Joeri Billast gives leaders clarity in an AI-driven world, offering powerful insights on trust, visibility, and the future of modern marketing.
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“Joeri brought great energy to Worktugal. His keynote on trust and AI connected deeply with our audience and inspired real action.”
Van Vo
Founder, Worktugal
Joeri Billast is an international keynote speaker, marketing strategist, and author of The Future CMO. He helps CMOs and marketing leaders cut through noise and gain clarity in a fast-changing, AI-driven landscape. Known for practical frameworks and insight-rich storytelling, Joeri brings a rare blend of strategic depth, real growth experience, and global industry perspective. His mission is built on one belief: clarity builds trust, and trust creates visibility.
Joeri Billast is one of the most prominent voices helping CMOs and marketing teams navigate a world shaped by AI, shifting customer expectations, and rapidly evolving technology. As an international keynote speaker, strategist, and author of The Future CMO, he focuses on how leaders can build clarity and trust while strengthening visibility in a landscape where attention is scarce and competition grows sharper every year.
Based between Belgium and Sintra, Portugal, Joeri brings a multicultural and multilingual perspective to every stage he steps onto, speaking fluently in English, French, and Dutch. His message resonates with audiences across Europe, the Middle East, and North America because it bridges strategy, psychology, technology, and practical leadership.
Joeri’s work centers on a simple belief: clarity builds trust, and trust creates visibility. This principle guides his approach to marketing transformation, organizational alignment, and future-ready leadership. At a time when AI is reshaping how teams operate and how customers make decisions, Joeri helps leaders move from confusion to confidence.
His insights draw on years of hands-on experience as a founder who built and sold his own company, followed by a career as a fractional CMO and advisor to AI- and Web3-driven businesses. This gives him a grounded understanding of both early-stage growth challenges and the complexity of corporate decision-making at the executive level.
Joeri is widely recognized as the host of the Web3 CMO Stories podcast, a top-ranked show where he has interviewed more than 270 executives, professors, founders, and innovators. His guests include Philip Kotler, Mark Schaefer, Joe Pulizzi, Amanda Cassatt, Daniel Goddard, Sébastien Borget, Sid Mohasseb, and many others.
These conversations span AI, Web3, marketing innovation, storytelling, psychology, and community building. The breadth of these perspectives gives Joeri a unique ability to connect dots across industries and translate complex shifts into clear strategic direction for leaders.
Event planners value Joeri for his mix of energy, clarity, and immediately applicable frameworks. His keynote sessions speak directly to the realities CMOs and marketing teams face: fast-changing technology, rising expectations around trust, new models of visibility, and the growing pressure to innovate without creating noise.
His frameworks include tools such as the Trust ROI Calculator, the Community Health Score, and the Smart Visibility Framework, which give leaders practical ways to guide their teams forward. These models can be implemented quickly, making his sessions both inspiring and operationally valuable.
Joeri’s book The Future CMO has been endorsed by Philip Kotler, who called it “the best update on the role and work of CMOs,” reinforcing Joeri’s standing in the global marketing community.
Joeri has delivered keynotes at major conferences including Marketing Plus Cairo, DGTLX Lisbon, WOW Summit, Blockchain Futurist Toronto, Worktugal Lisbon, and multiple events across Europe and the Middle East. His sessions are known for their clarity, relevance, and the credible insights he brings from his diverse network of innovators.
He is also the founder of the Sintra Synergies Marketing Retreat, an annual gathering where leaders come together to align strategy, creativity, and innovation. This retreat reflects Joeri’s conviction that the future of marketing relies on deeper alignment between technology, human insight, and authentic communication.
Booking Joeri Billast means giving your audience a future-ready perspective shaped by real-world experience, global insights, and a deep understanding of how trust and clarity shape marketing impact. Whether speaking to CMOs, founders, senior executives, or rising marketing talent, Joeri delivers sessions that strengthen strategic thinking and equip teams with tools they can use immediately.
He helps audiences understand how AI changes the role of the CMO, how trust becomes measurable and actionable, and how visibility can be built with less noise and more intention. His keynotes leave leaders energized and better prepared to navigate the next decade of marketing.
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“Joeri brought great energy to Worktugal. His keynote on trust and AI connected deeply with our audience and inspired real action.”
Van Vo Founder, Worktugal
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“Joeri delivered an impactful keynote at DGTLX25. Energetic, insightful, and a perfect summary of where marketing and AI are heading.”
Flavio Horta CEO, DGT Innovation by Digitalks
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“Joeri’s keynote on The CMO of the Future was insightful, inspiring, and perfectly timed for today’s marketing leaders.”
Akram Saad Co-founder Nexus and Head of Products, Marketing Plus Conference
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“The CMO of the Future must be a regenerative leader. Joeri Billast shows how trust, technology, and storytelling come together to meet the needs of our time.”
Christian Sarkar Co-founder, The Marketing Journal
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“Your book is the best update that I have read on the role and work of CMOs. A must-read for leaders ready to embrace financial accountability.”
Philip Kotler Father of Modern Marketing
Keynote by Joeri Billast:
How AI and trust reshape modern marketing leadership
Marketing is changing faster than ever. Only one in four CMOs feels ready to use AI strategically.
In this keynote, Joeri explains how the role of the CMO is shifting from managing campaigns to building movements of trust and visibility.
Audiences learn how to
This keynote is based on Joeri’s bestselling book The Future CMO.
It gives leaders practical frameworks they can apply immediately to strengthen trust, accelerate communication, and build future-ready marketing organizations.
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