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Kevin  Surace

Kevin Surace

Internationally Recognized Futurist/Visionary/Inventor on Disruptive Innovation & Generative AI

Kevin Surace

Internationally Recognized Futurist/Visionary/Inventor on Disruptive Innovation & Generative AI

Biography

Kevin is a top-ten motivational speaker on generative AI, disruptive innovation and Joy=Success!. He is a Silicon Valley innovator, serial entrepreneur, CEO, TV personality and edutainer. Kevin has been featured by Businessweek, TimeFortune, Forbes, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, FOX News, and has keynoted hundreds of events, from INC5000 to TED to the US Congress. He was INC Magazines’ Entrepreneur of the Year, a CNBC top Innovator of the Decade, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, Chair of Silicon Valley Forum, Planet Forward Innovator of the Year nominee, featured for 5 years on TechTV’s Silicon Spin, and inducted into RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame. While he has an impressive technical background with 94 worldwide patents, he is one of the most energetic speakers, an entertainer who is funny, excites people, educates & energizes audiences to action.

Known as the father of the Virtual Assistant & Voice User Interface, Mr. Surace led pioneering work on the first cellular data smartphone (AirCommunicator), plastic multichip semiconductor packages, the first AI virtual assistant (Portico) including ONStar for General Motors and the core technologies underlying Siri, Alexa and all assistants, soundproof drywall, high R-value windows, AI-driven building management technology, one of the first Generative AI products in 2017 (for software quality), supply-chain multivariate auctions, next gen cybersecurity (Token) and the window/energy retrofits of the Empire State Building and NY Stock Exchange. He is an accomplished music director, conductor, award winning film and Broadway producer, and percussionist.

Kevin’s most requested talks include ChatGPT, Generative AI and Automation…It’s impact on your life and your business, Bringing Silicon-Valley Disruptive Innovation to Your Organization, JOY=SUCCESS! and Digital Transformation. He customizes each talk to your audience from 45min to 60min, and is available to expertly moderate conversations, interview luminaries and executives and host workshops, conferences and events.

Speaker Videos

TEDx: A Renaissance – the Coming End of Human Work

AI & Robotics, and a Coming Renaissance Highlight Video

The End of Human Work

Every Company Must Automate

TED: The Eco-friendly Drywall

Speech Topics

The Future of Work: Employee Engagement, Happiness & Retention

The title of an upcoming book and a fabulous motivational keynote for your employees, partners and attendees! Especially in the age of AI, learn how having joy as a core value not only determines but also drives success in your tasks, job and home life. And how that success creates more joy! We will dive headfirst into the importance of a sense of purpose as core to joy. AND provide your attendees with their own roadmap to success which they can put to work today!

What is Joy and Why Does It Matter? The Joy-Success Cycle: How Joy Leads to Success and Success Leads to More Joy. The Joy Killers: How to Overcome Fear, Stress, and Burnout. The Joy Boosters: How to Cultivate Positive Emotions, Mindsets, and Habits. The Joy Practices: How to Apply Joy to Your Work, Relationships, and Goals. The Joy Stories: How to Learn from People Who Have Found Joy and Success. The Joy Challenge: How to Create Your Own Joy Plan and Track Your Progress. Your attendees will leave energized and have a renewed spirit and energy at the office starting the very next day!

Audience Takeaways:

  • Joy-Success Cycle: Learn how joy drives success and how success, in turn, creates more joy in life and work.
  • Overcoming Joy Killers: Discover strategies to conquer fear, stress, and burnout, maintaining a joyful mindset.
  • Cultivating Positive Habits: Gain practical tools to build joy through positive emotions, mindsets, and daily practices.
  • Personalized Joy Plan: Create a personalized plan to track and enhance joy in your work and life.

Generative AI

With the advance of Generative AI including ChatGPT and other LLMs, anyone can tap huge AI language and multimodal models. How do these new large language models work? What can they do? How will it impact your business? What can I implement today? What about risks and IP?

This is a high energy hard hitting and talk that will get your audience talking about how they can improve their own productivity starting today. Each keynote is specifically customized to your needs and your industry.

Audience Takeaways:

  • Understanding AI: Learn how generative AI and large language models work and what they can do for your business.
  • Immediate Implementation: Discover actionable strategies to boost productivity using AI tools today.
  • Navigating Risks: Gain insights into managing risks and protecting intellectual property with AI technologies.
  • Industry-Specific Customization: Receive tailored AI solutions relevant to your specific industry and business needs.

AI & Automation...It’s Impact on Your Life & Your Company

Hear about where artificial intelligence is today, where it is going, and how you can participate. See robots and algorithms and real wins in action. Learn about the process, what we can do today, and how it can change your company starting now. Nothing to be scared of...it’s just math.

You will surely laugh aloud, while this makes you ponder. You will leave with brand new knowledge ready to put to work, excited and ready to hop aboard the AI express!

Audience Takeaways:

  • Current and Future AI: Understand where artificial intelligence stands today and its future trajectory.
  • Real AI in Action: Witness robots and algorithms delivering real-world successes.
  • Practical Implementation: Learn actionable steps to integrate AI into your company starting now.
  • Engaging and Informative: Enjoy an entertaining and thought-provoking session that leaves you ready to embrace AI with confidence.

Bringing Silicon-Valley Disruptive Innovation to Your Organization

How does Silicon Valley continue to innovate faster than any other region on the planet? Learn the secrets of how and why people are driven to disrupt. What culture can you bring to your own organization to encourage this process? What are the risks and rewards? And how you can get going on your company’s journey to disrupt with practical skills and to-do’s you can act on now.

You will enjoy this high-energy, interactive and funny talk on disrupting any industry starting today.

Audience Takeaways:

  • Secrets of Silicon Valley: Discover how Silicon Valley continuously leads in innovation and disruption.
  • Cultivating a Disruptive Culture: Learn how to foster a culture in your organization that encourages innovation.
  • Risks and Rewards of Disruption: Understand the potential risks and rewards of driving disruption in your industry.
  • Practical Steps to Disrupt: Gain actionable skills and strategies to start disrupting your industry today.

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