AI, explained. From K‑12 to cabinet.
Shingai Manjengwa has taught AI and data science to more than 500,000 learners since 2006. Top AI institutes, governments, pension funds, and global brands trust her to make artificial intelligence make sense.
Keynotes · Executive briefings · Workshops · AI 101s. In person and virtual, worldwide.
Technical rigor. Human impact.
Shingai Manjengwa is Founder and CEO of Fireside Analytics Inc., whose AI and data science programs have reached more than 500,000 learners on platforms including IBM's CognitiveClass.ai and Coursera. She has been practising and teaching data science since 2006.
She designs and delivers AI fluency programs for governments, boards, executive teams, and communities, including training for Canadian policymakers developed with the Public Policy Forum, where she is a Fellow. She has briefed parliamentarians, interviewed federal ministers on national AI strategy, and sat down with leading AI thinkers including Cory Doctorow. She has held senior AI education roles at Canada's national AI institutes.
Shingai holds an MS in Business Analytics from NYU Stern and is a recipient of the TD Emerging Leader Award. Originally from Zimbabwe and based in Toronto, she brings a rare global perspective to the most consequential questions of our technological moment.
As seen on TVO · CHCH Morning Live · SuperDataScience · Be Giant
Five keynotes. One promise: your audience leaves capable.
Every talk is tailored to the room, from parliamentarians to school boards to Fortune 500 leadership teams. Available as a keynote, executive briefing, or hands-on workshop.
Operationalizing Responsible AI
Beyond principles and posters: what it actually takes to move responsible AI from policy documents into daily practice, drawing on real enterprise and public-sector case studies.
→ No. 02AI Literacy at Population Scale
What it takes to upskill an entire workforce, and an entire country. A practical framework spanning K-12, post-secondary, public service, industry, and underserved communities.
→ No. 03The Policymaker's Compass
AI governance for people who write the rules. How non-technical leaders can regulate, procure, and deploy AI with confidence, without needing a computer science degree.
→ No. 04Whose Intelligence? Rethinking the AI Story
A challenge to the dominant narratives about AI risk and progress, drawing on Ubuntu philosophy and global perspectives to ask who gets to define what intelligent technology is for.
→ No. 05The AI Advantage: Productivity With Purpose
Hands-on, immediately useful, and grounded in responsible use. How teams can leverage AI tools for real productivity gains, told through stories from the front lines of AI adoption.
→ No. 06AI 101: For Your Team, Community, or Class
The accessible starting point. A plain-language session that gets a group of colleagues, a community organization, or a classroom genuinely comfortable with AI, no technical background required.
→The 3 Cs: case studies, code, and capstones.
Shingai's sessions are built to move audiences from awareness to capability. The room gets the story, the tool, and the judgment to use AI responsibly after the event is over.
Case Studies
Real examples make the stakes concrete: policy choices, business decisions, classroom scenarios, operational failures, and responsible AI tradeoffs.
Code
When useful, audiences see how the technology works under the hood through demos, walkthroughs, notebooks, and plain-language technical explanation.
Capstones
Learning ends with application: a decision, prototype, roadmap, governance question, or action plan that connects AI to the work people actually do.
Stages, platforms, and partners
Shingai has taught, advised, and keynoted for leading institutions across technology, government, finance, and education.
See the work in motion.
A few public sessions that show the range: analytics literacy, generative AI adoption, and hands-on agentic systems.
"Just as society once had to socialize electricity, teaching safety, how it works, and opportunity, from the classroom to the factory, we must now socialize artificial intelligence."
Shingai Manjengwa, in her Public Policy Forum analysis of Canada's national AI strategy"The astoundingly intelligent and articulate Shingai Manjengwa."
Jon Krohn, Host of SuperDataScience, the most listened‑to podcast in data science
"PPF Fellow and leading AI expert."
Public Policy Forum
Author & educator, from age 8 to the C‑suite.
The Computer and the Cancelled Music Lessons (illustrated by Marilyne Cormier) introduces readers aged 12 and under to computer programming, critical thinking, data science, digital literacy, empathy, and problem solving.
Featured on CHCH's Morning Live.
Get the book on Amazon → Watch the CHCH interview Read the SubstackFor high school learners: data science and digital literacy courses at Fireside Analytics Academy.
Booking Shingai is the easy part.
Enquire
Share your event, audience, and date. You'll typically hear back within two business days.
Curate
A short call to tailor the talk to your room: your sector, your policy context, your audience's starting point.
Deliver
A keynote your audience will still be quoting a quarter later, with practical takeaways they can use the next morning.
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