AI IS CHANGING WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO.
THE BIGGER QUESTION IS WHAT WE DO WITH IT.
Kevin Surace has spent decades building the technologies now reshaping how we work and live.
Today, he helps audiences understand what AI can do and how people can stay relevant,
creative, adaptable, and effective as everything changes around them.
AI IS NO LONGER JUST A TECHNOLOGY STORY. IT IS BECOMING A HUMAN STORY.
- What can AI do?
- How fast will it improve?
- What will it disrupt next?
- How do we stay relevant?
- How do we keep people engaged?
- How do we stay creative when AI can create too?
- How do we lead when the work keeps changing?
Those are human questions.
And as powerful technology becomes available to everyone, the advantage will increasingly come from what people do with it.
How they think. How they learn. How they create. How they adapt. How they lead.
BIG IDEAS ARE ONLY USEFUL IF PEOPLE CAN DO SOMETHING WITH THEM
Kevin takes complex ideas and makes them clear, relevant, and useful.
His keynotes combine deep experience in AI and innovation with stories, humor, and practical ideas audiences can take back to work.
KEVIN HAS SPENT HIS CAREER WHERE NEW IDEAS BECOME REAL.
Kevin helped pioneer the AI-powered virtual assistant decades before Siri and Alexa made talking to computers normal.
Since then, he has built companies, invented technologies across multiple industries, and spent decades inside the kind of disruption organizations are navigating today.
That experience gives Kevin something few speakers can bring to the stage:
He understands the technology, and he understands what it takes for people to move with it.
ONE FLAGSHIP KEYNOTE.
PLUS TALKS BUILT AROUND WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE NEEDS NEXT.
How do people remain effective when the world changes faster than they do?
How the Best Teams Put AI on Draining Work, Freeing People for Judgment, Taste, Experience, Creativity, and Connection
AI is already changing the work. Kevin shows audiences how to identify the repetitive, draining work AI should take on, use the tools practically, and reclaim more time for the things humans do best: judgment, creativity, experience, and connection.
What can AI do now? What is coming next? And where are the real opportunities?
Kevin gives audiences a practical view of generative AI, agents, automation, and the future of work.
Kevin shows audiences how curiosity, experimentation, and challenging old assumptions can turn uncertainty into new possibilities.
SMART ENOUGH TO CHALLENGE THE ROOM. ENGAGING ENOUGH. TO KEEP IT WITH HIM.
CLARION PARTNERS
THE JOY–SUCCESS CYCLE
We tend to treat joy as something we earn after success.
Kevin believes we have the order backwards.
Joy is not the reward for success. It is the foundation from which success grows.
The Joy–Success Cycle turns that idea into a practical system built around purpose, curiosity, everyday habits, and the small moments of joy that fuel creativity, resilience, motivation, and performance.
HELP YOUR AUDIENCE SEE WHAT’S NEXT. AND FEEL READY FOR IT.
Bring Kevin Surace to your next conference, leadership meeting, or corporate event for a keynote that helps people understand what is changing, see what becomes possible, and thrive through what comes next.