AI Keynote Speakers
From frontier researchers to the operators deploying AI inside healthcare, finance, and the everyday workplace.
Artificial intelligence has moved from a conference curiosity to the question every executive team is now expected to have an answer for: what to build, what to buy, what to ignore, and how to bring an anxious workforce along. The speakers below are not pundits reading the latest headlines back to your audience. They are the researchers, operators, and inventors who actually shipped the tools and frameworks everyone else studies, from Zack Kass, who took ChatGPT to the enterprise inside OpenAI, to Cassie Kozyrkov, Google's first Chief Decision Scientist, to LinkedIn co-founder and AI investor Reid Hoffman. Whether your audience needs a clear map of where the technology is heading or a Monday-morning playbook for their own industry, this roster lets a meeting planner match the speaker to the room.
Frontier AI & the Innovators Shaping It
Visionaries and builders like Zack Kass, Reid Hoffman, and Cassie Kozyrkov, for boards and main-stage keynotes mapping where AI goes next.
Zack Kass
Former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI, where he helped commercialize the models that defined the category. Gives audiences an insider read on where artificial intelligence is heading and how to ride the curve rather than get flattened by it.
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn, Greylock partner, and NYT bestselling author. The sharpest single voice on what every CEO and board has to decide in the next decade as AI reshapes hiring, productivity, and what a company actually is.
Cassie Kozyrkov
Google's first Chief Decision Scientist and the pioneer of Decision Intelligence. She translates machine learning and AI from mystery into a practical tool leaders can actually wield, teaching audiences how to make smarter decisions with data rather than defer to the algorithm.
Peter Diamandis
Founder of XPRIZE and Singularity University and a NYT bestselling author on exponential technology. He maps how AI and converging breakthroughs will reshape industries, giving audiences a futurist's framework for turning disruption into abundance rather than threat.
Jerry Kaplan
Author and inventor who has studied artificial intelligence for decades, writing the definitive primers on how the technology works and where it leads. Cuts through the hype to give audiences a grounded, historically informed sense of what AI can and cannot do.
AI at Work: Transforming the Organization
Workforce and business strategists including Heather McGowan, John Rossman, and David Burkus, for HR summits and offsites redesigning how teams operate.
Heather McGowan
A leading workforce and organizational transformation thinker. She reframes AI not as a job killer but as a forcing function for reskilling, showing leaders how to redesign roles, culture, and learning so their people stay valuable as the work itself is automated and reshaped.
John Rossman
Early Amazon executive and author of The Amazon Way and Big Bet Leadership. He brings the operating discipline that scaled Amazon to the AI moment, teaching leaders how to place and manage the big bets that AI now demands without betting the company.
David Burkus
Organizational psychologist, bestselling author, and Columbia University professor. He grounds the AI-at-work conversation in evidence, showing leaders how to keep teams motivated, creative, and human as artificial intelligence changes how work actually gets done.
Erica Dhawan
The world's leading expert on 21st-century teamwork and innovation. She shows how AI is reshaping collaboration, communication, and connection across hybrid teams, giving leaders a practical playbook for keeping people effective as the tools around them change fast.
Sam Richter
A sales intelligence authority who teaches leaders to harness online intelligence for business advantage. He shows audiences how to put AI and digital research to work in the daily grind of selling, prospecting, and winning, turning information overload into a competitive edge.
AI in Healthcare & Life Sciences
Clinical innovators Daniel Kraft, Dr. Geeta Nayyar, and Nick Webb, for health systems and medical congresses putting AI to work at the bedside.
Daniel Kraft, M.D.
Physician, scientist, and innovator focused on the future of health and medicine. Trained across Stanford and Harvard, he shows audiences how AI and exponential technologies are transforming diagnosis, treatment, and the practice of medicine itself.
Dr. Geeta Nayyar
A preeminent AI in healthcare expert and former Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce. She bridges medicine and technology, showing health systems and audiences how to deploy AI responsibly to improve care, trust, and outcomes without losing the human at the center.
Nick Webb
An innovation expert on the future of healthcare, technology, and the customer experience. He shows how AI is reshaping the way patients and providers interact, helping health organizations turn emerging technology into better, more human experiences.
AI in Finance, Markets & Geopolitics
Economic and geopolitical voices Andrew Busch, Clara Durodie, Ron Insana, and Ian Bremmer, for financial audiences pricing in AI market impact.
Andrew Busch
An economic futurist who converts today's chaos into tomorrow's growth opportunities. Drawing on his markets and policy background, he shows financial audiences how AI is reshaping the economy, and how to position ahead of the disruption rather than react to it.
Clara Durodié
A fintech strategist specializing in applied AI across financial services. She advises boards and institutions on deploying artificial intelligence responsibly, giving finance audiences a governance-aware, practical view of how AI is remaking banking, risk, and investment.
Ron Insana
CNBC senior analyst, veteran financial journalist, and bestselling author. He brings decades of market fluency to the AI conversation, helping finance audiences separate real investment signal from hype as artificial intelligence reshapes companies, sectors, and the economy.
Ian Bremmer
Political scientist and the world's leading authority on global political risk, founder of Eurasia Group. He frames AI as a geopolitical force, showing finance and business audiences how the race between nations and companies to control AI will reshape markets and power.
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Alison McCauley
An author and strategist focused on how the acceleration of AI is changing our world. She helps audiences grasp the pace and stakes of the shift, translating rapid AI advances into clear implications for how organizations and people should adapt.
Amy Jo Martin
One of the world's leading human transformation experts and a pioneering voice on digital influence. She helps audiences keep the human element front and center as AI reshapes how brands, leaders, and people connect and grow in a technology-saturated world.
Chris Barton
Founder and creator of Shazam, entrepreneur, inventor, and tech investor. Having built a breakthrough consumer technology from the ground up, he shows audiences how real innovation happens and how to spot and build the next wave of AI-driven products.
Crystal Washington
A technology futurist known for helping organizations future-proof themselves. She makes AI and emerging tech accessible and actionable, showing everyday professionals how to adopt artificial intelligence in practical ways that make their work faster and smarter.
Debra Jasper
A communications expert and CEO of Mindset Digital. She helps audiences cut through digital noise and communicate with impact as AI transforms how we work and connect, giving leaders practical skills to stay clear, credible, and human online.
Erik Qualman
A digital leadership, focus, and AI expert, researcher, and bestselling author. He translates the flood of AI change into clear leadership habits, showing audiences how to stay focused and lead effectively as artificial intelligence accelerates the pace of business.
Jay Baer
A researcher and bestselling author on business growth, customer loyalty, and client experience. He shows how AI is reshaping the way companies win and keep customers, giving audiences practical ways to use technology without losing the human touch that earns loyalty.
Mick Ebeling
Founder of Not Impossible Labs, an inventor, and a two-time SXSW Innovator of the Year. He shows how AI and emerging technology can solve problems once thought impossible, inspiring audiences to aim ambitious tools at real human need.
MJ DePalma
Microsoft Global Director of Cultural and Inclusive Business Impact. She brings a big-tech, inclusion-first lens to artificial intelligence, showing organizations how to build and adopt AI that serves diverse people and cultures rather than encoding old biases.
Nell Watson
A futurist and AI expert focused on the ethical frontier of machine intelligence. She helps audiences navigate the moral and societal questions AI raises, from safety to alignment, giving leaders a thoughtful framework for building AI worthy of trust.
Pascal Finette
An AI expert and lead faculty at Singularity University. He guides leaders through the exponential technologies reshaping business, giving audiences a rigorous, entrepreneur's view of how to understand AI and act on it before competitors do.
Patrick Schwerdtfeger
A business futurist specializing in AI and disruptive innovation. He decodes the technologies coming for every industry, helping audiences see how AI will reshape their business and what to do now to stay ahead of the disruption curve.
What sets this group apart is range. A board strategy offsite can hear frontier voices like Peter Diamandis and Jerry Kaplan on where AI goes next, while an HR or leadership summit gets Heather McGowan, John Rossman, and David Burkus on how work itself is being redesigned. Industry events are covered too, with Daniel Kraft and Dr. Geeta Nayyar on AI in healthcare and Andrew Busch, Clara Durodie, and Ian Bremmer on what it means for markets and the global economy.
That flexibility fits any format: a keynote to open a user conference, a general session at an industry congress, a sales kickoff, or a closing talk that sends people home with concrete next moves. Booking through Rave gets you vetted talent, straight answers on fit and fee, and a team that has placed these speakers for meeting planners many times over.
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