Jake Hirsch-Allen: AI Policy

Jake Hirsch-Allen builds bridges between technology, democracy, and education advancing global AI governance and skills-based systems for a more equitable digital future.

Highlights:
  • Global AI policy and governance strategist
  • Builder of cross-sector partnerships connecting education, industry, and government
  • Advocate for humane technology and democratic innovation
  • Leader in skills-based hiring and lifelong learning initiatives
  • Experienced advisor to startups, non-profits, and foundations

Formats:

Keynote (30–60 minutes), Panel Discussion, or Executive Workshop


Audience:

Governments, policy leaders, educators, technologists, and organizations shaping the future of work and responsible AI


Outcomes:
  1. Learn how to align AI policy and governance with democratic values.
  2. Understand the impact of AI on skills, learning, and the global workforce.
  3. Gain frameworks for building cross-sector collaboration that promotes ethical innovation.
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  • Travels from: Toronto, ON
  • **Fee range: $10,000 - $15,000

Keynote Topics

Red-teaming for the future: How to leverage AI to help your team defend against a cyber attack?

Cyber attacks are on the rise worldwide. The World Economic Forum estimates that the global cost of cybercrime will reach nearly $24 trillion by 2027. Just this year, governments faced complicated and intelligent attacks on central infrastructure and local authorities which threatened the delivery of public services.

Protecting against cyber attacks is not just an IT concern — it’s a vital aspect of any public servant’s capability and skillset. The risks to personal public data and information are too high to ignore.

Jake provides hands-on experience developing a crisis response to a cyber attack, aligning with the concept of ‘Red-Teaming,’ where an organization enhances cybersecurity by authorizing a ‘red team’ to challenge its defenses with a digital intrusion.

Jake delves into the evolving landscape of professional networking in the midst of increasing digitalization and AI and the rise of hybrid work models. This engaging presentation will explore the challenges and opportunities presented by this shift, and share valuable insights into leveraging AI, digital platforms, mastering virtual communication techniques, and maintaining meaningful connections in both virtual and physical spaces. Whether you’re a seasoned networker, or just beginning to navigate this new terrain, this talk offers practical advice for professionals across all sectors.

Talent Short Bio

Jake Hirsch-Allen is a leading voice at the intersection of technology policy, workforce development, and digital democracy. He builds public-private partnerships that unite governments, academic institutions, and technology companies to promote equitable access to opportunity and responsible innovation.

With a diverse background spanning international law, global health, entrepreneurship, and education, Jake has dedicated his career to ensuring that technology serves humanity—not the other way around. He works across sectors to strengthen democratic resilience, advance skills-based hiring, and create humane frameworks for AI governance.

As an advisor to governments, think tanks, AI institutes, and tech organizations, Jake helps shape policies that align technology with social good. His focus areas include global AI regulation, ethical digital transformation, and reimagining the nature of work and learning in the age of automation.

Known for his clarity, empathy, and systems-level thinking, Jake brings together thought leaders from across the political, civil, and scientific spectrum to forge consensus on responsible technology policy.

Jake Hirsch-Allen speaks on AI policy, leveraging tech for a true democracy, the changing nature of work and learning and is passionate about immigration, skills-based-hiring and learning, humane technology and global AI governance.

Jake Hirsch-Allen builds public-private partnerships between governments, workforce development organizations, colleges and universities.

He connects people and ideas to create social and economic impact. Jake builds public-private partnerships to fight inequality. He has done so through international criminal law, intellectual property law, global health, software development entrepreneurship, and education.

He works with governments, think tanks, AI institutes and tech companies helping society build a healthier relationship with technology and strengthening democracy and human rights. He advises startups, non-profits, investors and foundations on AI policy and how to improve education, employment and social service systems, particularly in their use of tech.

This past year, he’s focused on responsible technology policy and global AI governance. As a tech governance sherpa, he collaborated with governments, civil society, academia, and the private sector to support the ethical, legal and technological infrastructure for a more human-centric internet.
Jake Hirsch-Allen’s work has focused on:
  • Advancing a consensus among global political, civil society and scientific leaders around AI regulation
  • Exploring new democratic methods to align AI and technology governance with societies’ values.
  • Educating policymakers and others on the labour market, trust and other implications of AI.

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Talent Videos

Jake Hirsch-Allen | From Unemployed to Empowered Innovation

In this 1-minute, 26-second video, Jake Hirsch-Allen delivers an inspiring message about how education, technology, and purpose-driven innovation can transform unemployment into opportunity.

Summary

In From Unemployed to Empowered Innovation, Jake Hirsch-Allen distills his vision for inclusive economic growth into a powerful, one-minute statement on the future of work. Speaking with energy and conviction, he explains that unemployment isn’t just a personal struggle—it’s a missed opportunity for societies to unlock human potential through learning, technology, and collaboration.

Jake highlights how digital tools and AI can connect people to meaningful work, not replace them. By focusing on skills-based hiring, lifelong learning, and public-private partnerships, he shows how innovation can empower individuals who have been left behind by traditional employment systems.

The video’s fast pace and direct tone reflect Jake’s work bridging education, government, and industry to build fairer pathways to employment. His closing thought reframes the challenge: the goal isn’t just to reduce unemployment—it’s to enable empowered innovation, where every person can contribute, create, and thrive in the digital economy.

Key Moments

  • 00:20–00:45 — The role of education and skills-based hiring in inclusion
  • 00:45–01:05 — How technology and AI can connect people to opportunity
  • 01:05–01:26 — Closing: from joblessness to innovation through empowerment

In this 29-minute keynote, Jake Hirsch-Allen explores how data, digital learning, and cross-sector collaboration are reshaping the future of education, employment, and inclusion.

Summary

In Data and Online Learning: The Future of Work and Learning, Jake Hirsch-Allen examines how technology and data can transform global workforce systems—if used with purpose and empathy. Speaking with a mix of policy insight and human-centered optimism, he outlines how governments, educators, and employers can collaborate to close skills gaps, democratize opportunity, and prepare workers for an AI-driven economy.

Jake begins by addressing the disconnect between traditional education and the evolving labor market. He argues that skills-based hiring and lifelong learning must replace outdated credentialism to ensure equitable access to meaningful work. Drawing on real-world examples from workforce development programs and public-private partnerships, he illustrates how data analytics and digital platforms can identify skill shortages, personalize learning, and connect people to employment pathways faster and more fairly.

Throughout the talk, Jake emphasizes responsible innovation—the need to use data transparently and ethically to serve people, not just productivity. He calls for collaboration across sectors to build inclusive infrastructure for digital learning and employment, enabling resilience in the face of automation and global disruption.

The presentation closes with a hopeful challenge: by aligning technology, education, and policy around human potential, we can build a future where work and learning empower rather than exclude.

Key Moments

  • 02:30–06:00 — The digital skills gap and the urgency of lifelong learning
  • 06:00–10:30 — Using data to align education with real labor-market demand
  • 10:30–15:00 — Skills-based hiring and the decline of traditional credentials
  • 15:00–20:00 — Public-private partnerships enabling equitable workforce transformation
  • 20:00–25:00 — Ethical use of data and technology for human-centered growth

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AI governance, digital democracy, humane technology, the future of work and learning, and skills-based hiring.

He facilitates collaboration among policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders to create ethical and human-centered frameworks for AI deployment.

Jake’s experience spans law, education, technology, and public service—giving him a multidisciplinary lens on how digital transformation can strengthen democracy and equality.

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AI governance, digital democracy, humane technology, the future of work and learning, and skills-based hiring.

He facilitates collaboration among policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders to create ethical and human-centered frameworks for AI deployment.

Jake’s experience spans law, education, technology, and public service—giving him a multidisciplinary lens on how digital transformation can strengthen democracy and equality.

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