Brian Evergreen Keynote Speaker

Brian Evergreen is a leading expert on innovation and leadership in the era of Artificial Intelligence. He led AI Strategy for Microsoft US before becoming the Global Head of Autonomous AI Co-Innovation for Microsoft Research, where he partnered with FORTUNE 500 executives around the world to reimagine markets and organizations, building strategies for harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

Drawing on this experience together with his experience leading data and AI projects for Accenture, Brian authored “Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence”, which was published by Wiley and shortlisted for the Thinkers50 2023 Breakthrough Idea Award, (Thinkers50 is the “Oscars of Management Thinking” according to the Financial Times). The book was also selected as a “Must-Read” by the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink, and was endorsed by Seth Godin, Kim Scott, Nancy Duarte, Liz Fosslien, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President and Global Head of Product Incubations Gurdeep Pall, and Accenture’s Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Paul Daugherty, who called it: “Important reading for leaders everywhere.”

Brian’s innovation and leadership insights are highly sought after and his work has been featured in Bloomberg, CIO, VentureBeat, CDO Magazine, the Next Big Idea Club, and Thinkers50.

He has written one of CIO’s most popular pieces on AI, called “ChatGPT is not your AI strategy” in which he draws from his background as an internationally competitive Chess player to liken ChatGPT to one piece on the chess board which must be orchestrated with other pieces in order to unlock lasting value.

Brian advises and speaks to organizations around the world (NASA, Koch Industries, Microsoft, Duke Energy, to name a few), guest lectures at Purdue University and the Kellogg School of Management, and is a Senior Fellow in the Economy, Strategy, and Finance Center of The Conference Board, sharing the unconventional and innovative methods and frameworks he developed leading and advising Digital Transformation initiatives at many of the world’s most valuable companies.