Data & AI Leader · Oracle VP ·
LinkedIn Top Voice for AI

Kay Malcolm

Helping people in corporate turn AI into a career advantage, in plain English.

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Data & AI Leader
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Oracle VP
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LinkedIn Top Voice for AI
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Built LiveLabs: 50M+ Views
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LinkedIn Learning Instructor
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Oracle TV On-Air Host
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20+ Years Enterprise Tech
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Your AI Work Bestie
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What I do

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The Executive

VP, AI Database Product Management at Oracle. Built Oracle LiveLabs from scratch: a self-service platform that combines hands-on learning with solution stacks, helping customers see the art of the possible and move from demo to MVP faster, now with 50M+ views and running every major Oracle global event. Then she made it AI-ready, and a quarter of its traffic now comes from AI agents. Her team works like forward deployed engineers, building LiveLabs LiveStacks. Delivered AI strategy to C-suite teams at Fortune 100 companies and 300+ enterprise accounts worldwide.

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The AI Builder & Speaker

Builder of a team of eight AI agents that run her day to day, and a speaker who makes agentic AI make sense to people who don’t build it. Author of the LinkedIn Learning course AI Agents and Agentic Memory. Leads global sales engineering enablement for the AI Database. Ran Oracle University’s Database Cloud certification program. Wrote the Applied Database Systems course at Howard University, now used at 70+ universities.

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The Corporate Creator

Your AI Work Bestie on social. Founder of AI For You, a newsletter that translates enterprise AI for corporate careers in plain English. Helps everyday professionals use AI as a tool to level up, cutting through the fear and confusion around it. @iamkaymalcolm across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Helping people thrive in corporate, from someone who has been inside it for 20 years.

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The Agents

I couldn’t show anybody AI without using it myself, so I built a team to run my life.

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Meet my AI agents

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What makes me tick

I’ve spent 20+ years inside the rooms where enterprise AI gets built, debated, and shipped. I started as an electrical engineer at the Department of Defense at the age of 16, worked my way through Accenture and Southern Company as a Database Administrator, and landed at Oracle in 2007, where I stayed because the problems kept getting more interesting. Today I’m a VP who’s led a team as big as 28 people and run sales engineering enablement around the globe (and somewhere in there, delivered AI strategy to 300+ enterprise accounts).

Most of my career has been about the space between what technology can do and what people understand it to mean for their everyday lives and work. AI is headed where electricity and the cell phone went, a normal part of the day we don’t think about, and nobody (me included) can tell you how that plays out. So I translate what it means for you right now. I built Oracle LiveLabs as a love letter to customers, to give them access to powerful technology with the least friction possible. I started AI For You on LinkedIn because I kept having the same conversation with smart women in corporate who were anxious about AI.

I’m an executive, a servant leader (who rolls her sleeves up with her team), a teacher and lover of technology, a LinkedIn Top Voice for AI, and I’m your Work Bestie. I’m here to be the person to you, that I needed 20 years ago when I was trying to figure out how to be my authentic self, and couldn’t find anyone like me.

Two things can be true at the same time. I’m equally left and right brained.

I’m also a retired hip hop dance instructor (yes, really), a proud momma of two grown sons, a lover of fashion, and I’m the woman who already has the next trip on the calendar. I work hard and I play hard.

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Kay Malcolm street portrait, black and white

New York City · June 2026

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Live on Oracle TV at AI World

Build an Enterprise AI App

Building an enterprise AI app with Oracle AI Database and LiveLabs.

Track Keynote at Oracle DBW

Data Superpowers

What an AI Database does for your data.

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Unlock Your AI Potential

Skill up on AI with hands-on labs and certification.

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Speaking & Media

I talk about AI the way your audience wishes everyone did.

Kay skips the forecasting and translates what AI is asking of your people right now. Enterprise AI, agents, careers in the AI era, and building from zero to scale inside a very large company.

Previous stages: AI Engineer World’s Fair Keynote · Oracle AI World 2025 & 2026 (on-air host) · Carnegie Hall Power Network · Oracle CIO Energy & Utilities Summit Keynote · Baddies in Tech Keynote · DatabaseWorld Host · Quest Blueprint4D Women in Tech Keynote · Oracle CloudWorld · On Ramps to Career Keynote · DatabaseWorld Track Keynote · Sistas in Sales Panel · Oracle OpenWorld Shanghai · Technovation Women’s Summit · ColorStack Keynote · Chicago Oracle User Group Keynote

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Signature keynoteI Was Scared of AI TooYes, me. I’ve been through the kind of scared that sends you out a side door, and it taught me what to do with fear. When AI came along and I felt it all over again, I did the same thing: I learned it. Your people can too, and there’s a place for them when they do.
Agentic AI Beyond the DemoMy day runs on eight agents I built, so I can tell you where the boardroom plan falls apart (spoiler: it’s rarely the model).
Building at Scale Inside Large OrganizationsI built Oracle LiveLabs from scratch to 50 million views, then rebuilt it so AI agents now drive a quarter of the traffic.
Women Navigating the AI EraMost of the women I talk to already know enough AI to start. What they’re waiting on is permission, and this talk hands it over.

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Manage AI Like You Manage PeopleThe people who get the most out of AI tend to be good managers. They give clear asks and real context, and they check the work. Your leaders already have this skill (they just haven’t pointed it at AI yet).
My AI Staff, LiveEight AI agents run my inbox, calendar, leads and content. I put their real logs on screen and walk your audience through what they did this morning, and what still needs me.
When Your Customers Are AI AgentsA quarter of the traffic on Oracle LiveLabs now comes from AI agents. Here’s what changed when we rebuilt it for them, and what your site, docs and product need before it happens to you.
The Unglamorous Part of AI That Decides Who WinsEvery AI strategy I see lives or dies on the data underneath it. I run AI Database enablement for Oracle globally, and I’ll show your executives what to fix first, in plain English.
Becoming the AI Person at WorkOnce AI is as normal as email, nobody gets credit for knowing it. The reputation gets made now, and you don’t need to be an engineer to earn it. Here’s how to build it on purpose, starting with the work already on your desk.
Past the Prompt: Getting Real Work Out of AIMost people stop at asking AI questions. I show your audience what comes next, giving it real context and handing it whole projects, so it saves hours a week.
The AI Head StartYou don’t remember learning your phone, and you’ll barely remember learning AI either (except that part is happening right now, during your degree). What I wish someone had told me at 20: how to use AI the way people inside big tech companies do, so you walk into your first job knowing what most new hires don’t.