AI KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Motivational & inspirational
Turn AI investments into real-world results with exceptional, experiential, and customized AI keynotes from MSN top 10 international keynote speaker Nick Jankel. Empower your audience to leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence in responsible and innovative ways that drive immediate ROI and long-term transformative value creation rather than degenerative slop, trust corrosion, and wastage.
Nick Jankel has been working in and around tech-powered innovation and digital transformation for 25+ years, trusted by companies like Miscrosoft, Google, Unilever, Leandlease, and Genentech. An AI thought leader for over a decade, he delivers inspirational keynotes on how AI and other exponential technologies can be leveraged to transform leaders, business models, and workplaces for the better.
AI KEYNOTE SPEAKER: original & practical thinking
always CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR EVENT
Optimize the value-creation of AI through The LEADERSHIP-AI Synthesis framework: how leaders and employees can strategize with, collaborate, and create effectively with AI.
Inspire the right mindsets for AI-powered innovation, digital transformation, and exponential value creation: how to guide, guardrail, and give AI meaning.
Help audiences understand what AIs get right, very wrong, and may always do badly: explore the limits of Artificial Intelligence so attendees invest time, energy, and budget where AI can really deliver.
Understand the dangers of AI slop and workslop: avoid wasted time and investment, and the corrosion of company culture and team trust.
Elevate audiences to get past seeing AI as a tool to using it as a creative and strategic partner in achieving business growth and organizational impact.
Enjoy exciting yet actionable use cases for AI that drive human effectiveness: learn how to prompt, integrate, and filter AI.
Help attendees start innovating killer AI apps and not apps that kill us: explore how to fuse breakthrough innovation protocols with ethical oversight and business purpose.
Inspire audiences to get that smarts are not enough: as AI masters analysis, we must master "aliveness" and amplify what machines can’t, like empathy, creativity, and collaboration.
Why AI might be better understood as Alternative Intelligence: empowering and elevating human capabilities like strategic decision-making & innovation.
top AI keynote speaker with RAVE REVIEWS
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact.
Exceptional!
President
Kellogg’s North America
Nick was the highlight of the 2-day conference and made it worth going to. Thought-provoking, insightful, and very enjoyable.
Director
Rothschild & Co
My team couldn't speak more highly of the impact Nick made on them. His ideas have now become common language, with leaders challenging one another with them. This is in addition to the non-stop feedback I received after the event, which has been outstanding.
Nick Jankel is a true inspiration and motivational presence!
Executive Vice-President
Biogen
A remarkable keynote speech at our 2025 Chairman’s Dinner. Nick's insights on change—its complexity, its necessity, and its immense potential—resonated deeply. Many of the guests shared how inspired they felt, particularly in his ability to connect strategic transformation with human leadership in such a compelling and energising way and with intelligence, humour, and vision.
CEO & Head of the Management Board
ABBL - The Luxembourg Bankers' Association
Very impressed! I'm taking his ideas into my organization to move the transformation forward. I highly recommend Nick as a speaker.
Senior Vice-President
HP
Nick's keynote speech at our global leadership summit was inspirational. Makes you think in a different way and adapt your leadership style.
Global Chief Privacy Officer
Arcadis
Leading Inspirational Speaker on Artificial intelligence Driving an Unprecedented ROI
Electrifying, Energizing & HYPER-ENGAGING "WOW!" & "Ah-hA!" Keynotes
ORIGINAL Science-BACKED IDEAS, ACTIONABLE Ah-HA! INSIGHTS & Real-world EXAMPLES
Exquisitely Customized to fit your brief & ELEVATE YOUR EVENT
TAKEAWAY TOOLS & PRACTICAL HACKS THAT TURN INSPIRATION INTO ACTION
seasoned specialist at senior leadership & top 10-500 events
Classic high-impact keynotes or interactive formats with time for reflection & participation
optional workshop sessions with takeaway tools that build AI leadership skills
Cutting-edge content within engaging
journeys that challenge complacency & build momentum
A standing ovation! I am already sharing the insights with my leaders. Thank you!
CEO,
Unilever USA
Nick was the highlight of the 2-day conference. He made it worth going to. Thought-provoking, insightful, and very enjoyable.
SVP
Investment Bank
Nick had a pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional!
President,
Kellogg’s North America
Nick transformed our event with an engaging and evocative talk that hit all the nails that we put out there. It set a perfect scene for the remainder!
Head of Marketing,
Syngenta
thought leadership on AI, digital transformation & the future of leadership in an era of exponential tech
thought leading motivational Keynote Speaker ON AI
Nick Jankel is a Cambridge-educated futurist, digital transformation and tech-driven innovation expert, and internationally acclaimed AI keynote speaker who has been decoding the intersection of artificial intelligence, exponential digital technologies, human wisdom, leadership, and innovation for over 25 years.
Long before the AI boom, Nick was working at the leading edge of tech-driven innovation, from video games (Blender, Sony, Xbox) to apps (Vodafone, Orange, Microsoft). He gave his first conference keynote in 1997 on how the World Wide Web would disrupt marketing and innovation, and launched his first startup, a tech accelerator and brand agency, during the dot-com explosion in 1999.
A pioneer in AI-ready leadership, Nick empowers audiences to harness intelligent technologies without losing the very qualities that make them human. Nick’s thinking on AI has taken him from the Aspen Ideas Festival to BBC Radio alongside Oxford AI philosopher Nick Bostrom.
Nick is currently leading the development of an LLM-based leadership platform delivering personalized, transformative leadership development journeys for Fortune 500 execs.
Named a Top 10 US Speaker by MSN, he is trusted by organizations including Google, Pfizer, LEGO, Unilever, and No.10 Downing Street for his ability to fuse rigorous science with soul-stirring storytelling. His keynotes inspire leaders to balance the analytical precision of AI with the moral, creative, and emotional intelligence that define true leadership.
Nick is both optimistic and discerning about AI’s potential. He celebrates its ability to transform productivity, creativity, and decision-making while challenging the notion that machines can replicate authentic empathy, compassion, or wisdom. His neuroscience-led BTX® Method provides practical tools for navigating complexity, ensuring technology serves humanity rather than the reverse.
For event organizers seeking a world-class AI and leadership keynote speaker, Nick Jankel delivers electrifying, evidence-based, and deeply human insights that help audiences move from fear to foresight, from automation to aliveness, and from information to inspiration.
WATCH Nick's TEASER VIDEo about his keynotes on AI [2023]
ChatGPT was downloaded by 100 million users in two months, and the AI market is predicted to grow by 1300% in the coming years. Seventy-six percent of employees believe AI will enhance their creativity, while 73% want to use it to find information. However, research reveals that at least 50% of workers need upskilling to cope with, let alone leverage, AI. Over 30% of large organizations have still not incorporated AI into even one business function. Essentially, we all now have supercomputers in our hands, with improvements likely to be exponentially fast and more complex.
In my experience, while most companies claim that AI is a top priority in their business, the reality on the ground is that few are truly AI-ready, and even fewer have a clear view or vision of the unprecedented opportunities and dangers of AI. Simply put, the buzz may not turn into value, impact, and profits for very many.
I’ve been working on the front lines of digital-first and disruptive innovation for over 20 years. Specifically within AI innovation for the last 15 years, I’ve been developing our own AI-driven business model in leadership development for the last five or six. I am definitely not a techie; I’m an innovator compelled by how this technology can be used to transform our lives and workplaces through breakthrough innovation, humanizing design, and purpose-driven leadership.
I am profoundly passionate about helping organizations, as well as individual workers, find great uses for AI that solve real and tangible customer and employee pain points. Taking your brief, I will work tirelessly to amplify your messages and elevate your ambitions while remaining independent as a thought leader, challenger, and aspirer. Every one of my keynotes is customized to meet and exceed expectations, connecting with your specific audience to unleash energy, momentum, inspiration, and trust.
In your keynote, I could share what AI can do, can’t do, and may never be able to do, so you don’t waste precious time and resources. Exciting yet actionable usage cases for AI, whether for employee workflow effectiveness or serving and delighting your customers. The kind of mindsets needed to leverage the possibilities for exponential value creation that AI heralds, as well as avoiding the many costly commercial and ethical pitfalls. The clear and present danger of both AI model collapse and white-collar career collapse.
While the application layer focused on harnessing AI through humanized user experiences is the next big thing, I will guide you on how to go about designing killer apps with AI, not apps that kill us.