Main stage, 30 to 60 minutes
The standard keynote, built to your theme and your audience rather than delivered off the shelf.
Speaking topic
Booking an AI keynote speaker for a conference
What a conference producer needs to know: the formats he gives, what he needs from you, how the talk is shaped to your programme, and what the run-up actually looks like.
The room
Conference producers and programme chairs, for a main-stage opening, a closing keynote, or a track headline.
Every booking starts the same way: tell him who is in the room and what you want them doing afterwards. The enquiry form asks for exactly that and nothing else.
- Formats
- Conference keynote, TED style talk, Masterclass, University session
- On this subject
- 2 talks you can watch
- Shaped to you
- Written for your audience and your programme
What it covers
The beats of the talk
Shaped to your audience rather than delivered off the shelf, so treat these as the argument rather than as a running order.
Opening or closing
Two different jobs. An opener sets the frame the rest of the programme argues with; a closer has to land what came before it.
Panels and moderated sessions
He takes questions well and does not need the room to agree with him, which is what makes a panel worth watching.
What he needs from you
The audience, the theme, what came before him in the running order, and what you want the room doing afterwards.
Why him
He has opened conferences including the nasscom Big Data and Analytics Summit and has keynoted the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit.
On this subject
Watch him make this argument
Every one is public, plays here, and carries its year. This is an archive, not a schedule.
Questions
What organisers ask about this one
Send the date whenever you have it, even provisionally. Availability is answered from the enquiry form, and an early conversation costs nothing on either side.
Yes, and he has spoken in North America, Europe and India. Travel is agreed per event; put the location in the enquiry and it is answered directly.
Usually yes, agreed per event. Say so in the enquiry so it is settled before the contract rather than in the green room.
The other things he speaks about
- AI that augmentsMixed audiences
- The second workforceLeadership audiences, HR and people functions, risk and governance teams, and conferences programming an agents track
- Signal, not hypeExecutive offsites, board sessions, leadership summits, and the strategy track of a larger conference
- AI for human problemsHealthcare and public sector audiences, purpose-led conferences, universities, and any programme with a social impact track
- For companiesAll-hands and town halls, leadership offsites, engineering weeks, customer and partner events
- For universitiesStudent conferences, faculty and departmental events, orientation and careers weeks, hackathon opening and closing sessions
Bring Tanmay to your stage.
Send the date and tell him who is in the room. Availability comes back first.