Trent Gillespie

Trent Gillespie's Speech Descriptions

Designing an AI-Enabled Business

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leveraging generative AI isn’t just a trend—it’s a game changer. With potential productivity boosts of up to 200% and $14 trillion in new value on the horizon, businesses face a crucial decision: adapt or fall behind. Yet, many leaders are stuck navigating a sea of hype without clear, actionable guidance on integrating AI effectively.

Join Trent Gillespie in this engaging keynote, where he cuts through the noise to deliver practical steps for transforming your business into a powerhouse of AI-driven growth and innovation. Drawing on his vast experience—from spearheading global growth at Amazon to leading Stellis AI’s cutting-edge AI advisory work—Trent demystifies generative AI, offering a clear roadmap to build organizations that can harness its power. Attendees will be ready to turn AI potential into real, tangible success.

Recommended Audience:
This keynote is intended for business, technology, human resources, and/or other leaders or contributors who want to better understand how to effectively incorporate AI into their organizations and create an edge over the competition through increasing innovation and growth.

Audience Take-Aways:
1. Recognition of the Opportunity Generative AI Provides
2. Understanding of how to Build Innovative Organizations that can Harness AI
3. Knowledge of the 6-Part AI SPRINT Generative AI Adoption Model
4. Motivation to Lead Generative AI Adoption

Unlock Growth with AI (And Create Prosperity)

AI is often viewed merely as a tool for cost savings, but its true potential lies in its ability to drive profound growth. When combined with innovation, AI can not only foster the creation of new industries, products, and jobs but also uplift entire economies. Further, it has the opportunity to improve lives on a grand scale, creating prosperity.

In this compelling keynote, Trent Gillespie—former Amazon executive and current CEO of Stellis AI—will illuminate how AI can be a force for widespread positive change. Drawing from his experience in driving Amazon’s global growth and empowering businesses to harness AI, Trent will inspire you to see AI as a catalyst for transformative progress. He will share invaluable insights on leveraging AI to support innovation and growth, urging audiences to use this powerful tool to benefit not only their organizations but also their communities and the world at large.

Recommended Audience:
This keynote is intended for general audiences, business, technology, product management, and/or other leaders or contributors who want to better understand the benefits of AI, and how to use them to create lasting change.

Audience Take-Aways:
1. Understanding of key innovation concepts, and how innovation drives growth.
2. Knowledge of how to use AI in innovation.
3. Inspiration to use AI to create innovation providing both profit and social benefit.
4. Motivation to utilize AI for good, and begin using AI in their roles.

Can One Person Change the World with AI?

In an era where AI is not just an innovation but a revolution, former Amazon leader and current Stellis AI CEO, Trent Gillespie, unpacks the monumental question: Can one person change the world with AI?

With a history rich in spearheading Amazon’s global growth and delivery innovation, and safeguarding privacy for Amazon Alexa, Trent combines personal anecdotes, Amazon insights, and professional expertise to ignite a fire within each listener. Simplifying essential concepts, including the basics of using AI and ChatGPT and key innovation methods, audiences will be left with both knowledge and inspiration to begin applying AI to their professional and personal life.

Trent challenges each audience member to harness AI’s transformative power to foster job growth, enhance safety, and drive prosperity. Be prepared to leave not just inspired, but empowered to take immediate action and chart your own course in using AI to make a meaningful difference in your role and the world.

Recommended Audience:
This keynote is intended for general audiences, business, technology, product management, and/or other leaders or contributors who want to understand and harness the opportunity to use AI to create positive change in the world.

Audience Take-Aways:
1. Understanding of what AI is and the opportunity it provides.
2. Knowledge of innovation strategies to create new growth.
3. Inspiration to use AI for innovation, driving both profit and social benefits.
4. Clear, practical steps to start using AI immediately in their roles for positive impact.

Drive Growth and Innovation with AI

Innovation is crucial for any organization's success—how well you adapt, create, and evolve sets you apart in the market. AI is now a game-changer in enhancing innovation, offering unprecedented opportunities to boost creativity and performance. Research from BCG shows that 90% of employees see improved innovation with AI, and performance can soar by 43% even without prior training.

When combined with targeted training on innovation methodologies, AI can revolutionize innovation efforts, delivering high returns with minimal cost and risk. This keynote will inspire and equip audiences to harness AI for transformative innovation. Trent Gillespie will guide them through practical strategies for integrating AI into every stage of their innovation process, from ideation to marketing. They will learn how to apply Amazon’s Working Backwards innovation method and gain actionable insights drawn from Trent’s experience driving global innovation at Amazon and his current role as CEO of Stellis AI. This presentation promises practical guidance and unique insights that will have a lasting impact.

Recommended Audience:
This keynote is intended for business, technology, product management, and/or other leaders or contributors who want to better understand how to use AI to improve innovation, to create an edge over the competition.

Audience Take-Aways
1. Understanding of key innovation concepts every leader should know.
2. Knowledge of how to use AI in innovation, from ideation to marketing.
3. High-level understanding of Amazon’s Working Backwards innovation process.
4. Inspiration to adopt AI and improve innovation in their own companies.

Think Like Amazon: Crafting a Culture of Continuous Innovation

Amazon has set the bar for successful innovation over the last 30 years and has redefined industries and the way we live. Through his role coordinating its global expansion and major innovation programs, Trent was able to see and participate first-hand in how Amazon thought, made strategic decisions, and built organizations to innovate. Since Amazon, Trent has focused on helping companies unlock the same capabilities.

This unique keynote shares the system behind how Amazon built innovation into its DNA. It includes an overview of Amazon's famous Working Backwards innovation process that leaders can use to increase their own innovation. From Amazon’s Leadership Principles to decision-making speed, this talk gives the insights needed for leaders to build their own highly effective, continuously innovative organizations.

With the wide availability of generative AI, this talk also gives specific examples on how to use it to increase innovation—with examples from Amazon—and how any business can adopt Working Backwards through using generative AI.

Recommended Audience
This is intended for business and technology leaders who want to build highly innovative organizations, and take advantage of generative AI to empower those teams to drive growth and differentiation.

Audience Take-Aways
1. Understanding of Amazon’s success through use of systematic innovation.
2. Understanding of Amazon’s Working Backwards innovation process.
3. Understanding of AI’s ability to drive innovation.
4. Motivation to improve innovation and to leverage AI for growth.