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AI strategy begins with business priorities, not a list of tools. Stellant’s AI business speakers help executives identify valuable use cases, build the necessary data and operating foundations and create a realistic path from pilot to scale. Their expertise spans governance, workforce adoption, organizational alignment and return on investment. AI experts can bring boards and leadership teams an independent view of where artificial intelligence can create advantage and where discipline is needed. The conversation stays focused on practical choices, responsible execution and measurable value.

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Tom Davenport
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Tom Davenport

President's Distinguished Professor, Babson College

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Andrew McAfee
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Andrew McAfee

Principal research scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Erik Brynjolfsson
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Erik Brynjolfsson

Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

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George Westerman
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George Westerman

Senior Lecturer and Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan

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Speakers

AI Strategy Speakers

Tom Davenport

Tom Davenport

President's Distinguished Professor, Babson CollegeAuthor of 27 books, including Competing on AnalyticsCo-founder, International Institute for Analytics

Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee

Principal research scientist, MIT Sloan School of ManagementCo-author, The Second Machine Age, and author, The Geek WaySix-time Thinkers50 honoree

Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson

Director, Stanford Digital Economy LabNYT bestselling co-author, The Second Machine AgeFive-time Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker

George Westerman

George Westerman

Senior Lecturer and Principal Research Scientist, MIT SloanAward-winning author of Leading DigitalCo-chair, MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Awards

Azeem Azhar

Azeem Azhar

Founder, Exponential ViewBestselling author, The Exponential AgeExecutive fellow, Harvard Business School

Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle

Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor, MITNew York Times bestselling author of Reclaiming ConversationFounding director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self

Prineha Narang

Prineha Narang

Professor in Physical Sciences, UCLAFounder and Chief Technology Officer, Aliro2023 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award winner, American Physical Society

Tricia Wang

Tricia Wang

Co-founder and CEO, Advanced AI SocietyAuthor, Thick Data and Quantification Bias frameworksFulbright fellow and National Science Foundation fellow

Renee Richardson Gosline

Renee Richardson Gosline

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of ManagementAuthor, In Praise of Friction (forthcoming)Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2020

Sinan Aral

Sinan Aral

David Austin Professor of Management, MITAuthor of The Hype MachineThinkers50 Digital Thinking Award winner

Raffaella Sadun

Raffaella Sadun

Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolCo-Founder, World Management SurveyThinkers50 Radar, 2023

Dava Newman

Dava Newman

Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, MITFormer NASA deputy administrator and MIT Media Lab directorCo-chair, WEF Global Future Council on Space Technologies

Barbara Wixom

Barbara Wixom

Senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of ManagementAward-winning author, Data is Everybody's BusinessThree decades of data monetization research

Neil Thompson, PhD.

Neil Thompson, PhD.

Director, MIT FutureTech, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryPrincipal Investigator, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

Karim Lakhani

Karim Lakhani

Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolCo-author, Competing in the Age of AICo-founder, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard

Kevin Werbach

Kevin Werbach

Vice Dean of Wharton's MBA Program for Executives and Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor, The Wharton SchoolAuthor, The Blockchain and the New Architecture of TrustRecipient, Aspen Institute 2021 Ideas Worth Teaching Award

Connie Hadley

Connie Hadley

Founder and chief scientist, Institute for Life at WorkFellow, Institute for Leadership & Work, Boston University Questrom School of BusinessThinkers50 Radar honoree and Harvard Business Review cover author

Nathan Furr

Nathan Furr

Professor of Strategy, INSEADCo-Author, The Upside of Uncertainty and Innovation CapitalNo. 2, Forbes Best Business Books of 2022

Stephan Meier

Stephan Meier

James P. Gorman Professor of Business, Columbia Business SchoolAuthor, The Employee AdvantageFormer Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Anna Baird

Anna Baird

Former Chief Customer Officer, Generative AI Go-to-Market, Google CloudFormer Executive Advisor, LinkedInForty Under 40 Award Winner, Business in Vancouver

Olaf Groth

Olaf Groth

Professional Faculty, UC Berkeley Haas School of BusinessFounding CEO, Cambrian Futures and Cambrian LabsLead Co-Author, The Great Remobilization and Solomon's Code

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf

Professor of Management, Warwick Business SchoolDirector, Artificial Intelligence Innovation Network, Warwick Business SchoolFaculty Affiliate, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard

Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus

Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryAuthor, The Mind's MirrorMacArthur fellow and co-founder of Liquid AI

Vasant Dhar

Vasant Dhar

Robert A. Miller Professor of Business, New York University Stern School of BusinessAuthor, Thinking With MachinesHost, Brave New World podcast

Paul Daugherty

Paul Daugherty

Former CEO, Accenture Technology Group, and first CTIOCo-author, Human + Machine and Radically Human2023 Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award winner

Jason Wild

Jason Wild

Former Microsoft Vice President, CEO Co-Innovation and Customer EngagementCo-author, Genius at ScaleInvestor/Entrepreneur in Residence, Emory's Goizueta Business School

Henny Admoni

Henny Admoni

Associate Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon UniversityDirector, Human And Robot Partners (HARP) LabFeatured by WIRED, NPR and Voice of America

Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio

Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio

Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School faculty chairAuthor, Building a Thriving Future and Diversity DividendCo-chair, United Nations ITU AI and Big Data initiatives

Joseph Bradley

Joseph Bradley

Chairman and CEO, JMB XFormer CEO, TONOMUS, a NEOM subsidiaryCo-author, You to the Power of Two

Mark Esposito

Mark Esposito

Professor of Strategy & Technology Policy, Northeastern University, Faculty Associate, Harvard University, Chief Economist, micro1Co-Author, The Great Remobilization and Becoming AI NativeShortlisted, 2023 Thinkers50 Strategy AwardThinkers50 Radar, 2016 (30 most prominent rising thinkers in the world)

David De Cremer

David De Cremer

Chaired research professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsAuthor, The AI-Savvy Leader and Leadership by AlgorithmThinkers50 Radar Class of 2021

Andrew Winston

Andrew Winston

Ranked No. 1 management thinker, 2025 Thinkers50Bestselling author, Net Positive and Green to GoldFormer Boston Consulting Group strategy advisor

Gideon Lichfield

Gideon Lichfield

Former editor-in-chief, WIRED and MIT Technology ReviewCo-founding editor, QuartzModerator at SXSW, Aspen Ideas Festival, World Economic Forum

Marshall Van Alstyne

Marshall Van Alstyne

Questrom Chair of Information Systems, Boston UniversityCo-author of international bestseller Platform RevolutionTwo-time Thinkers50 top 50 management thinker

Peter Schwartz

Peter Schwartz

Chief Futures Officer, SalesforceAuthor of The Art of the Long ViewFounder of scenario consultancy Global Business Network

Bharat Anand

Bharat Anand

Dean, NYU Stern School of BusinessAuthor, The Content TrapFormer Henry R. Byers Professor, Harvard Business School

Art Kleiner

Art Kleiner

Principal and Editor-in-Chief, Kleiner Powell InternationalCo-Author, The AI DilemmaFormer Editor-in-Chief, strategy+business (2005–2020)

Malte Jung

Malte Jung

Associate Professor of Information Science, Cornell UniversityFounder and Leader, InterPlay Research StudioNancy H. '62 and Philip M. '62 Young Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow

Kathy Pham

Kathy Pham

Harvard Kennedy School faculty and Shorenstein senior fellowFormer vice president of artificial intelligence, WorkdayFounding member, U.S. Digital Service at the White House

Tom Malone

Tom Malone

Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of ManagementFounding Director, MIT Center for Collective IntelligenceAuthor, Superminds and The Future of Work

Dinand Tinholt

Dinand Tinholt

Vice President, CapgeminiLeader, Capgemini AI Center of Excellence for the AmericasOriginator, Symbiotic Intelligence Theory

Bharat Chandar

Bharat Chandar

Research director, Stanford Digital Economy LabCo-Author, "Canaries in the Coal Mine?"Former Economist, Uber

Martin Reeves

Martin Reeves

Founder, BCG Henderson InstituteCo-Author, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy and LikeThree-Time TED Speaker

Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck

Professor, Northeastern UniversityFormer U.S. deputy chief technology officer, the White HouseAuthor, Reboot and Solving Public Problems

Books

Books on AI Strategy

Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier cover

Mark Esposito

Becoming AI Native: Charting the Next AI Frontier

Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI cover

Faisal Hoque

Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI

Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work and Life cover

David De Cremer

Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work and Life

Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI cover

Vasant Dhar

Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI

You to the Power of Two: Redefining Human Potential in the Age of Identic AI cover

Joseph Bradley

You to the Power of Two: Redefining Human Potential in the Age of Identic AI

Digitalization in Emerging Economies cover

Mark Esposito

Digitalization in Emerging Economies

The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work cover

David De Cremer

The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work

Human + Machine, Updated and Expanded: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI cover

Paul Daugherty

Human + Machine, Updated and Expanded: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI

Reinvent: Navigating Business Transformation in a Hyperdigital Era cover

Faisal Hoque

Reinvent: Navigating Business Transformation in a Hyperdigital Era

The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review cover

David De Cremer

The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future cover

Mark Esposito, Olaf Groth

The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future

The Emerging Economies Under the Dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets) cover

Mark Esposito

The Emerging Economies Under the Dome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets)

Keynotes

Conversations on AI Strategy

Julie Averill

Keynote, AI Wishing and AI Washing

  1. Julie AverillKeynote, AI Wishing and AI Washing
  2. George WestermanMaking AI Real : The Six Questions Leaders Should Ask
  3. Neil Thompson, PhD.AI's scaling problem—and what it means for our jobs | Neil Thompson | TEDxBoston (Video)
  4. Anna BairdIgnite Innovation - Anna Baird - Keynote Speaker
  5. Julie AverillWhat's Left to Lead: Rewiring the Leader's Role as AI Advances
  6. Mark EspositoInterview with Dr Mark Esposito at the #UASolutionsSummit26
  7. Erik BrynjolfssonWill the Next Jobs Report Reveal the Real Cost of AI on Employment?
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