Jenine Beekhuyzen OAM
PROFILE
Jenine is a trailblazer and about as authentic as it gets. She’s always chasing her next moonshot, a huge problem to solve, a radical solution supercharged by breakthrough technology.
She’s driven by courageous conversations with intention, fostering capacity building for inclusion, and crafting community for impact.
Jenine cares about the world, and all of those that she works with and beyond. She has many accolades for her impactful work in Australia and internationally, and the word attributed to her the most is “inspiring”.
Jenine has expertly navigated academia and entrepreneurship creating impactful work that matters. Jenine has spent half of her life with one foot in academia turning research into practice, most notably through her 25 years of using and teaching NVivo. She inspires any audience she engages with, delivering messages that lead people forward. She actively helps others to close the gap between where they are and where they know they can be.
Jenine has dedicated her professional life to improving the lives of women and girls. She crafted the Tech Girls Are Superheroes campaign with free books in every school library in Australia and reached hundreds of thousands of girls in the Tech Girls Movement Foundation over a decade. She is an eminent scholar with more than 70 internationally peer reviewed academic publications. She is the author of Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo 4e published by Sage in the UK, and she runs Research Central, an online community of practice for doctoral students. She is an AFR 100 Woman of Influence and in 2020 was awarded the Order of Australia medal from Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to information technology, and to women.
SPEAKING TOPICS
CULTURAL SAFETY IN STEM: WE ALL DESERVE TO FEEL SAFE AT WORK
Jenine’s groundbreaking work on cultural safety in STEM is a zeitgeist. She builds upon the compelling work of Brené Brown to explore cultural safety through the lens of vulnerability and shame, power and privilege, authenticity and belonging, community resilience, and collective action.
Why Jenine?
Jenine has developed a series of unique frameworks to have courageous conversations in DEI. As one of the longest & loudest advocate for girls and women in STEM in Australia, Jenine is a well respected and recognised thought leader based on decades of peer reviewed research and running impactful women and girls in STEM programs nationally.
Be courageous!
CRITICAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH ETHICAL AI
This keynote is not just a critique, it’s a blueprint for action. Through a comprehensive framework that explores AI ethics from multiple perspectives, Jenine takes the conversation beyond surface-level considerations to a nuanced, multidimensional approach to ethical AI development. Showcasing breakthrough technologies designed with intersectionality at their core, Jenine provides concrete strategies for developing more inclusive AI.
Why Jenine?
Jenine has researched ethical AI through human and user centred design, exploring transparency, fairness, privacy, harm prevention, and the broader societal implications of AI technologies. She has more than 70 internationally peer reviewed publications.
Change is a verb!
REIMAGINING AI IN AN INTERSECTIONAL WORLD
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, we stand at a critical crossroads. Technology is not neutral—it is a reflection of our societies, our histories, and our deepest human complexities. This keynote challenges the singular narrative of technological progress and demands a radical reimagining of AI through the lens of intersectionality.
Why Jenine?
The increasing presence of gender bias in AI has motivated Jenine for more than two decades. Her work in DEI and gender equity is based on rigorous academic research, and she presents a unique historical perspective with a call to action for courageous conversations in DEI.
Time to reimagine!
25 YEARS OF WOMEN & GIRLS IN STEM PROGRAMS: LESSONS LEARNED
Leading the way in internationally peer reviewed Women in STEM research 25+ years ago, put into action through founding and leading the NGO Tech Girls Movement Foundation for a decade, Jenine knows women and girls in STEM: the challenges, the interventions, the collaborations. She knows what works and what doesn’t. She’s been there.
Why Jenine?
Jenine was one of the first to research the lack of women in STEM internationally in the nineties, and her groundbreaking grassroots work with Techgirls engaged more 15 000 girls hands on in STEM entrepreneurship, with a half a million readers of her Tech Girls Are Superheroes series of free books to schools across Australia. She has reached millions of students in her school outreach work and engaged 1000+ industry mentors.
Book: 5 things you can do to engage girls in STEM
Autonomy | Ethos | Involvement | Otherness | Us-ness
You can make a difference!
