What Kian Gohar talks about:

How to Build a Moonshot
Reflecting on his expertise building literal moonshots to space for the XPRIZE, Kian will give audiences a step-by-step innovation guide on how to shift their mindset and build their one-way ticket to the future. He’ll explain how to tackle the most important team obstacles, how to challenge conventional thinking, and how to make one’s wildest dreams come true.

This inspirational innovation keynote will empower everyone in the audience to leap forward into their future, knowing that their impossible, is “I’m possible!”

Audience Outcomes:

• Identify their most audacious dream.
• 10-step action plan to achieving their “moonshot.”
• Inspiration and empowerment with innovation tools, frameworks and mindsets to dream big!

How to Think Like a Futurist
Based on his dozen years teaching about disruptive technologies in Silicon Valley at Singularity University, Kian will highlight the major technology trends being developed in labs across the world and how they are changing every major industry.

In this futurist keynote, Kian will explore the convergence of technologies like AI, robotics, avatars, quantum computing, and medicine, and how they will change our lives. Audiences will walk away with concrete steps they can take now to think like a futurist and prepare for tomorrow.

Audience Outcomes:

• Identify the most important tech trends.
• Learn a simple framework to predict the future.
• Inspiration to transform their futures with easy-to-follow experiments, starting now!

Leadership in the New World of Work
Ideal for senior leaders, emerging managers, team members, HR professionals, and associations, this inspiring keynote will challenge outdated myths that no longer hold in today’s dynamic workplace that also includes Gen Z.

Through real world examples, Kian outlines new leadership and cultural traits necessary to succeed in this new era, and presents a bold new vision for what the future of work looks like: digital, hybrid, inclusive, and resilient.

Let’s never just go back to work, let’s go forward to work!

Audience Outcomes:

• Reframes leadership for the Future of Work.
• Practical “How To” lessons in team collaboration, inclusion, innovation, agility, and resilience.
• Improved employee engagement, empowerment and productivity, immediately!

Unlocking Creativity with Human-Ai Collaboration
Based on Kian’s cutting-edge research published in the Harvard Business Review, this keynote is a master class on how to use AI to elevate team achievement.

Through vivid storytelling and practical AI lessons, Kian will provide foundational knowledge for managers and individual contributors to master AI in the workplace. How can we use AI to improve creativity? How can we use AI to streamline workflow and become more efficient? How can we use AI to be better humans?

Audience Outcomes:

• Clear understanding of where humans & AI can collaborate most effectively on teams.
• Specific tools, tips, and frameworks to leverage AI to solve any team problem.
• Best practices in Conversational AI and AI literacy.