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Speaking & perspective

How intelligence
changes us

I explore how people, organizations, and intelligent systems evolve together—and what it takes to align that evolution to lasting value.

Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of what is changing, which assumptions need revisiting, and where they can shape the outcome.

Speaking experience
Heidi Hysell participating in a four-person panel at the City of Tomorrow Symposium
City of Tomorrow Symposium, presented by Ford Motor Company
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco · August 17, 2017
Photo: Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Ford Motor Company

A perspective developed
across generations of technology

Invited to speak at the United Nations, CVPR, NASA, City of Tomorrow Symposium, and SXSW, and co-host of TEDxSiliconAlley.

My perspective connects technical intelligence, human purpose, and organizational change. I examine how advances in AI reshape the choices people and institutions face.

Executive briefings · Leadership conversations · Selected talks & panels

Current speaking topics

Ideas that open the next conversation

When intelligence becomes organizational

AI changes more than individual tasks. It changes how organizations make decisions, distribute responsibility, and coordinate work. Explore what leaders need to rethink as intelligence becomes part of the organization itself.

Purpose beyond the job description

As machines take on more tasks, how do we define the value of human contribution? Explore how people and organizations can anchor purpose in the problems they solve and the outcomes they create.

Aligning our futures

People, organizations, and autonomous systems do not always share the same goals. Examine how they can coordinate, maintain accountability, and adapt together as their capabilities evolve.

Generational wealth

What do we choose to pass forward? Explore how decisions about capital, institutions, and technology can create prosperity across generations—and what that asks of leaders today.

Selected talks & panels

Heidi Hysell speaker graphic for the 2020 Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR
Invited talk · Embodied AI for All

Democratizing Development and Quality Assurance for Embodied AI

Embodied AI Workshop · CVPR 2020

Research in Embodied AI live panel at CVPR, with Heidi Hysell among the participants
Panel

Research in Embodied AI

CVPR · 2020

Heidi Hysell on stage at TEDxSiliconAlley
TEDxSiliconAlley · 2012
Co-host · TEDxSiliconAlley

Rise of the Machines

In 2012, I co-hosted TEDxSiliconAlley under the theme “Rise of the Machines.” For 15 years, I have shared practical perspectives on the future—and its past—around AI, human potential, and the systems we need for a more prosperous future.

Conversations I host

Finding Future Fit

Hosted by Heidi Hysell

On Finding Future Fit, I bring founders, customers, and investors into conversations about what new products make possible, who they can help, and what it takes to put them to work.

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Ways to engage

A perspective for the questions facing your room

Executive briefings

Prepared perspectives on AI, intelligence, and organizational change, focused on the questions facing your leadership team. Examine emerging shifts and their implications for the decisions ahead.

Leadership conversations

Focused discussions that create space to challenge assumptions, examine implications, and clarify direction. Bring your most consequential questions into a conversation grounded in your context.

Selected talks & panels

Contributions on the themes explored here, for audiences interested in how intelligence changes people, organizations, and the future we shape together.

Speaking inquiries

Start a meaningful
conversation

I engage with leadership teams and audiences exploring intelligence, organizational change, and how we shape what comes next. Share who will be in the room, your timing, and the question you want to explore.

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