Taking the AI conversation somewhere most events don't.
Most events on AI cover adoption, efficiency, and innovation. I cover what comes after: the behavioural risks, the cognitive consequences, and the failures no technical dashboard can catch.
Everyone talks about what AI can give you. What are we giving to it in return?
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TALK TOPICS
CROSS-SECTOR · FLAGSHIP
What are we giving to AI?
The flagship keynote and the broadest entry point into this work.
NHS / HEALTH-TECH
The AI-powered patient
Patients, chatbots, equity, and trust in a health system reshaped by AI.
SIGNATURE
The Judgement Gap
Confident versus competent AI use. The masterclass, in keynote form.
POLICY
The cognitive labour gap
Digital inclusion, unequal cognitive burden, and health inequality.
“Sonya has articulated the things we have been seeing for some time but just didn’t have the words for - really valuable insight that will change how we take our work forward”
UKDHC AI Lead, Dr Chughtai - Orthepeadic surgeon
“Her talk was super interesting and our members found it facinating - real food for thought in how we design healthcare services”
Healthcare communicators Association
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES
The AI Powered Patient: Clinical teams readiness
AI Digital Health Conference, Royal College of Physicians June 2026
The patient who walks into your consultation today is not a Dr Google patient with better material. This talk explains what has actually changed, why the usual moves are not landing, and what clinical teams need to be ready for.
The Trust and Disclosure Paradox: Why Patients Tell Bots What They Won’t Tell Doctors
Healthcare Communicators Association Webinar, February 2026
Why patients disclose more to chatbots than to clinicians, and the equity risks that follow when automated systems become the default interface for vulnerable populations.
The Quiet Failures: Why Technically Successful AI Systems Still Fail
Digital Leaders Network, March 2026
What happens after AI goes live: how leaders mistake uptake for trust, consent for confidence, and silence for success.
NHS AI Adoption in Communications
TechPulse Healthcare: Transforming Healthcare with XR and AI, Jan 2026 · hosted by Atif Nasim and Jonathan Probets
Why AI adoption in NHS communications is stalling despite massive patient uptake, and why judgement frameworks matter more than tool access.
The Productivity Paradox: AI, Cognitive Strain, and Quiet Failure
PRCA Sparks: Productivity in PR, with Nigel Sarbutts
Why new technologies often increase workload and cognitive strain rather than reducing them, and why sustainable productivity depends on organisational conditions rather than tool adoption.
BOOKING
The thinking the field is currently avoiding.
If you are looking for a speaker who will give your audience the thinking the field is avoiding, on behavioural risk, on equity, on what AI actually does to the people expected to use it, get in touch.