Tracey Spicer AM, multiple Walkley Award-winning journalist and one of the Asia-Pacific’s leading keynote speakers on AI bias, social justice and equity.

Tracey Spicer AM is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in the Asia-Pacific on artificial intelligence, social justice and equity. A multiple Walkley Award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster with almost 40 years in the media, she anchored national programs for ABC TV, Network Ten and Sky News, and is the inaugural national convenor of Women in Media. Today she brings that investigative rigour to the stage, helping leaders understand the bias built into AI.

Her book Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future was longlisted for a Walkley Award and won the Social Responsibility category in the Australian Business Book Awards. In her keynotes, Tracey shows how biased data and algorithms embed discrimination across hiring, healthcare, and policing. Then she arms audiences with the tools to spot bias, verify before amplifying, and build a more inclusive ‘protopia’.

Tracey is on the Global Advisory Board of For Humanity and, in 2026, joined a delegation to the 70th UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. She was NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize with Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and was named one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence. For 30 years of media and charity work, she has been awarded the Order of Australia.

Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, is a bestseller, and her TEDx talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted almost seven million views. On stage, she is warm, razor-sharp and surprisingly funny, a seasoned anchor who makes a hard subject land, then stick.