“The best thing that we can do about the future is prepare for it.”
Sinead Bovell is a futurist and the founder of tech education company, WAYE.
An organization that prepares businesses and the next generation of leaders for a future shaped by advanced technologies.
Sinead advises C-suite executives and senior leadership across governments, global corporations, and startups alike, with a core focus on emerging and exponential technologies and their implications for economic and national security, as well as business model continuity. She is an 11-time United Nations speaker and has delivered formal addresses to presidents, royalty, and Fortune 500 leaders on topics ranging from synthetic biology to artificial intelligence. She currently serves as an expert advisor to the United Nations AI Advisory Body, focusing on the future of work and AI’s long-term trajectory.
Sinead is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, where she contributes to strengthening multilateral systems to address 21st-century global challenges. She is also a regular tech commentator for platforms such as CNN, NBC, and CTV, where she discusses the societal impact of emerging technologies.
Sinead was named one of the top 50 voices shaping the future by Afrotech, she received the Mozilla Rise 25 award for her work in championing the development of open and responsible AI ecosystems, and she was dubbed the AI educator for the non-nerds by Vogue magazine.
Before founding WAYE, Sinead earned her MBA from the University of Toronto and worked as a management consultant at A.T. Kearney.
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Early Life
A first generation Canadian, Sinead Bovell was born to an Irish mother and a Guyanese father in a city outside of Toronto. She spent the majority of her young adult life focused on academics, receiving a degree in finance, a minor in chemistry, and a Masters in Business from the University of Toronto, before moving on to a career in management consulting. However, Sinead decided to leave the corporate world in order to make an impact on a larger scale.Emerging as one of the most sought-after voices shaping the future, tens of thousands tune into Sinead's platforms every day to hear her insights on technology and the future.
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Sinead is the host of PBS hit science and technology YouTube series, Far Out: