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 | 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: 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.

• Trusted by Industry Leaders – Advisor to Google, Microsoft, Deloitte, and top global organizations.

• Disruptive Innovation Expert – A leading authority on AI, automation, and exponential technologies shaping the future.

• Strategic Foresight & Innovation – Actionable insights to anticipate disruption and create competitive advantages.

• Author of seven books,  including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight; One of the world's leading futurists who the New York Times called “…one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker…”

• Master of Hard Trends – Navigate uncertainty with confidence using proven anticipatory strategies.

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Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Disruptive Innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker.

He is the author of seven books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Flash Foresight and his latest Amazon No. 1 bestseller, The Anticipatory Organization.

He has delivered over 3,000 keynote speeches worldwide and is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop game-changing strategies
based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. His client list includes Lockheed Martin, Verizon, Microsoft, VISA, Deloitte,
Google, Procter & Gamble, KPMG, Honda, FedEx and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Burrus is an innovative entrepreneur who has founded six businesses, four of which were U.S. national leaders in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology-driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.

He is the creator of the Hard Trend Methodology, the Anticipatory Organization® Business Model, used by leading organizations worldwide, and he is a founding member of the
Department of Defense Joint Services Futures Group.

His accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s, when he became the first and only futurist to accurately identify the 20 exponential technologies that would become the driving
force of business and economic growth for decades to come. They included digital electronics, AI, distributed computing, genetic engineering, lasers, optical storage, photovoltaics,
fiberoptics and nanotechnologies to name a few. Since then, he has continued to establish a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technology-
driven change and its direct impact on the business world.

Burrus is a featured writer, reaching millions of monthly readers with his insights on disruptive innovation, exponential change and the future. His work is featured across various platforms, including LinkedIn, where he is a member of an exclusive invitation-only group of experts. On LinkedIn alone, he has built a following of over 1.2 million professionals.

He has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on programs such as CNN, Fox Business and Bloomberg. Burrus has been quoted in a variety
of publications, including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune and Forbes.

Andrew Busch is the former 1st Chief Market Intelligence Officer for the US government and economic futurist at AndrewBusch.com. For the CFTC, he was charged with improving and enhancing the government’s understanding of the markets and the economy. His job was to take all the news, information and data on the economy and markets; and filter it into condensed, easily understood research; then communicate it to the government and public.

Andy provided economic and market briefings to White House, US House, US Senate, the SEC, the Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury staff on a wide range of issues including interest rates, inflation, China’s influence on trade, and the impact of technology on the economy.

Prior to joining the CFTC, Mr. Busch was CEO and founder of a boutique financial markets and policy research firm, Bering Productions, Inc (BPI). Before BPI, he was the Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist for Bank of Montreal (BMO) in Chicago. He is author of the book “World Event Trading” covering large crises, like infectious disease outbreaks and war, and their impact on the economy and markets.

Today, he’s a consultant and keynote speaker with a wide range of clients including chemicals, financial services, energy, real estate, manufacturing, construction and agriculture.

• Talks about the birth of "Siri" from concept to implementation and new ways of thinking about AI and how to prepare your business for the continuing AI revolution.

• Audiences leave with an understanding of how to integrate innovation, including AI and new technologies into their organizations in order to prepare for the future.

• Adam Cheyer is a top technology speaker, AI expert and entrepreneur. He co-founded Siri. He has a proven track record of innovation in business, having worked at research labs, startups and some of the largest technology companies in the world, bringing ideas to market to positively impact hundreds of millions of people. 

• Adam is current Vice President of R&D at Samsung.

Adam Cheyer is a top technology speaker, AI expert and entrepreneur. He co-founded Siri, which was acquired by Apple, and later co-founded Viv, which became the basis of the voice assistant Bixby on Samsung phones, TVs, watches, and more. He is also a founding member and first developer at Change.org, the world’s largest petition platform, with more than 300M members.

Cheyer has a proven track record of innovation in business, having worked at research labs, startups and some of the largest technology companies in the world, bringing ideas to market to positively impact hundreds of millions of people. He is also an award-winning magician, having performed for millions on TV and for presidents and heads of state.

Adam Cheyer is currently Vice President of R&D at Samsung. Previously, he was co-founder and VP Engineering of Viv Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) company acquired by Samsung in 2016.

Adam was also co-Founder and VP Engineering of Siri, acquired by Apple in 2010 to build their virtual personal assistant, which was distributed on more than 1.5B devices. After joining Apple, he became a Director of Engineering in the iPhone/iOS group, leading all AI and server-side aspects of the Siri assistant.

Adam is the author of more than sixty peer-reviewed publications and twenty-five issued patents. He received his bachelor’s degree with highest honors from Brandeis University and his master’s degree with an “outstanding master’s student” award from UCLA.

A pioneer in the frontier of commercial space sector, former astronaut and International Space Station commander Leroy Chiao captivates audience with his amazing stories on space exploration and brings unparalleled insights on leadership, innovation and technology trends .

A veteran of four space missions and a fifteen-year career with NASA, Dr. Chiao most recently served as Commander and NASA Science Officer of Expedition 10 aboard the International Space Station. He has logged over 229 days in space – over 36 hours of which were spent in Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA, or spacewalks). From June through September 2009, he served as a member of the White House appointed Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, and currently serves on the NASA Advisory Council.

Leroy holds appointments at Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine, and is the special advisor for human spaceflight to the Space Foundation. He has worked extensively in both government and commercial space programs, and has held leadership positions in commercial ventures and NASA. Chiao has extensive experience as a NASA Astronaut and prior to that, as a Research Engineer. Dr. Chiao is a fellow of the Explorers Club, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the Committee of 100. Chiao also serves in various capacities to further space education,

A native English speaker, Dr. Chiao also speaks Mandarin Chinese and Russian. He has flown space missions and worked closely with Russian, Japanese and European Astronauts and their affiliated space agencies. Dr. Chiao is uniquely qualified to speak about the United States, Russian, Japanese, European and Chinese Space Programs. A Space Station Commander and Space Shuttle Mission Specialist, Dr. Chiao was also a certified Co-Pilot of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He is an expert in all facets of U.S. and Russian EVA hardware and operations and is EVA certified in U.S. and Russian spacesuits, tools, and training programs. In September 2006, Chiao became the first American to visit the Astronaut Research and Training Center of China. There, he met the first two national Chinese astronauts, Yang Liwei and Fei Junlong.

Dr. Chiao studied Chemical Engineering, earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He continued his studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, earning his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in 1985 and 1987. Prior to joining NASA in 1990, he worked as a Research Engineer at Hexcel Corporation. and then at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Dan Chuparkoff is a trailblazer with over 30 years of experience driving innovation at Google, McKinsey, and more. People call him the practical and understandable Technology-speaker.  His superpower is making complex things simple and useful. He has captivated audiences everywhere from the Fortune 100 to South-by-Southwest. Dan isn’t just a keynote speaker – he’s a technology executive with three decades of hands-on, technology-transformation experience. He will ignite your imagination and give you the tools you need for success & growth in the AI-FUTURE OF WORK.

• Reinvention Labs: AI Education & Research: Today, as CEO of Reinvention Labs, Dan leads cutting-edge research on the impact of technology on that work. With this research, Dan reinvents the way people work with the power of AI, robotics, & more.
• Google: the tech-giant: At Google, Dan led the Mobile Tools and Services team. His products powered more than 60% of the top 10,000 apps on both Android and IOS app stores. Dan works on moonshots and counts his users by the billions.
• McKinsey: the global enterprise: At the prestigious, 100-year-old firm of McKinsey & Company, Dan worked with global leaders to build software to solve some of the world’s biggest problems from healthcare, to manufacturing, to sustainability.
• Atlassian: the $6 billion IPO: At Atlassian, he worked on Jira, the world’s leading tool for planning, managing, & tracking work. While there, he managed multiple acquisitions and lead the preparation for a $6 billion IPO.

Through his informative talks and workshops, Dan Chuparkoff Dan REINVENTS the way we work with the POWER OF AI.

• Talks about how to drive and incentivize breakthrough thinking within organizations in order to achieve clear, measurable and objective results.

• Audiences leave with an understanding of how to create a culture of innovation and how to incentivize the outside world to help solve an organization's biggest challenges.

• Dr. Diamandis is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, and with Dr. Ray Kurzweil, co-Founder of the Singularity University.

• Past clients include: Google, Microsoft, the United Nations, Facebook, TED, PhRMAs CEO Conference, Autodesk and Activision-Blizzard.

Scientist, engineer, doctor, and inspiring speaker Dr. Peter Diamandis is the world's foremost expert in incentivized innovation and the growth of exponential technologies. The art of incentivize smart and talented people within your company or those experts around the world to focus on solving your grand challenges. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, government leaders and captains of industry over the past 15 years. In 2010 Diamandis is the winner of the Economist No Boundaries award for meta-innovation - driving innovation in the way people innovate. He is also the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Innovation, the Heinlein Award, the Lindbergh Award, the Wired RAVE Award, the Neil Armstrong Award, and the World Technology Award.

Diamandis inspires and moves audiences to action. His message is clear: there is no challenge that cannot be overcome. It is a matter of having a clear objective goal, clarity of what you are measuring and incentivizing the right community to solve your challenge. Using personal, in-depth and inspirational stories, Diamandis has been called one of the best speakers ever by numerous CEO-level audiences. He has received accolades from an impressively diverse list of listeners: Google, Microsoft, the United Nations, Facebook, TED, PhRMAs CEO Conference, Autodesk and Activision-Blizzard to name a few. Diamandis is a frequent contributor to CNN, CNBC and MSNBC.

Dr. Diamandis is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, a non-profit focused on designing and launching large incentive prizes to drive radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight, the Foundation is now launching prizes in four groups: Exploration, Life Sciences, Energy & Environment, and Education/Global Development. Today the X PRIZE has three active prizes: The $10M Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE and the $1.4M Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE. Diamandis and the X PRIZE have been hired by the following groups to create incentivized innovation: Google, Cisco, Shell, Progressive Insurance, NASA, US Department of Energy, and the US Department of Transportation to name a few.

In 2008, Diamandis co-Founded the Singularity University along with Dr. Ray Kurzweil, serving as the Chairman & Vice-Chancellor of SU. Diamandis speaks dynamically and passionately explaining how the rapid growth of key exponential technologies are empowering individuals and companies to do what only governments were able to achieve in past decades. The key exponential technologies include artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, synthetic biology, embedded networks, nanotechnology/materials and human machine interfaces have the potential to transform industries and society over the next twenty years. Such technologies will drive a period of significant disruption or opportunity depending on the company's mind-set. Diamandis' ultimate message is that companies cannot remain stagnant. They must evolve or they will die.

Diamandis is the leading international figure in the commercial space arena, having founded and run many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector, including: Space Adventures, the only company to have brokered the launches of private citizens to the Int'l Space Station; Zero Gravity Corporation is the only commercial provider of weightless, zero-gravity flights to the public and to NASA; and the Rocket Racing League is a cross between NASCAR and pod-racing from Star Wars.

Dr. Diamandis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he received his undergraduate degree in molecular genetics and graduate degree in aerospace engineering. After MIT he attended Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. In 2005 he has was also awarded an honorary Doctorate from the International Space University.

Diamandis has founded over 15 companies since his first year at MIT. Many of these are non-profits dedicated to creating change in the world. Peter's mission is to guide and inspire the transformation of humanity both on and off the Earth. His personal motto is: The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself! In 8th grade, while living in New York, Dr. Diamandis won first place in the Estes rocket design contest.

Diamandis' book Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think focuses on how exponential technologies, coupled with the DIY movement and the on-line connectivity of the rising billion will enable an age of global abundance providing water, energy, food, shelter, education and healthcare in unprecedented availability for humanity.

Pam Didner is a globally recognized B2B marketing and AI strategist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five business books, including The Modern AI Marketer in the GPT Era. As the founder of Relentless Pursuit, she has worked with organizations like IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, and Southwest Airlines to align sales and marketing teams and turn complex strategies into predictable revenue. With over 20 years of enterprise marketing experience spanning demand generation, sales enablement, content strategy, and operations, Pam brings a rare ability to connect high-level strategy with real-world execution.

With an MBA in Accounting and Finance, Pam began her career in finance before transitioning into marketing, allowing her to bridge the gap between data-driven executives and growth-focused teams. She specializes in AI implementation, including Copilot training, helping organizations operationalize AI to drive efficiency, alignment, and measurable ROI.

Pam is known for her dynamic, engaging speaking style and her ability to simplify complex topics like AI, B2B growth, and marketing technology into clear, actionable frameworks. Her high-energy keynotes, delivered across five continents, go beyond inspiration—equipping audiences with practical strategies they can implement immediately to drive pipeline, improve performance, and create lasting business impact.

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 is a bestselling author, AI researcher, and futurist. He coaches leadership teams to solve complex problems.

He is founder and CEO of Geolab, a research lab focused on the future of work, with training programs focused on AI and innovation, leadership development, and teamwork transformation.

Kian is a former executive director of the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University. He has coached the leadership teams of dozens of Fortune 500 companies, startup unicorns, venture capital firms, and government agencies, and fundraised nearly $50m for nonprofits that have changed the world.

His latest research on Human-AI collaboration has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal, and on a Stanford podcast selected as “Best Podcast Episode of the Year” by the podcast industry awards.

In 2022, he co-wrote “Competing in the New World of Work” with Keith Ferrazzi, which was on top of the Wall Street Journal bestseller list and translated into 7 languages.

He is a sought-after keynote speaker and emcee for marquee global events, including the World Economic Forum, YPO, and many industry associations. He serves on the board of the Transformational Leadership Council, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Kian graduated from Northwestern, the London School of Economics, Harvard Business School, and was a Henry Luce Scholar in China.

Robert Herjavec a dynamic entrepreneur and leading Shark on ABC’s Emmy Award-winning hit show Shark Tank - is one of North America’s most recognizable business leaders. In 2003, he founded Herjavec Group, and it quickly became one of North America’s fastest growing technology companies. Today, Herjavec Group is recognized as a global cybersecurity operations leader - specializing in managed security services, compliance, identity services and incident response for enterprise-level leaders and their organizations.

Born in Eastern Europe, he arrived in North America on a boat with his parents - after escaping communism in the former Yugoslavia. From delivering newspapers, and waiting tables, to launching a computer company from his basement - his drive to achieve has led him to the fulfillment of a better life for himself and his family. Robert’s motivational business advice has received millions of impressions through TV, print, radio and digital media.

Robert's inspiring books all appeared on best-sellers’ lists:

• You Don’t Have to Be a Shark: Creating Your Own Success (St. Martin's Press, May 2016)

• The Will to Win (HarperCollins, Apr 2013)

• Driven (HarperCollins, Sep 2010)

Robert will engage and inspire anyone willing to keep up with the pace of change! Robert's fundamental guiding principles include "Today we do what others won’t, so that tomorrow we can accomplish what others can’t" - and "Constant Forward Momentum!"

Shama Hyder is a visionary strategist for the digital age, a web and TV personality, a bestselling author, and the award-winning CEO of Zen Media – a global marketing and digital PR firm. She has been named the “Zen Master of Marketing” by Entrepreneur Magazine and the “Millennial Master of the Universe” by FastCompany.com. Shama has also been honored at both the White House and The United Nations as one of the top 100 young entrepreneurs in the country.

Shama is the bestselling author of The Zen of Social Media Marketing, now in its 4th edition and Momentum: How to Propel Your Marketing and Transform Your Brand in the Digital Age. An acclaimed keynote speaker, Shama has delivered keynotes in over 20 countries and spoken for recognized brands including Movado, Prudential, Chase, Tupperware, and Inc 5000.

As a result of her success, Shama has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Technology Titan Emerging Company CEO award. She was named one of the “Top 25 Entrepreneurs under 25” by Business Week in 2009; one of the “Top 30 Under 30” Entrepreneurs in America in 2014 by Inc. Magazine; and to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list of moversand shakers for 2015. LinkedIn has named Hyder one of their “Top Voices” in Marketing & Social Media for three years in a row. Her online videos were awarded the Hermes Gold Award for
Educational Programming in Electronic Media and most recently she was given the Global Empowerment award for Marketing and Technology by Anokhi Media.

As the CEO of Zen Media, she and her team help both B2B and B2C brands to make meaningful connections with the modern-day customer via influencer marketing, and experiential and digital storytelling — and then turn those connections into bottom line results. Notable clients include Chase Business, The US Navy, DFW Airport, Mary Kay, and Tupperware.

Andrea Iorio is one of Brazil’s most requested keynote speakers about Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership and Soft Skills, and he shares his thoughts and ideas at the intersection of business, technology, philosophy and neuroscience in his more than 200 keynotes per year. He holds more than 10 years of experience in multinational and tech companies: he has been the Head of Tinder across Latin America for 5 years, and Chief Digital Officer at L’Oréal Brazil.

He is an economist with a Degree from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), and a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins’ SAIS (Washington, DC), and is now an MBA professor at Fundação Dom Cabral.

He is the author of the books “6 Competências para Surfar na Transformação Digital” and “O futuro não é mais como antigamente”: both reached the n. 1 position on Amazon in the People Management and Leadership sections in Brazil He has more than 65k followers on Linkedin, and his podcast Metanoia Lab is among the top 100 podcasts in Business in Brazil.