Guy Kirkwood

This is Guy's foundational talk on the birth of RPA. Recorded before joining UiPath, it outlines the shift from moving data manually to letting ‘robots’ handle the digital heavy lifting.

In this intimate interview with re:infer, Guy gets biographical. He explores how technology isn't just about efficiency, it's about reclaiming human time. If you want to understand the ‘why’ behind Guy's career, this is the place.

Speaking at Forrester’s Digital Transformation event, Guy challenges the old model of ‘cheaper labour overseas’. He argues that RPA allows companies to bring work home, reshoring jobs and revitalise local economies.

Guy explains why businesses fail to maximise the benefits of RPA by focusing on the tool rather than the person. He makes the case that for automation to truly scale, the organisational structure must be built around human potential.

The ‘pivotal moment’. This is the practice session for the presentation in Poland where Guy was identified by Earlybird (UiPath’s seed backer). It’s the talk that helped start UiPath’s journey to become ‘the fastest-growing enterprise software company in history’.

An early interview with the SSON. Guy breaks down the disruption of global shared services, predicting how robots would become the new ‘digital workforce’ and why the old manual processing model was destined to disappear.