Strategic Advisory

Dr. Emily L. Spratt is a strategic advisor in the art, cultural heritage management, and technology sectors with executive training from the Harvard Business School. She has advised for the Toronto-based tech think tank, ApoSys Technologies, which develops emerging computer vision-based technologies for a range of industrial applications. Previously, she was the strategic advisor for the New York- and Berlin-based company Artory during its developmental phase, and helped pivot the company into a blockchain-enabled art market firm, bringing the company to its Series B funding. Emily also provided strategy to the New Jersey-based art analytics company Artrendex in its formative stage, has advised the Berlin-based AI music company Aitokaiku, and has been a consultant to numerous other art-tech and creative technology companies. She is also on the board of directors of the tech accelerator Exponential Impact.

One of Emily's most interesting projects to date was in academia where she was asked to design a speculative Department of Art and Artificial Intelligence for the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) per the request of the deans. For this project she created a board of advisors, the curriculum for the program, and also the core undergraduate and graduate course requirement, which she taught.

Emily also specializes in the ethics of technology. She is the ethics advisor for the Paris-based foundation ICONEM, and is helping to build a framework for the use of digital technologies and AI to serve the cultural heritage management industry. She is currently working on a team with ICOMOS to create new guidelines for the recording of monuments for UNESCO. She is also the arts and AI advisor for Duke University's Ethical Tech program, and is on the advisory board of the Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute (AIFI) in New York.

For The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library, Emily has been a consultant and is on the Scholar's Advisory board. She is also on the Digital Advisory Board for the Renaissance Society of America. Previously, Emily worked for the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, having designed a museum education program in the 21st Byzantine Ephorate, and worked as a liaison for UNESCO during the period that the Old Town of Corfu, Greece, gained recognition as a World Heritage Site.

Emily is also involved with the transfer of technology (ToT). She is a an advisor for the Washington, D.C.-based Defense Innovation Accelerator (run by the deep tech innovation platform, FedTech), which is a part of the National Security Innovation Network and is sponsored by the Department of Defense. In this role, she advises early-stage companies that utilize DoD-related technologies. Additionally, she is on the cybersecurity committee for the IEEE Standards Association, creating guidelines for the Clinical Internet of Things (IoT) Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS – Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety, Security.

In New York, Emily is a charter member of the Princeton Alumni Angel investors, where she is involved with sourcing AI and image-related companies. She is also a mentor for Princeton graduate students in the humanities and engineering.

Please write to Emily at emilylspratt@gmail.com for more information.