AI will change every product, process, and role in every company. No exceptions.
Are you ready?

 

Welcome to the biggest global transformation since the coming of electricity. As your organization navigates the exciting world of generative AI (and soon, Artificial General Intelligence, AGI), get friendly, experienced help from an expert with decades of experience in artificial intelligence, high tech, and digital transformation.

Steve Brown is an AI futurist, entrepreneur, and author:

  • Former executive and futurist at Google Deepmind and Intel.

  • Leading thinker on AI transformation, the future of work, and how advances in AI will shape the future of education, media, business, and society.

  • Advisor to Fortune 100 leaders as well as AI startups.

  • Co-founder of two successful companies.

  • Bestselling author.

 

 

Steve’s clients include global brands, start-ups, NGOs, industry events, and government agencies. He has appeared on major media outlets including BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, ABC, NBC, Forbes, Wired, and the Wall Street Journal.

Steve has delivered hundreds of keynotes on artificial intelligence and digital transformation in over 60 cities, spanning 15 countries and 6 continents.

Hire Steve today to inspire your audience with an information-packed, entertaining, and memorable keynote. Available topics include introductions to AI, AI for leaders, explorations on the path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and discussions on how AI will shape specific industry sectors.

 

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Steve’s ability to distill complex, transformative technologies into easily understandable concepts was impressive…Feedback from our board members and officers was overwhelmingly positive…I strongly recommend Steve for any company looking to deepen their understanding of AI.
— Greg Chandler, VP & CIO, The Standard
I have seen the future. Steve Brown showed it to me, and it is good.
— Jeff Gaus, CEO, Prolifiq
 

KEYNOTES: Inspire your audience with a dynamic, inspiring AI keynote from Steve

Get smart on the latest in AI, explore key implications for the future of business and society, or learn how to take practical steps towards building your AI transformation strategy. With a keynote to suit every audience, you’ll be sure to find a topic that’s right for you.

 

CONSULTING: Get expert guidance as you navigate the rapidly-changing AI landscape

With a range of consulting and workshop options, Steve can provide you the support you need to move forwards on your AI journey. Whether you need private 1:1 coaching on AI, a facilitated team session to develop your AI strategy, or a workshop to fuel future AI-based innovation, Steve can help. Start with a free consultation.

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BOOK: Discover the critically-acclaimed book

Discover the blueprint for digital transformation in Steve's book, The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s, published by Wiley Business. This ‘how-to’ guide is essential reading for business leaders and anyone interested in innovation and the future. Get your copy in hardback, Kindle, or audiobook format today.

 
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Keynotes

Steve offers a wide range of AI-focused keynotes to suit every audience. Using accessible language and powerful examples, Steve explores the future of AI and empowers audiences to reflect more deeply on AI and to build their own strategies for the road ahead. Choose from one of these exciting AI keynotes, or have Steve build custom content tailored just for you.

AI Unleashed: Strategies for thriving in the era of intelligent machines

Suggested audiences: Corporate boards, C-suite Management, Senior Leadership teams

AI’s remarkable capabilities, huge commercial potential, and inherent risks have been the talk of every boardroom and every leadership team on the planet. With capabilities advancing exponentially, business leaders must navigate a shifting technology landscape and understand how AI will reshape future productivity, offerings, competitiveness, and business models.

In this information-packed, inspiring talk, Steve Brown uses straightforward language to explain key concepts and share emerging best-known methods for implementing AI to maximize opportunity whilst minimizing risk.

    • Why is AI such a big deal?

      o How AI connects to business results

      o Why generative AI signals the dawning of a new industrial era

      o The urgency of AI business transformation

      o Case studies of powerful AI in action

      o The exponential roadmap for AI capabilities

    • What does AI transformation look like?

      o The main types of AI and their business uses

      o Intelligent products, services and customer experiences

      o Elevating talent to superhuman performance

      o Capturing corporate knowledge and scaling expertise

      o Transforming business processes with AI and robotics

      o Sample use cases from a wide range of industries

    • Best-known methods for AI adoption

      o Strategies to boost innovation, productivity, efficiency, and employee satisfaction

      o The 7-step AI transformation journey

Thriving in a world of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines

The Quest for AGI: How we get there and what happens when we do

Suggested audiences: People who know a little about AI but want to understand its future trajectory and the long-term implications for business and society.

The race to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) is well and truly on. But how do we define AGI, what will it take to build it, when will it happen (if ever), and how will it impact our lives? In a

session relevant to tech savvy and non-technical people alike, AI futurist Steve Brown uses his deep expertise gained in leadership at Google DeepMind and Intel, to try and answer these questions and illuminate the potential road to AGI. Review the session outline for a sample of the topics covered.

    • How should we define AGI, and how will we know it when we see it?

    • Limitations of today’s AIs, and the various potential pathways to AGI

    • Technology and research breakthroughs needed to advance towards AGI

    • Estimations for AGI’s timeline, and the challenges of building it at scale

    • Expected impact on business, education, science, and society, including significant opportunities and risks

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Metamorphosis: Profound AI transformation is coming faster than you think

Suggested audience: General Audience

The AI available today is the worst it’s ever going to be. We are rocketing up an exponential curve of technological breakthroughs that will soon yield abundant, powerful intelligence able to perform most of the tasks we humans do, and many that we can’t. We are facing the greatest societal transformation since the industrial revolution; one that will change almost every aspect of our lives. Welcome to the new era of AI-powered metamorphosis. Expand the session outline below for more details on this fascinating talk.

    • How rapid advances in artificial intelligence will remake education, healthcare, retail, the media industry, manufacturing, the military, and society

    • The future of work, and how to make yourself robot-proof for as long as possible

    • The AI-empowered consumer, and implications for brands, designers, and manufacturers

    • Groundbreaking scientific and medical advancements fueled by next-generation AI

    • Major challenges on the horizon for society

    • AI nationalism, AI supremacy, and the new Cold War

    • Why we may have to rewire the economy and reimagine capitalism itself

    • The trajectory and anticipated timeline of AI’s evolution

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Boost! Elevate your workforce with AI superpowers

Suggested audiences: Leadership teams, Human Resources, Business leadership events

Recent advancements in AI are poised to substantially enhance productivity, surpassing the gains witnessed during the advent of digital computers and the internet.

What if
…. every worker in your organization had superhuman powers?
…. every team combines humans and machines working together?
…. you could simultaneously boost productivity and job satisfaction?

From the CEO to frontline employees, everyone must learn to work effectively with AI if they are to remain relevant in the 21st century workplace. In this enlightening talk, futurist Steve Brown explains how AI will transform every workplace and every role in every company within the next five years and how you can prepare for the AI-powered workplace.

    • The main types of AI and why each is important

      • Programs vs models; Generative vs Discriminative AI; Narrow vs General AI

      • AI’s new capabilities and key applications

      • The urgency of AI business transformation

    • Business implications of the AI revolution

      • How AI will help companies to fulfill their mission in exciting new ways

      • How AI assistants will give us superpowers and offload boring, repetitive work

      • Exciting new customer and employee experiences made possible by AI

    • Positioning yourself for success

      • How to stop resisting and start embracing and learning

      • Understand the workplace of the (near) future

      • Skills and strategies to remain relevant and thrive in a world of AI

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An AI-generated image of a doctor working in partnership with her AI assistant. Created using Midjourney v5.

Unlocking AI’s Potential: Proven strategies to boost business and delight customers while containing risks

Suggested audience: Businesses, boards, leadership teams, industry gatherings

Savvy business leaders are all asking themselves similar questions about AI: What should we do with it? What are our biggest opportunities? How do we mitigate risk? How rapidly should we adopt AI? And what are the emerging best methods for implementing AI?

In this practical talk, AI futurist and entrepreneur, Steve Brown, explores the go-to approaches for adopting AI; at a pragmatic pace that limits risk, maximizes impact, and maintains competitiveness.

    • Assumptions you should make about AI’s trajectory

    • Case studies and success stories on how other companies are implementing AI

    • How to prioritize AI transformation projects

    • Helpful innovation frameworks and tools you’ll need to build your plan

    • Building a change-ready culture

    • The importance of embracing S-curves

    • The 7-step AI innovation journey

    • Maintaining your AI transformation roadmap

Unlocking AI’s potential

An Introduction to AI: New possibilities, key implications, and a roadmap for the future

Suggested audience: General, corporate, and industry gatherings

AI’s capabilities continue to amaze. Powerful new tools can summarize reports, create stunning images, write code, generate breathtaking videos, build websites, and accelerate the design of new materials, pharmaceuticals, and products.

In this rapidly evolving landscape, companies are scrambling to build an informed AI strategy to boost productivity, improve customer service, elevate employee experience, and create new value.

In this fast-paced, inspiring, and informative talk, AI futurist Steve Brown explain what’s happening in the world of AI, demonstrates its latest capabilities, and explores how people can prepare themselves to thrive in the age of AI.

    • The main types of AI and why each is important

      • Programs vs models; Generative vs Discriminative AI; Narrow vs General AI

      • AI’s new capabilities and key applications

      • The urgency of AI business transformation

    • Business implications of the AI revolution

      • How AI will help companies to fulfill their mission in exciting new ways

      • How AI assistants will give us superpowers and offload boring, repetitive work

      • Exciting new customer and employee experiences made possible by AI

    • Positioning yourself for success

      • How to stop resisting and start embracing and learning

      • Understand the workplace of the (near) future

      • Skills and strategies to remain relevant and thrive in a world of AI

An introduction to artificial intelligence, in non-technical terms

After Work: Reimagining life, the economy, and society in a post-labor world

Suggested audience: General audience

We are about the enter a new era of work, the augmented era, where machines support, extend, and elevate the capabilities of humans in the workplace. Tight partnerships of humans and machines working together will boost productivity and improve work. But as AI’s abilities grow exponentially, the number and type of tasks they can take on will expand until eventually they can perform all human work. At this time, perhaps a generation from now—maybe sooner, maybe later, maybe never—we will enter the automated work era, and humans will live in a post-labor world.

This talk explores the key implications of a future where advanced AI performs all economic activity, what it means for our future, significant risks and upsides, and how we should prepare for a world without work.

After work: reimagining life, the economy, and society in a post-labor world


Other keynotes

Detailed outlines are available on request

Revolution Ed: The urgent need to reinvent education in a world of AI

ChatGPT left teachers scrambling to understand what role, if any, AI should play in their classrooms. Now, a range of powerful AI tools are coming to transform education and improve the experience for tutors, administrators, and students alike.

In this fascinating session, AI futurist Steve Brown takes you on a journey through the fast-moving world of AI, reviews how AI might transform education, and explores the skills people will need to thrive in the Intelligence Era, where powerful AI is abundant, and people work alongside intelligent machines. This is a must-see session for any thoughtful academic institution considering their future and how they can best serve their students in the 21st century.

Hollywood’s Next Chapter: AI’s plot twist and the future of storytelling

The media industry will change more in the next ten years than in the last 100, as AI transforms both the way content is created and consumed. In 2021, Gartner Group predicted that by the end of this decade, AI would be used to produce over 80% of a major Hollywood blockbuster. Video generation platforms like Open AI’s Sora now make that once-bold prediction seem very reasonable.

Responding to rising costs, globalization, and shifting consumer demand, content creators will embrace powerful new AI technology in an industry transformation more profound than the moves to talkies, color, digital, and CG combined. Business models will shift, production methods will be reinvented, and new types of media will emerge. Powerful AI tools will streamline production, present exciting new creative possibilities, and provide entirely new storytelling canvases, including immersive simulations, customized movies, digital characters, and fully interactive media you can talk to.

In this exciting and informative keynote, AI futurist Steve Brown explores how AI will reshape the media landscape and leads a discussion on the future we wish to build, and the one we will want to avoid.

Healthcare 2035: A practical roadmap to a healthier healthcare system

Change is challenging in highly regulated sectors like healthcare. But in the coming years, artificial intelligence will be a vital tool to battle clinician fatigue, spiraling costs, growing waitlists, and killer diseases. AI assistants will offload administrative tasks, freeing clinicians to be more present with patients. Diagnostic AI will improve diagnostic accuracy, boosting efficiency and improving outcomes. New AI-powered sensors and clinical tools will detect disease in new ways and help manage chronic conditions in the home. AI-powered medical research will speed the path to new therapeutics and cures and deliver on the promise of personalized medicine. Powerful AI will deeply understand human health and help us to unlock ways to extend quality of life and longevity. And in markets where access to healthcare is limited, the promise of a “doctor in your pocket” will soon become a reality.

This fascinating session explores a realistic vision for the future of healthcare and how rapid advances in artificial intelligence may improve wellness, benefit practitioners, and advance medical knowledge.

Superhuman: Why machines must make us better humans

Powerful artificial intelligence is already starting to change us. Sensing AIs help us to spot patterns that humans cannot see and extend our senses into new realms. Researchers have already built AIs that can see through walls, wirelessly read vital signs, perceive sleep states, and detect disease. Soon, AI assistants will boost our productivity, extend our abilities, and elevate our performance to superhuman levels.

In this thought-provoking session, AI futurist Steve Brown explores how we will use artificial intelligence in combination with other technologies to upgrade our senses, boost our abilities, improve our happiness, and elevate our humanity. He will leave you with the important question: how do we want AI to change us, and how could we use AI to make ourselves better humans?

 
Steve is one of the best speakers I have had the pleasure to work with in my 19-year career organizing and hosting events. He is very responsive, easy to work with, and once on stage, he mesmerizes the audience with an awesome blend of humor, high-quality visual aids, and mind-blowing perspectives about the future.
— Sebastien Monnet, Vice President, Learning and Development, Conference of State Bank Supervisors

AI Innovation Workshops

For over a decade, Steve Brown has used the Futurecasting process to help organizations explore and plan their futures. Futurecasting is a strategic foresights and design-oriented planning process used by leading brands to:

  • Envision and develop ideas for innovative new products, services, and experiences

  • Creatively rework or streamline operations

  • Develop cutting-edge new business models

  • Build a fresh vision for an organization

These workshops focus on creative problem solving and provide a collaborative space for teams to brainstorm and generate fresh ideas. Steve facilitates the conversation, shares his expert perspective as a futurist, and guides the discussion towards the development of actionable next steps.

Whether you're looking to innovate in a specific area of your business or seeking to overhaul your entire organizational strategy, Steve's Futurecasting workshops can help you to develop a clear strategy for success.

Schedule a free consultation and start planning for a more innovative future.

 

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AI's capabilities are improving exponentially. Business leaders are challenged to understand key implications and to determine necessary adjustments to their strategies, the appropriate pace of change, and how to focus limited resources for maximal impact.

AI offers huge potential to every organization: Product innovation, business model transformation, workforce elevation, and operational optimization. Whether you are just getting started on your AI transformation journey or well on your way and need independent help with your existing plans, Steve Brown can support you. With over 25 years of experience in AI and high tech, Steve can help you to strengthen your vision, provide coaching on how to build a change-ready culture, or assess the viability of a potential AI acquisition.

Make your business more innovative, resilient, and profitable in the AI era and leverage Steve's expertise and network. Consultation agreements range from a quick 30-minute chat to multi-year partnerships.
 

Get Expert Consulting from Steve

Steve offers a range of confidential consulting services, either by phone, video, or in-person/onsite:

  • Private 1:1 training and consulting

  • Facilitated team brainstorms

  • Independent feedback on your AI transformation strategy

  • Support when assessing AI-related acquistions

  • Building a work augmentation strategy

  • Futurecasting workshops

Partner with Steve today to move your organization forwards in the age of AI.

Steve has the unique ability to turn data and facts into real insights that inspire and provide a framework for innovative thinking. Steve is also an amazing speaker and storyteller that can captivate and motivate an audience of 5 or 500.
— Jamie Gutfreund, CMO, Wunderman

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Get the Book

The Innovation Ultimatum:
How six strategic technologies will reshape every business in the 2020s

Get ready to transform your business with the help of Steve Brown’s critically-acclaimed book. “The Innovation Ultimatum” is your ultimate guide to leveraging AI and other emerging technologies to stay competitive and drive innovation at every level of your organization.

Packed with real-world examples from various industries, and written in jargon-free language, this practical “how-to” guide will show you how to take advantage of the latest advancements in AI, robotics, blockchain, sensors, augmented reality, and more to streamline your operations, improve your products and services, and boost your bottom line.

Order your copy today and join the ranks of C-suite leaders who are already using “The Innovation Ultimatum” to lead their companies into the future. Many of them order a copy for every member of their teams!

And if you’re interested in a keynote from Steve, be sure to ask our team to learn about our special book bundle. Attendees will love receiving a signed copy of the book and a chance to meet Steve in person. Contact us today to learn more.

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