James Poulter

Wrestling with AI Ethics

Navigate the complex ethical landscape of AI with confidence. This thought-provoking keynote addresses the critical questions every organization faces as AI becomes ubiquitous. From environmental sustainability and carbon footprints to the profound implications of digital twinning and deepfakes, James guides audiences through the ethical dilemmas that will define the next decade. Learn how to build ethical frameworks that protect your organization while enabling innovation. Essential for any organization deploying AI at scale, this session provides practical tools for making ethical decisions in an uncertain future.

· AI Sustainability – Environmental impact considerations

· Digital Twinning -Ethical implications of AI replicas

· Deepfakes – Handling synthetic media

· AI Legacies -Long-term societal impact

Leading AI: The AI Nervous System

Transform your organization into an AI-powered enterprise with this comprehensive framework. Drawing from James’s experience leading innovation at LEGO and building AI startups, this keynote reveals how to build AI capabilities across four interconnected systems—just like the human nervous system coordinates complex functions. Learn how to create organizational intelligence that scales, adapts, and drives competitive advantage. Perfect for leadership teams ready to move beyond AI experiments and build sustainable, enterprise-wide AI capabilities.

Key Themes

• Building a Better Brain – Clone your organizational information
• Ready for AI – Scale your work with AI tools
• AI Ethics: The Gut -Cultivate human-AI interactions
• Hands & Feet Govern AI use cases at scale

Full Stack: Navigating the Changing Shape of Work in the Age of AI

Understand how AI is fundamentally reshaping work, careers, and organizational structures. Based on James’s book “AI at Work” and his experience building AI-powered teams, this keynote explores the full stack of changes happening across individual roles, team dynamics, and enterprise structures. Learn how to prepare your workforce for the future, redesign roles for human-AI collaboration, and build organizations that thrive in an AI-first world. Essential for HR leaders, executives, and anyone responsible for workforce strategy, this session provides actionable insights for navigating the most significant workplace transformation in decades.

Key Themes

• Individual Transformation – Evolving skills and career paths
• Human-AI Collaboration – Redesigning roles for partnership
• Organizational Structures – New models for AI-powered teams
• Skills & Learning – Upskilling for the AI era

CTRL – ALT- DEL

Unlock breakthrough innovation with a proven framework born from James’s unique experience at LEGO and Amazon Alexa. This keynote reveals how to systematically identify what you can control, listen to organizational signals, explore alternatives, think diagonally across functions, and courageously delete what no longer serves you. Learn the art of strategic unlearning—breaking free from legacy processes and mental models that hold organizations back. Perfect for teams facing disruption, transformation initiatives, or those seeking to build a culture of continuous innovation. Discover how the world’s most innovative companies reset, refocus, and reinvent.

Ctrl: Gaining Control

· Developing active listening skills across all levels of the organization

· Implementing feedback loops to capture insights from employees and customers

· Creating a system for idea capture and evaluation

· Establishing innovation metrics and KPIs to track progress

Alt: Creating Alternatives

· Techniques for breaking out of conventional thinking patterns

· Cross-pollination of ideas from different industries and disciplines

· Scenario planning and future-casting exercises

· Embracing diversity and inclusion as catalysts for innovative thinking

Delete: Unlearning and Renewal

· Identifying and challenging outdated assumptions and processes

· Techniques for overcoming resistance to change

· Creating a ‘fail fast, learn quickly’ culture

· Implementing systems for continuous learning and adaptation