Keynote Address 2 | Dr. Amantha Imber
| Thursday, October 29, 2026 |
| 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM |
| Ballroom A (SFS) |
Overview
AI-Powered Productivity: Mastering AI to 10x Your Impact.
Presenter
Dr. Amantha Imber
Inventium
AI-Powered Productivity: Mastering AI to 10x Your Impact.
3:15 PM - 4:15 PMAbstract
We've been sold the dream: AI will save us time, boost productivity, maybe even think for us.
The reality? Most of us are still flailing around, typing vague prompts and crossing our fingers for genius.
This keynote is your permission slip to stop treating AI like a magic oracle and start working with it like the brilliant, bizarre, occasionally infuriating collaborator it actually is. Because if you're still playing prompt roulette, you're missing the point entirely.
Dr Amantha Imber (organisational psychologist, founder of Inventium.ai, and 2025 AI Consultant of the Year) isn't here to talk at you about technology. She's here to talk about you: how your brain works, where you're getting stuck, and how to genuinely partner with AI to produce work that's deeper, sharper, and way less painful.
Walk away with:
A framework for building a productive (not performative) relationship with AI
Strategies that cut rework and get you better outputs from the start
Techniques to sharpen clarity, unlock creativity, and collaborate more effectively using GenAI
Tools to quiet the noise, reduce decision fatigue, and stop second-guessing yourself
A delegation method that actually works (yes, for AI too)
Habits that help you spot blind spots, challenge your biases, and build better outcomes
The confidence to know when to lean on AI — and when to back yourself instead
You're not here to prompt harder. You're here to work smarter.
The reality? Most of us are still flailing around, typing vague prompts and crossing our fingers for genius.
This keynote is your permission slip to stop treating AI like a magic oracle and start working with it like the brilliant, bizarre, occasionally infuriating collaborator it actually is. Because if you're still playing prompt roulette, you're missing the point entirely.
Dr Amantha Imber (organisational psychologist, founder of Inventium.ai, and 2025 AI Consultant of the Year) isn't here to talk at you about technology. She's here to talk about you: how your brain works, where you're getting stuck, and how to genuinely partner with AI to produce work that's deeper, sharper, and way less painful.
Walk away with:
A framework for building a productive (not performative) relationship with AI
Strategies that cut rework and get you better outputs from the start
Techniques to sharpen clarity, unlock creativity, and collaborate more effectively using GenAI
Tools to quiet the noise, reduce decision fatigue, and stop second-guessing yourself
A delegation method that actually works (yes, for AI too)
Habits that help you spot blind spots, challenge your biases, and build better outcomes
The confidence to know when to lean on AI — and when to back yourself instead
You're not here to prompt harder. You're here to work smarter.
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Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and founder of the award-winning behaviour change consultancy Inventium. She has worked with companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft to help boost productivity, innovation and wellbeing.
In 2021, Amantha was the first Australian to win the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the ‘Oscars for Management Thinking’).
In 2025, Amantha was recognised at the Australian AI Awards, where she won AI Consultant of the Year and the AI Excellence Award – the latter chosen from the highest-scoring individual winners across all categories to recognise the top performer of the year.
Amantha is also the host of the number one ranking business podcast How I Work, which has had over 6 million downloads, where she interviews some of the world’s most successful people about their habits, strategies, and rituals.
Amantha’s thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company and she is the author of four bestselling books, including international bestseller Time Wise and her most recent book, The Health Habit.
