brian evergreen

Brian Evergreen Keynote Speaker

  • Former AI Strategy Lead for Microsoft US
  • Author of "Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence"
  • Featured in Bloomberg, CIO, VentureBeat, CDO Magazine, the Next Big Idea Club, and Thinkers50.

Brian Evergreen's Biography

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.

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Brian Evergreen's Speaking Topics

  • Breaking Ice: Visionary Leadership in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

  • What comes after Digital Transformation?

  • Rehumanizing Work in the Age of AI

  • The Future of Humans and Machines (and your role in creating it)

  • Why 87% of AI Projects Fail (and what to do about it)

  • How to Tell when Someone is Lying about AI

  • Beyond the Industrial Revolution: A New Era

  • How to think about AI like a FORTUNE 10 Leader

  • The Fundamentals of Autonomous Transformation

  • Breaking out of Maintenance Mode

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Books by Brian Evergreen

Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Comments & Testimonials

Autonomous Transformation comes at a key time in the evolution of AI, and paints a compelling vision for how organizations and work itself will be transformed, along with a balance of theoretical context and practical approaches to guide the journey ahead. Autonomous Transformation is important reading for leaders everywhere interested in understanding our human plus machine future.
Paul Daugherty Chief Technology Officer, Accenture
Brian Evergreen's Autonomous Transformation offers an engaging and thought-provoking treatise for anyone who ponders our future with artificial intelligence. Evergreen argues that AI is a powerful tool but only if employed in ways that uplift and empower one and all. He goes further by providing useful guides for how to adopt AI intentionally such that it is ethical, responsible, and in service of humanity.
Gurdeep Pall Corporate Vice President, Head of Product Incubations, Microsoft
The 2024 scramble is on for people who can speak about AI in a way that engages and educates audiences without relying on hype or buzz words. Brian Evergreen is a knowledgeable and excellent public speaker on all things AI and an audience favorite at events where we have collaborated.
Lisa Wittman Head of Event Content, VentureBeat

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