Scott Klososky
About
About Scott Klososky - Technology Speaker, Author, Consultant and Founder, Future Point of View:
Throughout his career, Scott Klososky has stood on the nexus between technology and humanity. He has worked to define and help organizations discover the ideal blend of technology and human effort. He is widely recognized for his ability to forecast how technology will impact organizations, industries, and our world. He is the founder and principal at FPOV as well as a renowned consultant, speaker, and author.
Scott’s unique perspectives on technology, business culture, and the future allow him to travel the globe guiding senior executives in organizations ranging from the Fortune 500 to universities, nonprofits, and countless professional associations and coalitions. He has worked with organizations such as American Fidelity Assurance Company, Roche, IBM, General Motors, Georgia Pacific, Legrand, International Franchise Association, and Great Clips. He regularly speaks in front of major conferences helping leaders in countless industries improve the way they integrate technology into their organizations. He is the author of four books including his latest title Did God Create the Internet? The Impact of Technology on Humanity.
Scott began his career fresh out of high school, where his job as a delivery boy was a springboard into the world of technology. He became division head of a computer sales division and then purchased it as his own company. It was eventually built into a twelve-store operation in three states.
His next endeavor was as founder and CEO of Paragraph, Inc., a Soviet/American joint venture founded in 1988, despite international tensions. Half of the company was sold to Silicon Graphics, and the other half is still expanding today (Parascript, Inc.).
Scott then collaborated with H.R. Haldeman to publish a diary of his years as an aide to President Nixon, which was a bestseller (Putnam Publishing), and involved Sony Interactive in the release of a book companion CD-ROM.
The evolving Internet ushered in a world of opportunity for inspiring pioneers, and Scott was not left behind. He was founder and CEO of webcasts.com, an early producer of webcasted media ranging from corporate and government communications to sporting events and entertainment. He sold webcasts.com in 1999 for $115 million. His expertise in leadership and his creative approach to business direction inspired Critical Technologies to hire him as a turnaround CEO, where he completely rebuilt the underlying products and brought the company to profitability.
In 2007, Scott founded a start-up called Alkami Technology. This company developed a second-generation online banking platform with innovative features non-existent in current systems. In 2021, the company went public valued at $2.9 billion.
Topics
What Scott Klososky Talks About:
Synthetic Intelligence: The Future of AI
The wave of synthetic intelligences like AI is a seminal time for humanity. Digital tools not only aid our ability to learn and make decisions, they can replace us with doing these. This raises many important questions such as, the potential for AI to be sentient and conscious, and how advanced synthetic intelligences will impact humanity and the economy. Scott has been addressing these questions and more for many years and brings thought leading ideas and advice to leaders so they can make good strategic decisions today.
Society has spent years reading books and watching movies that paint a dark picture of the impact machine intelligence. We have also hold onto the thought that human intelligence is unique and more advanced than anything computers could ever accomplish. Scott believes there is a much more positive AI future in front of us and this keynote provides both thought leading and practical content that often re-frames how audiences see the future of synthetic intelligence. If you want an inspiring message about the future with AI in it, this is your keynote!
Learning Objectives & Take-Aways:
- What influence Machine Intelligence is having on your industry?
- Discover how leading-edge technologies, such as implantable devices, autonomous robotics, the Internet of Things, and massive rivers of data, will come together to reshape our lives and industries
- Consider the positive and the negatives of the technology integration
- Reflect broadly on how to position your organization for the coming dynamic changes
- Does your organization need a Machine Intelligence strategy? If so, where do we start and how do we get it accomplished?
Building a Winning AI Strategy
November of 2022 will always be remembered for the moment AI became a consumer available tool. Generative AI put powerful tools into the hands of the public and this triggered billions of dollars to be invested in ever more powerful AI tools. In order to take advantage of the organizational opportunities the AI wave provides, leaders must implement a well thought out AI strategy framework. Scott works in the trenches with leaders who are leading their markets with the use of AI in their operations and has years of experience with digital strategy practices.
In this highly customizable keynote, Scott works with meeting planners to level set the AI sophistication level of the audience and deliver the latest thinking for AI strategy frameworks that make a big difference with financial results. Based on feedback from the meeting planner, this keynote can be very specific to an industry or provide general ideas for developing and AI strategy that has a strong ROI for the investments made.
Learning Objectives & Take-Aways:
- What influence Artificial Intelligence is having on your industry?
- Discover how leading-edge technologies, such as implantable devices, autonomous robotics, the Internet of Things, and massive rivers of data, will come together to reshape our lives and industries
- Consider the positive and the negatives of the technology integration
- Reflect broadly on how to position your organization for the coming dynamic changes
- Does your organization need a Artificial Intelligence strategy? If so, where do we start and how do we get it accomplished?
Survive and Thrive in the Digital Transformation – Leading in Disruption: Building a Digitally Mature Organization
Surviving digital transformation will require organizations to vastly improve their digital maturity. To do so, leaders must first understand where their organization currently stands and ways they can improve.
Scott has developed a model outlining nine dimensions of digital maturity. This model includes a measurement of your leadership’s technology IQ, systems of engagement and record, data maturity, and ability to navigate risk. There are important considerations required in each area to develop digital maturity.
Digital transformation is more than just the “Uberization” of your industry. It rewards those that use technology to more effectively serve customers, those who create efficiency, and those who use technology to gain a competitive advantage. Scott works with leaders across a variety of sectors and organizations of all sizes, helping them improve their digital maturity. These experiences inspired him to develop a world class online assessment focused on digital maturity.
In this presentation, the emphasis is on helping leaders measure where their organization currently stands with its ability to use digital strategies to win in the market.
Attendees will learn how to apply this digital maturity model to their own organization and take away practical ideas they can apply to their own organization. As a bonus, Scott will provide attendees with a complimentary sample of an online digital maturity assessment.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how the proper implementation of digital tools can make your organization thrive in transformation
- Learn the 9 dimensions of digital maturity, and prioritize them based on the needs of your organization
- Apply the Digital Maturity Model properly inside your organization
- Delivery of a complementary online digital maturity assessment sample to all attendees
Best audience: Managers, Executives, C-level leaders, Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Associations.
Leading in Disruption: Navigating the Digital Transformation
Every leader inside every organization is currently facing the monumental task of maturing their tools, processes, and people in a world dominated by technology. The ultimate health of every organization is based on how well this transformation occurs. In a thought provoking and inspiring presentation, Scott walks you through the digital transformation and its formidable impact on your industry.
Scott considers technologies that are currently impacting your sector, including the Internet of Things, automation, wearable devices, cashless society, cybersecurity, hyperpersonalization, and much more. He peppers this talk with real world examples of organizations that have navigated the digital transformation successfully and those who have not. He also uses interesting and humorous anecdotes from his work as a CEO, technologist, and consultant to provide illustrations of the steps leaders must take to pilot their organizations through a world that is evolving at breakneck speeds.
The goal of this presentation is to encourage leaders in their ability to use technology to make their organizations more efficient, effective, and capable of adapting to a rapidly changing marketplace.
Learning objectives:
- Consider the influence innovative technologies are having on your industry
- Understand how technology can be used to make your organization more efficient, effective, and capable of adapting to a rapidly changing marketplace
- Develop “high beam” thinking, looking out into the future to spot trends that will disrupt your industry
- Creating RIVERS OF INFORMATION® to help you grow your technology IQ more quickly and effectively
- Form a “technology halo” so customers can recognize the ways you use technology to offer them convenience and ease
Best audience: Managers, Executives, C-level leaders, Business Owners.
The Blueprint for Your Technology Halo: Harness Data Like the World’s Most Successful Companies – Tapping Technology’s Greatest Resource: Wielding Data as a Weapon
Netflix knows the movie you want to watch. Starbucks knows when you want a cup of coffee. Facebook knows everyone you’ve ever met. You can order from Amazon at the push of a button. How? DATA.
These companies are using data to serve their customers in revolutionary ways. A “technology halo” is when you use technology so effectively to serve constituents that they take notice. When you don’t provide this, they also notice. Like it or not, your services are being compared now to the companies listed above.
Data gives you a view into your customers that was once inconceivable. However, turning raw data into intelligence is a painstaking process.
Scott has spent decades helping organizations use data in inspired ways.
In this program, he shares how to use data to more effectively reach and serve constituents.
Scott walks leaders through the process of turning data into intelligence, how to use data like the world’s most successful organizations, and how to get customers buzzing.
Learning objectives:
- Learn how to use the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) chain to make better decisions faster
- Maximize the data you are collecting from your customers and team members
- Build a digital revenue engine to allow data to flow properly throughout your organization
- Develop a comprehensive list of the types of data you need to collect, giving you insights you’ve never considered
- Use data the way leading edge organizations do to make their customer experiences spectacular
Best audience: Managers, Salespeople, Marketing Executives, C-level leaders, Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Associations.
Recent Publications
Scott was the highest rated speaker for our Executive Leadership Conference - with cutting-edge information that took our executives to a place they never imagined.