Artificial Intelligence
Rohit Talwar
Leading Global Futurist, Speaker, Author and CEO of Fast Future
About
Rohit Talwar: CEO of Fast Future | Global Futurist and Author | Speaker on AI, Disruption and Future Strategy
Why Book Rohit Talwar?
Rohit considers both the technology and the people required to make change useful. His customized presentations invite leaders to examine alternative futures, question inherited assumptions, and identify decisions they can begin making today.
Why Is Rohit Talwar Right for Your Audience?
Rohit is a strong fit for executive retreats, industry conferences, strategy meetings, and innovation events. Consider him when leaders need to broaden their view of change before choosing a direction.
Book Rohit when your audience needs to:
- Explore alternative futures for their industry
- Connect AI developments with strategic questions
- Review the resilience of a business model
- Identify capabilities worth developing
- Consider the human consequences of transformation
- Turn future uncertainty into useful discussion
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on forces that could affect their organization
- Ready to test a strategic assumption
- More aware of emerging business model options
- Equipped with questions about future skills and leadership
- Focused on an action that improves preparedness
Keynote Programs
Aftershocks and Opportunities
Rohit explores the shifts reshaping organizations and their choices for responding. Ideal for executive and industry audiences.
Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies
Rohit examines the potential implications of emerging tools for business and people. Ideal for innovation and technology strategy events.
Is Rohit Talwar Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the future scenarios you need to explore and the strategic choices ahead. We can help select Rohit’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.
James Taylor
Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Author, Inspiring Keynote Speaker on a Global Mission to Unlock Creativity, Increase Productivity, and Accelerate Innovation
About
James Taylor; Keynote Speaker on Creativity, Innovation & AI | Author of SuperCreativity | Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts | Global Innovation Expert
James Taylor is an internationally recognized keynote speaker on creativity, innovation, artificial intelligence and human-AI collaboration.
For more than 20 years, James has helped leaders and organizations understand how technology is changing the way we work, create and compete. His message is optimistic and practical: AI doesn't diminish the importance of human creativity—it makes creativity an even greater competitive advantage.
Through highly visual, engaging and customized presentations, James shows audiences how to combine uniquely human capabilities with the extraordinary power of artificial intelligence.
Why Book James Taylor?
James helps answer one of the biggest questions facing organizations today:
How do we capture the benefits of AI without losing the human creativity, collaboration and judgment that drive breakthrough performance?
His perspective comes from an unusual background. James began his career managing high-profile rock stars and creative talent before becoming an internationally recognized authority on creativity, innovation and AI.
He has since interviewed more than 750 of the world's leading creative minds and delivered over 3,000 events around the world.
The result is a keynote that combines inspiration, emerging technology and practical strategies audiences can immediately apply.
What Makes James Taylor Different?
- Creativity + AI expertise — connects human ingenuity with artificial intelligence
- 3,000+ events delivered — extensive experience with corporate and association audiences
- Global perspective — has presented across more than 50 countries
- 750+ creative leaders interviewed — draws insights from innovators, entrepreneurs and AI pioneers
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts — recognized for his contribution to creativity and innovation
- Author of SuperCreativity — explores augmenting human creativity with artificial intelligence
- Former music-industry leader — brings an unusual perspective from working with highly creative performers
- Highly customized — builds presentations around the audience, industry and event objectives
- Practical frameworks — gives audiences tools for turning ideas into action
Why Is James Right for Your Audience?
James is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand AI without becoming overwhelmed by it—and recognize the uniquely human capabilities that will matter even more in the future.
He is particularly effective for leadership conferences, AI events, innovation summits, association meetings and organizations navigating digital transformation.
Book James when your audience needs to:
- Understand how AI is changing work and business
- Develop greater creativity across the organization
- Build effective human-AI collaboration
- Generate and implement better ideas
- Become more comfortable with technological disruption
- Strengthen collaboration across teams
- Lead people confidently through change
- Turn innovation into competitive advantage
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding why creativity becomes more valuable as AI advances
- Better prepared to work alongside artificial intelligence
- Equipped with practical tools for generating stronger ideas
- Understanding how human-AI collaboration can improve performance
- More confident navigating technological change
- Better prepared to create cultures that encourage innovation
- Recognizing the importance of communication and persuasion
- Inspired to turn ideas into action
James Taylor Keynote Programs
SuperCreativity™: Accelerating Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. When AI can generate ideas in seconds, where does human creativity create competitive advantage?
James explores how organizations can combine the imagination, empathy and original thinking of humans with the extraordinary processing capabilities of artificial intelligence.
Drawing from his research with hundreds of leading creative thinkers, he shows audiences how to develop their creative capacity and use AI as a partner in the innovation process.
The goal isn't simply to become more comfortable with AI. It's to use AI to amplify what humans do best.
Ideal for: Innovation summits, AI conferences, leadership meetings and organizations navigating technological disruption.
SuperCollaboration™: The Rise of Human-AI Collaboration. The future isn't humans versus machines. It's humans working more effectively with machines.
James explores how AI, digital twins, robotics and intelligent technologies are transforming the workplace.
He shows audiences how high-performing organizations are combining human judgment, creativity and collaboration with the capabilities of intelligent machines.
The result is a practical roadmap for building teams that are more innovative, adaptive and future-ready.
Ideal for: AI conferences, future-of-work events, executive meetings and organizations accelerating AI adoption.
SuperCommunication™: How the World's Best Leaders Inspire, Influence and Drive Action In a world where AI can generate unlimited information, the ability to inspire people to act becomes even more valuable.
James explores the communication principles used by highly effective leaders to turn ideas into action.
Audiences discover how to communicate ideas more clearly, build support for change and persuade others to move from understanding an idea to actually doing something about it.
Because innovation isn't just about having great ideas.
It's about getting people to believe in them.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, executive meetings, sales events and organizations navigating transformation.
Why Book James Taylor Through The Sweeney Agency?
James Taylor combines creativity, innovation, AI and highly engaging storytelling to help audiences understand how human potential can be amplified rather than diminished by technology.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm James Taylor's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which James Taylor keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your industry and AI priorities
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare James with other leading AI, innovation and future-of-work keynote speakers
Is James Taylor Right for Your Event?
Tell us how AI, innovation or technological change is affecting your organization—and what you need your people to do differently.
We'll help you determine whether James is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an AI conference, innovation summit, leadership meeting or corporate event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking James Taylor as your keynote speaker.
Mike Walsh
Author of The Algorithmic Leader and Speaker on Change, Technology and Innovation.
About
Mike Walsh: Futurist Keynote Speaker on AI, Leadership & Transformation | Bestselling Author | HBR Columnist | Fortune 50 Advisor
Reinvent Your Organization for the AI-Powered Future. AI isn't simply changing how we work. It's changing what organizations can become.
Known for combining provocative ideas with practical business insight, Mike helps leaders understand how AI, algorithms, automation and digital labor will reshape organizations—and what they need to do now to stay relevant and competitive.
His message goes beyond adopting the latest technology. The real opportunity is to reinvent how your organization works, makes decisions and creates value.
Why Book Mike Walsh?
Mike doesn't simply predict the future. He helps leaders prepare to compete in it.
As a strategic advisor to Fortune 50 companies, Harvard Business Review columnist, bestselling author and global researcher, Mike studies how the world's most innovative organizations are using technology to transform the way they operate.
His global perspective allows him to connect emerging technologies with changing customer behavior, workforce expectations and new business models.
Audiences leave with something more valuable than a list of trends: a clearer understanding of what AI means for their organization and how leaders need to respond.
What Makes Mike Walsh Different?
- Futurist for leaders — focuses on the strategic implications of technology rather than technology alone
- AI and digital labor authority — explores how AI agents will reshape organizations and work
- Fortune 50 advisor — works directly with senior leaders navigating transformation
- Harvard Business Review columnist — translates emerging trends into practical leadership insights
- Three-time bestselling author — including The Algorithmic Leader
- Global perspective — researches innovation, technology and consumer behavior around the world
- Leadership focused — explores how decision-making must evolve in the Algorithmic Age
- Highly customized — connects his research directly to the client's industry and challenges
Why Is Mike Right for Your Audience?
Mike is an outstanding choice when you want your audience to understand where AI is heading, what it means for their business and how they need to lead differently as a result.
He is particularly effective for CEO conferences, executive leadership meetings, AI summits, technology conferences, association events and organizations navigating significant transformation.
Book Mike when your audience needs to:
- Understand what's coming next in AI
- Prepare for AI agents and digital labor
- Reimagine how their organization operates
- Identify new opportunities created by automation
- Lead people confidently through technological disruption
- Make smarter data-driven decisions
- Rethink customer and employee experiences
- Move beyond incremental improvement toward genuine reinvention
Audience Takeaways
Attendees will leave:
- Understanding how AI agents could reshape organizations
- Better prepared for the next decade of AI-powered transformation
- Thinking differently about the future of work
- Recognizing where human capabilities create the greatest value
- Better equipped to lead hybrid teams of humans and machines
- Understanding why AI requires organizational—not simply technological—change
- More willing to challenge outdated assumptions
- Ready to rethink how their organization creates value
Mike Walsh Keynote Programs
Abundant Intelligence: How Digital Labor Will Rewrite the Rules of Business. What happens when AI stops being simply a tool and becomes part of your workforce?
AI agents capable of independently analyzing information, making decisions and taking action represent a fundamental shift in how organizations may operate.
Mike explores the emergence of digital labor and what it could mean for organizational structure, governance, workforce strategy and competitive advantage.
He challenges leaders to look beyond today's copilots and chatbots and consider how organizations will operate when humans work alongside potentially vast networks of intelligent digital agents.
Ideal for: CEO conferences, AI summits, executive leadership meetings and organizations developing their AI strategy.
The AI-Powered Decade Ahead. Are you using AI to improve what you already do—or rethink what your organization could do?
Mike takes audiences on a journey toward 2035, exploring how AI, algorithms and automation could drive a new industrial revolution.
He argues that the greatest opportunity isn't simply making existing processes faster. It's reimagining customer experiences, redesigning organizations and finding entirely new ways to solve problems.
Technology is only part of the transformation.
Leadership ambition will determine what organizations actually do with it.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, technology events, strategy meetings and organizations preparing for long-term transformation.
The Future Favors the Bold. Incremental improvement may help you keep up. Bold thinking is what creates what's next.
Technology breakthroughs, changing customer behavior, geopolitical uncertainty and machine intelligence are challenging many of the assumptions on which organizations were built.
Mike shows why successful transformation requires leaders willing to experiment, challenge conventional thinking and make courageous decisions.
Because the future isn't simply an upgraded version of the present.
It requires leaders willing to reinvent it.
Ideal for: Leadership conferences, transformation events, executive meetings and organizations facing disruption.
The Algorithmic Leader. What capabilities will leaders need when machines can increasingly analyze, predict and decide?
Based on his bestselling book The Algorithmic Leader, Mike explores how AI, automation and algorithms are changing leadership itself.
He challenges leaders to rethink how they make decisions, use data, design teams and combine machine intelligence with uniquely human capabilities.
Audiences leave with practical ideas for redesigning their organizations, reimagining their roles and reinventing how they make decisions.
Ideal for: Leadership development programs, executive conferences, technology events and organizations developing future-ready leaders.
Why Book Mike Walsh Through The Sweeney Agency?
Mike Walsh combines AI expertise, strategic foresight, global research and practical leadership insight—making him particularly valuable when you need executives to understand not simply what technology is doing, but what they should do differently because of it.
The Sweeney Agency can help you:
- Confirm Mike Walsh's availability and current speaking fee
- Determine which Mike Walsh keynote best fits your audience
- Discuss customization around your industry and AI priorities
- Coordinate format, timing and event logistics
- Compare Mike with other leading AI, futurist and future-of-business keynote speakers
Is Mike Walsh Right for Your Event?
Tell us what's changing in your industry—and what your leaders need to understand about AI and the future ahead.
We'll help you determine whether Mike is the right fit, confirm availability and fees, and make the booking process simple.
Planning an AI summit, executive conference, leadership meeting or association event? Contact The Sweeney Agency today [email protected] to discuss booking Mike Walsh as your keynote speaker.
Nicholas J. Webb
World Renowned Innovation and Healthcare Futurist, Best-selling Author
About
Nicholas Webb: Innovation and Healthcare Futurist | Bestselling Author | Speaker on AI, Leadership and Customer Experience
Why Book Nicholas Webb?
The author of books including The Innovation Mandate, What Customers Crave and Happy Work, Nick explores how innovation, customer insight and workplace culture support growth. His energetic presentations combine research, stories and practical ideas, with content tailored to the audience’s industry and priorities.
Why Is Nicholas Webb Right for Your Audience?
Nick is a strong fit for leadership conferences, healthcare events, innovation meetings and customer experience programs. He is particularly relevant when an organization wants people to understand changing expectations, identify opportunities and turn new ideas into action.
Book Nick when your audience needs to:
- Understand trends shaping its industry
- Explore how AI could change work and service delivery
- Build a culture that supports practical innovation
- Use customer insight to improve experiences
- Strengthen employee engagement and retention
- Make clearer decisions during rapid change
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Better able to connect emerging trends with business priorities
- Equipped with ideas for turning innovation into useful action
- More aware of what customers value and what frustrates them
- Ready to consider how employee experience affects organizational performance
- Clearer on opportunities to improve service, culture and leadership
Keynote Programs
Healthcare Future Trends and Artificial Intelligence
Nick explores the forces reshaping healthcare, including AI and changing expectations among patients, providers and staff. Ideal for health systems, payers, life sciences organizations and healthcare associations preparing for change.
Unlock the Superpower of Innovation
Drawing on his experience as an inventor and CEO, Nick shows how organizations can build a culture that turns ideas into growth. Ideal for teams seeking practical ways to move innovation forward.
Thrive in the Customer Experience Economy
Nick examines how a deeper understanding of customers can inform better experiences and stronger loyalty. Drawing on What Customers Crave and What Customers Hate, this program is ideal for sales, service and customer experience audiences.
Leadership in a Time of Rapid Change
Based on Lucid Leadership, Nick explores how leaders gain clarity about their markets, cultures and responsibilities. Ideal for executives and managers navigating changing priorities.
Is Nicholas Webb Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the changes affecting your organization and what you want attendees to do differently. We can help select Nick’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.
John Winsor
Innovator, Entrepreneur, Author and Speaker on The Future of Work
About
John Winsor: Founder of Open Assembly | Entrepreneur and Author | Speaker on Open Talent, AI and the Future of Work
Why Book John Winsor?
John connects open talent with the changing role of AI. His presentations invite leaders to review how work is organized, how outside perspectives are brought in, and what a more flexible approach could make possible.
Why Is John Winsor Right for Your Audience?
John is a strong fit for executive retreats, future of work conferences, HR events, and innovation meetings. Consider him when an organization wants to rethink how it accesses expertise and solves difficult problems.
Book John when your audience needs to:
- Explore alternatives to traditional talent models
- Connect AI adoption with workforce strategy
- Bring outside expertise into problem-solving
- Review boundaries that limit collaboration
- Consider more flexible ways to organize work
- Build a culture open to new contributions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the concept of open talent
- Ready to examine a problem that could benefit from outside expertise
- More aware of AI’s implications for work design
- Equipped with questions about collaborative models
- Focused on an opportunity to broaden participation
Keynote Programs
AI and the Future of Work
John examines how AI and changing talent models can reshape organizations. Ideal for executive, HR, and transformation audiences.
Power of the Crowd
John explores the value of expertise and perspectives beyond an organization’s immediate team. Ideal for innovation and strategy events.
Is John Winsor Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the expertise your organization needs and the ways of working you want to explore. 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.
Steve Wozniak
“The Woz” – Co-Founder of Apple Computer, Inc., Chief Scientist at Primary Data
About
Steve Wozniak: Apple Cofounder | Technology Pioneer | Speaker on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the Future of Technology
Why Book Steve Wozniak?
Steve’s appearances are commonly structured as moderated conversations. That format gives an audience room to explore the founding of Apple, the creative process, education, and his perspective on emerging technology through questions relevant to the event.
Why Is Steve Wozniak Right for Your Audience?
Steve is a strong fit for technology conferences, executive forums, entrepreneurship events, and education programs. Consider him when you want an engaging conversation with a pioneer whose work helped shape personal computing.
Book Steve when your audience needs to:
- Explore the origins of a major technology company
- Consider how curiosity supports invention
- Discuss the relationship between engineering and entrepreneurship
- Question assumptions about innovation
- Connect technology with learning and education
- Reflect on possibilities for future tools
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- A personal perspective on the development of Apple
- More aware of the role of experimentation in invention
- Ready to consider a creative problem differently
- Encouraged to keep learning and exploring
- Equipped with ideas for continued discussion about technology
Keynote Programs
Steve’s appearances can be designed as moderated conversations around these areas:
Innovation, Creativity and the Founding of Apple
A moderated conversation explores Steve’s engineering experience and the development of Apple. Ideal for technology and entrepreneurship audiences.
Technology, Education and What Comes Next
A tailored discussion considers learning, emerging technologies, and Steve’s perspective on the future. Ideal for executive forums and education events.
Is Steve Wozniak Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the questions you want Steve to explore and the moderator and audience format you have in mind. We can help select Steve’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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