Speakers
The Plenary Stage
Prepare to wrap up RIMPA Live 2025 in unforgettable style at the Grande Finale, proudly sponsored and hosted by Iron Mountain.
Artificial Intelligence is often sold as the solution to our most pressing challenges - more efficient, more accurate, and more objective than humans. But what if it’s worsening the very problems it promises to fix? In this eye-opening, deeply researched, and surprisingly funny keynote, multiple Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer AM pulls back the curtain on the hidden biases lurking within AI systems. Drawing on real-world examples and cutting-edge research, Tracey reveals how AI algorithms - built on flawed data and human assumptions and deepened by machine learning - can quietly embed discrimination into everything from hiring and healthcare to policing and advertising.
From the ‘bodgy bots’ that reinforce stereotypes to systems that jeopardise brand integrity and customer trust, Tracey explains the very real risks that unchecked AI poses to your organisation and community. More importantly, she arms audiences with the knowledge and tools they need to fight back. With a powerful mix of storytelling, practical strategies, and a hopeful call to action, Tracey inspires leaders, professionals, and everyday users to take control of the technology shaping our future. Rather than a dystopia, she presents a ‘protopia’ - a more inclusive, ethical, and human-centred vision of AI that benefits us all.
Iron Mountain is proudly sponsoring this must-see session with Tracey Spicer AM as part of our ongoing commitment to championing innovation, particularly in the transformative space of Artificial Intelligence. Iron Mountain is proud to champion bold conversations that push the boundaries of innovation and inspire fresh perspectives - and there's no one better to spark that inspiration than Tracey Spicer AM.
Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award winning journalist, author and broadcaster who spent more than 30 years anchoring national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.
The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in the Asia-Pacific on the topics of artificial intelligence, social justice and equity. Her book about AI, Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, was longlisted for a prestigious Walkley Award. It won the Social Responsibility category, and was a finalist in the Technology category, in the Australian Business Book Awards.
In 2019, Tracey was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the global Sydney Peace Prize with Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia. ABC TV highlighted Tracey’s #metoo work in the docuseries, Silent No More.
In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. For her 30 years of media and charity work, she has been awarded the Order of Australia.
Highlights of her outstanding career include writing, producing and presenting documentaries in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea and India. Tracey is an Ambassador for ActionAid, Your Side, the Ethnic Business Awards, Emerge Australia, the Australian POTS Foundation and Purple Our World, and Patron of the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance.
Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, is a bestseller, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted almost seven million views worldwide.