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Sol Rashidi

Speaker

Florida, USA

World's First Chief AI Officer | 4x C-Suite & Amazon Exec

Sol Rashidi helped IBM launch Watson in 2011 and became the world’s first Chief AI Officer in 2016. Sol invented The Human Amplification Index™, a way to see if AI has strengthened both your business and your workforce, and created Intellectual Atrophy™ education to ensure companies outsource tasks to AI – and not critical thinking in the age of AI. Her mission: to amplify business and workforces, empowering leaders and teams to harness AI strategically and creatively.

Keynote Speeches

From Talent Taxonomy To Organizational Redesign: Rewriting the Rules of Work

The workforce is no longer organized by roles—it’s being restructured around capabilities, workflows, and human-AI collaboration. This keynote explores how traditional talent models are breaking down and what replaces them: dynamic skill architectures, AI-augmented teams, and flatter, faster organizations. Leaders will walk away with a blueprint for redesigning their workforce—from rigid hierarchies to adaptive systems built for continuous evolution.

AI Without The Hype: What To Do, What To Avoid & What Comes Next

AI is everywhere—but clarity is not. This keynote cuts through the noise to provide a practical, no-nonsense guide to applying AI in both your business and personal workflows. Covering short-, medium-, and long-term implications, it outlines where AI drives real value, where it creates unnecessary complexity, and how to make smart, sustainable decisions that balance speed, scale, and governance.

AI In Your Industry: What's Actually Working (And What's Not)

Every industry is experimenting with AI—but only a few are getting it right. This session brings an industry-specific lens to AI adoption, highlighting real-world use cases, measurable outcomes, and hard-earned lessons. From early wins to costly missteps, this keynote helps leaders understand where AI delivers value today, where it’s overhyped, and how to prioritize investments that drive competitive advantage.

Staying Relevant In The Age Of AI: Redefining Value, Skills & Human Potential

As AI reshapes work, the question is no longer “Will my job change?”—but “Will I evolve with it?” This keynote focuses on how individuals and organizations can remain relevant by strengthening the uniquely human skills that AI cannot replace. Grounded in AI was meant to amplify your workforce and create force-multipliers, it offers a roadmap for building resilience, adaptability, and long-term value in a world where intelligence is increasingly augmented.

The Human Advantage: Designing Organizations Where AI Amplifies, Not Replaces

The future of work is not humans vs. machines—it’s humans with machines. Yet most organizations are deploying AI to cut costs rather than elevate capability. This keynote reframes AI as an amplifier of human potential and introduces a new operating model where people, agents, and systems work in partnership. Drawing on emerging research, it shows how organizations that invest in human-centric AI will outperform those that pursue automation alone.

Audience reviews:

  • I was absolutely amazed by the talk. I had never attended a live talk with such a perfect mix of energy, passion, brilliance, edginess and humor - I am still replaying/reprocessing it today. - Columbia Business School
  • Sol Rashidi was incredible - she tailored her content to our audience and was highly engaging. We are definitely bringing her back a few more times. - AppFolio
  • Sol was FANTASTIC! Her 30-minute keynote received 100% satisfaction, our highest rated speaker. - Vanguard
  • Sol Rashidi is an absolute pleasure. Her knowledge and credentials are amazing and impressive, but her down-to-earth personality and approach with our audiences outshines them all. - LUMEN
 

Speaker Biography

Sol Rashidi is the world’s 1st Chief AI Officer appointed in 2016. With 10 patents, a best-selling author on AI, and a former Amazon & C-Suite Exec (5x), she was named FORBES “AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century” in 2023, and FORBES ‘Top 5 People Taking AI To Market’ in 2025. Sol has also earned accolades like Top ‘100 AI Thought Leaders’, ‘Top 50 Women in Tech’ and LinkedIn’s 2025 AI Influencer. Sol started her AI career in 2011 when she helped IBM launch Watson. Her job is not just to create capabilities & deploy programs at scale, but to help educate and advise on 1) Workforce preparation & human relevance in the age of AI 2) Data security & AI Governance.

What sets Sol apart is she is a practitioner, an operator, and a strategic executive who’s done the work several times over. She’s built these capabilities from scratch and has over 200+ deployments – so her conversations are deeply rooted in experience. Sol is also the inventor of The Human Amplification Index, a platform that measures how well we’re strengthening both the business and the workforce through AI to ensure you have both financial and human capital ROI. She is the bridge across AI capability development, AI security and data governance, and human capital strategy.

Voted FORBES ‘AI Visionary & Maverick of the 21st Century’ and ‘Top 50 Women in Tech’, Sol is a former 4x C-Suite exec for Fortune 100 companies (Sony, Merck, Estee Lauder, Royal Caribbean), and a former Amazon tech exec as Head of Technology for North America (Startups Division), she served her clients like Anthropic and Perplexity. Sol is a best-selling author of ‘Your AI Survival Guide’ (‘Top 50 AI’ books), a 3x TEDx speaker (2M+ views), a senior Harvard Fellow, and the inventor of 10 patents.

Voted FORBES “Top 5 Leaders Taking AI to Market”, Sol has been deploying AI since 2011, and with over 200+ AI deployments globally, she bridges executive strategy with practical AI applications.