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Unleashing AI: Insights from a Rebel Technologist

Brett StClair

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Unlock the power of AI with Brett StClair, a seasoned leader in building digital solutions for businesses worldwide.

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MIND BLOWN! Brett StClair's AI Keynote was such an informative, educational, thought-provoking and (of course) entertaining presentation in true Brett style. ChatGPT, Midjourney & Co. are fascinating to watch in real time (especially AI generated Indiana StClair) and one cannot help but wonder what it means for our professional lives going forward. What a time to be alive.

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Why you should book Brett StClair for your next event

  • With over 19 years of unparalleled global influence and expertise, Brett StClair stands as a trusted authority in the field of AI and digital innovation. His keynotes have resonated with over 7,500 executives worldwide, leaving an indelible mark on their businesses and sparking transformative change.
  • As a former Google and Barclays Executive, Brett brings a wealth of firsthand experience and insights to his speaking engagements, offering invaluable perspectives on navigating today’s digital landscape.
  • Brett’s role as the host of the “Rebel Technologist” podcast further solidifies his position as a thought leader and industry expert, providing a platform for sharing groundbreaking ideas and innovations.
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Innovator, entrepreneur, AI evangelist, global keynote speaker, guide and above all - Brett is The Rebel Technologist. He rebelled and learned at Google, rebuilt and perfected at Barclays, revolutionised and scaled AI by co-founding Teraflow.ai, and now uses his knowledge, experience and inspiration to revolutionise businesses with AI. As a seasoned professional in building AI and digital solutions, Bretts obsession is to identify the world's Rebel Technologists and help every business on the planet, adopt, engage, celebrate, learn and innovate AI.

Why you should book Brett StClair for your next event

  • With over 19 years of unparalleled global influence and expertise, Brett StClair stands as a trusted authority in the field of AI and digital innovation. His keynotes have resonated with over 7,500 executives worldwide, leaving an indelible mark on their businesses and sparking transformative change.
  • As a former Google and Barclays Executive, Brett brings a wealth of firsthand experience and insights to his speaking engagements, offering invaluable perspectives on navigating today’s digital landscape.
  • Brett’s role as the host of the “Rebel Technologist” podcast further solidifies his position as a thought leader and industry expert, providing a platform for sharing groundbreaking ideas and innovations.

Enter Brett StClair, your go-to keynote speaker for navigating the complexities of AI and digital innovation. As a former Google and Barclays Executive turned motivational speaker, Brett brings a unique blend of expertise and passion to the stage.

Brett StClair, the Co-Founder and Chief Connector of Teraflow.ai, is a former Google and Barclays Executive. He is a seasoned professional in building AI and digital solutions. Brett’s primary passion is to identify the world’s Rebel Technologists and assist every business in embracing AI technology.

As the host of the podcast “Rebel Technologist,” Brett empowers businesses to understand the essentials of AI adoption. Through his interviews with some of the world’s most innovative Rebel Technologists, he uncovers their successes and challenges in integrating Digital and AI technologies.

With 19 years of experience, Brett has been an influential figure on stages worldwide, inspiring business leaders to drive technological change within their organizations. He motivates teams to embark on innovative journeys, aiming for a 10x return on investment. In his recent AI Adoption Keynotes, Brett has captivated and inspired over 7,500 executives in the past six months, encouraging them to navigate the world of AI. Your business could be next to benefit from his insights.

Outside of crafting AI-powered solutions and engaging in speaking and workshops, he is on the side of a Rugby or Hockey Field as Coach to his Son and Daughter with his Cheerleader Wife Martha, live streaming the games to youtube of course!

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Work.AI: Augmented Intelligence

Brett’s engaging keynote, “Work.AI: Augmented Intelligence,” takes you on a journey through the world of AI, exploring its evolution, capabilities, and potential impact on businesses and everyday life. With personal anecdotes and humorous stories, he captivates the audience while demystifying complex concepts.

Attendees will gain:

  • A comprehensive understanding of AI’s historical development, its current capabilities, and its potential impact on various industries and aspects of daily life.
  • Insight into AI’s role as a supportive tool that can enhance human capabilities, enabling better decision-making and improved efficiency in various roles and scenarios.
  • Practical tools and strategies for leveraging AI in business, such as using AI for content generation, process automation, and personalized solutions.
  • A vision for a future empowered by human-AI collaboration, solving global challenges and fostering an optimistic and forward-looking mindset.

Through this thought-provoking and entertaining keynote, attendees will gain valuable insights and emerge with a renewed sense of enthusiasm for embracing AI as a tool for unlocking their full potential and shaping a brighter tomorrow. This Keynote is suitable for anyone interested in understanding and navigating the AI revolution, and is a must-attend for those looking to drive growth and innovation in their organizations.

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AI Ignition Workshop - Fast Track your business to gain a competitive edge with AI

Feeling left behind by the AI revolution? Unsure where to start or how to make AI work for your business? In this one-day intensive workshop, renowned AI expert Brett StClair will leverage his 15-years of experience to ignite your businesses AI journey.

What to expect from this 6 hour intense workshop:

  • Uncover the best place to start your AI Journey: Discover where AI can deliver maximum impact for your business. Leverage Brett’s battle-tested strategies to bypass common challenges and accelerate your progress.
  • Fast-Track AI Adoption: In a collaborative workshop setting, Brett will work with you and your team to set up the ideal environment and tools using his proven formulas and in the workshop transform a business process with AI. This repeatable framework ensures consistent, scalable AI implementation across your entire organization.
  • Unlock 10X Productivity: Go beyond implementation. Learn how to foster team adoption and unlock a 10x productivity boost within months. Brett will provide practical tools and strategies to measure adoption and track progress.
  • AI for Everyone: Demystify AI. Gain a clear understanding of its potential and limitations. Explore how to use AI responsibly and equip your team with the skills needed to drive business growth.

By the end of this workshop, you will:

  • Identify the most impactful AI applications for your specific business process.
  • Develop a clear roadmap for successful AI deployment, saving valuable time and resources.
  • Master the repeatable formula to implement and adopt AI responsibly in days, not years.
  • Leverage the right tools to cost-effectively achieve your AI goals with minimal disruption.
  • Track your progress with powerful dashboards to maximize team adoption and measure success.

Don’t wait! Ignite your AI journey with Brett StClair’s proven framework. Register now and take your business to the next level!

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From Google to Global Banking: Lessons in Leading Digital Change

Embarking on a digital transformation journey is not just about adopting new technologies; it’s about reshaping the very fabric of an organization to thrive in the digital age. “From Google to Global Banking – Lessons in Leading Digital Change” is a keynote that encapsulates this journey through the lens of a seasoned technologist who led a monumental shift within a 40,000-person bank.

This keynote is not merely a recount of successes but a deep dive into the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of integrating DevOps, Agile, Design Thinking, and more into the heart of a traditional banking institution. It’s a narrative that spans 32 countries, showcasing that despite cultural differences, the challenges of technology transformation remain universal.

The keynote is structured around four pivotal sections: the pre-digital journey, the insights from working at Google, the initiation of a bank’s digital journey, and the compelling reasons for businesses to embark on this transformative path. It begins with a reflection on Brett StClair’s experiences before digital transformation became a cornerstone of his career, setting the stage for the lessons learned at Google. These insights are crucial for understanding the digital-first mindset that the speaker brought to Barclays, where Brett applied these lessons to tackle various challenges. The narrative is enriched with his own personal stories, highlighting Brett’s and his team’s learning curve—emphasizing the importance of culture, agility, and customer-centricity in driving change.

Audiences will walk away with invaluable insights:

  • Strategies for Implementing Agile and DevOps: Learn from firsthand experiences on integrating agile methodologies and DevOps practices to enhance efficiency and innovation.
  • The Importance of Culture in Digital Transformation: Discover why fostering the right culture is critical for successful transformation and how it can be a game-changer for your organization.
  • Practical Tips for Digital Transformation: Gain actionable advice on starting or rebooting your digital transformation journey, focusing on customer problems and rethinking ways of working.

This keynote is designed to resonate with CIOs, CTOs, and Chief Digital Officers of large corporations, offering them a blend of personal narrative, practical insights, and a roadmap to digital excellence. It’s not just about the technology; it’s about the people, processes, and perseverance that make digital transformation a reality.

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Fueling the Innovation Engine: The Indispensable Role of Rebel Technologists in Business

In a rapidly advancing technological landscape, businesses must adapt or risk being left behind. Unlocking the potential of Rebel Technologists is the key to gaining a competitive edge.

Join Brett StClair in this electrifying keynote as he unveils the critical role of Rebel Technologists in the AI era and how they can propel innovation and growth at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence, Data, Machine Learning, and Digital Culture. Learn to recognize and cultivate rebel technologists within your organisation and foster a culture that champions disruptive thinking and experimentation.

This captivating keynote will ignite your teams to welcome change and navigate the lightning-fast pace of innovation. Cut through the noise and discover what it takes to spark a revolution in your business. Don’t miss this dynamic keynote experience; book now to secure your spot and elevate your team’s innovative prowess.

Attendees will:

  • Discover the significance of Rebel Technologists in today’s business landscape.
  • Learn to identify and nurture Rebel Technologists within your organization.
  • Empower Rebel Technologists to harness AI, Data, Machine Learning, and Digital Culture for innovation and growth.
  • Develop strategies for cultivating an environment that supports disruptive thinking and experimentation.
  • Master techniques for transforming disruptive ideas into successful business models.

Designed for forward-thinking business leaders and decision-makers, this keynote offers invaluable insights on staying ahead in an ever-changing business environment. Seize the opportunity to learn from Brett StClair, a thought leader and riveting speaker, on leveraging technology for progress and growth in your business.

Experience an interactive, innovative, and enthralling presentation, complete with inspiring stories of success and failure. Join the thousands of executives who have unleashed their businesses’ potential. Book Brett StClair now and embark on a thrilling journey towards innovation and growth.

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Thank you for culminating the gob-smacking and highly educational and entertaining content you shared today. I believe I speak for all who attended that it was a real eye-opener and a challenge to understand Generative AI in our areas of expertise.

Catherine Munjoma

Marketing Manager, Mastercard

Thank you so much to Brett for running the session, it was so great to meet him in real life! He is so full of knowledge and energy and that really came across in his talk. Our "ASOSers" really enjoyed it and it was a VERY popular session!

Alice Sowden

Senior Business Learning Advisor, ASOS Fashion

Brett was awesome, and his potentially dystopian but possibly utopian depending-how-you-see-it approach was well received. The talk was light-hearted and shone a different perspective on AI, its relevance and prevalence in the workplace, home and pretty much everything.

Lazaros Karapanagiotidis

CEO, Vodafone IoT.nxt

It was fabulous to work with Brett as he shared his rich experience with Nomura who are embarking on our digital transformation journey, Brett is an inspiration and the team and I really enjoyed Brett Personal story.

Patrick Eltridge

Group CIO, Nomura

MIND BLOWN! Brett StClair's AI Keynote was such an informative, educational, thought-provoking and (of course) entertaining presentation in true Brett style. ChatGPT, Midjourney & Co. are fascinating to watch in real time (especially AI generated Indiana StClair) and one cannot help but wonder what it means for our professional lives going forward. What a time to be alive.

Benjamin Schroeder

Marketing Director Germany, KFC

Brett StClair’s responsibly radical approach to all things AI is enthralling. Our marketing team hung on every word as he walked us through the latest developments in ChatGPT. He delivered this fundamental keynote with great passion and deep knowledge, arming us with a potent grounding in and understanding of this digital disruptor.

Cathy Lund

Marketing Manager, Woolworths

Brett's AI keynote left us thrilled and slightly spooked! AI is set to flip the world, hopefully for the better, at warp speed. Our business is diving headfirst into the AI rabbit hole, poised to harness its immense potential. Thanks, Brett, for the wild ride!

Jose Soares

Director of IT, Capital Hotels

Very impressive talk today really enjoyed your style how you conveyed the insights of AI and your audience engagement was 10/10.

Charlie Blakemore

CEO, InterCity Technology

MyBroadband has used Brett as a speaker for multiple conferences, and he always provides a brilliant presentation at exactly the right level. His strong tech knowledge and experience in the global digital landscape helps him to bring complex concepts together and deliver it to the audience in an easy-to-understand and entertaining way. We can highly recommend him for any conference – he is a world-class speaker and a pleasure to work with.

Rudolph Muller

CEO, MyBroadband

Brett spoke at our Integrated Marketing Communication Conference. He blew our audience away with his amazing stage presence and in-depth knowledge of the digital and AI world, which makes him an educator as well as an entertainer. Our audience loved Brett and we can't wait to invite him back onto our stage again.

Jaco Van Zyl

CEO, IMC Conferences
03.07.2018

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What are some unique aspects to doing business in Africa?

Doing business in Africa isn’t a one country approach. With so many cultures, languages and tribes across the continent, each market requires a specific approach. But that is what makes doing business in Africa so exciting and dynamic.

We have seen many Developed World technologies change the African landscape. Having been involved in part of the journey such as growing Google’s Mobile, Youtube, Gmail and Cloud business to over 250 million users in Africa, one thing rings true to me; Africa really does have the opportunity to leapfrog the rest of the globe when it comes to technology. And one of the things I love most about the continent is our need and ability to solve our own problems through modern technologies.

We use solar to create micro grids, we used social media to replace SMS and leveraged SMS as a form of payment. With Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things there is so much opportunity to start building our own African tech solutions and the excitement is palpable. We look at roads and ask why not invest in a Drone Highway that’s far cheaper and more effective. We look at Data Centres and we think Cloud all the way. When doing business in Africa we are about working for the greater good so we collaborate to lift our communities out of poverty and into modern society. We see it all the time.

Many of your talks focus on the digital. What are your thoughts on how digital services become more and more integral parts of our lives?

The first challenge is to understand what Digital is. We traditionally see digital as a website or App, maybe even a cross platform advertising campaign. The reality is that Digital is a way of work and a different type of solution that lets you do things fast and at scale. A Digital environment enables businesses to make better data driven decisions, facilitates the launch of products to market seamlessly and at scale and to audiences that previously never imagined this kind of access.

For me, if I were to choose a definition for digital it would be any system of business that does not come to an end. It is continuously changing and evolving to solve customers’ problems. Compare this to traditional ways of managing technology or IT in a business, where we make a series of assumptions, take 18 months to deploy and then leave the technology in place and without upgrades or changes until the next release. This legacy makes it very difficult to respond to a customer’s changing needs.

The Customer is the entity that is driving Digital, with services like Google, Facebook and Airbnb, the bar for a seamless customer experience has been set extremely high. There is now an expectation that all business behave in the same way offering equally as good experiences that add value to your personal and working lives. The speed of change is now exponential. If you as a business are not responding to changes every day and doubling your capabilities, services, growth and impact, you could soon fall behind.

So to win in the game of digital you need to move quickly. If Google and Amazon release over 10 million code changes every single day, you have to ask yourself how quickly you can respond to your customers’ needs.

Why do you think digital transformation is so integral to innovation?

Digital transformation is really about ensuring your business continuously innovates within your industry. Companies that are afraid of any type change and not prepared to evolve digitally or any other way will be eclipsed by the competitor who does. It just so happens that digital technology and culture is at the forefront of this change. The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be to catch up and win in your industry.

Do you have a favourite experience from your speaking career?

My favourite experiences are when I engaged audiences who have started their journey and you can see the adoption through language and action. Especially if it is a client I have worked with in the past. What makes me excited is when I see how the culture has started to shift after people attend my talks and how they start to grapple with and overcome that fear of change. This is the hardest hurdle to overcome

How are your keynote presentations unique?

What makes my keynote presentations unique is that I have been on both sides of the fence.

  • I have worked for businesses that have always disrupted industries. I have been part of the teams and leadership that has scaled to 100 million user bases in regions that most people thought were impossible. I have worked at Barclays Bank Africa where we were the industry being disrupted and needed to keep up.
  • I spent 3 years working to rebuild the technology, organisation and the refocus to solve customer problems.
  • I share my stories of success and more importantly failure, because if you do not learn how to fail you cannot learn how to innovate. My keynotes clearly highlight where the disruption in your industry is coming from, how these organisations think and act and how to begin your journey to move from disrupted to disruptor.
  • I share these stories through anecdotes and real life examples so that have fun too with a few laughs while leaving inspired to make a change.

How much does humor factor into your speaking engagements?

Digital is all about customer experience and ways of work and in truth less so about the technology. My shows are all about people who matter and that our businesses ultimately serve. The show engages deeply with the audience with an intention to blow their minds while having a laugh at the same time, my anecdotes are fun and light hearted. My intention is to inspire change and leave you entertained.

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5 out of 5 stars

MIND BLOWN! Brett StClair's AI Keynote was such an informative, educational, thought-provoking and (of course) entertaining presentation in true Brett style. ChatGPT, Midjourney & Co. are fascinating to watch in real time (especially AI generated Indiana StClair) and one cannot help but wonder what it means for our professional lives going forward. What a time to be alive.

Benjamin Schroeder, Marketing Director Germany, KFC See all references

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