The AI keynote speaker your clients book {on the first conversation}.
Alex shaped Cisco's $1.1B innovation portfolio, built and ran its Global Innovation Centers in 14 countries and has delivered 310+ keynotes for organizations including Google, AWS, Disney, Pfizer, IBM, Dell and Amgen. Forbes named him one of the world's top experts on innovation. WSJ bestselling author. Innovator-in-Residence at Tulane University, with lectures at Cornell and Wharton, and he has advised the California State University system. Last quarter 99% of 676 verified attendees found his talks valuable.
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One of the most qualified voices {on AI you can put on a stage}.
Few voices on the AI circuit have shaped a $1.1B innovation portfolio, built and ran innovation centers in 14 countries and written the Wall Street Journal bestseller on innovation. Alex has also advised the California State University system, and every one of those facts can be checked.
He built it first, then spoke about it.
As Managing Director of Innovation Strategy and Head of Global Innovation Centers at Cisco, Alex built and ran innovation centers across 14 countries and shaped the $1.1B innovation portfolio. He designed innovation programs for three Olympic Games. When he talks about building AI-ready organizations, he is describing work he did himself.
Measured by the people in the room.
Talkadot post-event data, last quarter: 676 verified attendees · 99% found it valuable · 97% would see him again · 95% relevant. The scores are collected in the room, right after he walks off stage.
He actually customizes. Every single time.
Every booking starts with a discovery call where Alex learns your industry, your audience's pressure points, and what you're trying to accomplish. The keynote that shows up on your stage isn't pulled from a catalog. It's built around your room.
Politicians, executives, faculty, engineers: every room.
Alex has keynoted for elected officials and government agencies, executive teams, university faculty, HR all-hands, engineering teams and mixed rooms with all of the above, on six continents. The content adjusts to the room.
Bureau-ready from the first call.
Bios, headshots, program descriptions, a speaking reel and verified Talkadot data are ready to send, and Alex answers bureau questions himself.
Credentials your leadership team will recognize before you explain them.
WSJ bestselling author (Fearless Innovation, Wiley). 212 publications. Forbes contributor. Innovator-in-Residence, Tulane University. Advised the California State University system. Expert U.S. delegate to the committee that writes ISO 56002. Contributor to an IEEE AI standard. Each one is documented and checkable.
Signature Programs
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.
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Why Audiences Love {Alex}
Leaders at Coca-Cola, AWS and Disney describe Alex Goryachev's AI keynotes and employee innovation workshops as eye-opening and refreshingly human, and say they build a shared vision around agentic AI.
Innovation for everyone
Alex turns AI into practical concepts that land with executives, HR, sales, engineering and faculty alike. It is the same approach he used building and running Cisco's Global Innovation Centers in 14 countries, anchored at universities and spanning cultures and generations.
Built around your audience
Across 310+ keynotes, workshops and advisory engagements on six continents, no two have been the same. Alex builds every program around your audience's challenges, industry and goals, from agentic AI strategy and the future of work to innovation culture.
Value that lasts
Alex's programs end with deployment: frameworks used inside Cisco, Dell, Pfizer and IBM and documented in his WSJ bestseller Fearless Innovation. Workshops and advisory install them in your team, so they keep running long after the session.
Proven where it counts
Two decades of AI and innovation work where the stakes are real: Alex shaped Cisco's $1.1B innovation portfolio, ran innovation programs for three Olympic Games and has advised Dell's GenAI practice, Amgen and the California State University system. Every engagement is measured through verified attendee feedback.
Your team will thank you
A keynote, a hands-on workshop, a virtual session or multi-month advisory, for enterprises, universities and associations alike. Last quarter, 99% of 676 verified attendees found his talks valuable.
Request Alex's availability for your engagement. From Silicon Valley to Singapore, and everywhere in between.
310+ Keynotes, Workshops & Advisory Engagements
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Frequently asked questions
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How does Alex Goryachev work with speaker bureaus?
Alex Goryachev works with speaker bureaus on a non-exclusive basis and is not signed to any single agency. Bureau-sourced engagements run on the agency's standard terms, agreed at the time of booking, and repeat business from that client stays with the bureau that introduced it. Bureaus get availability and a fee range within one business day, along with bios, headshots and program descriptions ready to submit. Every keynote is built around the client's audience.
What does a bureau need to submit Alex Goryachev?
A bureau submission for Alex Goryachev needs six things: date and hold window, city or platform, audience size and seniority, format, the client's theme and the client's budget. His team returns availability and a fee range within one business day, with a courtesy hold. Bureau-ready assets already exist: long and short bios, high-resolution headshots, program descriptions, a speaking reel and Talkadot data from 676 verified attendees last quarter. Contracted dates include a briefing call with the client before the engagement.
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