Marie Johnson

Marie Johnson is the Managing Director of the Centre for Digital Business. Within the global digital community, Marie is recognised as an accessibility innovator and thought provoking commentator.
Her extensive experience covers the public and private sector experience in Australia and internationally, in roles including large scale government service delivery operations; leading Microsoft’s worldwide public services and egovernment business in Seattle; Chief Information Officer; Chief Technology Architect; Technology Authority; and board director.
Marie conceived and led the global co-design effort with people with disability to deliver “Nadia” the first AI digital human for service delivery, which has attracted worldwide interest.
Marie is now leading R&D on the “Digital Human Cardiac Coach” in collaboration with FaceMe.
Her achievements have been recognised globally: UN Public Services Award; Australian PM’s Award for Excellence in Public Sector Management; Innovative CIO of the Year – Australia; 100 Women of Influence; and named as one of Singularity University Exponential Medicine global XMed Digital Vanguard.