The Next Turing Tests Keynote Address with James Manyika
As a part of our Next Turing Test Conference, join us for an afternoon keynote address by James Manyika, Senior Vice President, Research, Labs, Technology & Society at Google and Alphabet
Speaker’s Bio
James Manyika is Senior Vice President at Google-Alphabet reporting to the CEO. As President for Research, Labs, Technology & Society he focuses on advancing Google and Google DeepMind’s most ambitious foundational and applied innovations in AI, Computing and Science and in areas that have potential for broad beneficial impact on people and society. He also oversees Google Research (which pursues foundational and applied research in AI, Computer Science, Quantum Computing, and Science), Google Labs (Google’s home for the latest AI experiments and product innovations), Learning and Sustainability.
James served as Vice Chair of the US National AI Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s AI Advisory Body. He has also previously served as Vice Chair of the Global Development Council at the White House and on the Digital Economy Board, the National Innovation Board, the US Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and on the board of directors for the Council of Foreign Relations.
He is Senior Partner, Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, and Chair and Director, Emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). At McKinsey, he advised the chief executives of many of the world’s leading technology companies and he led MGI’s research on technology, the economy, competitiveness, and other global economy trends.
James is a Visiting Professor at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. He serves on the board of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and on the advisory councils for MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI. He’s a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of Stanford’s HAI and in Ethics in AI at Oxford, and has been a Fellow of Balliol College and All Souls College (Oxford).
A Rhodes Scholar, James has DPhil, MSc with distinction and MA from Oxford in AI and robotics, mathematics, and computer science, and a BSc first class in electrical engineering from the University of Zimbabwe.
WHEN: Wednesday, 15 October 2025
3.00 PM – 4.00 PM: Keynote address in Keynes Lecture Theatre
WHERE: King’s College, Cambridge
TICKETS: Registration details available here.