One of today’s leading voices in artificial intelligence, Steve Brown shares winning AI strategies that fuel innovation, boost productivity, and drive growth.
With a 25-year career in AI and high-tech including roles as senior director and in-house futurist at Google DeepMind as well as chief evangelist and futurist at Intel, Steve is a leading expert on generative AI, autonomous agents, and digital transformation. He leads crucial conversations about how AI will shape business, education, and society. He is also co-founder of The Provenance Chain Network, which provides supply chain transparency and security services to the U.S. Space Force, advises two AI startups, and is a BCG Luminary.
Steve works with global brands, Fortune 100 companies, startups, and government agencies. Clients include Nike, JP Morgan, Samsung, Comcast, Audi, PepsiCo, and Disney. He has been featured on the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, ABC, CBS, NBC, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired Magazine. His book, The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s (Wiley) is a how-to guide on innovation and digital transformation.
Using beautiful visuals, stories, humor, and videos, Steve brings technology to life in his keyotes, conveying complex topics so they are accessible to everyone. His mission is to help organizations build a better future with AI – by creating new customer experiences, streamlining operations, and elevating work.
He has delivered hundreds of information-packed, entertaining keynotes across five continents where he inspires his audiences to action with AI. Steve is as comfortable advising a boardroom of C-suite leaders as he is entertaining an audience of 10,000 on a keynote stage.
Steve holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Microelectronic Systems Engineering from Manchester University, was born in the U.K., is an American citizen, and lives with his wife in Portland, OR.