Category: Top AI Speakers

AI SPEAKER SALMAN KHAN ON AI’S IMPACT ON EDUCATION

There are dangers to relying solely on AI’s like ChatGPT to help with education. Generative AI is not always accurate, which is a problem in itself. More importantly though, relying on AI to deliver answers cuts out a lot of the language skills, reasoning skills, and comprehension that comes from reading something, making sense of it, and putting it in your own words. If used correctly though, artificial intelligence could be a vital part of the education process. Salman Khan is the founder of the largest online education platform in the world, The Khan Academy.  Rather than teaching for test scores—the common method in North America—he focuses on learning for mastery. That is, each student gets a personalized education plan (along with an AI tutor) that works with them at their own pace to reach a 100% understanding.

The Current Education Model is Flawed

In current North American math models, students learn different parts of the curriculum, are tested on it, then move onto the next section.  The problem here is that if a student gets a 70% on fractions, but the next step is algebra, they haven’t mastered the prerequisites needed to fully grasp the next concept.  They are perpetually at a disadvantage playing catch-up and it becomes a never-ending cycle.

How many times have you heard of someone who was “bad at math” become good at math later in life?  It happens a lot, and it usually happens with one simple eureka moment and all of a sudden everything makes sense.  They were missing something that hindered their progress, but with that piece in place, everything makes sense.

How AI Can Help

Teachers rarely have the resources to help every student at all times.  But with the power of generative AI, Salman Khan shows us that we can revolutionize education by building personalized tutors that help students learn on their own time, ask relevant questions, and get prompted in ways that help the student grasp the underlying concepts.

This isn’t just a thought experiment.  This is something that Sal has actually created.  His Khanmigo AI platform is a self-contained AI that was trained by leading developmental psychologists, educators, astronauts, and more, to serve two main goals.  First, it acts as a personalized tutor that works with students—asking leading questions, giving age-appropriate guidance, and giving constructive feedback—to teach for mastery of concepts.  Secondly, it acts as a teaching assistant for teachers, helping them tailor their lesson plans based on student progress, and giving them actionable feedback to help their students achieve success in the classroom.

If used correctly, generative AI can help every student gain an edge and become exceptional.  Sal Khan has created the blueprint, but there are so many places this can go.  Sal gives you the starting point to move forward.

WHO IS SALMAN KHAN?

Salman Khan is the Founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to providing free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. What started as a humble tutoring project for his cousins has grown into a global platform with over 62 million users across 190 countries. Through interactive exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard, Khan Academy has helped bridge educational gaps worldwide.

Sal is now harnessing AI to revolutionize learning with Khanmigo, an AI-powered tutor designed to personalize education for every student. Recognized for his impact, Sal has been featured on 60 Minutes, the cover of Forbes, and TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He holds multiple degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard. In his book The One World Schoolhouse, he envisions a future where technology liberates teachers and empowers students—reshaping education for generations to come.

BOOK SALMAN KHAN TO BE YOUR NEXT AI SPEAKER

Salman Khan is on the frontlines of revolutionizing education through the power of generative AI. He’s a leading voice in the science of education, and a champion of ensuring students reach their fullest potential.  He’s the perfect person to speak to your audience about the intersection of AI technology and education.

If you want to learn how to effectively use AI to learn and grow, look no further than Salman Khan. Book him for your next event to give your audience the tools they need to navigate this new technology and use it to your benefit.

What does Alexandra speak about?

The rise of AI and the rise of hybrid work aren’t two separate forces, Alexandra says. They’re deeply connected changes that are rapidly bringing us towards a new workplace and a new set of organizational challenges and opportunities. She says the new hybrid work isn’t just office plus home. It’s humans plus AI.

“The shift to hybrid work forced us to really think about the relationship between collaboration and culture,” she says. “What does it really mean to be part of a team? AI intersects with that because it makes it possible to collaborate by yourself.”

In grounded, immediately actionable talks, Alexandra draws on her 25 years of work on digital transformation and productivity to show you how to use AI to boost collaboration within hybrid teams, tackle digital overload, and drive innovation. She offers inspiring, creative case studies that will inspire your teams’ AI use, and leaves you with a roadmap for helping your team work smarter with AI.

“The power of AI doesn’t come from the fact that it can give you a complete sentence in a second,” she says. “It comes from working for an hour—but accomplishing in an hour with an AI what you couldn’t do with a roomful of people in a day.”

Who is Alexandra?

This top AI workplace speaker is the co-author (alongside MIT Sloan’s Robert C. Pozen) of Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work… Wherever You Are. A practical and thoughtful roadmap to the new world of work, it’s been called “a must-read for today’s professionals” (Jenny Rooney, Chief Experience Officer of Adweek). She’s also the author of JSTOR Daily’s “Unfolding AI” column and Harvard Business Review’s Work Smarter with Social Media series, in which she uses her own practical experience to help people navigate the digital workplace.

She’s also a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review, CBC, and more, and her articles on management, hybrid work, and tech culture have earned extensive media coverage. As the data journalist for the annual Forbes list of the World’s Most Influential CMOs, she has a deep understanding of how top brands and executives navigate digital transformation and the realignment of employee and customer experience in a hybrid world. She works regularly with companies like Twitter, Sprinklr and Microsoft on reports and workshops that address the biggest challenges in digital business.

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What does Justin speak about?

How can you use AI in your workday to make your business more productive and innovative? Justin has the answers. He says that it’s not enough to build your AI strategy around your existing systems. The companies that succeed will be the ones that put AI and machine learning at the heart of what they do and then build their services and customer experience around that.

In practical, grounded talks, Justin offers a six-step process to augmenting your business with AI, drawn from his own experience as former Head of Product at Verizon and current CEO of Wavelo, where he uses ChatGPT every day to understand the workings of his business. He shows you how to leverage the data you already have, find the diverse talent you need, and create an environment of open innovation. You’ll learn how to develop systems that you can trust, and use those systems to adapt and innovate better and faster than ever before. Audiences walk away inspired by the opportunities ahead and equipped with the tools to win in an AI First world.

“The future of businesses is product designed for exponential learning and deeply tied to human behavior,” Justin says. “If you look at a lot of what’s built today, it’s fairly unintelligent, and intelligence is an afterthought to the product: we bolt in APIs or try to overlay a personalization engine to get it done. The next wave of products is the inverse of that. Instead, we start with ‘This thing needs to learn.’ And then we decide where it needs to go and what properties it needs to have, and that’s going to fundamentally drive it forward.”

Who is Justin?

This AI strategy speaker has spent years building businesses around the immense capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. As Verizon’s Head of Product, he spearheaded their multi-billion dollar digital transformation program centered on machine learning. He’s currently the CEO of Wavelo, a division of Tucows that’s revolutionizing the software that powers telecom businesses, where he’s building the modern telecom platform aimed at adapting faster and innovating better for an AI First world.

Prior to Tucows, Justin founded Focus Health, Grey Seven Labs, and Qstir, and held leadership positions at a number of hyper-growth startups.

How do I learn more about Justin?

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What does Jeremy speak about?

Jeremy has spent his career helping the world’s biggest brands—from Google to Disney—innovate in times of uncertainty. Now that AI has brought us to a moment of incredible disruption, there’s no one better to guide us through the pitfalls and possibilities of the fast-paced AI future. As the CEO of Trend Hunter, he has firsthand experience spearheading an AI strategy for his business and leading his team through this change.

In energetic talks, Jeremy draws on his unique experience to show you how to help your company take advantage of this inflection point and accelerate your AI strategy. He explains the seven ways that you can get buy-in and investment from your team and your leadership: comfort, aspiration, ROI, and more. “The more you know about AI, the more that you’ll want,” he says. “The starting point is buy-in. People start off not getting it, but then they start to get it—and then they want AI, want more AI, and then want more from AI.”

A visionary yet grounded speaker, he also reveals the seven limitations that are holding you back from radical innovation—and the seven next steps you can use to tap into your biggest AI opportunities (from demystifying AI to planning out your “dream list”). He shows you the practical tools his team has been using to become more creative and productive, and helps you develop a personal action plan for your brand and organization. With his trademark enthusiasm, Jeremy helps audiences not only understand what they need to do today to get ahead, but also get excited about all the opportunities that are available in the future of AI.

Who is Jeremy?

This AI futurist speaker is the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books (including Better and Faster and Create the Future), and is routinely featured in the media, from The Economist to WIRED to The New York Times. He’s been delivering AI workshops, advisory services, and 10,000 trend reports based on Trend Hunter’s AI platform for the better part of the past decade.

Jeremy is the winner of The Cisco Innovation Excellence Award and the BDC’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Before founding Trend Hunter, he was one of Capital One’s youngest Business Directors, where he grew a billion dollar portfolio of market leading products at the age of 28. Previously, he was a Management Consultant for the Monitor Group, advising Fortune 500 clients on top level strategy.

How do I learn more about Jeremy?

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What does Sal speak about?

Teachers and parents around the world worry that the explosion of AI will completely undermine education as we know it. But Sal Khan, founder of the non-profit Khan Academy, says that doesn’t have to be the case. “We’re at the cusp of using AI for the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen,” says Sal. Rather than helping students plagiarize, AI tools can become a personal mentor for every student, capable of lifting the struggling to the proficient, and the proficient to the extraordinary.

In his eye-opening and inspiring talks, Sal envisions an educational revolution where AI not only supplements teaching, but personalizes it. Drawing on his decade of experience as CEO of Khan Academy, he offers a blueprint for an educational system that caters to individual pace and learning style, supporting both students and teacher.

Pushing for innovation in education through open interaction, technological integration, and adaptive learning platforms, Sal is turning the traditional classroom into a community of collaborative, self-paced learning.

Who is Sal?

“A true pioneer in integrating technology and learning” (Bill Gates), Sal is the mind behind Khan Academy, the groundbreaking online platform that offers world class education to anyone, for free. He’s the author of The One World Schoolhouse, praised by both Bill Gates and Al Gore for his reimagining and outline for the future of education, and the forthcoming Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing).

As a top AI education speaker, Sal is the forefront voice on education, technology, and AI. At the heart of his philosophy is a commitment to using AI as a catalyst for educational empowerment, proving that technology, when directed with purpose, can indeed turn any student into an exceptional one.

With over 137 million users, Khan Academy’s reach is a testament to Sal’s innovative approach to accessible education. And he’s not stopping there. He’s also been featured on 60 Minutes, Forbes, and named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People list. Sal has also partnered with world-class institutions such as NASA, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and MIT.

How do I learn more about Sal?

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What does Douglas speak about?

Rather than replacing human creativity, appropriately developed AI can augment human imagination and expression, Douglas argues. Instead of substituting for human relationships, AI can help foster collaboration and compatibility. Instead of doing students’ homework for them, AI can challenge them to do deeper analysis and dig for deeper insights. But “this all depends on our understanding of what makes humans fundamentally different from machines, and our willingness to embrace the novelty that comes from human actors working together toward human aims.”

In smart, hilarious talks delivered with his trademark charisma and energy, he breaks down how AI works, what it threatens if we turn to it for the wrong things, and how we can turn AI to work for humans, rather than the other way around. He draws on his multiple bestselling books and his decades of experience advocating for human autonomy in a digital age, challenging us to create the future we want: one that is still very much in our control to produce.

“Rather than repressing human agency, AI can unleash the creative potential of our organizations, if we dare,” he says.

Who is Douglas?

A “passionate visionary on the side of the angels” (Kurt Anderson, Evil Geniuses), Douglas has spent his prolific career revealing how media and technology are impacting culture, business, and the economy. He’s the bestselling author of 20 books, including Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and his most recent, Survival of the Richest. This top AI technology speaker has been a foremost voice on tech, media, and social justice for years—he even coined concepts like “viral media” and “social currency.”

His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and he was honored with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Douglas has made many media appearances, including his Frontline documentaries Generation Like, about teens and social media, The Persuaders, about the arms race between marketers and the public, and The Merchants of Cool, about who really drives youth culture. He serves as a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics.

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What does Nita speak about?

The integration of AI and neuroscience offers us unprecedented opportunity, says Nita: “Consumer neurotech devices could finally enable us to treat our brain health and wellness as seriously as we treat the rest of our physical well-being.” But it comes with a host of potential pitfalls. Now that AI can read our thoughts, how do we ensure our brains still belong to us alone?

As the director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Nita is one of the world’s most essential and trusted voices on the rise of these technologies—she even spoke about “cognitive liberty” (the right to freedom of thought) at the New York Times DealBook Summit, alongside leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Volodymyr Zelensky.

“We haven’t yet passed the inflection point where most of our brains can be directly accessed and changed by others. But it is about to happen, giving us a final moment to make a change,” Nita says. “We can and should be hopeful and deliberate about the choices we make now to secure a right to self-determination over our brains and mental experiences. The possibilities, if we do so, are limited only by our imagination.”

Who is Nita?

This AI policy speaker is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke University. She and her writing have been featured in The Guardian, Bloomberg, TIME, WIRED, The New York Times, and many more. Her book, The Battle for Your Brain, has been called “a fascinating and provocative tour of technologies that have the power to transform our lives for the better and even what it means to be human” (Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of CRISPR technology).

Former President Obama appointed Nita to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, where she served for seven years. She currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, as an elected member of the American Law Institute and on the Global Future Council on Frontier Risks for the World Economic Forum, among others.

How do I learn more about Nita?

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