Agentic AI Keynote Speaker
AI stopped being a tool your teams use. It plans, decides and acts.
Shawn helps leadership teams get ahead of that before their competitors do.
THE DEFINITION
What is agentic AI?
Agentic AI describes software that pursues a goal rather than answering a question. Give it an outcome and it breaks the work into steps, picks its tools, executes, checks the result and tries again, without a human approving each move.
The practical difference is who holds the task. Generative AI handed the work back to a person faster. Agentic AI keeps the work and hands back a finished result.
For an organisation, that lands on structure and accountability long before it lands on IT: which decisions still route through a human, who answers for an action no employee took, and what a role is actually for once the execution has moved.
THREE KEYNOTES
Not one talk
Leadership in an Agentic AI World
Which decisions still need a human, how accountability works when software acts in your name, and what bold leadership looks like when machines set the pace.
FULL DESRIPTION →Culture in an AI World
Why culture, not tooling, decides whether AI adoption sticks. How to build psychological safety around experimentation instead of quiet abandonment.
FULL DESRIPTION →Upskilling Our People with Agentic AI
Preparing everyone, not just technologists. Which skills matter, which roles are most exposed, and what to do about it this quarter.
FULL DESRIPTION →PROOF HE HAS DELIVERED THIS
Real events, real audiences
Agentic AI is new enough that bookers reasonably ask whether anyone has actually
delivered a keynote on it. Here are two.
The most on-topic clip available.
The Deltek ProjectCon 2025 keynote in Denver. Agentic AI broken down in front of a live conference audience.
FOR HR AUDIENCES
Agentic AI and the HR function
Place this beside the Culture in an AI World block. It is the exact topical match for a CHRO audience.
WHY SHAWAN
He builds in this space, not just speaks about it
Shawn was talking about autonomous agents on stage before most conference programmes had a slot for the phrase.
The Deltek keynote above is from 2025.
He also builds here. Alongside speaking he is a Partner at Moonstone AI, an AI systems company, and General Partner at Queen & Rook,
where he advises organisations on disruptive trends. The examples in the keynote come out of that work rather than off a research feed.
Before that: 12 years at Deloitte Consulting as Senior Manager, Strategy & Innovation, working directly with Fortune 500 leadership
on disruption and innovation planning.
TESTIMONIALS
“Shawn absolutely killed it. I am totally blown away by his presentations.”
CLIENTS
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RELETED READING
The agentic AI library
QUESTIONS
Before you book
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It is relevant, but the framing changes. For an audience early in adoption the session spends more time on what is coming and what to prepare, and less on governance detail. Flag it on the briefing call. It is the single most useful thing to tell us in advance.
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No. It is built for executives, HR leaders and general business audiences. Nothing in it requires knowing how an agent is built, only what happens to an organisation when work executes without a person in the middle.
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The AI keynote is the wider view: what artificial intelligence does to a business model and the people in it. This one narrows to systems that act on their own and the three problems that creates: accountability, org design and workforce readiness. Mixed audiences usually want the AI keynote; executive summits and HR conferences usually want this one.
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Leadership in an Agentic AI World for a board or executive audience. Culture in an AI World for an HR conference or a company-wide adoption programme. Upskilling Our People with Agentic AI when the audience is the workforce itself rather than the people deciding on their behalf.
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