Artificial Intelligence, Tech Futurist, & Cybersecurity Professional Speakers
Our leading AI, tech futurist, and cybersecurity speakers translate cutting-edge advancements into actionable insights, empowering teams to innovate boldly while staying secure. With advanced expertise, each speaker offers profound insights to captivate, educate, and empower audiences. Inquire if interested in booking for your next in person or virtual event.
Choose From Our Stellar Network of Speakers:
Shail Khiyara
Founder & CEO of Plutoshift AI & VOCAL, Current Board Advisor for Workato, DeepSee.ai, smartRPA
Based in Silicon Valley, Shail Khiyara is a distinguished thought leader and operational executive in Intelligent Automation and AI. He has served as a CMO & Chief Customer Officer at three leading intelligent automation firms and serves on the board of several automation and AI companies. He brings a unique combination of global CEO level operational experience with a blend of strategy, sales, marketing, customer success & product domain expertise.Shail is also the founder of VOCAL, a global initiative that unites over 90 leading brands worldwide, fostering collaboration among automation and AI leaders.
Shawn Kanungo
Innovation Strategist, named Forbes "Best Virtual Keynote Speaker I've Ever Seen"
Shawn Kanungo is a globally recognized innovation strategist and bestselling author. He previously spent 12 years at Deloitte working closely with leaders to better plan for the opportunities associated with disruptive innovation. He’s been recognized as Edify's Top 40 Under 40. In 2021, he was named in Forbes as the “Best Virtual Keynote Speaker I’ve Ever Seen”. Kanungo is the first innovation expert to have a streaming special, released on Apple TV and Prime Video in August 2023 based on his bestselling debut book, The Bold Ones.
Theresa Payton
Co-founder Dark3 & Fortalice Solutions Named Cybersecurity Crusader of the Year
Theresa is a top cybersecurity keynote speaker, veteran cybercrime fighter, and visionary in the digital world, leading the way as an inventor of new security designs with an approved US patent. She identifies emerging trends and techniques to combat cyber threats, and is a key resource that organizations turn to for discreet help during data breaches. She co-founded Dark3 and Fortalice Solutions and has been named one of the 25 Most Influential People by Security Magazine, a Top 50 Cybersecurity Leader by Business Insider, and Cybersecurity Crusader of the Year by CISO Magazine. Theresa has also authored several publications on IT strategy and cybersecurity.
Nikolas Badminton
Chief Futurist, #1 Best Seller + J.P. Morgan's "Next Gen Pick" 2023, Top-50 Business Book for The Next Big Idea Club
Nikolas Badminton is a world-renowned AI + futurist speaker and Chief Futurist that has worked with over 400 clients at impactful companies and the highest levels of government to create bold visions by exploring desirable futures, anticipating opportunities and risks, and strengthening strategic planning. His essential thinking can be seen in his best-selling book ‘Facing Our Futures’ which was selected as JP Morgan’s “Next Gen Pick” for their 2023 Summer reading list, and by The Next Big Idea Club as being one of their Top-50 Business Books of 2023.
Rachel Wilson
Head of Cybersecurity at
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Rachel is a renowned cybersecurity speaker and the first-ever Head of Cyber Security at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. She is responsible for ensuring data confidentiality, leads education on cyber risks, and drives innovation in cybersecurity. She previously worked at the National Security Agency where she focused on detecting and disrupting terrorist and cyber exploitation activity against the US and its allies. Rachel has received several prestigious recognitions and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker.
Pascal Bornet
Forbes Tech Council, LinkedIn Top Voice in AI & Tech, Best-selling Author
Pascal Bornet is a pioneer in Intelligent Automation (IA) and the author of the best-seller book “Intelligent Automation.” He is regularly ranked as one of the top 10 global experts in AI and Automation. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and the founder and former leader of the “AI and Automation” practices at McKinsey and Ernst & Young (EY). Bornet performs more than 100 keynotes annually for events, covering topics like future of work, tech for good, AI, intelligent automation, skills for the future, people and tech, future tech trends and more.
Linda Bernardi
Digital Disruption Strategist,
Former IBM Innovation Officer, and Watson Co-Lead
Linda Bernardi is a high-tech entrepreneur and pioneer of IoT and keynote speaker who discusses the benefits of adopting emerging technologies in today’s consumer-driven economy. With an enthusiastic outlook, Linda explains how AI, IoT, blockchain, and NLP can change a company's trajectory. She is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company and was previously Chief Innovation Officer at IBM. She’s also held executive positions in AI, Blockchain, and crypto-currency companies.
Jonathon Brill
Strategic Futurist & AI Inventor
Jonathan Brill is a leading expert on AI, strategic foresight, and innovation. He has worked with Fortune 50 companies, startups, and the U.S. Secret Service to help them navigate uncertainty and create opportunities. His work has generated over $27 billion for clients and has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, The Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, TED, SXSW, and Thinkers50. Brill has educated over 27,000 executives and has been recognized as the #1 Futurist in the World by Forbes. His book, "Rogue Waves," offers a pragmatic framework for business leaders to thrive amid disruption and invent their own futures.
Rachel Tobac
CEO of SocialProof Security &
Board Chair of Women in Security & Privacy
Rachel is the CEO of SocialProof Security, where she helps people and companies protect themselves from social engineering threats. She is a DEFCON winner, and one of the first to predict and unpack the infamous 2020 Twitter hack in real-time. Rachel is the Chair of the Board for the nonprofit Women in Security and Privacy and has shared her stories on NPR, John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, The New York Times, CNN, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
Shawn Dubravac
NYT Best Seller; President of Avrio Institute
Dr. DuBravac is an internationally-recognized thought leader and top-rated keynote speaker with research focusing on the forces shaping tomorrow that are percolating on the peripheral of society and business today. DuBravac empowers leaders and their organizations to improve strategic decision-making capabilities by identifying and understanding the changing landscape and opportunities that lie ahead. DuBravac is president of Avrio Institute with clients including Fortune 100 and Global 1000 companies, scrappy start-ups, government agencies and non-profit organizations. DuBravac served for over a dozen years as chief economist for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer tech companies and owner and producer of CES.
Tom Koulopolous
Visionary Leader and
Authority on Changing Technology
Tom Koulopoulos is a renowned business leader, futurist, and author of 13 books, including his latest work, Reimagining Healthcare. As the chairman of Delphi Group, a fast-growing global futures think tank based in Boston, he's widely recognized as a deep thinker in the technology and culture arena. He's also a frequent commentator on MSNBC, a columnist for Inc.com, and an adjunct professor at both Boston University and Bentley University. With his incisive view of world trade and innovative ideas, Forbes has called Tom a business visionary. His writing has been praised by Tom Peters and the late Peter Drucker for its ability to challenge conventional wisdom and inspire change.
Nancy Giorando
Founder & CEO, Play Big Inc. & Ranked as One of the “World’s Top Female Futurists” and Top 7 “Women of Influence on the Future of Leadership”
Recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and evolving a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands. With growing conviction of what will (and needs to) shift, executives value her unique abilities to sense and synthesize the terrain ahead and guide those ready to build more relevant and sustainable solutions. A 10 year TEDx curator (and world’s first licensee), Nancy is a Singularity University guest lecturer, frequent panelist at South by Southwest (SXSW), creator of the first Career Fair For the Future event for college + high school student and recent co-founder of Femme Futurists Society (a growing collection of interviews with leading futurists around the world) and remains an active strategist.
Nicholas Webb
Healthcare Futurist and Innovation Expert
Nick Webb is a number-one bestselling author and one of the most popular Innovation, Healthcare, Future-trends, and Customer Experience Speakers in the world. Nick is the CEO of LeaderLogic, LLC, a Management Consulting Firm that provides consulting services and training to the top brands in the world. He works shoulder-to-shoulder with boards of directors of multibillion-dollar companies to assist them in building future-ready organizations. As a technologist, Nick has been awarded over 40 Patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office for a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, including one of the world’s smallest medical implants and one of the first wearable technologies.
Crystal Washington
Technology Trends Expert and One of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists
One of Forbes’ 50 Leading Female Futurists, Crystal Washington helps global brands like Google, Microsoft, and GE use cutting-edge technology to drive performance and take their business to the next level. After working in revenue management and corporate sales managing Fortune 500 accounts and repeatedly breaking company records, Crystal founded her own social media consulting firm called Black-Market Exchange, which became enormously successful. Infusing humor and wit, Crystal is known for her ability to take complex technology topics and make them easy to understand and accessible for everyday professionals and small business owners, across generations.
Mikko Hypponen
Chief Research Officer at WithSecure; Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure
Mikko Hyppönen is computer security expert, cybersecurity researcher, writer and a best-selling author. He is known for the Hyppönen Law about IoT security, which states that whenever an appliance is described as being "smart", it is vulnerable. He has written for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and lectured at the universities of Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge. His TED Talk has been viewed more than 2 million times. His latest book is "If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable" (Wiley 2022).
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Brian David Johnson
Futurist, Author, Professor
Brian David Johnson has made the future his business. From 2009 to 2016, Johnson was Intel Corporation's first-ever futurist. Currently, he is a professor at Arizona State University's Global Futures Laboratory and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He also works in a private practice with a broad range of groups, including governments, militaries, corporations, nonprofits, and start-ups, to help them envision their future. Johnson holds over 40 patents and is the best-selling author of both science fiction and fact books, including A Threatcasting Textbook, The Future You, WaR: Wizards and Robots and 21st Century Robot.
Dan Chuparkoff
AI Educator, Innovation Expert
Ramy Nassar
Exploring the Future of AI, Design & Human Potential
Ramy Nassar is a dynamic multilingual presenter known for his engaging and interactive workshops on AI and Strategic Foresight. As the former Head of Innovation for Mattel and author of the AI Product Design Handbook, he has established himself as a pivotal leader in the intersection of technology, futurism, and business strategy. Ramy's expertise in AI and technology is deeply rooted in practical experience, having led the development of digital products that leverage machine learning and Generative AI. His presentations and workshops are known for their clarity, depth, and enthusiasm, making him a sought-after speaker for conferences, workshops, and corporate events. Ramy is also an award-winning speaker and facilitator at international events and teaches Design Thinking at prestigious institutions like McMaster University and Toronto Metropolitan University.