Alex Tran · Speaker & author
Practical AI keynotes for leaders deciding what comes next.
Alex Tran helps business audiences understand what to delegate to AI, which expertise to develop, and where human judgment remains essential.
English-language keynotes for corporate events, associations, and leadership teams. Available for engagements in the United States, Thailand, and across the region.
Selected speaking engagements
- HP
- MIT
- NCMA World Congress2024 · Tech Alley, Seattle
- Chiang MaiAI community talks
Signature talks
Give your audience a clearer next step.
Choose the talk that fits your audience. Each connects a bigger shift in AI to decisions attendees can take back to their businesses or communities.
Flagship keynote
CEO of AI Staff
How to delegate work to AI without giving up control.
For business owners, department heads, and leadership teams.
Give your audience a practical way to move from experimenting with AI tools to assigning useful work. Alex connects delegation, accountability, and performance to the decisions leaders face in their own businesses.
Your audience will learn to:
- Identify a useful first role for AI staff.
- Set clear boundaries for decisions, access, and escalation.
- Evaluate performance before expanding responsibility.
Business keynote
Rentable Expertise
What expertise should your business build, own, or access?
For executives, entrepreneurs, and professional associations.
Help your audience evaluate where their expertise creates value as AI makes more capabilities available on demand. Explore what to develop internally, what to access from others, and what the business could offer as a service.
Your audience will learn to:
- Distinguish information from expertise that can do useful work.
- Decide which capabilities to build, own, or rent, and where human judgment matters.
- Identify expertise the business could offer without giving away its core advantage.
Specialist keynote
When Capability Gets a Body
How embodied AI could change companionship, care, and dependence.
For future-focused events and audiences exploring aging, care, and technology.
A specialist talk for events exploring AI beyond the workplace. Give your audience a framework for discussing what happens when machines can be physically present in our lives, and why usefulness, dignity, shared history, and human preferences all matter.
Your audience will learn to:
- Explore where embodied AI could support independence.
- Understand how shared history could shape trust and attachment.
- Ask what machines should be allowed to decide on our behalf.
Why Alex
Business experience behind the ideas.
Alex brings roughly two decades inside corporate and venture-backed companies and two more running businesses of his own. His experience spans ecommerce, legal SaaS, publishing, information products, and nonprofit technology.
His Rentable Expertise series explores how we build, lead, access, and offer capability, and what changes when that capability enters companionship and care.
More about Alex
Speaking fee
US$5,000
Standard keynote engagement
Includes a pre-event briefing, audience-specific preparation, and a session of up to 60 minutes including Q&A.
Travel and accommodation are additional. Workshops, extensive customization, and recording or distribution rights are quoted separately.
Availability and final scope are confirmed before booking.
Plan your event
Let’s talk about your audience.
For companies, event organizers, and speaker bureaus.
Email hey@alextran.com with your organization, event date and location, audience, and preferred topic. Please confirm whether the US$5,000 keynote fee and applicable travel costs are approved.
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