Zack Kass helps leaders turn AI from theory into action, shaping practical strategies for growth, innovation, and long-term impact.
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“His presentation was excellent, and he made AI relevant to our life sciences audience.”
CMI Media Group
Zack Kass is a global AI advisor, researcher, and keynote speaker, formerly with OpenAI, where he served as Head of Go-To-Market. In that role, he led sales, partnerships, and customer success, helping transform breakthrough AI research into practical solutions used by organizations around the world. Today, Zack advises Fortune 1,000 boardrooms and leadership teams, including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Amgen, on how to navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Known for his clear thinking and pragmatic approach, Zack helps leaders understand not just what AI is, but how to use it to drive meaningful outcomes while preparing for the future of work and human potential.
Zack Kass is widely recognized for his ability to bridge the gap between advanced AI capabilities and real-world business application. Formerly with OpenAI, where he was Head of Go-To-Market, Zack played a central role in bringing cutting-edge AI technology into organizations across industries. He led the teams responsible for sales, partnerships, and customer success, ensuring that complex research translated into tangible value for enterprises and institutions.
During his time at OpenAI, Zack personally advised executives across dozens of industries on deploying AI at scale. This experience placed him at the intersection of technology, leadership, and strategy, giving him a rare perspective on how organizations can responsibly adopt AI while staying competitive in fast-moving markets.
Today, Zack works as an executive business advisor to Fortune 1,000 companies and leadership teams. His advisory work includes organizations such as Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Amgen, where he helps senior leaders make informed decisions about AI adoption, organizational readiness, and long-term transformation.
Zack’s approach is grounded in practicality. Rather than focusing on hype or abstract predictions, he helps leaders identify concrete opportunities, understand risks, and build frameworks that align AI initiatives with business goals. His work supports executives in turning uncertainty into clarity and strategy into execution.
As a keynote speaker, Zack Kass is known for delivering engaging, insightful, and highly relevant talks on AI and its impact on business and society. His presentations are tailored for executive audiences who need to understand how AI will reshape leadership, operations, talent, and decision-making.
Zack’s mission is to ensure that individuals, businesses, and governments are active participants in the AI-powered future. He makes complex technology understandable and actionable, empowering audiences to move forward with confidence. His insights have been featured in Fortune, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, AdAge, and Business Insider, reflecting his role as one of the foremost thinkers in applied AI.
Zack is the author of The Next RenAIssance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential (Wiley, 2026), a USA Today and LA Times bestseller. In the book, he explores how AI is transforming the way we work, create, and lead, and what individuals and organizations can do to prepare for a new era of human potential. The book reinforces Zack’s optimistic yet grounded perspective on AI as a tool for progress when used thoughtfully and responsibly.
Beyond speaking, Zack and his team provide advisory services designed to help organizations navigate the complexities of AI adoption. Their work includes boardroom advisory, executive workshops, and strategy consulting focused on driving real business impact.
As AI strategists and business transformation experts, they work closely with leadership teams to:
Identify organizational challenges and AI opportunities
Assess readiness for AI-driven change
Design and implement strategies that support the future of work
While the focus is on delivering measurable outcomes, the broader mission is to contribute to an optimistic AI future. By empowering organizations to innovate and operate more efficiently, Zack’s work supports the expansion of human potential at scale.
Zack Kass supports AI education and research at the University of Virginia and holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California. His combination of academic grounding, executive experience, and real-world advisory work makes him a trusted voice for leaders seeking clarity in an era of rapid technological change.
Book Zack Kass for your event to gain a clear, strategic understanding of AI and how it can be applied responsibly to shape stronger organizations and a more capable future.
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“His presentation was excellent, and he made AI relevant to our life sciences audience.”
CMI Media Group
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“Zack helped us plan our entire AI strategy. He just gets it.”
John President, The CocaCola Company
Keynote by Zack Kass:
The Next Renaissance is Zack Kass’s signature keynote and the culmination of 16 years at the vanguard of AI. It is built on firsthand experience shipping frontier technology, three years inside OpenAI, research roles at two leading universities, and more than 500 meetings inside Inc. 5000 boardrooms. The talk invites audiences to examine AI through a new lens and to make specific choices about how they will lead.
At its center is Zack’s groundbreaking theory of Unmetered Intelligence. Just as water, electricity, and the internet transformed access to power and information, AI is driving the cost of cognition toward abundance. When thinking becomes cheap and everywhere, the source of advantage shifts. The question is no longer how smart a team can be on its best day. The question becomes where humans create irreplaceable value.
Zack maps that shift with a set of clear ideas and tools:
The keynote covers the good, the bad, the ugly, and the wonderful. It celebrates the breakthroughs that abundance unlocks and addresses real risks like dehumanization, identity displacement, and empowered bad actors. Attendees leave with a simple plan that scales from the C-suite to the front line.
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Keynote by Zack Kass:
Artificial Intelligence is transforming work as we know it—and the stakes for organizations couldn’t be higher. Individuals and companies that don’t adapt run the risk of being left behind. How can you prepare for what’s coming? As the former Head of Go-To-Market for OpenAI and global AI advisor, Zack Kass has helped hundreds of leaders rethink their AI strategy. In this compelling talk, Zack will deliver a comprehensive roadmap on how to build, develop, motivate, and retain high-performing teams and companies in an AI-driven world. Audiences will come away understanding the importance of soft skills, constant learning, and a culture of adaptability to thrive in the new business landscape.
The Next Great Company is a 30-40 minute keynote
Keynote by Zack Kass:
Throughout history, we embraced innovation when it clearly made life better—think fire, electricity, antibiotics, the internet. But today, this phenomenon has shifted. As AI races forward, the biggest barrier is no longer what technology can do, but what society is willing to accept. In this provocative keynote, Zack Kass explores the growing gap between technological possibility and societal readiness. Drawing from his experience at the forefront of AI’s evolution, Zack unpacks why cultural, ethical, and institutional resistance—not technical limitations—will define the pace of progress. Audiences will come away with a powerful framework for navigating resistance, rethinking innovation, and leading through one of the most pivotal moments in human history.
Societal Thresholds is a 20-25 minute keynote
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