Keynotes · Board briefings · Executive working sessions
AI leadership keynote for boards, CEOs, and CHROs who need a decision in the room
Who Rises Now?
Frameworks on succession, decision rights, and accountability your leadership team can use the same week.
Most AI talks focus on tech trends, tools or apocalyptic forecasts. Liat’s session targets the operational bottleneck: leadership.
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Former Microsoft CVP. Public-company board director. Author of The Bias Advantage.
Named Most Influential AI Advisor by Enterprise World, 2025.
GeekWire Agents of Transformation Panel. More sessions below.
Who Rises Now?
How AI Is Changing Work, Organizations, and Who Gets to Lead
A rigorous, decision-oriented keynote on how AI is changing the relative value of leadership capabilities, why many organizations are poorly equipped to recognize the leaders they now need, and what to change in criteria, role design, decision rights, and culture diagnostics.
The three shifts the talk walks through
Value
Which skills become abundant and which become scarce.
Authority
Who gets heard, who is ready to lead, and why the current high-potential list may be pointing at the wrong people.
Accountability
Which decisions can move to AI, which must stay human, and who answers when one goes wrong.
Best for: AI Conferences / Women’s leadership conferences / CHRO & talent programs / Executive women’s networks/ Leadership and CEO summits/ Executive Offsites
30 / 45 / 60 minutes · Keynote, fireside chat, panel, private board or executive briefing, workshop, or virtual · Modular for board, CEO, CHRO, or executive-search audiences.
Two other talks
The Bias Advantage
Why the leaders once overlooked may be built for the AI era. Reading power, detecting weak signals, influencing without title, and judging under uncertainty are becoming harder to replace. How organizations misread those capabilities, and what changes when they are recognized.
Best for: Women’s leadership events, enterprise conferences, ERGs, talent and culture programs.
Who Owns the Outcome?
AI governance when everyone has a role and nobody owns the decision. A practical way to define where AI may detect, decide, and act, where a human stays accountable, and who has the authority to stop the system before an incident exposes the gap.
Best for: Board education, governance conferences, executive offsites, AI transformation and risk events.
Tuned to the room
Boards & Governance
Succession risk, AI decision rights, and the questions directors should be asking management.
CEOs & Executive Teams
Leadership-team composition, decision velocity, and why AI transformations stall below the top.
CHROs & Talent Leaders
Succession criteria, promotion systems, and the high-potential talent you are overlooking.
Executive Search
What clients should hire for now, which traditional signals stopped working, and how to assess judgment.
Fifteen years on main stages
CES · IFA · SXSW · Web Summit · Collision · IoT World
And in board and executive forums
The Conference Board · NACD · International Women’s Forum
What senior executives say about the book behind the keynote
“Liat connects AI disruption to leadership in a way that is immediately relevant for senior executives and Boards of Directors.”
Douglas Braunstein
Vice Chairman, Wells Fargo; former CFO, JPMorgan Chase
“A practical view of how power, perception, and leadership are evolving in the AI era, grounded in real experience.”
Leanne Wood
Former CHRO, Vodafone, Burberry and Diageo; Chair and Non-Executive Director
“This book focuses on what actually drives outcomes: judgment, credibility, and how influence really works.”
Chris Capossela
Former EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft
“As AI reshapes diagnosis and care, leaders who can spot what is missing become essential. This book captures that shift.”
Katherine Stueland
CEO, GeneDx; TIME100 Most Influential in Health, 2026
“She takes past experience and gives us a practical view of how power and leadership are evolving in the AI era. A must read for current and aspiring leaders.”
Jackie Yeaney
Former Chief Marketing Officer, Tableau; Board Member
Full sessions, panels, and interviews
From the events and shows that hosted them. 2014–2026.
Board Interview
Governance blind spots and better board decisions
Directors & Boards · Executive Session · 2026
How boards recognize their own blind spots, use experience without becoming trapped by it, and improve decision quality under uncertainty.
Panel
Practical uses of AI agents
GeekWire · Agents of Transformation · 2026
An expert panel on where AI agents actually earn their keep, what closes the gap between developer tooling and business return, and how teams get past the fear.
Panel
The Nexus of AI and Sustainability
IWF Conference · Seattle · 2025
Sustainability is a global hot topic. Artificial Intelligence holds transformative potential to address accelerating climate change and global resource challenges by driving efficiency, optimizing resource use, and predicting environmental impacts. Yet, AI has created a surge in energy demand. Data centers’ electricity consumption in 2026 is projected to reach 1,000 terawatts, roughly Japan’s total consumption.
More talks and conversations
Keynote Interview
AI, hippos, and leaders in the margins
Be Formidable · 2025
How AI collapses the distance between data and decisions, and who is best equipped to lead the change.
Podcast
A unique take on who should run AI
The Space In Between · 2025
Who should be leading AI inside a company, and the moral calls that come with it.
Main-Stage Keynote
From products to platforms
IFA · Philips · 2017
The shift from isolated products to connected platforms — an early read on a pattern AI has since accelerated.
Keynote
A new healthcare ecosystem via IoT
IoT World Europe · Philips · 2016
Connected devices reshaping care into an ecosystem rather than a series of isolated encounters.
Keynote
Breaking the data silos in health
SXSW · Philips · 2015
Why patient data trapped in separate systems costs outcomes, and what would have to change to free it.
Keynote
It takes a village to raise a smart connected world
Collaboration Summit · AllSeen Alliance · 2014
The case for open-source collaboration as the thing that would decide the Internet of Things.
Who you're booking
Liat Ben-Zur is a technology executive, public-company board director, and CEO of LBZ Advisory, where she advises enterprise CEOs and boards on high-stakes AI strategy and governance. As Senior Vice President at Philips she led global connected health and IoT strategy.
The Enterprise World named her Most Influential AI Advisor, and Inspiring Fifty named her one of the Most Inspirational Women in Tech. She is the author of The Bias Advantage: How Unconventional Leaders Gain Power in an AI-Driven World, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.
The Tech Executive
30+ years leading platform shifts at Microsoft, Philips, and Qualcomm. As CVP at Microsoft, grew consumer revenues from $6B to $14B and spearheaded the commercial rollout of GPT-4 in Bing.
The Board Director
Active independent director for Talkspace (NASDAQ), Compass Group (LSE), and Splashtop. Understands governance, audit, and risk from inside the boardroom.
The Published Author
Author of The Bias Advantage. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, TechRadar, European Business Review, CNN Business, and Directors & Boards.
The Speaker
Keynote, fireside chat, panel, workshop, and private board briefing, in person or virtual. Every engagement includes a preparation call and a deck built for your room.
Keynote and executive packages
Keynotes and executive briefings start at $15,000, moving with format, location, and whether you add a working session. Travel is a flat rate: $2,500–$4,500 domestic, $7,500–$10,000 international, covering air, hotel, and ground. Tell us about your event and we will come back within two business days with a quote shaped around what you need.
Keynote address
Main-stage keynote, 30, 45, or 60 minutes, tuned to your audience. Includes the pre-event briefing call and the full speaker kit.
Keynote and executive working session
The keynote plus a private 60 to 90 minute closed-door session with your board, CEO team, or CHRO committee. Decision-rights mapping or succession criteria redesign.
Executive board briefing
Private and closed-door, or a half-day working session. Focused on board governance, AI accountability, and succession risk.
Keynote and book experience
The keynote paired with bulk copies of The Bias Advantage as a delegate giveaway or pre-read, with an on-site signing.
The Bias Advantage
How Unconventional Leaders Gain Power in an AI-Driven World holds the research, the operating stories, and the diagnostic tools underneath the keynote.
The talk stands on its own. The book extends the frameworks for individual leaders and talent teams, and works well as a delegate giveaway.
Frequently asked questions
What does it cost?
See Investment & Packages above. Put your budget range in the form and we will come back within two business days.
Is this a TED-style talk?
No. It is an executive keynote built for boards, CEO forums, CHRO summits, and succession conferences. The priority is decision usefulness over theatrical impact.
Can the talk be customized for our audience?
Yes, and it always is. The core argument stays stable; the modules and emphasis shift for board, CEO, CHRO, or executive-search audiences. Every engagement includes a preparation call and a deck built for your room.
What is the typical runtime?
30, 45, or 60 minutes for a keynote. Fireside chats run 30–45 minutes. Board briefings run 60–90 minutes, or a half-day for a working session.
What do you need on site?
A lavalier or headset microphone, an HD slide connection, a confidence monitor, a presenter remote, a countdown timer, and 30 minutes of stage access before doors. Virtual programs get their own rehearsal on the final platform. Full requirements are in the speaker kit, linked below.
Can we record and share it?
Recording for your internal archive is included. Livestream, broadcast, public posting, external distribution, transcripts, and AI-training use need written approval first.
Can we buy books for delegates?
The Bias Advantage works as a giveaway or a pre-read, and bulk and signed copies are available. Note it in the form and the quantities, shipping, and signing schedule get agreed before the event.
Does the talk address DEI or identity?
The argument is about capability, not fairness. People who built authority without automatic systems often developed exactly what the business now needs: reading power, detecting weak signals, influencing without title, and judging under uncertainty. Liat also delivers a version built for women’s leadership events and ERGs — The Bias Advantage, above.
Can you add a workshop or board session?
Yes. The common add-ons are a succession criteria redesign, a human–AI decision-rights mapping exercise, or a culture risk diagnostic with the leadership team.
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