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Jacksonville, United States

Jacksonville's economy runs on the strength of JAXPORT, one of the busiest container ports on the East Coast, alongside a substantial financial-services base that includes Fidelity National Financial's world headquarters and a wide bench of insurance and mortgage-technology operations. A growing healthcare and research sector, anchored by Mayo Clinic Florida, adds a third pillar to the city's economy. That combination means Jacksonville leaders are asking pointed questions about agentic AI: how it improves port and freight logistics, how it changes underwriting and mortgage-servicing workflows, and how it supports clinical operations responsibly.

Alex's background speaks directly to that range. Leading a $1.1 billion innovation portfolio at Cisco meant scaling emerging technology across logistics-heavy operations and regulated financial-services environments, and his enterprise leadership at Dell reinforced how large organizations operationalize new technology responsibly across complex, multi-industry operations. For Jacksonville's logistics, financial-services, and healthcare leaders, that combination means a keynote grounded in port operations, back-office finance, and clinical reality alike.

Keynotes, Workshops & Strategic Advisory

Leadership in the Age of AI: The Practical Playbook

Leaders are approving AI budgets, vendors and roadmaps they cannot evaluate themselves, in front of teams that are anxious about all of it. Alex hands your audience the decisions only a leader can make, and the words to bring their people with them.

Educating for the Unknown: Preparing Students for a Future That Doesn't Exist Yet

Students adopted AI faster than any technology in campus history. Alex, who has advised the California State University system, gives presidents, provosts and faculty a pragmatic AI strategy: governance, teaching and student outcomes.

The AI Opportunity for You, Your Industry & Your Organization

Most keynotes are scripted. This one is built from your questions. After a detailed intake, Alex writes the session for your industry and your organization: research, industry benchmarks, expert answers, and an extended live Q&A that runs until the questions do.

AI Skills Sprint

A 90 to 120 minute virtual sprint where each person maps AI use cases for their own job and tests them on real work, then leaves with a team backlog.

Rapid Innovation Workshop

Your team already has ideas. This 90 to 120 minute virtual sprint turns a handful of them into scoped pilots with named owners before the session ends.

AI Workflow Redesign Sprint

You added AI agents to a process designed for people doing every step by hand, so the work still moves at the old speed. This sprint redesigns one real workflow around what the agents now handle.

AI Leadership Sprint

A 90 to 120 minute virtual sprint for managers leading AI adoption on their teams. Each one leaves with the use cases they will sponsor, the questions to ask in 1:1s and a date to report back.

The AI Opportunity for You, Your Industry & Your Organization: A Working Session

Built from your intake. Alex scopes the exercises to your sector's regulatory, competitive and operational reality, then your team spends 90 to 120 minutes online building the opportunity map and a cleared use-case shortlist, with a 90-day plan and named owners.

Agentic AI Virtual Keynote

The plain-English virtual keynote on agentic AI: what AI agents do and where they are already reshaping industries, with clear next steps for your organization. 45 to 75 minutes, live on any platform and built around your audience.

Future of Work Virtual Keynote

A future of work virtual keynote on preparing for agentic AI: how it redraws roles and which human skills gain value, with examples from organizations already acting on it. 45 to 75 minutes, live on any platform.

AI Strategy Virtual Keynote

A 45 to 75 minute virtual keynote that takes an organization from talking about AI to committing to it: what the shift means for your business, where leading organizations are investing and the decisions only your leadership can make.

What Is Agentic AI and Why It Matters to Your Team

A 60-minute lunch and learn for every employee: what agentic AI does and what it changes in their own work, in plain English, with first steps each person can take.

What AI Means for Your Industry

A 60-minute lunch and learn built for one industry: the agentic AI changes already underway in your sector, using your sector's own adoption data to show where the pressure is coming from.

AI Strategy for Non-Technical Leaders

A 60-minute lunch and learn for leaders who fund AI without having built it: what to ask, what to fund and what to watch.

How Alex Delivers Experiences that Bring Action

From pre-event to post-event, every step is designed to bring the most value and impact, setting Alex apart from every other AI keynote speaker or innovation expert.

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Request Availability

Contact Alex to learn his availability, pricing, and vision for your engagement.

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Discuss Engagement

Alex meets with stakeholders to customize an experience that generates results.

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Pre-Event Benchmarks

For greater impact, Alex can build surveys to determine specific needs and sentiment, analyzing data with AI.

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Review Content

Alex prepares a high-level content outline so clients can review, approve, and get excited for the content.

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Deliver Immense Value

Captivating audiences with enticing topics and custom insights, Alex grabs attention during keynotes and workshops.

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Post-Event Follow Up

To prove ROI and identify additional needs, Alex provides clients with a report using post-event data and AI.

Alex Goryachev speaking on AI at Google's Think AI event
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In Their Own Words

He separates fact from fiction and hands you five critical shifts you must make right now. Clear roadmap, zero fluff. One of the best keynotes our team has seen in years.

Operations Executive, Industry Conference · Verified attendee review

AI will reshape every job and institution. The only question Alex posed was whether you lead that change or react to it. That framing stuck with me.

HR Leader, Manufacturing Conference · Verified attendee review

The pace of AI is accelerating so fast that it's challenging the entire value of a traditional degree. Alex made this undeniable, and he did it with clarity.

Dean, Research University · Verified attendee review

For the first time, people across our organization felt like their ideas truly mattered, and within days teams were already taking action and building new solutions together.

Innovation Lead, Global Technology Company · Verified attendee review

He gave a clear, realistic view of near-term AI and technology shifts, and the ethical decisions required to navigate what's next. Exactly what our team needed.

Strategy Director, Fortune 500 Company · Verified attendee review

Think you know what's going to happen with AI? What if I told you you have NO idea? Alex lays out a practical view rooted on the idea that CONTEXT is everything.

Attendee, Enterprise Technology Summit · Verified attendee review

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Frequently asked questions

If you don't see what you need, message Alex directly using the form above.

Will Alex Goryachev travel to an event in my region?

Alex Goryachev travels for in-person engagements worldwide and has delivered 310+ keynotes on six continents. For most engagements he arrives the day before and stays through the morning after a general session, which leaves room for a leadership roundtable or a press slot. Long-haul dates need a travel day on each side. When the calendar or the budget will not carry travel, the same session can run live over video.

What changes when Alex localizes a keynote?

Localization work on an Alex Goryachev keynote happens in the case studies and the data, and in the opening. Before a regional date he interviews organizers and a handful of attendees, then swaps in examples from the industries that employ the room, such as agriculture, logistics, health systems or the public sector. Regional labor and regulatory pressures get named directly. The core method holds steady, so the customization shows up in what the audience recognizes.

Does Alex Goryachev speak virtually as well as on site?

Alex Goryachev speaks virtually as well as on site, and his virtual keynotes run at broadcast quality. Virtual skips the flights and the lost travel day, and it opens the clock: a distributed audience can meet at the hour that suits the largest time zone. Plenty of organizations book an on-site keynote first, then add virtual workshops for the teams that could not travel to it. You get availability and a fee range within one business day.

How far ahead should a regional event book Alex?

Availability requests for Alex Goryachev get an answer within one business day, with a fee range and a hold on the date. Most confirmed bookings land three to nine months ahead. September through November and January kickoff season fill first, so regional organizers competing with conference season should ask early. Shorter windows do work, particularly when he is already traveling in the area that week, and a date inside 60 days is worth asking about.

What do smaller regional events get from Alex Goryachev?

A regional audience gets the same material Alex Goryachev delivers at national conferences, plus more of his time on site. Smaller rooms allow longer question time, and many regional dates add a leadership roundtable or a working session the same day. The content comes from shaping Cisco's $1.1B innovation portfolio and building and running its Global Innovation Centers in 14 countries, so the takeaways are deployment steps a team can act on.