Artificial Intelligence

Simon Anderson
Founder of Venture Foresight, Futurist, Award-winning Author and Global Speaker on Trends & Technology.
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Simon Anderson: Futurist | Applied Foresight Expert | Founder of Venture Foresight
Be Ready for What Comes Next
Simon Anderson helps organizations answer that question. He makes emerging trends and technology understandable and gives leaders a practical way to prepare for the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Why Book Simon Anderson?
Simon helps audiences turn uncertainty into better decisions. His Future Ready Framework™ organizes foresight into three actions: Attention, Anticipation, and Action. It gives leaders a way to recognize meaningful signals, consider what they could mean, and decide what to do next.
His presentations connect broad change to the choices facing a specific organization or industry.
What Makes Simon Different?
• A practical foresight framework leaders can use in their next meeting
• Clear explanations of AI, technology, and emerging change
• A focus on early signals and decisions leaders can make now
• Industry-specific examples that connect trends to the audience’s work
• Tools for questioning assumptions and acting before change becomes urgent
Why Is Simon Right for Your Audience?
Simon is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, strategy sessions, and leadership teams facing rapid change. He is especially valuable when people know their sector is shifting but need a shared way to separate significant developments from noise.
Book Simon when your audience needs to:
• Spot changes that could affect its industry
• Understand what AI and emerging technology could mean for its work
• Challenge assumptions built for a different environment
• Balance improving today’s business with preparing for tomorrow’s
• Turn trend discussions into decisions and experiments
• Build a more proactive approach to change
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Equipped to use Attention, Anticipation, and Action as a planning framework
• Better able to distinguish meaningful signals from passing noise
• Ready to examine assumptions that may be limiting their options
• Clearer about emerging opportunities and potential challenges
• Motivated to take practical steps toward a more future-ready organization
Keynote Programs
Beyond Resilient: How to Be Future Ready® in an Age of Constant Change
Simon introduces his Future Ready Framework™ and shows leaders how to notice important shifts, think through their implications, and act early. Ideal for leadership and strategy events where change is a central concern.
The Future Is Here. Now What?
AI attracts attention, but it is one of several technologies changing how organizations work. Simon helps audiences decide which developments deserve attention, what they could mean for their industry, and when to act.
Leading into the Future of Your Industry
In this customized keynote, Simon examines the trends reshaping the audience’s sector and applies his framework to potential opportunities. Ideal for industry associations, client events, and executive teams looking for relevant foresight.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us about your industry, your priorities, and the decisions your leaders need to make. We’ll help you identify the most relevant Simon Anderson program, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.
Is Simon Right for Your Event?
Tell us what is changing around your organization and what you want your audience to do differently afterward. We’ll help you assess Simon’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].

Nikolas Badminton
Futurist Speaker, Advisor, and Best Selling Author
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Nikolas Badminton: Futurist | Chief Futurist and Hope Engineer™ | Author of Facing Our Futures
Help Your Audience Imagine—and Prepare for—What Comes Next
Nikolas Badminton helps organizations do that work. A futurist and executive advisor, he connects emerging technology and global change to the questions leaders need to ask about their own industry. The Sweeney Agency
Why Book Nikolas Badminton?
Nikolas makes the future a useful strategic conversation. Drawing on his work with organizations and his book Facing Our Futures, he challenges audiences to examine emerging signals, prepare for risks, and see opportunities they may otherwise miss.
His presentations can open a broad conversation about an industry’s future or focus on AI, energy, or geopolitical technology.
What Makes Nikolas Different?
• Experience advising leaders on futures thinking and strategic foresight
• An energetic approach that makes large-scale change relevant to the audience
• The ability to connect technology, industry shifts, and wider global forces
• A focus on imagining desirable futures as well as anticipating risks
• Topics that can be tailored to a sector’s most pressing questions
Why Is Nikolas Right for Your Audience?
Nikolas is a strong fit for executive conferences, industry associations, strategy meetings, and organizations confronting significant technological or market change. He is particularly valuable when leaders need to step back from immediate demands and consider the choices that will shape their future.
Book Nikolas when your audience needs to:
• See beyond short-term trends and current assumptions
• Explore possible futures for its industry
• Understand the implications of AI and emerging technology
• Anticipate risks and opportunities earlier
• Build a bolder shared vision
• Turn curiosity about the future into strategic discussion
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better able to recognize signals of meaningful change
• Ready to ask stronger questions about possible futures
• Clearer on how technology and global shifts may affect their sector
• More confident discussing opportunities alongside risks
• Motivated to bring foresight into today’s decisions
Keynote Programs
Facing Our Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond
Nikolas helps audiences explore the megatrends and emerging technologies that could reshape their industry. He encourages a shift from accepting today’s assumptions to asking what could be possible.
The A.I. Leader: Create Incredible Productivity, Profit & Growth
Nikolas explores how AI could change work, capabilities, and business models—and what leaders should consider as they prepare their organizations.
Energy Transitions: Explore Renewable Energy Futures
Nikolas examines how changes in energy generation, distribution, storage, and consumption could create new opportunities and challenges.
Geopolitical Technology Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond
Nikolas considers how AI, critical resources, supply chains, and other technologies could reshape global competition and strategic planning. The Sweeney Agency
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us about your industry, the forces you are watching, and the choices your leaders face. We’ll help you identify the most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Nikolas’s availability and current fee.
Is Nikolas Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes it needs to understand, and the conversation you want the event to start. We’ll help you assess Nikolas’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected].

Chris Barton
Founder and Creator of Shazam, Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Tech Investor
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Chris Barton: Keynote Speaker on Innovation, AI & Disruptive Thinking | Founder & First CEO of Shazam | Inventor | Tech Entrepreneur
Bring Impossible Ideas to Life. What if the idea everyone says is impossible is actually your biggest opportunity?
When Chris conceived the idea for Shazam, experts told him it couldn't be done. He refused to accept the assumptions defining what was possible. The result became one of the world's most recognizable technology platforms, with more than 2 billion downloads before being acquired by Apple.
Today, Chris shows organizations how to challenge conventional thinking, break through barriers and turn seemingly impossible ideas into reality.
Why Book Chris Barton?
Chris doesn't simply talk about innovation. He built something the experts said couldn't be built.
Shazam was conceived before smartphones and app stores existed. Creating it required Chris and his team to solve enormous technological, commercial and operational challenges while repeatedly finding ways around obstacles that could have ended the company.
Those experiences shaped Chris's “Start from Zero” approach to innovation—a way of challenging assumptions and returning to basic truths instead of automatically accepting how things have always been done.
His keynote combines a remarkable entrepreneurial story with practical thinking audiences can use to challenge the status quo and create breakthrough ideas of their own.
What Makes Chris Barton Different?
• Founder & first CEO of Shazam — created one of the world's most recognizable technology platforms
• AI pioneer — Shazam was an early mass-consumer application of artificial intelligence
• 2+ billion downloads — transformed an impossible-sounding idea into a global product
• Apple acquisition — Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2018
• 12 patents — inventor across Shazam, Google and Dropbox
• Google experience — was Google's first employee focused on mobile partnerships
• Dropbox experience — joined when it was still a rapidly growing startup
• Start from Zero thinking — gives audiences a practical framework for challenging assumptions
• Creative Persistence — demonstrates how imagination and tenacity combine to overcome barriers
Why Is Chris Right for Your Audience?
Chris is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to challenge conventional thinking, become more innovative and stop allowing assumptions to determine what's possible.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, AI and technology events, innovation summits, sales kickoffs and organizations navigating disruption.
Book Chris when your audience needs to:
• Challenge assumptions and conventional thinking
• Generate more innovative ideas
• Understand the possibilities created by AI and technology
• Turn ambitious ideas into action
• Overcome barriers without compromising the original vision
• Develop greater creative persistence
• Eliminate friction for customers and employees
• Become more comfortable pursuing ideas others don't immediately understand
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Thinking differently about what is possible
• Better equipped to challenge assumptions
• Understanding how first-principles thinking can unlock innovation
• More willing to pursue unconventional ideas
• Better prepared to creatively overcome obstacles
• Recognizing how unnecessary friction limits growth
• Inspired to combine persistence with imagination
• Ready to bring their own “impossible” ideas to life
Chris Barton Keynote Programs
Bring Impossible Ideas to Life. How do you create something that experts insist can't be done?
Technology and AI are rapidly changing the boundaries of what's possible. Chris takes audiences inside the remarkable creation of Shazam and the challenges involved in developing an idea years ahead of the technology ecosystem required to support it.
He shows audiences how questioning assumptions, thinking from basic truths and approaching obstacles differently can unlock entirely new possibilities.
Ideal for: AI conferences, innovation summits, leadership meetings and organizations pursuing breakthrough ideas.
Overcome Obstacles with Imagination. Persistence matters—but simply trying the same thing harder isn't enough.
Chris calls his approach Creative Persistence: combining determination with the imagination required to find another path when the obvious route is blocked.
Using extraordinary stories from Shazam's journey, he shows audiences how to challenge barriers, question conventional solutions and keep moving toward ambitious goals.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, entrepreneurial events and organizations navigating difficult challenges.
Eliminate Effort to Unlock Explosive Growth. Where is unnecessary friction making it harder for customers, employees or partners to say yes?
Shazam succeeded by making something incredibly complex feel effortless: hear a song, press a button and discover what it is.
Drawing on his experiences with Shazam, Google and Dropbox, Chris shows audiences how identifying and removing friction can create dramatically better customer and employee experiences.
Ideal for: Customer experience, sales, innovation, technology and growth-focused events.
Build the Vision You See, But Others Don't. What do you see that others can't see yet?
Breakthrough ideas often face resistance precisely because they're unfamiliar.
Chris shares the entrepreneurial lessons behind transforming Shazam from an idea many considered impossible into a product used by billions of people.
He challenges entrepreneurs and innovators to strengthen their conviction, prioritize what matters and find creative ways to turn vision into reality.
Ideal for: Entrepreneurs, founders, innovation teams and organizations building new products or businesses.
Why Book Chris Barton Through The Sweeney Agency?
Chris Barton combines an extraordinary entrepreneurial success story with practical frameworks for innovation, AI and breakthrough thinking—but the real value comes from connecting those lessons to the barriers and opportunities facing your organization.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
• Confirm Chris Barton's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Chris Barton keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and event objectives
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Chris with other leading innovation, AI and technology keynote speakers
Is Chris Barton Right for Your Event?
Tell us the impossible idea, stubborn barrier or innovation challenge your organization is facing.
We'll help you determine whether Chris is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an innovation summit, AI conference, leadership meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Chris Barton as your keynote speaker.

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Jonathan Brill
#1 Ranked Futurist in the World by Forbes, Futurist in Residence at Amazon and the world’s leading transformation architect according to Harvard Business Review.
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Jonathan Brill: Business Futurist | AI Strategist | Speaker on Innovation and What Comes Next
Make the Next Five Years Work for You
Jonathan Brill helps audiences connect emerging trends to practical choices. Drawing on his experience as a futurist, inventor, and business advisor, he shows organizations how to spot change earlier, adapt how they work, and create opportunities in uncertain conditions.
Why Book Jonathan Brill?
Jonathan moves a conversation about the future toward decisions leaders can make today. He examines where technology, geopolitics, economics, and social change intersect, then helps audiences think about how those forces may affect their own business.
His work in innovation and organizational transformation gives him a useful perspective on both emerging possibilities and the difficulty of putting new ideas into practice.
What Makes Jonathan Different?
• Experience as a business futurist and former Global Futurist at HP
• Work advising organizations on innovation and transformation
• A focus on the combined effects of AI and wider social and economic change
• Practical frameworks for spotting opportunities and adapting to disruption
• An engaging way of making complex future scenarios relevant to business decisions
Why Is Jonathan Right for Your Audience?
Jonathan is a strong fit for executive conferences, innovation summits, leadership meetings, and industry events. He is particularly relevant when teams feel pressure to act on AI but need a clearer view of how it connects with their strategy and organization.
Book Jonathan when your audience needs to:
• Identify trends that could reshape its industry
• Turn uncertainty into useful strategic questions
• Explore how AI changes decisions, teams, and customer expectations
• Build adaptability into how the organization works
• Find opportunities created by disruption
• Connect long-term thinking with near-term action
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better able to spot signals of change that matter to their work
• Clearer on how multiple trends can combine to create new risks and opportunities
• Ready to question assumptions about how their organization operates
• Equipped with practical ways to begin planning for the next five years
• Motivated to test ideas and adapt as conditions evolve
Keynote Programs
AI & the Octopus Organization
Jonathan asks leaders to rethink organizational design for an AI-driven world. Using the octopus as a model, he explores how distributed intelligence and empowered teams can help a business sense change and respond more effectively. Ideal for executive and transformation audiences.
Strategic Luck: The Science of Thriving in Uncertainty
Jonathan challenges the idea that useful opportunities appear by chance alone. He offers approaches for noticing openings, preparing for surprises, and making better choices when outcomes are uncertain. Ideal for leadership and sales audiences.
Architect Your Future
Jonathan explores how organizations can respond to disruption by building the capacity to adapt and innovate. Ideal for industry conferences and teams reconsidering their strategy as markets change.
Win the Next Five Years: Spot, Lead, Win
Jonathan connects AI, economic, geopolitical, and social trends to decisions organizations can begin making now. Ideal for executive teams and audiences looking for a more actionable view of the near future.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
Tell us which changes matter most to your audience and what decisions it is facing. We can help choose Jonathan’s most relevant keynote, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and current fee.
Is Jonathan Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, its industry, and the opportunities or disruptions it needs to prepare for. We’ll help you assess Jonathan’s fit and plan the next step.
To check availability and fee of this speaker, call 1-866-727-7555 or email [email protected]

Matt Britton
Serial Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, and Globally Recognized Keynote Speaker on AI
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Matt Britton: Founder of Suzy | Author of Generation AI | Speaker on AI, Consumer Behavior and Generational Change
Why Book Matt Britton?
Matt brings experience building companies, researching consumers and speaking with brand leaders through The Speed of Culture podcast. His presentations use examples and demonstrations to help audiences consider how AI and changing consumer habits could affect their customers, offerings and work.
Why Is Matt Britton Right for Your Audience?
Matt is a strong fit for marketing conferences, leadership meetings, retail events and industry gatherings. He is particularly relevant when an organization wants to understand younger consumers, explore AI’s business implications or question assumptions about what customers will want next.
Book Matt when your audience needs to:
• Understand how AI is changing consumer behavior
• Explore Gen Z’s expectations and choices
• Consider the emerging influence of Gen Alpha
• Connect customer insight with business decisions
• Identify relevant applications of new technology
• Challenge assumptions about future demand
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the presentation focus, attendees will leave:
• More aware of changes in how customers discover and buy
• Better able to connect technology with human behavior
• Clearer on the questions to ask about generational change
• Equipped with examples to inform strategic discussion
• Ready to investigate opportunities relevant to their industry
Keynote Programs
Matt’s keynotes are shaped around the audience and industry. Current presentation focuses include:
AI and Consumer Behavior
Matt explores how AI enters everyday decisions and what that could mean for discovery, service and loyalty. Ideal for leaders and marketing teams considering the implications for their businesses.
Gen Z
Matt examines the influences and expectations behind Gen Z’s choices as consumers and colleagues. Ideal for organizations seeking a more informed understanding of this generation.
Gen Alpha
Matt considers how growing up with AI could shape learning, family decisions and expectations of brands. Ideal for audiences planning for emerging consumers and future markets.
Is Matt Britton Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the customers you want to understand and the technology questions you want to explore. We can help shape Matt’s most relevant presentation, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Daniel Burrus
Futurist Expert and Speaker on Business Strategy, Technology, Innovations & Their Impact
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Daniel Burrus: Futurist | Author of The Anticipatory Organization | Speaker on AI, Innovation and Strategic Foresight
Why Book Daniel Burrus?
His approach distinguishes Hard Trends, based on developments he considers predictable, from Soft Trends that can still be influenced. Daniel applies this thinking to AI, innovation and business transformation, helping teams discuss what they can prepare for and where they can act.
Why Is Daniel Burrus Right for Your Audience?
Daniel is a strong fit for executive meetings, strategy conferences, technology events and leadership programs. Consider him when an organization needs a practical conversation about future opportunities and how to prioritize action.
Book Daniel when your audience needs to:
• Identify trends relevant to their business
• Distinguish predictable developments from changeable assumptions
• Explore the business implications of AI
• Anticipate problems before they become urgent
• Find opportunities within industry disruption
• Connect future thinking with present decisions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Familiar with the Hard Trend and Soft Trend framework
• Better prepared to question assumptions in strategic plans
• Clearer on opportunities created by technological change
• Ready to discuss AI alongside human capabilities
• Equipped with a more anticipatory approach to innovation
Keynote Programs
Know What’s Next: Leveraging the New Science of Certainty
Daniel introduces his approach to identifying predictable change and using it to inform action. Ideal for executive and strategy audiences.
The Anticipatory Mindset: Leading with Certainty in Uncertain Times
Daniel explores how leaders can prepare for emerging challenges and opportunities. Ideal for organizations seeking to improve foresight and innovation.
Mastering AI’s Future Today
Daniel examines the intersection of AI and human ingenuity and its implications for business. Ideal for technology, transformation and leadership events.
Is Daniel Burrus Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your industry, your strategic priorities and the changes your leaders need to understand. We can help select Daniel’s most relevant program, discuss customization and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Andrew Busch
Renowned Political Economist, Author, Keynote Speaker
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Andrew Busch: Economic Futurist | Former Chief Market Intelligence Officer at the CFTC | Speaker on the Economy, AI and Growth Opportunities
Why Book Andrew Busch?
Andy combines that experience with a background in financial markets and public policy, including his role as Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist at BMO. His presentations explore how technology, policy and demographic change influence business opportunities. He researches each audience’s industry to make the discussion relevant to its challenges and plans.
Why Is Andrew Busch Right for Your Audience?
Andy is a strong fit for executive meetings, industry conferences, financial services events and association gatherings. He is especially useful when leaders need to understand how economic and policy shifts could affect demand, investment, supply chains or workforce decisions.
Book Andy when your audience needs to:
• Understand the forces shaping the economic outlook
• Connect policy changes with business implications
• Explore how AI could reshape its industry
• Identify potential growth opportunities amid uncertainty
• Consider the effects of geopolitical and supply chain changes
• Bring a broader perspective to strategic planning
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on economic trends relevant to their industry
• Better able to connect government policy with business conditions
• More aware of how AI is changing markets and work
• Equipped with a framework for discussing risks and opportunities
• Ready to ask better questions about future growth
Keynote Programs
Future Economy: Growth Opportunities
Andy connects the economic outlook with public policy, technology and demographic trends. Using research and an industry-specific case study, he helps audiences consider where growth opportunities may emerge. Ideal for executive, financial services and industry audiences.
AI Unleashed: Disrupting the Economy and Shaping the Future
Andy explores AI’s implications for economic growth, jobs, business models and policy. Ideal for leaders who want to understand how technological change could affect their markets and plans.
Geopolitics=Economy: Opportunities to Grow!
Andy examines how conflicts, tariffs and shifting alliances affect trade, supply chains and economic decisions. Ideal for organizations assessing international exposure and opportunities in a changing business environment.
Is Andrew Busch Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the economic questions it faces and the decisions you want the session to inform. We can help select Andy’s most relevant program, discuss industry-specific research and customization, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Adam Cheyer
Co-Founder of Siri and Viv Labs, Tech Speaker and Expert on Artificial Intelligence
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Adam Cheyer: Co-Founder of Siri and Viv Labs | AI Pioneer | Speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Why Book Adam Cheyer?
Adam connects that experience with the questions leaders face today: what conversational AI can do, how it could change customer interactions and where to look for meaningful opportunities. His storytelling makes complex developments accessible, and his background as an award-winning magician can add a memorable element to the presentation. bigspeak.com
Why Is Adam Cheyer Right for Your Audience?
Adam is a strong fit for executive conferences, technology events, innovation meetings and entrepreneurship programs. He is especially valuable when an audience wants a clearer understanding of AI alongside lessons from building and commercializing new products.
Book Adam when your audience needs to:
• Understand the capabilities and limitations of conversational AI
• Explore how AI could change customer and employee experiences
• Connect emerging technology with real business needs
• Learn how an idea becomes a product and a company
• Think more creatively about future opportunities
• Ask better questions about innovation and execution
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the evolution and business implications of AI
• Better prepared to discuss conversational AI opportunities
• More aware of the decisions involved in bringing ideas to market
• Equipped with lessons from Adam’s entrepreneurial experience
• Inspired to connect ambitious thinking with practical action
Keynote Programs
ChatGPT and the Rise of Conversational AI
Adam examines what conversational AI can and cannot do, and its implications for how businesses work. Ideal for leaders and employees seeking an accessible introduction to generative AI.
The Future of AI and Businesses
Adam explores developments in AI and how organizations can prepare for continuing change. Ideal for executive, technology and strategy audiences.
“Hey Siri”: A Founding Story
Adam takes audiences inside Siri’s journey from an idea to Apple’s acquisition and its introduction on the iPhone. Ideal for audiences interested in innovation, product development and entrepreneurship.
How to Build a Successful Startup: Lessons from the Founder of Siri, Inc.
Adam shares lessons on timing, goals and moving from an idea to execution. Ideal for entrepreneurs, innovation teams and leaders developing new ventures. WWSG
Is Adam Cheyer Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the AI questions it needs answered and the innovation goals you want to advance. We can help select Adam’s most relevant program, discuss customization and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Dan Chuparkoff
Leading Experts on AI, Innovation, & The Future of Work
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Dan Chuparkoff: CEO of Reinvention Labs | Former Technology Leader at Google, McKinsey and Atlassian | Speaker on AI, Innovation and the Future of Work
Why Book Dan Chuparkoff?
Drawing on more than 30 years of experience at Google, McKinsey and Atlassian, Dan brings the perspective of someone who has built products and led teams through technological change. Now CEO of Reinvention Labs, he helps organizations connect emerging capabilities to the tasks, decisions and challenges their people face every day.
Why Is Dan Chuparkoff Right for Your Audience?
Dan is a strong fit for leadership meetings, industry conferences, association events and company gatherings focused on AI adoption and innovation. His presentations can meet audiences at different levels of technical understanding, making him particularly relevant when teams need a shared foundation for moving forward.
Book Dan when your audience needs to:
• Understand AI in clear, practical terms
• Identify useful applications in its industry
• Combine AI capabilities with human knowledge and judgment
• Build confidence in learning new technologies
• Rethink how teams collaborate and solve problems
• Turn interest in AI into practical next steps
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Clearer on AI’s strengths and limitations
• Better able to recognize opportunities in their everyday work
• More aware of the role of human expertise in using AI effectively
• Equipped with ideas for improving productivity and collaboration
• Ready to approach technological change with curiosity and purpose
Keynote Programs
AI & the Future of Everything
Dan’s signature keynote explains how AI is changing work and how teams can respond. He explores its capabilities and limitations, helping audiences connect new technology with their own experience and expertise. Ideal for organizations seeking a practical introduction to AI and its business implications.
Dan customizes this program to the audience’s industry, technical readiness and priorities. For nontechnical audiences, he provides an accessible starting point; for technology teams, he explores new possibilities for applying AI. Industry examples help participants connect the presentation to their own work.
Is Dan Chuparkoff Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, its experience with AI and the changes you want people to make after the event. We can help shape a relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm Dan’s availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

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How to Plan a Great Virtual Event
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Virtual Events can:
1. Reach a wider audience
2. Offer a great experience at a much lower cost
3. Create long term impact with recorded elements that allow for content to be watched over a period of time
4. Have an increased impact over time, as viewers re-watch, discuss and connect over social media and other channels
And, most importantly: offer the ability for inspiring and impactful presentations to connect in a one-on-one way, directly to the attendee.
WHO is your audience?
Who are your virtual event attendees? Are they across a specific group within your organization, or are you serving clients across a wide range of levels? Determining who you are speaking to will help you determine a format for your event that will captivate your audience.
WHAT is your key message?
Are you focusing on change? Innovation? Leadership?
Creating a single focus or mission will allow you to hone in on the type of speaker(s) you need to engage your audience and help event producers to format the event into a dynamic program that balances inspiration with information and audience interaction.
WHAT type of event suits your audience?
• Virtual Conference
• Webinar
• Hybrid Event
Virtual event technology has come a long way over the last few months, offering a huge range of different options from pre-recorded webinars, to multi-day virtual conferences, to hybrid events with some attendees in the audience while the event is live streamed.
OUR ADVICE
A COMBINATION of live and pre-recorded elements will allow your virtual event to run smoothly and stay on time.
Many of our clients are also opting for multi-day virtual conferences with shorter segments spaced over a few days.
This allows some flexibility for attendees in different time zones and accommodates different teleworking situations for attendees, allowing them to tune in when it is convenient.
WHERE? It’s all about Tech.
Virtual meeting technology has exploded over the last few months as teleworking became the norm.
Consider your needs:
• Interactive elements like breakout rooms, polls & Q&A
• Seamless blend of live & pre-recorded elements
• Ability to replay segments
• Live tech support
If you plan for rain, it’s likely the sun will shine…
Tech isn’t perfect so don’t forget to test, rehearse and have a back up plan ready to go for your virtual event.
Pro Tip: Think of a virtual presentation like a podcast. Viewers can view the content multiple times and refer back to it.
  WHEN? A Date… or Dates?
As we have all noticed, our attention spans for meeting in real life versus meeting online are a lot longer.
When deciding on a date, consider spreading your virtual event out over a few days, with a variety of speakers, interactive elements and information.
The benefits of a multi-day format:
• Viewers watch content fresh for a short period every day
• Allows attendees in different time zones to stay on top of the content
• Attendees can review & re-engage with content
Virtual Event Checklist:
Is your event?
• Interactive?
• Informative?
• Able to be rewatched?
WHY? Pandemic 2020
Just because you are online instead of in person, it doesn’t mean you are missing out on connection.
Using the technology that we have become so accustomed to over the last few months, our keynote speakers have the ability to connect to your viewers one-on-one, in a way that was impossible in live events.
FIND YOUR WHY…
What do you want the audience to leave thinking at the end of the presentation?
Apply this question to all the presentations and segments in your event to create a cohesive, impactful virtual event.
  HOW? Virtual Event Checklist
To wrap it all up
• TECH: Find the right tech platform & don’t forget to test drive before your event
• AGENDA: Use a mix of live and pre-recorded segments, mixed with interactive elements, to ensure a smooth flow of events & audience engagement
• ANTICIPATION: Build up your event with emails, teasers and sneak peeks into what content will be offered
• NETWORKING: Create and encourage online chat functions, an event specific hashtag or even a dedicated event page to allow attendees to network virtually. Maximize the networking opportunities offered by your tech platform.
• EXTEND YOUR IMPACT: A dedicated social media page is a great place for attendees to connect after an event to discuss ideas and implement some of the learnings from the event.
Offer a password protected, limited time recording of keynote presentations to continue the conversation long after the virtual event has ended.
Continue the conversation with post-event touch points like emails or questions based on the key presentations.
To find a GREAT Speaker for your Virtual event, get in touch.

Pam Didner
Pam Didner: B2B Marketing and AI Strategist | Author | Speaker on Sales Alignment and Practical AI Adoption Why Book Pam Didner? Pam Didner helps sales, marketing, and executive teams connect strategy with the work that happens each day. An author of T …
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Pam Didner: B2B Marketing and AI Strategist | Author | Speaker on Sales Alignment and Practical AI Adoption
Why Book Pam Didner?
Pam makes complicated topics approachable by focusing on workflows, customer needs, and the handoffs between teams. Her presentations encourage audiences to evaluate where AI can help, what requires human judgment, and how to move from access to useful adoption.
Why Is Pam Didner Right for Your Audience?
Pam is a strong fit for B2B marketing conferences, sales kickoffs, leadership meetings, and AI adoption events. Consider her when your organization wants specific discussion of how technology fits into existing work and shared revenue priorities.
Book Pam when your audience needs to:
• Identify useful AI applications in everyday workflows
• Strengthen collaboration between sales and marketing
• Connect marketing plans with practical execution
• Clarify ownership at customer handoff points
• Keep human judgment involved in AI-supported work
• Choose a manageable starting point for adoption
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Better prepared to assess recurring tasks for AI support
• Clearer on where team alignment needs attention
• Ready to discuss shared workflows and expectations
• More aware of the need to review AI outputs
• Equipped to choose a practical first adoption project
Keynote Programs
The AI Is Paid For. The Busywork Is Still Here.
Pam examines the gap between buying AI tools and using them effectively. Ideal for teams seeking a practical approach to adoption.
One Pipeline, Zero Finger-Pointing: Using AI to Get Sales and Marketing Working as One Team
Pam explores shared definitions, data, and handoffs. Ideal for sales, marketing, and revenue leadership audiences.
You Can’t Delegate Judgment: Leading a Team That Runs on AI
Pam addresses leadership responsibilities when teams use AI, including review standards and decision ownership. Ideal for executives and managers.
Is Pam Didner Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, your sales and marketing priorities and the work you want AI to help your teams improve. We can help select Pam’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

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Nancy Giordano
Futurist, Corporate Strategist & Speaker
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Nancy Giordano: Keynote Speaker on Future Trends, AI & Leadership | Strategic Futurist | Author of Leadering | Founder of Play Big Inc.
Don't Just Predict the Future. Help Build It. What future do you want your organization—and your leaders—to be responsible for creating?
As technology, AI and societal expectations reshape virtually every industry, Nancy helps leaders understand not only what is changing—but how they can actively shape what comes next.
Her optimistic, human-centered approach challenges audiences to stop thinking about the future as something that simply happens to them and start recognizing their responsibility and opportunity to help create it.
Why Book Nancy Giordano?
Nancy doesn't simply predict trends. She helps leaders understand the forces reshaping their world and decide what they want to do about them.
Her work sits at the intersection of exponential technology, AI, leadership, work and societal transformation.
Rather than overwhelming audiences with predictions, Nancy creates a compelling picture of what's becoming possible—and challenges leaders to think more boldly about the organizations, experiences and systems they can create.
Her central question is powerful:
What future do you want to be responsible for?
What Makes Nancy Giordano Different?
• Strategic futurist — connects emerging trends to practical leadership decisions
• Author of Leadering — introduces a new approach to leading through exponential change
• 200+ global keynotes — extensive experience engaging executive audiences
• Founder of Play Big Inc. — focused on helping leaders actively shape the future
• Deep technology perspective — explores AI and other exponential technologies
• Human-centered futurism — keeps people, purpose and responsibility at the center
• Highly customized — tailors presentations to the questions facing each audience
• Optimistic perspective — helps audiences become excited rather than overwhelmed by what's next
Why Is Nancy Right for Your Audience?
Nancy is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand what's changing, rethink outdated assumptions and become more confident shaping what's next.
She is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, association events, innovation summits and organizations navigating AI-driven transformation.
Book Nancy when your audience needs to:
• Understand the forces reshaping business and society
• Prepare for the opportunities and responsibilities created by AI
• Think differently about leadership
• Anticipate the future of work
• Challenge outdated assumptions and systems
• Become more comfortable with exponential change
• Think more boldly about what's possible
• Move from reacting to the future to actively shaping it
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better prepared to understand exponential change
• More confident navigating AI and emerging technologies
• Thinking differently about what 21st-century leadership requires
• Better able to recognize opportunities hidden inside disruption
• More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
• Understanding why human capabilities matter even more as technology advances
• Inspired to take greater responsibility for shaping what's next
• Asking: What future do we want to create?
Nancy Giordano Keynote Programs
Creating a Future to Be Excited About. What if the future isn't something to fear—but something we're responsible for designing?
Nancy explores the powerful technological, economic and societal forces transforming our world and helps audiences understand what these changes could make possible.
Rather than simply forecasting what's next, she challenges leaders to think intentionally about the future they want to create and the actions they can take today to move toward it.
Ideal for: Executive conferences, association meetings, innovation events and organizations preparing for significant change.
21st Century Expectations for Leadership. The leadership practices that got organizations here may not be enough to take them where they're going next.
Drawing from her book Leadering, Nancy challenges traditional ideas about leadership and introduces a more dynamic approach designed for continuous change.
She helps leaders become more curious, adaptive and forward-looking while developing the confidence to navigate a future where many of yesterday's assumptions no longer apply.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, executive meetings and organizations transforming how their leaders think and operate.
The Opportunities and Responsibilities of Being AI-Led. AI is extraordinarily powerful—but what do we actually want to do with that power?
Nancy moves the AI conversation beyond productivity and automation to explore the bigger leadership questions surrounding artificial intelligence.
She challenges audiences to consider how AI can expand human capability while recognizing the responsibility leaders have to make thoughtful decisions about how these technologies are designed, deployed and governed.
Ideal for: AI conferences, executive meetings, technology events and organizations developing their AI strategy.
The Work of the Future. As technology transforms what machines can do, how should we rethink what humans do best?
Nancy explores how exponential technologies, changing expectations and new organizational models are reshaping work.
She challenges audiences to move beyond simply making existing work more efficient and instead consider how work itself can be redesigned to become more meaningful, human and valuable.
Ideal for: Future-of-work conferences, HR events, leadership meetings and organizations undergoing workforce transformation.
Why Book Nancy Giordano Through The Sweeney Agency?
Nancy Giordano combines future trends, AI, leadership and human-centered thinking—but the real value comes from connecting those forces directly to the future your organization needs to prepare for and help create.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
• Confirm Nancy Giordano's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Nancy Giordano keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and strategic priorities
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Nancy with other leading futurist, AI and leadership keynote speakers
Is Nancy Giordano Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what you need your leaders to understand about the future ahead.
We'll help you determine whether Nancy is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, AI summit, association meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Nancy Giordano as your keynote speaker.

Kian Gohar
Founder & CEO of Geolab, Keynote Speaker on Innovation, Disruptive Technologies, & The Future of Work
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Kian Gohar: Founder and CEO of Geolab | Bestselling Co-Author of Competing in the New World of Work | Speaker on Human–AI Collaboration and Innovation
Why Book Kian Gohar?
A former executive director at XPRIZE and Singularity University, Kian brings ambitious thinking into practical team conversations. His keynotes connect emerging possibilities with the behaviors needed to pursue them—helping audiences examine how they collaborate, adapt, and turn ideas into action.
Why Is Kian Gohar Right for Your Audience?
Kian is a strong fit for leadership conferences, innovation summits, HR events, and company gatherings focused on AI or team performance. He is especially relevant when an organization wants employees to explore new tools while strengthening the collaboration that makes those tools useful.
Book Kian when your audience needs to:
• Explore practical ways to collaborate with AI
• Strengthen teamwork across roles and departments
• Adapt how it works as expectations change
• Challenge assumptions that limit innovation
• Turn ambitious goals into a plan for action
• Build confidence experimenting with new approaches
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Better informed about the skills involved in human–AI collaboration
• Ready to identify opportunities to improve team workflows
• More aware of behaviors that support trust and shared ownership
• Equipped with a framework for approaching ambitious challenges
• Motivated to test new ideas and learn from the results
Keynote Programs
The Future of Human + AI Collaboration
Kian explores how teams can use generative AI to support creativity, productivity, and decision-making. Ideal for leaders and employees seeking practical insight into AI at work.
The Art of Teamwork
Kian examines the practices behind adaptable, effective teams, including communication, trust, and peer collaboration. Ideal for company events and teams seeking to improve how they work together.
Leadership in the New World of Work
Drawing on his bestselling book, Kian challenges established assumptions about work and explores how leaders can build more resilient, inclusive teams. Ideal for executives, managers, and HR audiences.
How to Build a Moonshot
Kian draws on his XPRIZE experience to guide audiences from an ambitious goal toward concrete steps and solutions. Ideal for innovation conferences, entrepreneurs, and teams pursuing a significant challenge.
Is Kian Gohar Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the challenges it needs to solve, and what you want people to try after the event. We can help select Kian’s most relevant program, discuss customization and workshop options, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Robert Herjavec
Inspiratonal Speaker, Best-selling Author, Founder & CEO of Herjavec Group and Leading Shark on ABC’s Shark Tank
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Robert Herjavec: Entrepreneur and Investor | Shark Tank Personality | Speaker on Business Growth, Sales and Entrepreneurship
Why Book Robert Herjavec?
Robert shares lessons about taking opportunities seriously, communicating business value, and continuing to move forward through setbacks. His experience gives audiences a familiar entry point into a substantive discussion about the choices behind entrepreneurial success.
Why Is Robert Herjavec Right for Your Audience?
Robert is a strong fit for entrepreneur conferences, sales kickoffs, leadership events, and client gatherings. Consider him when your audience wants business insight alongside a recognizable speaker who can bring energy to the conversation.
Book Robert when your audience needs to:
• Communicate the value of a business or idea
• Take greater ownership of growth opportunities
• Recognize the importance of customer needs
• Approach setbacks with greater persistence
• Stay engaged as technology changes
• Connect ambition with daily execution
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Ready to examine how they explain their value
• More aware of the discipline behind business growth
• Clearer on the role of customers in entrepreneurial decisions
• Motivated to pursue a meaningful opportunity
• Focused on a practical action that supports progress
Keynote Programs
Fast, Forward, and Focused
Robert explores technological change and the opportunities and risks it creates for business. Ideal for leaders and organizations adapting to a fast-moving market.
The Will to Win
Robert shares lessons about ambition, persistence, and taking responsibility for the future. Ideal for sales, entrepreneur, and broad business audiences.
Is Robert Herjavec Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the business goals your audience is pursuing and the decisions you want the event to inspire. We can help select Robert’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Andrea Iorio
Leading Global Keynote Speaker on Digital Transformation & AI,  Best-selling Author, and MBA Professor
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Andrea Iorio: Author of Between You and AI | Business Transformation Speaker | Speaker on AI, Leadership and Customer Experience
Why Book Andrea Iorio?
Andrea’s presentations move the discussion from general excitement about AI to questions about application. He encourages leaders to examine where technology can support their goals, what still requires human judgment, and how their teams can adapt together.
Why Is Andrea Iorio Right for Your Audience?
Andrea is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, technology events, and transformation programs. Consider him when your audience needs to connect AI adoption with clearer business priorities and the development of its people.
Book Andrea when your audience needs to:
• Connect AI opportunities with business goals
• Reconsider leadership habits as technology changes
• Identify human skills worth strengthening
• Explore AI across the customer journey
• Discuss collaboration between people and technology
• Prepare teams for changing responsibilities
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the human side of AI adoption
• Ready to identify a business question technology could help address
• More aware of skills that complement AI
• Equipped with a framework for discussing leadership adaptation
• Focused on a practical opportunity to explore with their team
Keynote Programs
The 3 Pillars of Exponential Leadership in the Age of AI
Andrea explores how leaders can adapt their decisions and behavior as AI changes work. Ideal for executive and management audiences.
Experienc.AI
Andrea examines AI opportunities across the customer journey. Ideal for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams.
Between You and AI
Andrea focuses on human skills that complement emerging technology. Ideal for company meetings and workforce development programs.
Is Andrea Iorio Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the AI opportunities you are exploring and the leadership or workforce questions you want to address. We can help select Andrea’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Tom Koulopoulos
Chairman and Founder of Delphi Group, Author and Speaker on Innovation & The Future
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Tom Koulopoulos: Keynote Speaker on AI, Future Trends & Innovation | Futurist | Founder of Delphi Group | Author of Gigatrends
Understand What's Next—Before It Changes Everything. How do you prepare your organization for a future being reshaped by AI, digital workers and technologies moving faster than ever before?
As Chairman and founder of Delphi Group, Tom has spent decades studying how disruptive technologies change organizations, industries and human behavior. His latest book, Gigatrends, explores the powerful forces shaping how we will live, work and compete throughout the 21st century.
Tom helps audiences look beyond today's headlines to understand what's coming next, why it matters and what leaders should be doing about it now.
Why Book Tom Koulopoulos?
Tom doesn't simply showcase futuristic technologies. He connects emerging technology directly to the decisions leaders need to make today.
His presentations explore AI, digital workers, changing demographics, frictionless commerce, autonomous technologies and other forces transforming business and society.
But Tom's message isn't that technology will determine the future. People will.
With a combination of research, provocative ideas, humor and compelling examples, Tom helps audiences understand disruption without becoming overwhelmed by it—and recognize the opportunities hidden inside enormous change.
What Makes Tom Koulopoulos Different?
• Founder of Delphi Group — a Boston-based technology and futures think tank
• Author of 14 books — including Gigatrends, The Gen Z Effect and Cloud Surfing
• Deep AI expertise — explores AI's impact on work, business and human behavior
• Decades studying disruption — brings long-term perspective to today's technology changes
• Innovation authority — former Director of the Dell Innovation Lab
• Academic perspective — professor at Boston University
• Business experience — combines futurist thinking with real organizational insight
• Engaging delivery — makes complex technology understandable, relevant and entertaining
Why Is Tom Right for Your Audience?
Tom is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where technology is taking their industry and become more confident navigating what's next.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, association meetings, technology events, executive meetings and organizations navigating AI-driven transformation.
Book Tom when your audience needs to:
• Understand how AI will reshape business
• Prepare for humans and digital workers working together
• Anticipate major technological shifts
• Identify opportunities created by disruption
• Understand how emerging technologies change customer behavior
• Navigate generational changes in the workforce
• Challenge assumptions about the future
• Turn uncertainty into strategic opportunity
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better prepared for the business impact of AI
• Understanding how digital workers may reshape the workplace
• More aware of the major trends influencing their industry
• Better able to separate meaningful technological change from hype
• Thinking differently about the relationship between humans and technology
• More confident navigating disruption and uncertainty
• Ready to identify opportunities created by emerging technologies
Tom Koulopoulos Keynote Programs.
Gigatrends: The Technologies Shaping Our Future. What forces will have the greatest impact on how we live, work and compete over the coming decades?
Drawing from Gigatrends, Tom takes audiences on a fast-paced exploration of the technological forces reshaping society and business.
From AI and digital workers to frictionless commerce, autonomous vehicles and changing generations, he helps leaders understand how seemingly separate trends are converging to create profound change.
More importantly, Tom explores what these shifts mean for your organization and the decisions leaders need to start making today.
Ideal for: Executive conferences, association meetings, strategy events and organizations preparing for long-term disruption.
The Future of Work: Humans + Digital Workers. What happens when your next colleague isn't human?
AI is rapidly changing what technology can accomplish, creating a workplace where people and increasingly capable digital workers will operate side by side.
Tom explores how this transformation will change jobs, organizations and leadership—and why the opportunity isn't simply to replace human work, but to raise the bar on what people can accomplish.
Audiences leave with a positive but realistic roadmap for navigating a workplace being transformed by AI.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, HR events, corporate meetings and organizations navigating AI transformation.
AI: Navigating the Next Great Business Transformation.  AI isn't simply another technology trend. It's changing how organizations think, decide and compete.
Tom cuts through the hype to help leaders understand where artificial intelligence is heading and what its rapid evolution could mean for their businesses.
He explores how organizations can use AI to reduce friction, improve decisions and unlock new opportunities while keeping human judgment, creativity and trust at the center.
Ideal for: AI conferences, executive meetings, technology events and organizations developing their AI strategy.
Innovation in an Age of Constant Disruption. How do you innovate when the future refuses to slow down?
Tom challenges audiences to rethink traditional assumptions about innovation and recognize how rapidly changing technologies create entirely new possibilities.
He shows leaders how to become more comfortable with uncertainty, identify emerging opportunities and build organizations capable of adapting as technology and customer expectations evolve.
Ideal for: Innovation summits, leadership conferences, strategy meetings and organizations navigating disruption.
Why Book Tom Koulopoulos Through The Sweeney Agency?
Tom Koulopoulos combines deep technology expertise, futurist thinking and practical business insight—but the real value comes from connecting those trends directly to your industry and the decisions your audience needs to make.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
• Confirm Tom Koulopoulos's availability and current speaking fee
• Determine which Tom Koulopoulos keynote best fits your audience
• Discuss customization around your industry and business challenges
• Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
• Compare Tom with other leading AI, futurist and innovation keynote speakers
Is Tom Koulopoulos Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what your leaders need to understand about what's coming next.
We'll help you determine whether Tom is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning a leadership conference, association meeting, AI summit or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Tom Koulopoulos as your keynote speaker.

Dr. Daniel Kraft
Stanford and Harvard Trained Physician-Scientist, Inventor and Entrepreneur
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Dr. Daniel Kraft: Physician and Scientist | Healthcare Futurist | Speaker on Technology, Innovation and the Future of Medicine
Why Book Dr. Daniel Kraft?
Daniel brings developments from across the innovation landscape into one conversation. His presentations help leaders consider where technologies may intersect, what questions adoption raises, and how their organizations can prepare to evaluate new possibilities.
Why Is Dr. Daniel Kraft Right for Your Audience?
Daniel is a strong fit for healthcare conferences, life sciences meetings, health technology events, and executive strategy programs. Consider him when an audience needs a broader view of innovation beyond its own specialty.
Book Daniel when your audience needs to:
• Understand developments across health technology
• Connect emerging tools with organizational questions
• Consider opportunities in connected care
• Evaluate assumptions about technology adoption
• Discuss the role of data and artificial intelligence
• Prepare for changes in healthcare delivery
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on technologies influencing healthcare
• Ready to ask more useful adoption questions
• More aware of connections across innovation areas
• Equipped to discuss opportunities within their organization
• Focused on a development worth investigating further
Keynote Programs
The Future of Health & Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?
Daniel explores converging technologies and their potential implications for healthcare. Ideal for clinicians, industry leaders, and organizations planning for changes in care and health innovation.
Is Dr. Daniel Kraft Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the healthcare questions your audience faces and the innovations it needs to understand. We can help select Daniel’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Charlene Li
Best Selling Author, Entrepreneur, and Leadership Speaker
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Charlene Li: Author of The Disruption Mindset | Founder of Altimeter | Speaker on AI Strategy, Leadership and Organizational Change
Why Book Charlene Li?
Charlene moves the AI conversation toward the choices executives need to make together. Her message encourages organizations to clarify priorities, align leadership, and consider how culture and execution affect the value of a technology strategy.
Why Is Charlene Li Right for Your Audience?
Charlene is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, technology events, and transformation programs. Consider her when an organization needs a shared direction for AI and the changes surrounding it.
Book Charlene when your audience needs to:
• Connect AI initiatives with business priorities
• Build alignment across executive teams
• Examine readiness for organizational change
• Clarify the leadership role in technology adoption
• Consider cultural barriers to execution
• Move from scattered initiatives toward a shared strategy
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the decisions an AI strategy requires
• Ready to question an adoption assumption
• More aware of the connection between culture and execution
• Equipped to discuss priorities across functions
• Focused on a next step toward organizational alignment
Keynote Programs
Winning With AI
Charlene explores how leaders can approach AI strategically. Ideal for executive teams connecting emerging capabilities with business direction.
Creating a Unified AI Strategy
Charlene examines alignment and the choices behind a coherent approach to AI. Ideal for organizations coordinating initiatives across functions.
Is Charlene Li Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the strategic questions your leaders face and the AI or organizational changes you want to address. We can help select Charlene’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Greg Lindsay
Speaker and Author on the Future of Travel, Technology, and Urban Development
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Greg Lindsay: Futurist and Urbanist | Co-Author of Aerotropolis | Speaker on Cities, Mobility and the Future of Work
Why Book Greg Lindsay?
Greg connects developments that are often discussed separately. His presentations invite leaders to consider how changes in physical space, digital systems, and human behavior may interact—and what that could mean for their industry or community.
Why Is Greg Lindsay Right for Your Audience?
Greg is a strong fit for real estate conferences, mobility events, executive strategy meetings, and future-of-work programs. Consider him when an audience needs a wider view of connected changes.
Book Greg when your audience needs to:
• Connect technology trends with changes in place
• Reconsider assumptions about work and collaboration
• Understand developments in mobility and automation
• Explore how cities may evolve
• Think across industry boundaries
• Include multiple scenarios in long-term planning
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on connections among cities, technology, and work
• Ready to question a planning assumption
• More aware of developments beyond their sector
• Equipped with questions about future operating environments
• Focused on a scenario worth exploring further
Keynote Programs
The Way We’ll Live Next
Greg explores changes in how people inhabit and move through the world. Ideal for real estate, community, and business audiences.
Autonomous Everything
Greg considers automation and its implications for mobility and everyday systems. Ideal for technology and transportation events.
How to Work, Together
Greg examines collaboration and the changing organization of work. Ideal for leadership and workplace strategy programs.
Is Greg Lindsay Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the long-term changes your audience needs to understand and the assumptions it wants to test. We can help select Greg’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Terence Mauri
Innovation & Disruptive Leadership Speaker
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TERENCE MAURI - Global Authority on the Future of Leadership | AI & Disruption Expert | MIT Entrepreneur Mentor | Thinkers50 Author: 
Lead What’s Next
Terence Mauri helps leaders think boldly, act decisively and turn uncertainty into opportunity. The founder of Hack Future Lab, an MIT Entrepreneur Mentor and a five-time bestselling author, he combines provocative insights, compelling stories and practical frameworks that prepare organizations to lead from the future.
Why Book Terence Mauri?
Terence does more than explain emerging trends. He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, build trust and create value when the rules are changing.
Drawing on his experience advising Fortune 500 leaders and billion-dollar startups, Terence translates complex issues—including AI, disruption and the future of work—into clear choices audiences can act on immediately. His energetic presentations create urgency without fear and leave leaders ready to move forward with greater courage and confidence.
What Makes Terence Different?
• A powerful combination of global research and practical business experience
• Fresh thinking on AI, leadership, trust and organizational change
• Provocative ideas that challenge conventional assumptions
• Actionable frameworks leaders can use immediately
• A message that can be customized around the organization’s priorities
Why Is Terence Right for Your Audience?
Terence is an excellent choice when leaders need to anticipate what is next while delivering results today. He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, executive meetings, innovation events, client programs and organizations navigating AI or major transformation.
Book Terence when your audience needs to:
• Lead confidently through uncertainty and disruption
• Turn AI from a technology conversation into a leadership opportunity
• Challenge outdated thinking and accelerate better decisions
• Build trust, resilience and agility across the organization
• Translate emerging trends into strategic priorities
• Find the courage to act before every answer is known
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Better prepared to lead from the future rather than react to it
• Equipped to identify opportunity within disruption
• Ready to replace outdated assumptions with future-ready thinking
• Clearer about where human judgment creates an advantage in an AI-first world
• Motivated to think boldly, act decisively and play to win
Keynote Programs
Lead What’s Next
Terence shows leaders how to build future readiness, learn at the speed of change and make courageous decisions before certainty arrives. Ideal for organizations navigating transformation, competitive pressure or a major new strategic direction.
The Human Edge
In an AI-first world, technology alone is not the advantage—how people lead, decide and build trust is. Terence explores how courage, unlearning and radical trust help organizations unlock the upside of disruption. Ideal for AI, culture, leadership and future-of-work events.
Future IQ
Terence helps audiences turn megatrends into meaningful milestones. Leaders learn how to strengthen strategic courage, team resilience and agility while solving tomorrow’s challenges with new thinking. Ideal for executive audiences, innovation conferences and strategy meetings.
Why Contact The Sweeney Agency Now?
The right speaker must do more than talk about the future. They must understand your audience, connect their message to your business priorities and create momentum beyond the event.
Contact us to:
• Confirm Terence’s availability and current fee
• Identify the keynote that best supports your objectives
• Discuss customization, format and event logistics
• Receive comparable recommendations if another speaker may be a stronger fit
Is Terence Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the disruption they are facing and what you want them to think, feel or do differently. We will provide an honest assessment of Terence’s fit, confirm availability and fees, and help you move forward with confidence.
Contact The Sweeney Agency to discuss booking Terence Mauri.

Blake Morgan
Customer Experience Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author
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Blake Morgan: Customer Experience Futurist | Author of The Customer of the Future | Speaker on Customer-Focused Leadership
Why Book Blake Morgan?
Blake moves customer experience beyond a general commitment to good service. Her presentations encourage teams to consider how they make decisions across the business and what it would take to keep the customer’s perspective visible.
Why Is Blake Morgan Right for Your Audience?
Blake is a strong fit for leadership meetings, customer experience conferences, sales events, and service programs. Consider her when customer focus needs to become a shared organizational responsibility.
Book Blake when your audience needs to:
• Include the customer’s perspective in decisions
• Align teams around service priorities
• Consider how expectations are changing
• Connect employee experience with customer experience
• Make customer focus a leadership habit
• Identify a practical improvement in the customer journey
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the leadership choices behind customer experience
• Ready to examine a decision from the customer’s perspective
• More aware of barriers between teams
• Equipped with questions for refining service priorities
• Focused on a customer experience action they can influence
Keynote Programs
The 8 Laws of Customer-Focused Leadership
Blake examines leadership practices that put customers at the center of business decisions. Ideal for executives and managers.
The Four Ways to Make Customer Experience a Decision
Blake introduces her WAYS framework for a more deliberate customer experience approach. Ideal for cross-functional service and business audiences.
Is Blake Morgan Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the customers you serve and the experience you want your people to create. We can help select Blake’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Dr. Dambisa Moyo
Global Economist, Author, Distinguished Scholar, and Investor in the Future
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Dr. Dambisa Moyo: Global Economist | Author and Corporate Board Member | Speaker on Growth, Geopolitics and Business Strategy
Why Book Dr. Dambisa Moyo?
Dambisa encourages audiences to examine the assumptions behind their plans. Her presentations provide context for discussing long-term opportunities and risks, including how changes in international relationships and governance can affect business priorities.
Why Is Dr. Dambisa Moyo Right for Your Audience?
Dambisa is a strong fit for executive conferences, board retreats, financial services meetings, and global industry events. Consider her when leaders need a broader framework for strategic discussions.
Book Dambisa when your audience needs to:
• Understand forces affecting global growth
• Consider geopolitical factors in business planning
• Review assumptions about capital and markets
• Discuss technology through an economic lens
• Examine questions of corporate governance
• Think more deliberately about long-term business conditions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on major economic questions facing leaders
• Ready to revisit a strategic assumption
• More aware of connections between policy and business
• Equipped with questions for board or executive discussion
• Focused on developments relevant to their organization
Keynote Programs
Global Growth Outlook
Dambisa examines forces influencing economic growth and business conditions. Ideal for executive and financial services audiences.
Upgrading Corporate Governance in the 21st Century
Dambisa explores the responsibilities and decisions facing boards. Ideal for directors and senior leadership programs.
Is Dr. Dambisa Moyo Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the economic questions your leaders face and the strategic decisions they need to consider. We can help select Dambisa’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Eric O’Neill
National Security Strategist at VMWare Carbon Black, Former FBI Agent, Bestselling Author & Speaker on Cybersecurity
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Eric O’Neill: Former FBI Counterintelligence Operative | Author of Gray Day | Speaker on Cybersecurity, Risk and Resilience
Why Book Eric O’Neill?
Eric uses storytelling to connect complex threats with the decisions people make at work. His presentations encourage audiences to question assumptions, pay attention to warning signs, and recognize their part in protecting information.
Why Is Eric O’Neill Right for Your Audience?
Eric is a strong fit for cybersecurity conferences, executive meetings, employee awareness events, and risk programs. Consider him when an organization needs an engaging way to make security responsibility more tangible.
Book Eric when your audience needs to:
• Recognize the human side of security threats
• Question assumptions when something seems unusual
• Bring greater care to information handling
• Understand the value of vigilance
• Strengthen conversations about organizational risk
• Take ownership of their role in protecting the business
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the relationship between behavior and security
• Ready to examine a security assumption
• More aware of the importance of warning signs
• Equipped with questions for their organization’s security team
• Focused on a protective habit they can strengthen
Keynote Programs
Program options include Gray Day and a cybersecurity presentation tailored to your audience:
Gray Day
Eric shares the story of the Hanssen investigation and the judgment it required. Ideal for audiences seeking an engaging discussion of vigilance, pressure, and personal responsibility.
Cybersecurity and Protecting Your Organization
Eric connects his counterintelligence perspective with business security challenges. Ideal for executives and employee awareness programs.
Is Eric O’Neill Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the security questions your audience faces and the behaviors you want it to strengthen. We can help select Eric’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Erik Qualman
Author of Socialnomics and Speaker on Digital Leadership
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Erik Qualman: Author of The Focus Project | Digital Leadership Speaker | Speaker on Focus, Technology and Organizational Change
Why Book Erik Qualman?
Erik makes the conversation relevant to everyday priorities. His presentations encourage audiences to consider where they direct their time, how their digital behavior affects other people, and what they need to learn as new capabilities emerge.
Why Is Erik Qualman Right for Your Audience?
Erik is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales meetings, technology events, and employee programs. Consider him when an audience needs a more intentional approach to focus and digital change.
Book Erik when your audience needs to:
• Direct attention toward important priorities
• Review habits that encourage distraction
• Connect digital behavior with leadership impact
• Consider the human side of technology adoption
• Approach emerging tools with greater curiosity
• Build stronger relationships across digital and in-person settings
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on the difference between activity and priority
• Ready to review a distracting work habit
• More aware of the impression their digital behavior creates
• Equipped with questions about technology and human connection
• Focused on a manageable change in how they work
Keynote Programs
Digital Leadership
Erik explores leadership habits in a changing digital environment. Ideal for management and employee audiences.
Focus: How to Focus in an Unfocused World
Erik examines choosing meaningful priorities amid distraction. Ideal for teams seeking a more deliberate use of attention.
Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Your Future… Today
Erik considers AI through a leadership and business lens. Ideal for organizations exploring technology change.
Is Erik Qualman Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the priorities your audience needs to focus on and the digital changes it needs to understand. We can help select Erik’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Sam Richter
Keynote Speaker, Expert on Sales Intelligence, Best-selling Author
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Sam Richter: Hall of Fame Speaker | Bestselling Author | Speaker on Generative AI and Sales Intelligence
Why Book Sam Richter?
Sam makes the technology approachable through live demonstrations, humor, and examples tailored to the audience. Attendees see how the tools work and leave with resources they can use after the event.
Why Is Sam Richter Right for Your Audience?
Sam is a strong fit for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, association events, and company meetings. He is especially valuable when an organization wants people to move beyond general talk about AI and learn how to use it in their work.
Book Sam when your audience needs to:
• Find practical uses for generative AI
• Research prospects and customers more effectively
• Make outreach more relevant and personal
• Turn information into better business decisions
• Build stronger professional relationships
• Feel more confident using unfamiliar technology
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
• Clearer on where AI can help in their daily work
• Ready to use research to prepare for better conversations
• Equipped with tools and resources they can explore immediately
• More aware of how to use information responsibly
• Confident taking a practical next step after the event
Keynote Programs
Mindset Shift™: Generative AI and Your Future
Sam shows leaders and teams how to use generative AI to improve communication, productivity, decision-making, and innovation. Through demonstrations and examples relevant to the audience, he makes a fast-changing subject easier to understand and apply. Ideal for leadership and organization-wide events.
Get the Meeting No One Else Can
Sam helps sales teams combine AI and online research to identify opportunities, learn what matters to prospects, and create outreach that earns attention. He shows how better preparation can lead to more relevant conversations and stronger customer relationships. Ideal for sales kickoffs and business development teams.
Every YES Begins with a KNOW
Sam explores how digital insight can help people understand others and communicate with greater relevance. This program connects research with authentic relationship-building. Available by request as a customized keynote or breakout session for client-facing and business audiences.
Is Sam Richter Right for Your Event?
Tell us whether your priority is practical AI adoption, sales prospecting, or stronger business relationships. We can help select Sam’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm his availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency at 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Michael Rogers
Author, journalist and futurist on future trends and the economy.
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Michael Rogers: Practical Futurist | Author and Technology Pioneer | Speaker on AI, Innovation and the Future of Work
Why Book Michael Rogers?
Michael encourages leaders to consider both the possibilities and the practical demands of adoption. His presentations make room for discussion about workforce needs, management responsibilities, and the human skills organizations will continue to depend on.
Why Is Michael Rogers Right for Your Audience?
Michael is a strong fit for executive conferences, industry associations, technology events, and strategy retreats. Consider him when an audience needs to explore future scenarios relevant to its own work.
Book Michael when your audience needs to:
• Consider how AI may affect their industry
• Review assumptions about future workforce needs
• Connect technological change with business decisions
• Discuss the management responsibilities of adoption
• Explore multiple plausible operating scenarios
• Identify questions worth investigating before acting
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on AI questions relevant to their organization
• Ready to review a planning assumption
• More aware of workforce and leadership implications
• Equipped to discuss opportunities and tradeoffs
• Focused on a future scenario worth exploring
Keynote Programs
Artificial Intelligence: The Next Chapter
Michael explores emerging AI capabilities and their business and social implications. Ideal for executive and industry audiences.
AI and Work: Rough Waters Ahead
Michael examines workforce questions raised by AI adoption. Ideal for leaders and professional groups considering how their work may evolve.
Is Michael Rogers Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the technologies your audience needs to understand and the future scenarios it wants to explore. We can help select Michael’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

John Sanei
Best-selling Author, Futurist & Keynote Speaker with a passion for psychology & technology
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John Sanei: Futurist and Author | Speaker on AI, Adaptability and Organizational Transformation
Why Book John Sanei?
John connects future thinking with questions about leadership and organizational design. His presentations invite audiences to examine what they need to learn, how they approach uncertainty, and where a different structure or mindset could support progress.
Why Is John Sanei Right for Your Audience?
John is a strong fit for executive meetings, leadership conferences, innovation events, and transformation programs. Consider him when an organization needs a shared conversation about AI and its future direction.
Book John when your audience needs to:
• Clarify questions about AI and business opportunity
• Build greater adaptability into leadership
• Examine assumptions about future competitiveness
• Connect organizational structure with changing demands
• Consider human capabilities alongside technology
• Move from uncertainty toward purposeful next steps
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on a future-facing question their organization needs to answer
• Ready to examine an established assumption
• More aware of the connection between adaptability and strategy
• Equipped to discuss organizational choices
• Focused on a capability worth developing
Keynote Programs
AI Frontiers
John explores strategic choices and opportunities in the age of AI. Ideal for executives reviewing their direction.
The Intelligence Shift
John considers the human capabilities and mindset changes associated with AI. Ideal for leadership development audiences.
The Architecture of Change
John examines organizational design in a changing economic and technological environment. Ideal for transformation programs.
Is John Sanei Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the future your leaders are preparing for and the changes your organization needs to consider. We can help select John’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.

Jason Sosa
Technologist and keynote speaker on AI and the future of finance.
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Jason Sosa: Founder of Sosa Research | Technology Entrepreneur | Speaker on AI and the Future of Finance
Why Book Jason Sosa?
Jason connects technical developments with commercial decisions. His presentations encourage leaders to examine where AI could improve work, what implementation requires, and how to evaluate a promising idea against an actual business need.
Why Is Jason Sosa Right for Your Audience?
Jason is a strong fit for executive meetings, financial services conferences, technology events, and innovation programs. Consider him when an audience needs a practical discussion of AI adoption and digital transformation.
Book Jason when your audience needs to:
• Understand AI beyond headline claims
• Identify useful applications for their organization
• Review assumptions about the future of work
• Connect technology choices with business priorities
• Evaluate modernization opportunities
• Ask better questions about implementation
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
• Clearer on an AI opportunity worth exploring
• Ready to examine a workflow that could change
• More aware of implementation tradeoffs
• Equipped with questions for technology partners
• Focused on a business outcome before choosing a tool
Keynote Programs
AI & The Future of Work
Jason examines how AI is changing tasks, leadership, and competition. Ideal for executives and teams planning adoption.
Digital Transformation in Finance
Jason discusses modernization in financial services, including the balance between new capabilities and organizational stability. Ideal for banking, insurance, and wealth management audiences.
Is Jason Sosa Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the technology decisions your leaders face and the business outcomes you want to pursue. We can help select Jason’s most relevant program, discuss customization, and confirm availability and fee.
Contact The Sweeney Agency 1-866-727-7555 or [email protected] for more information on this speaker.
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