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Top AI Keynote Speakers to Watch in 2026
Every conference agenda this year has an AI slot, and most of them get filled by whoever is cheapest or whoever showed up first in a Google search. That is a mistake. AI is moving fast enough that a stale or generic talk is worse than no talk at all — it either tells your audience things they already know, or worse, tells them things that are already wrong.
These are the AI keynote speakers we trust most right now — not because they have the most followers, but because they have real operating experience behind the slides. Every one is available through Amplify Speakers.
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The Speakers
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1. Jon Krohn
Jon Krohn has spent his career doing the hardest thing in AI communication: making machine learning genuinely understandable to a general business audience without dumbing it down. His “AI Explained” keynote is built specifically for rooms that need real clarity, not a highlight reel of ChatGPT screenshots.
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2. Jay Kiew
Jay Kiew’s “EVOLVE” keynote addresses the part of AI adoption most speakers skip: the organizational change fluency required to actually use the technology once it’s purchased. His track record spans hundreds of transformation programs, which shows in how specifically he can speak to where a rollout usually stalls.
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3. Simon Luthi
Simon Luthi makes the case that as AI absorbs more cognitive work, the leadership skill that matters most isn’t strategic thinking, it’s nervous system regulation under pressure, and he demonstrates it live with real biomarker data. It is a genuinely different angle from the standard AI keynote, built for rooms full of senior executives.
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4. Jared Lander
Jared Lander is a practitioner first, teacher second. He has applied machine learning to real enterprise problems across energy, healthcare, finance, and defense, which gives him a credibility with technical rooms that generalist AI speakers simply don’t have.
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