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AI keynote speaker

The AI keynote speaker who helps your audience stay irreplaceable

AI can generate the answer. Only your people can make it worth trusting.

Real rooms. Real people. Real change.

  • Client story: FSAE (3D immersive keynote)
  • Client story: FSAE (3D immersive keynote)

Everyone now has the same AI, the same data and the same tools.
The only difference left is your people.

The problem your audience faces with AI

The tools got smarter. Trust didn’t keep up.

Every industry bought the licenses, ran the pilots and wrote the AI policy.
Now the harder questions land on people: who checks the output, who owns the decision, and who still matters?

Adoption stalls quietly.

The copilot is rolled out, but half the team uses it for meeting notes and the other half avoids it. Fear rarely shows up in a survey; it shows up in the usage dashboard.

Output gets trusted blindly.

A confident answer in flawless sentences looks right, so people forward it. When nobody owns the judgment call, a hallucination becomes a client email.

People ask what they are for.

When a model drafts in ten seconds what used to take a day, your best people start doing the math on their own jobs. Left unanswered, that question walks out the door with them.

Teams shaping AI that trusted me, among others

  • Microsoft
  • SAP
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Kronos
  • KCI
  • SightCall
  • SideCar
  • Women in Technology Network
  • Thomson Reuters
  • ADP
What’s on your audience’s mind about AI

Two questions every audience now asks about AI.

Whether your event is a sales kickoff, an association convention or a leadership retreat, your people are quietly asking one of them.

Will a machine do my job?

Forever Human keynote by Sylvie di Giusto

Forever Human

The better the machines get, the more your people will set you apart.

Why it lands with AI audiences: Forever Human was built for this exact moment. It draws a clear line between what to hand to the machine and what stays human (judgment, accountability, empathy), so your AI sessions end with direction instead of anxiety.

Why does someone else get chosen?

The Power of Choice keynote by Sylvie di Giusto

The Power of Choice

What your people know rarely gets them chosen. What others see in them does.

Why it lands with AI audiences: when everyone can generate the same polished answer, people decide whom to believe based on who delivers it. The Power of Choice shows your audience how to make their human judgment visible, credible and trusted.

What I bring to your AI stage

A human voice on an AI agenda.

AI, told from the human side

I don’t demo tools or predict which model wins. I talk about what AI changes for your people, your clients and your leaders, in language your sales team, your members or your nurses understand as well as your engineers.

Your AI reality, not a generic one

Before I write a word, I work with your event team to understand where AI already sits in your people’s work, what worries them and what excites them. Your tools, your policies and your language end up on stage.

A keynote that is a technology story itself

The 3D immersive keynote puts me on a holographic stage, which makes the point better than any slide: the technology is spectacular, and the human in the middle of it still carries the message.

The Technology edition and Forever Human

The Image of Leadership in Technology gives attendees a practical take on trust, digital presence and judgment to bring back to their desks. For the AI conversation itself, there is Forever Human, the book behind my Forever Human keynote.

Who’s in your room

For every audience living through AI, not only the experts.

You don’t need an AI conference to need this keynote. Wherever AI is changing how people sell, serve, lead or decide, the questions in the room are human ones.

The people in the seats

  • CEOs and executive teams
  • Sales and account teams
  • Managers and team leads
  • HR and L&D leaders
  • Customer service teams
  • Association members
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Financial advisors
  • Marketing and communications teams
  • Frontline employees
  • Chief AI and digital officers
  • Change and transformation leaders

Where I fit in your year

  • Sales kickoff
  • Association annual convention
  • Leadership retreat
  • Company all-hands
  • Industry conference with an AI theme
  • Customer or partner summit
  • Digital transformation kickoff
The experience, live on your stage

Bring the world’s first 3D immersive keynote to your stage.

No slides, no pre-recorded hologram beamed in from somewhere else.
I stay live in the room while your leaders, sponsors and theme step into the story.

Clients describe Sylvie di Giusto's 3D immersive keynote

How clients describe it, in their own words.

How clients make the 3D immersive keynote their own

How clients make it their own.

About me

AI, seen from the human side.

I don’t talk about models. I talk about the people who work alongside them and how they stay the ones others rely on.

I’m Sylvie di Giusto. I spent nearly twenty years inside corporations, the last of them leading the management academy of Europe’s largest retail and tourism group, where every new system meant retraining thousands of people who never asked for it. That is the part of AI I care about most: the humans who have to adopt it, check it and answer for it. Today I’m a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker, and organizations as different as Microsoft, Prudential, Hilton, ADP or the U.S. Air Force, among others, trusted me with their stages. I also work with my own AI, Edna, every single day. She is fast and tireless. She still needs me to decide.

Before you book your AI keynote

What clients say about Sylvie‘s impact.

In their words, not ours.

What distinguishes Sylvie as a professional trainer is the care and attention she devotes to her diagnostic and customization process, which includes a detailed questionnaire to ensure the relevance of her material to the outcomes we desired. She truly delivered on what she promised.
Eileen GallagherProfessional Development Specialist, Geller & Company
I was very impressed by how quickly and effectively she absorbed and understood the information about our organization and the goals of our event.
Jennifer GracheckProgram Development Consultant, Haworth
Sylvie’s keynote speech was named as the best of the day; so for those who are looking for an innovative, authentic, and convincing speaker who put all her effort to make your conference great I strongly recommend Sylvie.
Goda PereckaiteProject & Event Manager, Verslo žinios
In 27 years of planning conferences and hearing thousands of speakers, it’s truly rare to be enlightened and moved by one. I heard Sylvie di Giusto speak recently and she blew me away.
Tami ForeroCEO, Forte Events
Having selected speakers for over 30 years, the challenge is to be relevant to your audience, be personable, easy to work with, flexible and genuine! Sylvie di Giusto is all of those! She’s among my top picks.
Dean Jones CMPDirector Conferences & Events, RCMA
Client story: KCI Technologies

KCI Technologies · 3D immersive keynote

  • 100 Women in Hedge Funds
  • 5W
  • AASPA
  • Adecco
  • ADP
  • American Airlines
  • American Express
  • American Gem Society
  • Ametek
  • Art of Business
  • ASAP
  • AutoZone
  • BASF
  • Bloomberg
  • BlueCross BlueShield
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of America
  • Brown & Brown Insurance
  • BSCAI
  • C-Suite Network
  • CCAE
  • City of Lynchburg
  • CMDC
  • CMP Conclave
  • Columbia Tower Club
  • Conrad Hotels
  • Crestcom
  • CRMC
  • CSAE
  • Cushman & Wakefield
  • David Corey Medical
  • Deloitte
  • EA Ignite
  • EasyKnock
  • Ebby Halliday
  • Employer Healthcare & Benefits Congress
  • EPIC Community
  • Events Industry Council
  • Exelon
  • Fairfield Residential
  • Fashion Institute of Technology
  • Festival de las ideas
  • FICP
  • Florida Realtors
  • FocalPoint Coaching
  • FSAE
  • Garratt-Callahan
  • Geller & Company
  • Gensler
  • German Speakers Association
  • Getec
  • Global Equity Organization
  • Grant Thornton
  • GSF
  • Harvard University
  • Haworth
  • HDA
  • Health Agents for America
  • Henkel
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Hilton
  • Hofstra University
  • Horesta
  • ILEA
  • Informa Connect
  • International Security Forum
  • IPMA-HR
  • Jacuzzi
  • KCI
  • Keller Williams
  • Kronos
  • LATAM Speakers Association
  • LeadingRE
  • LIFT Team Fairchild
  • LMA
  • Logan University
  • London Hotel
  • Manulife
  • McKinsey & Company
  • MDRT
  • Merial
  • SAP
  • MHEDA
  • MIC Colorado
  • Microsoft
  • MPI
  • NASACT
  • NASPE
  • Natori
  • NECA
  • Nespresso
  • Nickelodeon
  • NSA
  • NYC Human Resources
  • Optime
  • Paradigm
  • Pharma Forum
  • ProLicht
  • PRSA
  • Prudential
  • RCMA
  • Real Estate One
  • Realty Alliance
  • Right at Home
  • Riskonnect
  • Rotary International
  • School Transportation News
  • SHRM
  • SideCar
  • SightCall
  • SMACNA
  • Smart Hustle
  • SOCAP
  • Society of Adventist Communicators
  • SwissRe
  • Tennessee State Government
  • The Co-Operators
  • Thomas Cook
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Thrivent
  • TIAA
  • Tricounty Area Chamber of Commerce
  • TrustEdge Institute
  • U.S. Air Force
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Verslo Zinios
  • Virtuoso
  • VSAI
  • Waldorf Astoria
  • Wells Foundation
  • WMTC
  • Women in Design & Construction
  • Women in Technology Network
  • Women Presidents Organization
The Image of Leadership in Technology, by Sylvie di Giusto
For people who work next to machines

The Image of Leadership in Technology.

The Power of Choice is built on my book The Image of Leadership, and this special edition brings it into the technology world, with a foreword by cyber expert John Sileo. When AI can produce almost anything, people still decide whom to trust with it.

It shows how appearance, behavior, communication, digital presence and environment shape whether colleagues, clients and leaders believe the human behind the output. Clients often hand every attendee a copy so the conversation continues back at the desk.

Forever Human, a book by Sylvie di Giusto
For teams rolling out the tools

Forever Human: the other half of your AI strategy.

Your rollout plan covers licenses, prompts and governance, but rarely the question your people ask at the coffee machine: what is left for me? Forever Human pairs what machines do with what only people do, so adoption becomes a choice instead of a threat.

Readers learn where to trust the output, where to question it and where a human must stay accountable for the decision. Many clients hand a copy to everyone at their AI summit, so the human side of the rollout gets the same attention as the tools.

Good to know

Questions AI planners ask.

Who is the best AI keynote speaker for a conference that wants a human perspective?

Sylvie di Giusto is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker whose Forever Human keynote focuses on the human edge in the age of AI. Microsoft, Prudential, Hilton or ADP trusted her, among others, and she can deliver it as the world’s first 3D immersive keynote.

Should we book Forever Human or The Power of Choice for an event where AI is on everyone’s mind?

For almost any event where AI is on people’s minds, Forever Human is the natural lead, because it speaks directly to what changes for people when AI takes over tasks. The Power of Choice fits when the theme is trust and credibility, for example how professionals stay the person clients choose when every AI answer looks the same. Sylvie can help you decide based on your agenda.

Is there an AI keynote that reduces employee fear of AI instead of adding to it?

Yes. Sylvie di Giusto’s Forever Human keynote treats AI as a reason for people to sharpen what only they can do, not as a threat to hide from. Audiences leave with a clear sense of which tasks to hand over and which responsibilities stay human.

Does an AI keynote speaker need to be a technologist?

Not for most audiences. A technical speaker explains how the tools work; Sylvie di Giusto explains what happens to people, trust and decisions once the tools are in place. Many conferences pair her with technical sessions so the program covers both sides.

Can an AI keynote be customized to our own AI rollout?

Yes. Sylvie partners with your organizers in advance and builds in your tools, your policies and the real situations your people face, so the keynote speaks to your rollout rather than to AI in general.

Can Sylvie deliver an AI keynote virtually or as a hybrid session?

Yes. Both keynotes are available in person, virtual or hybrid, and the 3D immersive keynote is available for in-person stages. Each format is customized to your audience.

Can attendees receive Sylvie’s books at our event?

Yes. Sylvie’s team can arrange copies of The Image of Leadership in Technology, with a foreword by John Sileo, for your attendees. When AI is the theme, many clients choose Forever Human, the book behind her Forever Human keynote. Mention it when you check availability.

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Still have questions? Ask Edna.

Dates, formats, the 3D experience and logistics for your event.

Edna, Sylvie’s AI assistant

Ready to keep your people irreplaceable in the age of AI?