cambridge.

She has been invited as guest lecturer by leading universities like the University of Oxford’s Executive MBA. London Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Clara was also invited to teach at the Oxford Artificial Intelligence course, organised by the University of Oxford.

Clara Durodie is the author of the highly acclaimed Decoding AI in Financial Services – Business Implications for Boards and Professionals  the first guidebook on AI in financial services for C-level, Boards and decision makers. The book’s Japanese translation will be published in Japan in 2021. Clara also writes DecodingAI® Newsletter, a popular weekly digital publication which examines the business and governance of AI in financial services.

Clara Durodie is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (UK), has a Certificate in Investment Management (UK) and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford.

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