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Thought leadership for what comes next.

Dr. Michael J. Becker is a thought leader, futurist and educator working where AI, knowledge management, marketing, and SSI-principled identity and data meet. For conferences, executive teams, leadership offsites and boards, and through keynotes, workshops, podcasts, panels he speaks on or moderates, and courses for organizations such as the ANA, he invites audiences to look ahead together: what changes as intelligence becomes something we rent, what we still own, and how humans and AI can work well side by side.

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Thousandsof keynotes, panels, executive briefings, conference sessions and courses
300+live workshops on AI, knowledge management and tools for thought, including the weekly Tinderbox community sessions he has hosted since September 2020
300+recorded webinars
450media briefings
2,000people in the largest audiences, including Fortune 500 executives
1 million+views of his Lynda.com mobile marketing course (2014–2018)

Signature talks

Three talks to start with.

01

Own Your Knowledge. Rent the Rest.

Where AI belongs, and who answers for it

We now rent intelligence, storage, networks and compute. What do leaders still own, and how do they decide where AI belongs? A practical way to place any AI decision, keep the agency line, and protect the one asset that lasts: what your people know.

For: Executives and leadership teams, in any industry

  • A way to place any AI decision on three boundaries
  • What to delegate to AI, and what to keep
  • Why your knowledge, not your model, is the strategy
AIKnowledge

02

We Are All Managers Now.

Stop prompting; start managing

When anyone can run ten AI agents at once, everyone becomes a manager: briefing, dispatching, reviewing and signing for the result. The skills that make AI useful are management skills, and they can be taught.

For: Managers and teams, associations, HR and learning audiences

  • The four parts of a good brief to an AI
  • Why your review becomes the bottleneck
  • How accountability works when AI does the work
AIEngagement

03

When Customers Bring Their Own Agents.

Marketing to people represented by software

The person on the other side of the transaction is starting to arrive with an AI agent or twin of their own. What happens to marketing, consent and loyalty when the customer is represented by software, and how do you earn the trust of both?

For: Marketing, customer-experience and trade audiences

  • What changes when the customer has an agent
  • Consent and identity as the new front door
  • Measuring relationships, not reach
EngagementIdentity & DataAI

Also available

More talks, cut for your room.

Is It AI? What AI is and isn’t

General and student audiences; an opener

Personal AI and AI Twins: for you, or as you

Technology, identity and marketing audiences

Being received by an AI is not being known by it

General audiences, education and wellbeing

The Identity & Data Meeting of the Waters

Privacy, identity, legal and marketing audiences

The 5Cs of Knowledge Management™

Knowledge workers, research and academic audiences, tools-for-thought communities

Mobile marketing: foundations, and what AI changes

Marketing audiences and universities

Formats

From a keynote to multi-month programs.

FormatLengthWorks for
Keynote30–60 minutesConferences, kick-offs, leadership meetings
Panel: speaker or moderator30–60 minutesConferences and member events
Fireside chat30–45 minutesLeadership events, client and member gatherings
Podcast or webinar guest20–60 minutesShows and series on AI, identity, data, knowledge and marketing
Workshop90 minutes to 3 hoursTeams that want to apply the ideas to their own work
Half or full dayHalf day or full dayLeadership offsites and executive education
Multi-month programA five-session executive program, or 90 days of coachingExecutives and leadership teams
CourseLive or on demand; 4-, 8- and 15-week university coursesProfessional bodies such as the ANA, universities and corporate academies

In person or virtual. Every talk can lead into the AI Leadership Program or an advisory engagement.

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