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Seyi Akiwowo
Seyi Akiwowo helps organisations build care into their systems, from digital wellbeing to AI and platform governance. Founder and former CEO of Glitch and author of How to Stay Safe Online, Seyi is a WIRED Changemaker and TED speaker.
Seyi Akiwowo is a digital wellbeing and governance expert who helps institutions build care into the systems people live and work inside. She advises corporates, governments, agencies, law firms, and sports organisations on preventing harm before it happens.
Seyi became the youngest Black woman elected to her council in East London. After a viral speech at the European Parliament triggered a coordinated campaign of online abuse, she founded Glitch and grew it into Europe's leading organisation on the issue, handing it on in 2024. She wrote How to Stay Safe Online (Penguin) and is a Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
Glitch's work with BT Sport and EE cut abuse by 25% in a single weekend, and helped shape the debates behind the UK's Online Safety Act. Seyi uses that evidence to show organisations that safety is a design choice. Her recognition includes Digital Leader of the Year, WIRED Changemaker, Amnesty International Human Rights Defender, Finland's Hän Honour, and Vital Voices' inaugural Susan Wojcicki Tech for Impact Award.
Her 2026 WHO European Healthy Cities keynote adds to stages she's taken at TED, Cannes Lions, the UN, and the European Parliament. Audiences leave with a shared standard for digital wellbeing, a clearer view of where duty of care sits as AI outpaces regulation, and practical steps to protect staff and public voices online.
Book Seyi to give your leaders a workable plan for preventing harm.
Topics, sessions and talks
Seyi Akiwowo looks at burnout driven by the phone in everyone's pocket: the always-on messages, notifications and expectations that leave staff permanently reachable. Built for HR, people and wellbeing leads, the session links digital wellbeing to how teams actually perform. Drawing on her work in online safety and care as infrastructure, Seyi helps teams agree a shared standard for availability that protects focus and rest, and suits Mental Health Awareness Month or World Mental Health Day.
Technology is moving faster than the rules written to govern it. Seyi Akiwowo shows boards, general counsel and CISOs how to govern AI and platform risk without waiting for regulation, and where duty of care sits when the technology outruns the rules. Drawing on her years leading Glitch and her advisory work with corporates and governments, she treats care as infrastructure, meaning systems designed to prevent harm. Leaders come away with better questions to put to their own teams.
When Glitch worked with BT Sport and EE on the Draw the Line campaign, abuse fell by 25% in a single weekend. Seyi Akiwowo uses that result to show every organisation with a public audience, from sports clubs to consumer brands, that online harm can be designed out. She explains what changed, why it worked and how teams can build safety into campaigns, community management and platform decisions. The session suits Black History Month, brand offsites and year-round corporate events.
Deepfakes, harassment and misinformation are pushing women out of public life. Seyi Akiwowo, who faced a coordinated online abuse campaign after a viral speech at the European Parliament, examines the cost of staying visible and what institutions owe the women who do. Delivered in 2026 for Vital Voices and Foundation CHANEL, the talk suits public leaders, ERGs and movements, and fits Women's History Month, IWD and the 16 Days of Activism, leaving audiences with practical steps to protect women online.
Drawing on her Penguin book How to Stay Safe Online, Seyi Akiwowo takes parents through the five conversations to have before a child gets their first device. The result is a family digital agreement that's practical and printable, built for parent networks, ERGs, schools and family brands. Seyi keeps it hands-on, with steps families can use at home that evening, and it works well for Back to School, Anti-Bullying Week and Safer Internet Day.
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