•	#1 AI Futurist
•	Former Executive at Google DeepMind and Intel
•	Helps Fortune 100 Leaders Build AI-First Companies
•	Trusted by Nike, Bank of America, Intuit, and Disney
•	500+ Keynotes Across Five Continents
•	AI Entrepreneur and Investor
•	Bestselling Author of The AI Ultimatum

Steve Brown is an AI futurist, entrepreneur, and author. A former executive at Google DeepMind and Intel, Steve advises Fortune 100 companies and global brands on AI strategy and transformation, helping them build AI-first organizations and stay ahead of the forces reshaping business, the economy, and society. He has delivered hundreds of high-impact keynotes across five continents, translating complex technologies into clear, practical action for leaders.

Steve brings more than 25 years of experience at the forefront of AI, digital transformation, and high tech. At Google DeepMind, he served as Senior Director and in-house futurist during the breakthrough launch of AlphaFold. At Intel, he was Chief Evangelist and futurist. He is also a successful entrepreneur and company builder, co-founding multiple AI ventures and serving as a BCG Luminary.

His clients include Nike, JPMorgan Chase, Samsung, Lenovo, Comcast, Bank of America, Intuit, and Disney. He has been featured by CNN, the BBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. 

Steve is the author of The AI Ultimatum: Preparing for a World of Intelligent Machines and Radical Transformation, a practical guide to AI transformation for today’s leaders.

Born in the U.K., he is a dual British-American citizen and lives in Portland, Oregon.

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AI Futurist, Entrepreneur and Author

Steve Brown

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Ideal Audience: Boards, C-Suite executives, senior leadership teams, strategy and innovation conferences, and executive customer events.Most organizations are using AI to improve the business they already have—automating tasks, reducing costs, and adding copilots to existing workflows. But AI is transforming more than the economics of work: it is dramatically reducing the cost of coordinating decisions, information, people, and resources. Going further, AI-first companies are redesigning how they create value and developing operating models that learn and improve over time. In this provocative and practical keynote, Steve Brown reveals how AI-first companies are redesigning their organizations around outcomes, building portfolios of intelligence, and creating proprietary learning systems that move beyond incremental efficiency to build lasting competitive advantage.By attending this talk, you will:<ul><li>Understand the three phases of AI transformation and the difference between automating the past and designing an AI-first future.</li><li>Discover how AI changes both the cost of performing work and the cost of coordinating it.</li><li>Identify the most important ways AI can create value, from workforce amplification and operational efficiency to new products, services, and business models.</li><li>Apply the AI-First Competitor Test to imagine how a native challenger might redesign your business.</li><li>Learn how to build a resilient portfolio of intelligence and turn proprietary data, models, and learning loops into competitive moats.</li><li>Leave with a clear leadership agenda for making purpose and decision boundaries executable, preparing for an agent-driven economy, and moving from experimentation to meaningful transformation.</li></ul>

THE AI STRATEGY TRAP: How Leaders Move Beyond Efficiency to Build an AI-First Advantage

Ideal audience:&nbsp;Senior executives, transformation leaders, CIOs, operations and innovation teams, HR leaders, and cross-functional leadership audiences.The ultimate value of AI is not simply that it can automate work—it is that it can help an organization learn from every decision, interaction, and outcome. In this keynote, Steve Brown introduces the self-improving enterprise: a new operating model in which purpose directs the system, governance establishes boundaries, and data, models, people, agents, digital employees, and robots form continuously improving intelligence flywheels. Audiences will discover how to create stronger institutional memory, redesign human roles, create rapid learning loops, and build an organization that becomes more capable every time it operates.By attending this talk, you will:·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Understand how intelligence flywheels enable companies to sense, decide, act, learn, and improve continuously.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Learn how purpose, governance, evaluation, escalation, and accountability shape a safe and effective learning system.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Understand the distinct roles of AI models, agents, digital employees, physical robots, and people.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Explore how human work will evolve as leaders, managers, and frontline employees move from operating every process to overseeing the loops that matter.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hear real-world examples of AI-first operating models and rapid learning loops.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Discover how decision context, judgment, and institutional memory can prevent organizations from repeatedly relearning the same lessons.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gain a practical blueprint for combining AI-ready data, model orchestration, organizational design, workforce development, and business–IT partnership to build an enterprise that becomes smarter and more capable over time.

THE COMPANY THAT LEARNS FASTEST WINS: Building the Self-Improving Enterprise

Ideal audience:&nbsp;Large general conferences, industry associations, corporate events, customer conferences, and mixed-level business audiences.We are entering an era in which intelligence is becoming more capable, affordable, and abundant at extraordinary speed. AI factories are turning energy and silicon into intelligence; agents and robots are moving AI beyond the chat window; breakthroughs in science, manufacturing, healthcare, and automation are starting to reshape the global economy, and machines are beginning to interact through emerging agent-to-agent economies. In this visually compelling and optimistic keynote, Steve Brown takes audiences on a journey through the forces accelerating change, the remarkable possibilities ahead, and the profoundly human choices that will determine the future we create.&nbsp;By attending this talk, you will:<ul><li>Understand why AI capabilities are improving so quickly and why the pace of change is likely to accelerate.</li><li>See how AI infrastructure is evolving from traditional data centers into factories that produce intelligence.</li><li>Discover how agents, digital employees, robots, and agent-to-agent commerce may reshape markets and customer relationships.</li><li>Explore how abundant intelligence could transform business, science, healthcare, manufacturing, education, and everyday life.</li><li>Examine the implications of AI for jobs, apprenticeships, global commerce, reshoring, human longevity, and a possible post-labor economy.</li><li>Discover which human qualities will become more valuable as machine intelligence becomes more abundant.</li><li>Leave with a clearer sense of how individuals, organizations, and leaders can shape this future rather than simply react to it.When AI Goes to Work</li></ul>

AI AND THE ACCELERATION OF EVERYTHING:  How Abundant Intelligence Will Transform Business, Work, and Life

Ideal audience:&nbsp;Business leaders, technology executives, innovation and transformation teams, operations leaders, industry associations, customer conferences, and general business audiences seeking to understand the next phase of enterprise AI.AI is moving beyond answering questions and generating content. A new generation of agents can plan, use tools, operate software, write software, coordinate with other agents, and complete multistep work—while emerging digital employees take on defined roles, responsibilities, memory, and increasingly longer-term ownership of outcomes. In this practical and forward-looking keynote, Steve Brown explains how agentic AI will reshape work, organizations, customer relationships, and competition—and what leaders must do to build an agentic enterprise that is capable, trustworthy, and designed to learn.By attending this talk, you will:·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Understand the difference between models, copilots, agents, digital employees, and physical robots.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; See how AI is progressing from answering questions to completing tasks, managing workflows, and owning outcomes.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Learn how agents combine models with memory, tools, data, permissions, and deterministic software.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Explore how digital employees and agent-to-agent commerce will reshape work, customer relationships, and competition.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Understand how human roles will evolve as people set goals, standards, boundaries, and accountability above the loop.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Leave with a practical framework for identifying valuable agentic opportunities and deploying them safely and effectively.

WHEN AI GOES TO WORK:  How AI Agents and Digital Employees Will Transform Business

Ideal audience:&nbsp;General business audiences, corporate conferences, industry associations, customer events, leadership meetings, and teams seeking an accessible and current overview of AI.AI is advancing so quickly that it can be difficult to separate lasting business shifts from the daily stream of product launches and headlines. In this fast-paced and visually compelling keynote, Steve Brown reveals the ten AI trends every organization needs to understand—from reasoning models, digital employees, and physical AI to synthetic customers, accelerating scientific discovery, and the renewed importance of the CPU. Together, these developments point toward a new kind of organization: one that can sense more, decide faster, act at greater scale, and learn continuously from everything it does.By attending this talk, you will:·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Understand the ten AI trends most likely to reshape business over the next several years.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; See how AI is progressing from generating content to reasoning, acting, collaborating, and learning.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Explore the rise of digital employees, agent-to-agent commerce, multimodal AI, and physical intelligence.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Learn how CPUs, deterministic tools, and heterogeneous computing are becoming critical to agentic systems.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Discover how synthetic customers, simulated markets, and AI scientists are changing innovation and discovery.·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Understand how these developments combine to create the self-improving enterprise.

BEYOND CHATGPT: WHAT’S NEXT IN AI?  Ten AI Shifts Every Business Leader Must Understand

Thank you so much for the insight and expertise you brought to ELEVATE last week.  Your session set a great tone for the day, and the feedback from leaders has been overwhelmingly positive. Many left feeling inspired and optimistic about how we can leverage AI at Aritzia.

~ Jennifer Wong, CEO, ARITZIA

Steve was the STAR of our line-up! Everyone was blown away by his presentation. Anyone looking for a speaker who can make the complex world of AI relatable, actionable, and inspiring, should book him right now.

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