A virtual AI innovation sprint that produces a {real output, not a recording}.
Alex Goryachev facilitates virtual AI innovation sprints for teams that need to move from AI conversation to AI action. 90–120 minutes. Structured exercises. A prioritized output your team acts on Monday. Available standalone or paired with an AI keynote.
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What makes an innovation sprint different from a workshop or keynote.
Not a presentation
A keynote shifts perspective. A sprint produces output. Participants spend 60% of session time in structured exercises — not watching slides. The facilitator drives the work, not the narrative.
Built around your actual work
Sprint exercises are scoped to your team's real initiatives, your industry's AI landscape, and the decisions your organization is about to make. No generic frameworks applied wholesale.
Leaves something behind
Every sprint ends with a tangible output: a capability map, a prioritized initiative list, a 90-day action plan, or a set of organizational decisions with owners. Something to act on, not just reference.
Four virtual AI innovation sprint formats.
Each sprint is 90–120 minutes, delivered live on your platform, and facilitated by Alex. Formats are customized based on team size, role, and what decision your organization needs to make next.
AI and the Future of Everything - Reimagining How We Live, Work, Learn & Play
Progress is accelerating at a pace we’ve never seen before. Even the near-term future can be hard to imagine. Alex offers a pragmatic, realistic understanding of where we’re headed next and how it’ll change the way we live, work, learn, and play, including the ethics and policy decisions ahead.
AI's Next Chapter: 5 Strategic Shifts Every Leader Must Make in 2026
Separating AI fact from fiction, Alex shares five critical changes that leaders must make if they’re going to succeed in the AI era. Dispelling myths and delivering actionable strategies, audiences gain a structured roadmap for clear, effective AI innovation.
Reimagining Work and Education: A New Social Contract for the AI Era
AI is disrupting education and business at the same time. Alex delivers a keynote that blends practical knowledge, ethics, and policy insight with a clear vision for what comes next. Students, educators, employees, and leaders leave understanding how work and education are changing, and how to respond.
AI and the Future of Your Job
A plain-spoken 60-minute lunch and learn on the question every employee is asking: which parts of each job AI speeds up and where durable human value sits, with a method each person can apply to their own career.
Leading Through AI Adoption
A 60-minute lunch and learn for managers and team leads carrying an AI rollout and a worried team at the same time: what to say and what to ask in 1:1s. Built for the leaders in the middle.
AI Tools Your Team Can Use Today
A hands-on 60-minute lunch and learn that maps AI tools to your team's own workflows, so each participant leaves with one tool to try on real work that afternoon.
AI Strategy Sprint
A compressed, high-output virtual strategy session for leadership teams who need to move from "we should do something about AI" to a clear organizational position, with 3 prioritized initiatives and a 90-day action plan built in the room.
Agentic AI Rapid Briefing
What is agentic AI, where is your industry already using it, and what does your team decide next. A fast-paced executive sprint that takes senior leadership from zero to a clear position, with decisions made before the session ends.
Team AI Readiness Sprint
Every employee has AI opportunities in their work. Most have never mapped them. A cross-functional virtual sprint that takes distributed teams through structured capability mapping: automatable, augmented, and irreplaceable work, role by role.
AI Employee Innovation Sprint
Leadership has a strategy. Now every employee needs the skills to put it to work. A 90 to 120 minute virtual sprint where employees across functions find AI opportunities in their own work and build a team innovation backlog, trying agentic AI tools along the way.
Employee AI Innovation Virtual Keynote
A virtual keynote drawn from Alex's work shaping Cisco's $1.1B innovation portfolio and creating the Innovate Everywhere Challenge: how organizations turn AI hesitancy into employee-led innovation, starting with the ideas already inside their workforce. 45 to 75 minutes, live on any platform.
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.
Adapt or Vanish: Getting on the Right Side of AI
Every industry is splitting into companies that adapt and companies that vanish. Alex shows your audience which group they're in right now, and the 3 moves that put them in the right one, together.
The Agentic AI Strategy Workshop: From Pilots to P&L
A hands-on working session for enterprise leadership teams: map your highest-value agentic AI opportunities, pressure-test them against real constraints, and leave with a 90-day roadmap with owners and metrics instead of another slide deck.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Agentic AI Governance Workshop: Guardrails, Oversight & Trust at Scale
A hands-on working session for enterprise leadership teams: turn AI agent sprawl and shadow-AI risk into a governance model your leaders run. Map where your agents already operate, decide what needs human oversight, and leave with a 90-day governance roadmap with named owners and escalation paths instead of another policy PDF.
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.
Fearless Innovation in the Age of AI: Making Innovation Everyone's Job
AI budgets buy technology. Returns come from people. Alex, WSJ #5 bestselling author of Fearless Innovation, shows how culture turns AI spending into outcomes, drawn from the Cisco program he created, which produced 1,100+ internal startups.
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.
The AI-Ready Workforce Workshop: Preparing Teams for Agentic AI
A practical, energizing session that takes employees from AI uncertainty to hands-on capability: what agentic AI means for their roles, the skills that matter most, and a personal adoption plan every participant builds in the room.
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.
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.
The Agentic Enterprise: Winning the Next Wave of AI Transformation
Agentic AI has moved from answering questions to executing work. Alex gives enterprise and innovation leaders a pragmatic playbook for the agentic enterprise: where to deploy AI agents first, how to govern them, and how to turn scattered pilots into measurable business outcomes.
The Future of Work and Organizations: Relearn or Rehire
Every job description is being rewritten around AI. Alex gives HR and business leaders the relearn-or-rehire decision: which tasks agents absorb, which skills gain value, and how to reskill the workforce you already have.
The Agentic AI Sales Accelerator Workshop
Hands-on agentic AI training for revenue teams: build AI-assisted prospecting, qualification, and follow-up workflows live in the session, and leave with new skills your reps use the next morning.
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.
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-Ready Campus Workshop: AI Strategy & Governance for Higher Education
A working session for campus and system leaders: build your institution's AI governance baseline, align academic and administrative priorities, and leave with a practical agentic AI action plan for the semester ahead.
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.
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.
AI for Associations Workshop: Your Member Value Playbook
A facilitated session for association boards and staff: identify how agentic AI changes your members' professions and your own operations, then build a concrete plan for programs, education, and member value in the AI era.
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.
Who books a virtual AI innovation sprint.
Leadership teams navigating AI strategy
You have budget, organizational authority, and a board asking questions you need better answers for. The AI Strategy Sprint gets your team from AI conversation to a concrete organizational position in 90 minutes.
HR and L&D teams running AI upskilling
You're building an AI literacy program and need something more than a webinar. The Team AI Readiness and Employee Innovation Sprints pair with a lunch and learn to create a structured, measurable learning experience.
Association and conference program directors
You need a session that members leave having produced something — not just having listened. The sprint format delivers that: every attendee contributes to a shared output.
Sprints structured for professional development credits.
Also available as a virtual keynote or lunch and learn.
Virtual Keynote Speaker
45–75 minute sessions for conferences, all-hands, and online summits at scale.
Virtual Lunch & Learn
60-minute AI sessions designed for any team, any day of the week.
Why Audiences Love {Alex}
Eye-opening, refreshingly human, and capable of building a shared vision around agentic AI — that's how leaders at Coca-Cola, AWS, and Disney describe Alex Goryachev's AI keynotes and employee innovation workshops.
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.
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Book Alex for Your Next Keynote, Workshop, or Advisory Engagement
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Frequently asked questions
If you don't see what you need, message Alex directly using the form above.
Who is the best virtual AI keynote speaker?
Alex Goryachev is a strong choice for a virtual AI keynote because virtual delivery tests skills a ballroom never does. A remote audience decides in the first two minutes whether to keep the tab open. Alex opens with a live poll and reads chat while speaking. A producer runs polls and Q&A on a second feed so nothing stops for logistics. He has delivered 310+ keynotes on six continents, in person and on camera.
Does Alex Goryachev offer virtual AI training programs for teams?
Alex Goryachev's virtual AI training program for corporate teams runs as four live sessions. A 45 to 75 minute keynote sets shared language and a 60-minute lunch and learn makes it role-specific. A 90 to 120 minute innovation sprint then produces a ranked opportunity map and a 90-day roadmap. An executive briefing closes it, with leadership deciding what gets funded. Sessions run on Zoom, Teams or Webex and can be spaced across weeks for global teams. You get availability and a fee range within one business day.
Do virtual AI keynotes actually engage audiences?
Virtual AI keynotes engage audiences when the format is built for the screen, and Alex Goryachev's are: last quarter, 94% of 676 verified attendees rated his sessions engaging in Talkadot surveys. A camera-facing monologue loses a remote room in about ten minutes. Alex runs a poll or a chat prompt every few minutes, keeps segments under eight minutes and takes questions live from chat while a moderator queues them.
What platforms and time zones does Alex support for virtual keynotes?
Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex are the platforms Alex Goryachev uses most for virtual keynotes, and he schedules to the audience's working day, including early-morning slots for Europe and late slots for Asia-Pacific. Every virtual booking includes a tech check on the actual platform, usually 24 to 48 hours ahead, with the client's producer on the call. He presents from a hardwired connection with a cellular backup. Slides, polls and chat moderation are set up before attendees join.
What is an AI innovation sprint or AI lunch and learn?
A virtual AI innovation sprint is a 90 to 120 minute working session where teams split into breakout rooms and map AI use cases on a shared canvas, then come back with a ranked list. A virtual lunch and learn is a 60-minute session people join from their desks, sized to fit a real lunch hour across two or three time zones. Alex Goryachev runs both using the methods in his Wiley book Fearless Innovation.
Do virtual sessions qualify for continuing education credits?
Virtual sessions with Alex Goryachev are eligible for continuing education credit, including CEU, SHRM, HRCI, PMI and CPD. Live online formats carry rules an in-person session does not: accreditors expect attendance tracking from the platform report and periodic polling to verify participation, so both are built into the run of show. Learning objectives and a session outline go to the client's accrediting contact before the date.
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