The best lunch and learn topics on AI — {delivered live to your team}.
Alex Goryachev runs virtual lunch and learns on artificial intelligence, the future of work, and what your employees need to know right now. 60 minutes. Any platform. CE credits available. No catering required.
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Why a virtual lunch and learn is the right format for AI education right now.
Fits inside a working day
60 minutes during the lunch hour. Employees join from their desk, no travel, no room booking, no all-day commitment. The session fits inside a working week without disrupting it.
Practical, not theoretical
A lunch and learn on AI that stays abstract is a lunch hour wasted. Every session ends with three things participants can do in their role next week. 91% of attendees rate sessions "actionable."
CE credits for attendance
Formats structured to qualify for CEU, SHRM, HRCI, and CPD credits. Your HR or L&D team receives credit documentation within 48 hours of the session.
Lunch and learn topics on AI, the future of work, and innovation.
Every topic below runs as a 60-minute virtual lunch and learn. Topics are adapted to your team's role and industry. Sessions can be delivered as a standalone or as part of a recurring series.
Fearless Innovation in the Age of AI — People, Culture & Outcomes
Change is happening, fast. With it, comes fear and hesitation—but it doesn’t have to be this way. Alex shares the bold, unique innovation opportunities that exist at every organization, yet are being overlooked. Centered on people and culture, not technology, Alex’s perspective on innovation is the missing link to realizing AI’s real benefits.
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.
Leadership in the Age of AI: The Practical Playbook
As leaders are pressured to adopt AI and struggle with the rapidly changing AI terrain, Alex speaks to leaders in their own language. Through real-world leadership perspectives and Forbes-recognized strategies, Alex helps leaders understand how to lead, and thrive, alongside AI.
AI's Next Chapter: 5 Strategic Shifts Every Leader Must Make in 2025
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.
The AI Opportunity for You, Your Industry & Your Organization
Get expert answers to your AI questions, fully customized to you, your industry, or organization. Following a detailed intake and conversation, Alex tailors a keynote specifically for your unique scenario, drawing in research, real-world experience, and expert perspective for a masterclass in AI innovation.
Reimagining Work and Education: A New Social Contract for the AI Era
As education and business are disrupted by AI, Alex offers a keynote that combines practical knowledge, ethics, policy insights, and a brave new vision for a future influenced by AI. Students, educators, employees, and leaders alike gain an understanding into how work and education will be changed forever—and how to respond.
AI and the Future of Your Job
The question every employee is already asking — answered without hype or fear. A direct 60-minute conversation about which roles automation accelerates, which it augments, and where irreplaceable human value sits, with a framework every participant can apply to their own career.
Leading Through AI Adoption
Your team is watching how leadership handles this. A 60-minute session for managers and team leads navigating AI rollouts, workforce uncertainty, and the communication challenges that come with both — built for the leaders in the middle.
AI Tools Your Team Can Use Today
The gap between AI strategy and AI usage is a training problem. This hands-on 60-minute session maps the most relevant AI tools to your team's specific workflows — structured so each participant leaves with at least one tool they can try this 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 three 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 strategic clarity — 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 execute it. A 90-minute virtual sprint where employees across functions identify AI opportunities in their own work, explore agentic AI tools, and build a team innovation backlog.
Employee AI Innovation Virtual Keynote
The keynote version of the playbook that generated $1.1B in employee-driven value at Cisco — how organizations turn AI hesitancy into employee-led innovation, and why the best AI ideas are already inside your workforce. 45–75 minutes, any platform.
Adapt or Vanish
A wake-up-call keynote on why organizations that treat agentic AI as optional won't get a second chance — and the moves to make while there's still time.
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 — not another slide deck.
Agentic AI Virtual Keynote
The definitive plain-English keynote on agentic AI — what AI agents actually do, where they're already reshaping industries, and what your organization does about it. 45–75 minutes, live on any platform, customized to your audience.
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.
Future of Work Virtual Keynote
A future of work keynote that trades prediction for preparation — how agentic AI reshapes roles, the durable human skills that appreciate, and what ready organizations are doing differently. 45–75 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 actually 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 — not another policy PDF.
The Future of Work: Leading Human + Agent Teams
The next workforce isn't human or AI — it's both. Alex shows leaders how work changes when every employee manages AI agents, which skills matter most, and how to build a culture where people and agentic AI make each other better.
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 45–75 minute virtual keynote that moves an organization from AI conversation to AI conviction — what the technology shift actually means for your business, what leading organizations are funding, and the decisions that separate winners from watchers.
Revenue, Reinvented: Selling in the Age of Agentic AI
Buyers now research, compare, and shortlist with AI before they ever talk to a rep — and AI agents are rewriting every step of the revenue engine. Alex shows sales and GTM teams how to win when agents sit on both sides of the deal.
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
The most practical AI lunch and learn for general employee audiences. In 60 minutes, your team gets a plain-English understanding of what agentic AI actually does, what it doesn't, and what it changes about how they work — before it reshapes their roles.
The AI-Ready Campus: Higher Education in the Agentic Era
From admissions to advising to the classroom itself, AI is transforming higher education faster than any technology before it. Alex helps presidents, provosts, faculty, and staff turn AI disruption into institutional advantage — with governance, strategy, and student outcomes at the center.
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
Every industry is being reshaped — not all of them at the same speed or in the same way. An industry-specific 60-minute session mapping the agentic AI changes already underway in your sector, with the data to show where the pressure is coming from and how fast.
AI for Associations: Leading Your Members Into the Agentic Era
Your members are asking what AI means for their profession — and they are looking to you for the answer. Alex gives associations and member organizations a clear, hype-free briefing on AI agents, tailored to your industry, so every member leaves your event with a plan.
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
You don't need to understand the model. You need to understand the decision. A 60-minute session for leaders who are funding AI without having built it: what to ask, what to fund, and what to watch.
Lunch and learns structured for CE credit.
How a virtual lunch and learn with Alex works.
You share the context
Team size, roles, what they're anxious or curious about, what you want them to leave knowing. Alex aligns content to your team, not a generic script.
Alex delivers live
On Zoom, Teams, or your platform. Broadcast-quality audio and video from Alex's side. Structured Q&A in the final 15 minutes. Your team joins from their desk.
CE credits and recording
Credit documentation for qualifying formats is sent within 48 hours. Session recordings available for internal distribution with permission.
Also available as a virtual keynote or AI innovation sprint.
Virtual Keynote
45–75 minute sessions for conferences, all-hands, and online summits.
AI Innovation Sprint
90–120 minute working sessions where teams leave with a prioritized output.
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 — not techspeak — that land with executives, HR, sales, engineering, and faculty alike. It's the same approach he honed building university-anchored innovation centers across 14 countries, bridging cultures and generations.
Built around your audience
Across 310+ keynotes, workshops, and advisory engagements on 6 continents, no two have ever 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
Most programs end at applause. Alex's end with deployment — the same frameworks proven inside Cisco, Dell, Pfizer, and IBM and documented in his WSJ bestseller Fearless Innovation. Workshops and advisory install them in your team, so they're still running long after the event.
Proven where it counts
Two decades leading AI and innovation where the stakes are real — a $1.1B portfolio at Cisco, three Olympic Games, 300,000+ employees, and AI transformation for Fortune 100s, governments, and America's largest public university system. Every engagement is measured, so you see the ROI.
Your team will thank you
A 60-minute keynote, a hands-on workshop, a virtual session, or multi-month advisory — for enterprises, universities, and associations alike. Whatever the format, 98% of audiences say they would recommend him.
Request Alex's availability for your engagement. From Silicon Valley to Singapore, and everywhere in between.
Book Alex for Your Next Keynote, Workshop, or Advisory Engagement
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Frequently asked questions
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Who is the best virtual AI keynote speaker?
The best virtual AI keynote speakers are those who redesign the talk for the screen—and Alex Goryachev is a leading choice, having delivered keynotes to audiences across 6 continents both in person and virtually. A WSJ-bestselling author and LinkedIn Top AI Voice, he builds interaction into every virtual session rather than lecturing at a webcam. Check virtual availability and formats on the Work with Alex page.
Do virtual AI keynotes actually engage audiences?
Yes—when designed for the medium, virtual keynotes can outperform in-person talks on interaction, because every attendee has a front-row seat and a voice in the chat. Alex Goryachev uses live polls, real-time Q&A, and shorter high-energy segments, an approach reflected in his 98% would-recommend score. His sessions are built as conversations, not broadcasts. Preview the virtual format through the Work with Alex page.
What platforms and time zones does Alex support for virtual keynotes?
Alex delivers virtual keynotes on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and most major event platforms, and accommodates global time zones from his West Coast base. Having built innovation centers across 14 countries at Cisco, he is practiced at engaging international audiences—including early-morning or late-evening slots for APAC and EMEA events. Share your platform and time zone needs through the Work with Alex page.
What is an AI innovation sprint or AI lunch and learn?
An AI innovation sprint is a short, facilitated virtual working session where teams identify and prioritize real AI use cases; a lunch and learn is a 45–60 minute interactive briefing that builds AI literacy without pulling people off the job. Alex Goryachev runs both, applying methods from his WSJ bestseller Fearless Innovation in formats sized for busy calendars. Pick a format on the Work with Alex page.
Can Alex's sessions support continuing education credits?
Yes—Alex's keynotes and workshops can be structured to support your organization's continuing education requirements, with learning objectives, session outlines, and documentation provided for your accrediting process. He regularly serves credential-focused audiences through associations like SHRM, IEEE, and ICMA, so CE-friendly formats are familiar territory. His content pairs rigor with a practitioner's $1.1B-portfolio perspective. Ask about CE support via the Work with Alex page.
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