Technology & Humanity.
Why the future does not need less technology but more humanity woven into it, and how leaders can build innovation that restores connection instead of eroding it.
Keynote 01 · As featured in the TEDx Al Wasl eMagazine · 2026
We talk about technology as if it were a force of nature, something that happens to us. Sanaz argues the opposite: every system, every product and every algorithm is a series of human decisions, and those decisions can carry more of us in them. Drawing on a decade of digital transformation for Axel Springer, Merck and Novartis and her studies in AI Ethics at LSE, she shows what happens when organisations optimise for efficiency and forget presence.
The keynote moves from the boardroom to the studio. As a concept artist, Sanaz has spent years translating human stories into living artworks with UnitedWeDance, and she brings that lens to the way we build products: what would our tools look like if connection, not attention, were the metric that mattered?
The future does not need less technology. It needs more humanity woven into it.
Technology becomes socially valuable only when people can understand it, question it, participate in shaping it, and remain meaningfully human within it.
Audiences leave with a practical reframe: a set of questions to ask before the next feature ships, the next process is automated, or the next AI system is deployed. Not because progress is the enemy, but because progress without presence is just speed.
A talk your audience will feel, not just hear.
Sanaz adapts this keynote to your industry and audience, from executive off-sites to main-stage tech conferences. It pairs naturally with a live action-painting performance.