AI Keynote Speaker
AI keynotes for business audiences, not developers. What artificial intelligence means for your business model, your people and your next three years.
An AI speaker who came from the boardroom, not the lab
Most people booked to speak about AI arrived at it from engineering or research. Shawn Kanungo arrived from the boardroom. He spent 12 years at Deloitte Consulting as Senior Manager, Strategy & Innovation, sitting with Fortune 500 leadership while they made hard calls under uncertainty. That is the same kind of room his audiences sit in now.
His AI keynotes are built around those calls: what to automate and what to protect, where the org chart quietly breaks, and how to move faster than competitors without frightening your own people. No architecture diagrams. No model comparisons.
Forbes named him the best virtual keynote speaker they had ever seen. He is the first innovation expert with a streaming special on Apple TV and Prime Video, and the author of The Bold Ones, ranked #5 on McKinsey & Company's Top Books on Decision Making.
THE KEYNOTE
Innovation in a World of AI
AI has changed the unit of leverage in business. One person with a well-built AI stack now produces what a team used to, which means the constraint on growth is no longer headcount. It is imagination and nerve.
This keynote works through what that does to hiring plans, budgets and competitive position, and why the careful, committee-led approach to AI adoption tends to produce the most forgettable results. Real examples throughout, most of them from the last twelve months.
Audiences leave able to name the AI problem they are actually solving, which is usually not the one they came in with.
For executive teams going deeper on autonomous AI systems, accountability and workforce design, see the agentic AI keynote
WHO IT'S FOR
Built for leadership rooms
Leadership conferences and annual kickoffs. Associations bringing AI to their membership. Organisations mid-transformation that need their people energised rather than anxious.
Sector experience spans financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, technology, professional services and government. Every keynote is rebuilt after a pre-event briefing call with your team. Customisation is standard, not an add-on.
WATCH
A reel, and a full recent keynote
Cut specifically for AI bookings, published January 2026.
The full Atomicon keynote, Newcastle UK, June 2026. Watch him deliver, not just a highlight cut.
TESTIMONIALS
“He has this unbelievable ability to make complicated topics sound simple.”
PROOF
Recent AI stages
Atomicon
Newcastle UK · 2026
Watch the keynote →Deltek ProjectCon
Denver · 2025
Read the post-event recap →IMSH
2006
Watch the keynote →CLIENTS
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Go deeper before you book
Seven keynotes, delivered in person or as a cinematic virtual production. Each one is customised to your audience and industry.
QUESTIONS
Before you book
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No. The keynote avoids how the technology works and stays on what it changes: decisions, roles, budgets and competitive position. A board member and a first-year analyst take away the same idea and can argue about it afterwards.
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That division is usually the reason a keynote gets booked. The session is built to make the disagreement discussable rather than to talk the sceptics down, which is why it works where an internal presentation saying the same thing does not.
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Examples are refreshed for each event rather than carried forward, and the pre-event briefing call is used to swap in cases from your sector. The keynote reel on this page is from 2026, so you can judge the currency yourself.
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Yes. His virtual keynotes are filmed with a professional crew in theatrical settings rather than delivered over a standard video call. That format is what Forbes was reviewing when they named him the best virtual keynote speaker they had seen.
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