Retaining our humanity in an AI-driven world.
“Her expertise in technology and AI takes listeners on a journey that’s highly relevant in today’s world. As a presenter she is brilliant, information and makes complex subjects easy to understand on stage. Her talents as a writer and gift for communication make her a favourite among global audiences. I highly recommend Jane as a keynote speaker, presenter or panelist.”
Lee Powers RN, BSN
Speaker, Advocate, Educator
Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
From Systems to Speaking
Jane Newman is a Digital Wellbeing Futurist, and Founder of Re-Humanising. With a degree in Computer Science, a background as a tenured lecturer in Business Information Systems at RMIT University, and certification in Ethics of AI, she blends research with lived experience. Burnt out from 30 years working on the systems meant to make our life easier and more efficient, she left her career to talk to audiences globally and invite them to consider what all this technology has actually cost our society and our planet.
Previously, Jane led teams and worked at the heart of some of Australia and the UK's largest projects, including HM Customs & Excise (UK), the Queensland Children's Hospital, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Queensland's integrated Justice Information System, Queensland Health’s electronic exchange of GP referrals, and Inland Rail, one of the largest rail infrastructure projects in the world.
Now an international speaker, Jane has presented at events from Singapore to London, New York to Cologne, Florence to Oxford, and her work has featured in Business Insider, MSN Magazine, Brainz, Ticker News, Australia and numerous podcasts.
Presenting research and lived experience in equal measure, Jane leaves audiences with more than information about the problems of our digital lifestyles and solutions based on technical constraints. They leave with a specific next step, a clearer sense of what's actually possible for their children, their families, within their organisations, and communities, and a way to move confidently forward into a re-humanised future balanced with technology.
Re-humanising
Jane is the Founder of Re-humanising, with a mission to change the global culture of digital addiction and advocate zero harm for children online.
Jane’s expertise spans digital wellbeing for children and adults and consulting on corporate digital habits. Her Mindful Technology framework brings people back to living and spending time meaningfully instead of scrolling away their lives. She delivers bespoke talks and workshops for schools, universities, and organisations confronting the real cost of a digital-first lifestyle, using her evidence-based self-assessment tools to identify and close the specific gaps technology leaves behind.
She is currently building partnerships with educational institutions across South Korea and promoting her group coaching program internationally, drawing on Korean cultural concepts that reinvigorate real-world skills in communication, connection and community.
The Korean Influence
Jane moved to Seoul in 2025 after 3 years visiting and working from Australia. She expected a highly technical and functional concrete city like so many modern high-tech cities around the world. What she found instead was sensitive architecture that blends the traditional with the modern, surrounded by nature, and a society the enjoys aesthtics, the arts, history, healthy lifestyles, and celebrating festivals for seasons, poets and kings.
She spend time investigating the cultural values that lay behind the smiles, the warm welcome from strangers, the small creative touches on porch steps, around street lighting poles, in each quirky cafe, the thriving communities of people coming together as a way of life.
That’s how she first encountered jeong, volunteering on a community project protesting the rights of abused women, getting messy on artwork with people who couldn’t speak English, sharing their meals as part of their group. It was the beginning of Jeong Life, a startup addressing the social isolation problems of young people South Korea and the broader digital addiction problems around the world that take away peoples’ feeling of belonging.
Now
Jane's working on a startup business based on the concept of Jeong, where the cultural values she encountered in Korea meet the professional and personal experience of her earlier career. She hosts the Re-humanising podcast and is building communities where connection is a practice, not a metric. Her work promotes community and traditional cultural values existing alongside the digital world to ensure lives are healthy, creative and fun.
Based in Seoul, Jane returns to Australia regularly to visit family. She loves to paint, photograph, and write poetry about expressing our unlimited human capabiities and our emotional and spiritual connections within this beautiful, delicate, wild world.
