Full Name
Dr Tim Rayner
Job Title
AI Builder and Founder
Company
Superesque
Speaker Bio
Dr Tim Rayner is an AI philosopher, educator, and founder of Superesque — a program that teaches non-technical professionals to build AI agents trained on their domain expertise. With a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney, Tim has spent twenty years working at the intersection of philosophy and professional practice, including a decade teaching leadership and innovation in the Executive MBA at UTS Business School.
Tim's thinking and research trace a distinctive arc from questions of human agency and self-formation — explored in Foucault's Heidegger: Philosophy and Transformative Experience (2008) — to the practical dynamics of technological change, examined in Hacker Culture and the New Rules of Innovation (2018). Before launching Superesque, Tim built and ran Phase One Insights, a human-centred research agency.
Tim's work asks a question that every professional building AI systems now faces: when your expertise is encoded into an AI system, who owns the thinking? He believes that "cognitive sovereignty" is one of the defining issues of the AI-enabled workplace.
Tim's thinking and research trace a distinctive arc from questions of human agency and self-formation — explored in Foucault's Heidegger: Philosophy and Transformative Experience (2008) — to the practical dynamics of technological change, examined in Hacker Culture and the New Rules of Innovation (2018). Before launching Superesque, Tim built and ran Phase One Insights, a human-centred research agency.
Tim's work asks a question that every professional building AI systems now faces: when your expertise is encoded into an AI system, who owns the thinking? He believes that "cognitive sovereignty" is one of the defining issues of the AI-enabled workplace.
