Rita Arrigo

Chief Digital Advisor, Microsoft

Melbourne

Rita Arrigo is a Chief Digital Advisor at Microsoft, with a passion for emerging technology to re-imagine the possible with AI, Mixed Reality, IOT and Blockchain. With a deep-rooted belief that empowering business in the adoption of new technology being the key enabler to digital transformation, she designs programs of change, envisions with Design Thinking, hacks, prototypes and delivers. Her passion for digital spans over 20 years working at Telstra where she was named the Digital Diva, through to Digital Agencies, overseeing digital projects with globally distributed multi-disciplinary agile teams.

She co-founded the radio show Byte Into It on 3RRR aiming to reducing techno fear and bring the benefits of technology to a larger audience. Now she is powering evolution that will make our lives more human, with inclusive design, artificial intelligence, modern workplaces and smarter cities. As AI Ambassador she is acknowledged for championing the benefits of AI.