Innovation keynote speaker The tool is not the transformation.
Every organization has the new tools. Few get the returns. Four-time tech founder Sam Rad shows leaders why, and the moves that turn new technology into real progress.
We don't have an adoption problem. We have a reinvention problem.
Every powerful new technology is like a jetpack. The jetpack was handed to individuals while the organization around them stayed the same. That produces more output, not more progress. The returns happen after you redesign.
Sam has built at the frontier four times: AI in 2010, blockchain and connected hardware, generative AI, and today causal AI for foresight. She knows what it takes for a new tool to change how an organization actually works.
Book Sam Rad →From new tools to real progress.
One keynote, Change Has a Pattern, customized to your industry: from financial services and healthcare to retail, supply chain and government.
“Sam is a rare individual who has the unique ability to catalyze and inspire everyone around her.”
Asael Meir · Partner, CohnReznick LLP
Before you book.
- Who is Sam Rad?
- Sam Rad (Samantha Radocchia) is The Change Futurist: an innovation keynote speaker who has built four companies across AI, blockchain, and connected hardware, and is the first-named inventor on four granted US patents. She is Co-Founder and CEO of MISTIC Systems, a causal AI platform for strategic foresight and decision intelligence.
- Why aren’t new tools paying off yet?
- Because the tools were handed to individuals while the organization around them stayed the same. That produces more output, not more progress. Every big technology shift has followed this pattern, from the printing press to AI, and the returns arrive after the organization redesigns how it works.
- What will our audience take home?
- Four moves: see the pattern behind disruption, let go of the old way, lead the jetpack by aiming new tools at the outcomes that matter, and take it off to recover presence and perspective.
- Is the keynote only about AI?
- No. It covers AI adoption, digital transformation, innovation, and leading through change. AI is today’s jetpack, but the pattern Sam teaches applies to every powerful new technology.
- Who has Sam spoken for?
- Sam has keynoted on five continents for clients including Dell, Cisco, IBM, SAP, American Express, LinkedIn, Nestlé, Kellogg’s, and Sky.
- Is the keynote customized?
- Every time. Sam builds each version around the forces reshaping your industry, from financial services and healthcare to retail, supply chain, higher education, and government.
- How long is the keynote, and can it be virtual?
- Opening or closing keynote, 45 to 60 minutes, with optional Q&A, in person or virtual. Sam travels from New York City.
- How do we book Sam?
- Sam is represented by Brandy Gibson at Executive Speakers Bureau. Send an inquiry at sam-rad.com/contact and you will hear back within one business day. Bios, photos, and the one-sheet are at sam-rad.com/speaking-materials.