An Introduction to AI: What it is, how to use it, and where it’s going next

Suggested audience: General, corporate, and industry gatherings

AI’s capabilities continue to amaze, and the field is advancing at a breakneck pace. Companies are scrambling to build an informed AI strategy and individuals are figuring out how to remain relevant in the workplace of the future.

In this fast-paced, inspiring, and informative keynote talk, AI futurist Steve Brown uses beautiful imagery, videos, and great stories to explain AI in accessible terms, demonstrate its latest capabilities, and explain how companies and individuals can prepare to surf the coming AI wave.

If you attend this talk, you will:

• Grasp AI fundamentals, key varieties, and their problem-solving potential.

• Discover how companies use AI to elevate customer experience, streamline operations, and boost employee skills.

• Understand the vital impact of AI on business and what you should do right now.

• Explore the future trajectory of AI and its significance for us all.

• Get practical advice to harness AI for competitive advantage and personal growth.

The Road to Artificial General Intelligence: How we get there and what happens when we do

Frontier AI research labs are racing to build human-level intelligence known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). But what is AGI, how can we create it, when might it happen, and how will it impact our lives?

Steve Brown, a former executive at DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, will answer these questions and explain critical concepts in accessible terms. With AGI perhaps only a few years away, this is a peek in the future you won’t want to miss.

By attending this talk, you will:

• Understand narrow vs. general vs. superintelligence and AI research labs’ future visions to progress towards AGI.

• Identify AI’s current limitations and the research breakthroughs needed to reach AGI.

• Investigate potential pathways to AGI.

• Comprehend AGI’s transformative impact on industry, health, science, and society.

AI for Leaders: Strategies to thrive in the AI era

AI capabilities are advancing exponentially. Business leaders must navigate a fast-changing landscape and determine when, where, and how to invest in AI to boost productivity, competitiveness, and the bottom line.

In this information-packed talk, Steve Brown explains critical AI concepts, best practices, and how to implement AI to maximize business impact while controlling risk.

By attending this talk, you will:

• Recognize the critical significance and immediate need for AI integration.

• Learn the basics of AI, its main forms, and its capacity to address business problems.

• Examine practical, real-world examples of AI-driven business innovation.

• Understand how AI process orchestration can streamline operations, elevate customer experiences, and maximize employee performance.

• Gain insight into AI’s trajectory to plan for future developments.

• Discover best-known methods, innovation frameworks, and a 7-step playbook for your AI transformation journey.

Metamorphosis: Profound transformation will come faster than you think

Today’s AI is the dumbest it will ever be. Exponential progress in AI research will yield abundant, human-level intelligence capable of performing most of the tasks we humans do and many that we can’t. It will usher in the most significant societal transformation since the Industrial Revolution and change every aspect of our lives. Find out how.

Boost! Elevate your workforce with AI superpowers

Artificial Intelligence will substantially enhance productivity, surpassing the gains witnessed with the advent of digital computers and the internet.

What if
…. every worker in your organization had AI superpowers?
…. every business process was accelerated with AI?
…. every person was supported by a vast team of machine coworkers?
…. you could boost productivity by 50%, 150%, or 500%, while simultaneously increasing job satisfaction?

To remain relevant in the 21st-century workplace, everyone—from the CEO to frontline employees—must learn to work effectively with AI. In this enlightening talk, futurist Steve Brown explains how to prepare for the AI-powered workplace.

Unlock AI’s Potential: Proven strategies to take your business to the next level with AI

Suggested audience: Businesses, boards, leadership teams, industry gatherings

Savvy business leaders are asking themselves: What should we do with AI? What are our most significant opportunities? How do we mitigate risk? How rapidly should we adopt AI? And what are the emerging best methods to implement AI?

In this practical talk, AI futurist and entrepreneur Steve Brown explores how to adopt AI at a pragmatic pace that limits risk, maximizes impact, and maintains competitiveness.

After Work: Reimagining life, the economy, and society in a post-labor world

As we enter the next era of work, the augmented era, machines will support, extend, and elevate humans' capabilities to boost productivity and make work more enjoyable. Eventually, AI will do nearly all human work. Perhaps a generation from now—maybe sooner, maybe later—we will enter the automated work era; a post-labor era where all work is done by machines.

This talk describes a future where AI performs all economic activity and explores what it means for our future, the significant risks and potential upsides, and how we must prepare for a world without work.

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Revolution Ed: The urgent need to reinvent education in a world of AI

ChatGPT left teachers scrambling to understand what role, if any, AI should play in their classrooms. Now, a range of powerful AI tools are coming to transform education and improve the experience for tutors, administrators, and students alike.

In this fascinating session, AI futurist Steve Brown takes you on a journey through the fast-moving world of AI, reviews how AI might transform education, and explores the skills people will need to thrive in the Intelligence Era, where powerful AI is abundant, and people work alongside intelligent machines. This is a must-see session for any thoughtful academic institution considering their future and how they can best serve their students in the 21st century.

Hollywood’s Next Chapter: AI’s plot twist and the future of storytelling

The media industry will change more in the next ten years than in the last 100, as AI transforms both the way content is created and consumed. In 2021, Gartner Group predicted that by the end of this decade, AI would be used to produce over 80% of a major Hollywood blockbuster. Video generation platforms like Open AI’s Sora now make that once-bold prediction seem very reasonable.

Responding to rising costs, globalization, and shifting consumer demand, content creators will embrace powerful new AI technology in an industry transformation more profound than the moves to talkies, color, digital, and CG combined. Business models will shift, production methods will be reinvented, and new types of media will emerge. Powerful AI tools will streamline production, present exciting new creative possibilities, and provide entirely new storytelling canvases, including immersive simulations, customized movies, digital characters, and fully interactive media you can talk to.

In this exciting and informative keynote, AI futurist Steve Brown explores how AI will reshape the media landscape and leads a discussion on the future we wish to build, and the one we will want to avoid.

Healthcare 2035: A practical roadmap to a healthier healthcare system

Change is challenging in highly regulated sectors like healthcare. But in the coming years, artificial intelligence will be a vital tool to battle clinician fatigue, spiraling costs, growing waitlists, and killer diseases. AI assistants will offload administrative tasks, freeing clinicians to be more present with patients. Diagnostic AI will improve diagnostic accuracy, boosting efficiency and improving outcomes. New AI-powered sensors and clinical tools will detect disease in new ways and help manage chronic conditions in the home. AI-powered medical research will speed the path to new therapeutics and cures and deliver on the promise of personalized medicine. Powerful AI will deeply understand human health and help us to unlock ways to extend quality of life and longevity. And in markets where access to healthcare is limited, the promise of a “doctor in your pocket” will soon become a reality.

This fascinating session explores a realistic vision for the future of healthcare and how rapid advances in artificial intelligence may improve wellness, benefit practitioners, and advance medical knowledge.

Superhuman: Why machines must make us better humans

Powerful artificial intelligence is already starting to change us. Sensing AIs help us to spot patterns that humans cannot see and extend our senses into new realms. Researchers have already built AIs that can see through walls, wirelessly read vital signs, perceive sleep states, and detect disease. Soon, AI assistants will boost our productivity, extend our abilities, and elevate our performance to superhuman levels.

In this thought-provoking session, AI futurist Steve Brown explores how we will use artificial intelligence in combination with other technologies to upgrade our senses, boost our abilities, improve our happiness, and elevate our humanity. He will leave you with the important question: how do we want AI to change us, and how could we use AI to make ourselves better humans?

The Futurecasting process is a tried-and-tested foresight process developed at Intel and used by organizations including Disney, Cisco, Google DeepMind, WPP, Mastercard, the United Nations, DARPA, and the U.S. military.

Book a two-day, intensive AI innovation workshop and put the powerful Futurecasting process to work for your business. Develop fresh use case ideas for AI in your business: Ideate new products and services, elevate customer experiences, or rework business processes to turbo-charge productivity, elevate talent, and give your employees AI superpowers.

Steve personally facilitates every workshop and brings his expert perspective as an AI futurist. He guides workshop participants through every step, pushes their creativity to the max, and helps them develop actionable next steps. This workshop looks to the future but is grounded in the practical here and now.

Whether you're looking to innovate in a specific area of your business or overhaul your entire organizational strategy, Steve's innovation workshop will help you develop a clear strategy for success.

Schedule a free conversation, get a custom quote, and accelerate your AI innovation plans!

Get Expert Consulting from Steve

Steve offers a range of confidential consulting services, either by phone, video, or in-person/onsite:

• Private 1:1 training and consulting

• Facilitated team brainstorms

• Independent feedback on your AI transformation strategy

• Support when assessing AI-related acquistions

• Building a work augmentation strategy

• Futurecasting workshops

Partner with Steve today to move your organization forwards in the age of AI.

Steve Brown’s critically acclaimed book is the ultimate guide to leveraging AI and other technologies to drive innovation into every level of your organization. Packed with real-world examples from various industries and written in jargon-free language, this practical “how-to” guide helps you use the latest advancements in AI, robotics, blockchain, sensors, augmented reality, and more to streamline operations, develop new products and services, and boost your bottom line.

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