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Zack Kass's speaking fee falls within range: $50,000 to $75,000
Zack Kass is one of the world’s foremost authorities on applied AI, transforming the technology’s immense power into business strategies and applications that expand human potential.
For the last 16 years, Zack has been at the forefront of AI. Most recently, he served as OpenAI’s Head of Go-to-Market responsible for building out the sales, solutions, and partnerships teams. Zack played a key role in early efforts at commercializing AI and large language models, channeling OpenAI’s innovative research into tangible business solutions while also serving as a personal adviser to many executives deploying the technology across their companies.
Today, Zack’s mission is to help businesses, nonprofits, and governments navigate the rapidly evolving AI environment. His thought leadership has been featured in top publications, such as Fortune, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider. Zack continues to advise Fortune 1000 board rooms, including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Samsung. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and Chair of Ruder Finn’s AI Advisory Council.
The Next Renaissance
In the age of Artificial Intelligence, everything is changing, from how we work to how we create. How can you take advantage of this change to improve your life and career? As the former Head of Go To Market for OpenAI, Zack Kass has been at the forefront of AI's global transformation for over 15 years. In this compelling keynote, Zack counters the conventional dystopian narrative of AI, sharing a positive vision that offers the potential for game-changing innovation, opportunity, and human potential. Audiences will come away understanding how technology will reshape their industries, organizations, workforce, and lives for the better.
The Next Great Company
Artificial Intelligence is transforming work as we know it—and the stakes for organizations couldn’t be higher. Individuals and companies that don’t adapt run the risk of being left behind. How can you prepare for what’s coming? As the former Head of Go To Market for OpenAI and leading futurist, Zack Kass has helped hundreds of leaders rethink their AI strategy. In this compelling talk, Zack will deliver a comprehensive roadmap on how to build, develop, motivate, and retain high-performing teams and companies in an AI-driven world. Audiences will come away understanding the importance of soft skills, constant learning, and a culture of adaptability to thrive in the new business landscape.
Societal Thresholds
Throughout history, we embraced innovation when it clearly made life better—think fire, electricity, antibiotics, the internet. But today, this phenomenon has shifted. As AI races forward, the biggest barrier is no longer what technology can do, but what society is willing to accept. In this provocative keynote, Zack Kass explores the growing gap between technological possibility and societal readiness. Drawing from his experience at the forefront of AI’s evolution, Zack unpacks why cultural, ethical, and institutional resistance—not technical limitations—will define the pace of progress. Audiences will come away with a powerful framework for navigating resistance, rethinking innovation, and leading through one of the most pivotal moments in human history.
“Zack helped us plan our entire AI strategy. He just gets it.” — John Murphy, President | The Coca-Cola Company
“Your performance was 1st class. Everyone said it was the best session of the day! It was brilliant.” — Jeff McMillan, Chief Analytics and Data Officer | Morgan Stanley
“We recommend all of our clients talk to Zack about their corporate AI strategy. He’s seen it all and can connect dots faster than anyone.” — Arjun Prakash, Co-founder & CEO | Distyl AI
“The audience loved Zack’s speech. Zack was a great keynote speaker and set the bar very high for future events.” — Deloitte
“Few people understand how to apply AI to real world problems as well as Zack. He has a remarkable knack for helping people learn what he knows.” — Lukas Biewald, CEO & Co-Founder | Weights & Biases
“Zack is easily the most business savvy AI expert I know.” — Josh Tobin, CEO | Gantry
“His presentation was excellent, and he made AI relevant to our life sciences audience.” — CMI Media Group
“Zack was great. He was engaged, thoughtful, and provided a top notch presentation.” — University of Virginia
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The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential
From one of the world’s leading AI futurists comes a fascinating exploration of the greatest leap in the history of technology.
Human beings evolve biologically in a slow, linear fashion. But societally, we experience “great leaps”— critical inventions or geopolitical shifts that propel us forward by orders of magnitude. The discovery of fire, the wheel, the printing press, the steam engine, electricity—these moments reshaped the course of history.
In The Next Renaissance, entrepreneur and futurist Zack Kass argues that AI stands to be the greatest leap yet. With his trademark insight and optimism, Kass explains that we’re on the verge of the most significant technological event in human history—one that will usher in the next renaissance.
Thanks to the coming emergence of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, this chapter in our species’ story will be marked, above all, by a massive surge in human potential and productivity, which will unlock profound advances in science, technology, health, education, robotics and the political economy.
The question now isn’t, “Are we building a better future?” It’s, “Are we building an exceptionally better future?”
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