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Jason Sosa
Technologist and keynote speaker on AI and the future of finance.
About
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.
Scott Steinberg
About Scott Steinberg – Business Strategist & Technology Futurist
About
Scott Steinberg: Business Strategist | Technology Futurist and Author | Speaker on Innovation, Change and Emerging Trends
Why Book Scott Steinberg?
Scott connects trend awareness with decisions about products, services, leadership, and skills. His presentations encourage people to look beyond familiar approaches and consider small experiments that could reveal useful opportunities.
Why Is Scott Steinberg Right for Your Audience?
Scott is a strong fit for executive meetings, innovation conferences, industry events, and employee development programs. Consider him when your organization wants people to respond to change with curiosity and initiative.
Book Scott when your audience needs to:
- Recognize trends relevant to their business
- Question assumptions about existing practices
- Explore new product and service opportunities
- Build confidence approaching unfamiliar technology
- Encourage experimentation within teams
- Connect future thinking with current decisions
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a trend they should investigate
- Ready to challenge a familiar business assumption
- More aware of practical innovation opportunities
- Equipped with questions about future capabilities
- Focused on an experiment that could inform the next decision
Keynote Programs
Leading with Innovation
Scott explores ways to respond to disruption and encourage new thinking across an organization. Ideal for leadership and change audiences.
Think Like a Futurist
Scott introduces approaches to spotting emerging opportunities and considering their implications. Ideal for strategy, industry, and innovation events.
Is Scott Steinberg Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the market changes you need to examine and the innovative behavior you want to encourage. We can help select Scott’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.
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.
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.
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Crystal Washington: Futurist and Technology Strategist | Author | Speaker on AI, Innovation and the Future of Work
Why Book Crystal Washington?
Crystal connects future thinking with practical opportunities. Her presentations encourage audiences to look at how they work, identify useful applications, and approach change with more curiosity and less uncertainty.
Why Is Crystal Washington Right for Your Audience?
Crystal is a strong fit for leadership conferences, association meetings, sales events, and employee programs. Consider her when an audience needs an accessible way to explore AI and changing workplace technology.
Book Crystal when your audience needs to:
- Understand emerging tools without technical overload
- Identify AI applications relevant to their work
- Review assumptions about future skills
- Explore practical opportunities for innovation
- Build confidence approaching digital change
- Connect technology use with a clear business need
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on a technology development that affects their role
- Ready to explore a useful AI application
- More aware of the importance of continued learning
- Equipped with questions about adoption
- Focused on a manageable step toward greater preparedness
Keynote Programs
Future-Proof Yourself
Crystal explores ways to recognize opportunities and adapt during continuing change. Ideal for broad employee and professional audiences.
Generative AI for Leaders
Crystal examines the implications and practical possibilities of generative AI for leadership. Ideal for executives and managers planning adoption.
Is Crystal Washington Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the technology changes your audience needs to understand and the practical applications you want to explore. We can help select Crystal’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.
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.
Jared Weiner
Leading Futurist & Speaker on Global Trends, Co-Founder + Creator at Wake the Future
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Jared Weiner: Cofounder of Wake the Future | Futurist | Speaker on AI, Human Agency and Global Trends
Why Book Jared Weiner?
Jared’s current message places particular emphasis on agency: the ability to make intentional decisions rather than simply follow the direction of new tools. His presentations connect emerging trends with the identity, judgment, and priorities people bring to work.
Why Is Jared Weiner Right for Your Audience?
Jared is a strong fit for executive meetings, innovation conferences, company events, and strategy retreats. Consider him when an audience needs to reflect on its own role in a future increasingly shaped by AI.
Book Jared when your audience needs to:
- Distinguish useful signals from constant noise
- Review assumptions about AI adoption
- Protect space for independent judgment
- Connect technology decisions with human priorities
- Think more intentionally about future choices
- Discuss the skills that support personal agency
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on their role in shaping a response to change
- Ready to examine an assumption about AI
- More aware of the relationship between technology and identity
- Equipped with questions about human agency
- Focused on a decision they want to make more intentionally
Keynote Programs
The Reformed Futurist
Jared explores how people can rethink their relationship with trends and uncertainty. Ideal for leadership and innovation audiences.
The Human Edge: Agency + Identity
Jared examines the value of human judgment and identity in a technology-driven environment. Ideal for organizations reflecting on AI and the future of work.
Is Jared Weiner Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the future choices your audience needs to examine and the human capabilities you want to strengthen. We can help select Jared’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 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.
Bob Woodward
Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist, Author and Associate Editor, The Washington Post
About
Bob Woodward: Investigative Journalist | Washington Post Associate Editor | Speaker on Political Leadership, Reporting and Accountability
Why Book Bob Woodward?
Bob connects political leadership with the discipline of asking questions and establishing what happened. His appearances offer audiences an opportunity to explore the evidence, competing accounts, and human judgments behind major events.
Why Is Bob Woodward Right for Your Audience?
Bob is a strong fit for executive forums, public affairs conferences, university events, and leadership programs. Consider him when an audience wants a substantive discussion of American political power and the process of investigative journalism.
Book Bob when your audience needs to:
- Examine the decisions behind political headlines
- Understand the process of investigative reporting
- Consider how leaders exercise power
- Ask more searching questions about evidence
- Discuss accountability in public institutions
- Explore historical context for current affairs
Audience Takeaways
Depending on the program selected, attendees will leave:
- Clearer on the importance of careful questioning
- More aware of the work behind a reported account
- Ready to examine assumptions about leadership
- Equipped with a broader historical perspective
- Encouraged to seek evidence before reaching conclusions
Keynote Programs
Presentations and moderated conversations can be shaped around the following areas:
Political Leadership and Decision-Making
Bob discusses the people and judgments behind major political events. Ideal for executive and public affairs audiences.
Investigative Journalism and Accountability
Bob explores reporting, evidence, and the challenge of understanding power. Ideal for leadership, university, and civic events.
Is Bob Woodward Right for Your Event?
Tell us about your audience, the political and leadership questions your audience wants to explore and the discussion format you prefer. We can help select Bob’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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