Ramy Nassar

AI is no longer a future bet. It’s an executive priority, and most leadership teams are still trying to figure out where to start. Drawing on 25+ years building inside Mattel, Apple, TD Bank, and 250+ other organizations, Ramy tells the real story of AI – daring leaders to confront what matters now, what’s coming next, and what guardrails are vital.

• AI Now maps the technologies driving real impact today: generative AI, agents, and the practical use cases inside enterprises that are actually moving the needle.
• AI Next equips leaders to scale investments past the pilot trap. The frameworks that turn proofs of concept into enterprise-grade value.
• AI Never draws the lines that protect trust, governance, and reputation. The strategic case for what to walk away from, even when the market is racing toward it.

Audiences will learn how to:

• Identify AI use cases with measurable ROI and separate hype from reality
• Scale initiatives past the pilot trap with frameworks that turn proofs of concept into enterprise value
• Align their leadership team on what to pursue now, what to wait on, and what to walk away from entirely

This presentation can be delivered as a keynote or interactive workshop. Sessions often include live AI demonstrations and provide participants with a post-session toolkit (sample prompts, adoption frameworks, governance checklists) to inspire action the very next day.

What if your biggest risks aren’t today’s challenges, but tomorrow’s blind spots? Linear planning was built for a world that no longer exists. Drawing on his forthcoming book The World After AI, Ramy challenges leaders to confront a harder truth: the executives who win the next decade aren’t the ones with the best plans, they’re the ones willing to lead differently.

• Anticipate teaches leaders to spot the patterns hiding in industry noise: the weak signals, leading indicators, and trend convergences that competitors miss until it’s too late.
• Adapt moves beyond static planning into multi-horizon thinking, equipping leaders to make strategic decisions that hold up across multiple possible futures rather than betting everything on one forecast.
• Lead translates foresight into the kind of proactive direction-setting that brings entire organizations along through ambiguity, replacing reactive crisis management with strategic confidence.

Audiences will learn how to:

• Spot weak signals and trend convergences to anticipate disruption before competitors react
• Apply foresight methods (scenario planning, Janus Cones, horizon scanning) to decisions that hold up across multiple futures
• Lead their organization through ambiguity with proactive direction-setting instead of reactive crisis management

The presentation is tailored to each client’s sector and includes in-depth research into industry-specific scenarios. Programs can be interactive (real-time foresight exercises, trend prioritization), and participants receive a post-session toolkit to bring learning back into their organizations.

The technologies that will reshape your industry aren’t theoretical, they’re already here. AI dominates the headlines, but quantum, biotech, and blockchain are quietly converging to reshape industries at unprecedented speed. Drawing on his forthcoming book The World After AI, Ramy dares executives to think past today’s hype – mapping when to experiment, when to scale, and when to wait.

• Experiment maps the emerging technologies worth investing in now: where to place small bets, build optionality, and learn before competitors do.
• Scale equips leaders to commit when a technology has crossed from possibility to advantage. The frameworks that turn early bets into enterprise-grade capability before the window closes.
• Wait draws the strategic case for letting hype cycles complete – knowing which technologies are louder than they are ready, and standing back until infrastructure matures.

Audiences will learn how to:

• Decode AI, quantum, and blockchain without jargon, focusing only on strategic impact
• Time strategic bets: when to experiment, when to scale, and when to wait
• Build resilient strategies that adapt as technologies converge across industries

This keynote is always tailored to the audience, helping participants decide where to lean in, where to wait, and where to let technologies mature further.

How can enterprises learn to innovate with the speed and agility of startups? In today’s AI-powered economy, the ability to adapt quickly isn’t a luxury, it’s survival. Yet most organizations are slowed by silos, legacy processes, and risk aversion.

Futurist and former Head of Innovation at Mattel, Ramy Nassar, brings decades of experience helping global brands reimagine innovation. Drawing on lessons from both startups and Fortune 500s, he shows leaders how to cultivate cultures, systems, and strategies that unlock enterprise-scale innovation. 

Through stories from the front lines and proven frameworks, he equips leaders to embrace risk, adopt an AI-first mindset, and leap from incremental improvements to bold reinvention.

Audiences will learn how to:

• Build innovation systems that combine startup agility with enterprise scale
• Harness AI as a catalyst for creativity, speed, and competitive advantage
• Reframe culture, risk, and constraints as fuel for transformation and growth

This program can be delivered as a keynote or interactive workshop. It often includes startup-style design sprints, collaborative foresight activities, and tools leaders can use to rewire innovation practices the very next day.

Every enterprise wants the benefits of AI, but the risks are real. Hallucinations, bias, governance gaps, and lack of explainability can derail adoption, create reputational damage, and limit trust with customers and regulators. The organizations that win with AI won’t be the fastest adopters, they’ll be the most responsible.

Futurist and former Head of Innovation at Mattel, Ramy Nassar, equips leaders with the tools to adopt AI at scale, responsibly and sustainably. Drawing on years of hands-on experience guiding Fortune 500 companies, from global banks and healthcare organizations to energy providers and technology leaders, Ramy has helped design AI policies, launched governance committees, and established innovation labs that scale across the enterprise.

In this presentation, he introduces frameworks that balance innovation with governance, ensuring AI initiatives drive measurable impact without exposing the enterprise to unnecessary risk. 

Audiences will learn how to:

• Recognize and mitigate AI risks, such as bias, hallucinations, and misuse, that jeopardize adoption and trust
• Build responsible AI practices that align with governance and compliance needs
• Deploy AI responsibly while still accelerating growth and competitive advantage

This keynote is tailored to each organization’s unique industry and context. Many organizations pair it with interactive workshops that map enterprise-specific risks and create practical governance roadmaps, ensuring teams leave with actions they can implement immediately.

Every session is built to be participatory and memorable, whether it’s a keynote or a full-day workshop. Formats scale across three levels of depth, and any topic can be delivered at any level.

Keynotes. Interactive by design. Live audience activations, real-time input, and moments built for the room make each keynote something audiences take part in, not something they watch. Customized to the industry, the event theme, and the other sessions on the agenda.

Extended sessions (60-90 minutes). Add hands-on depth: short table discussions, live AI demonstrations, futurist exercises that put the audience to work on the future of their own industry, and light hands-on building with AI tools.

Workshops and masterclasses (90 minutes to full day). Built around doing, not watching:

• Vibe coding workshops, where participants build working tools with AI, no technical background required
• AI hackathons and innovation sprints, where teams take an idea to a working prototype in hours
• Strategic foresight labs, applying scenario planning and signal scanning to the client’s own market

Optional for AI-focused programs: where it fits the brief, Ramy builds working AI proof-of-concepts live, from use cases the audience surfaces during the session. This isn’t theory. It’s proof.

Formats combine well. A keynote followed by a next-morning workshop is a common package, and every format ends with a post-session toolkit so the learning continues after the event.

Optimism, Agency, and Our Next Chapter

For 300,000 years, every tool we built extended the body. The wheel extended the leg, the telescope the eye. AI is the first that extends the mind, and it arrived faster than anything before it. 

The World After AI sets aside the tired debate over whether AI is good or bad and asks the harder question of who decides. The optimists say AI will transform medicine and amplify human potential. The pessimists say it will hollow out the middle class and make truth impossible to trust. Both are probably right. The question that matters is the one neither side asks: which future are we actually building? The technology is not the variable. The choices are. 

The book follows one ordinary Tuesday in 2035, lived twice by the same five people: once in a future we designed on purpose, once in one we drifted into. It isn’t a book about AI features or prompting tips. It’s a leader’s guide to the choices that decide what AI becomes, written by someone building inside it, not watching from the outside.

The World After AI arrives in early 2027, with pre-orders opening summer 2026. Learn more at www.theworldafterai.com.

Why this matters for your event

• AI is the most-requested keynote topic right now, and audiences have moved past what is it to what do we actually do. This book is built around exactly that question.
• Planners want optimism with substance, not hype or doom. The agency-and-choices frame sends audiences home with a hopeful, decision-focused takeaway.
• Agentic AI and near-term impact are the fast-rising asks. The book’s 2035 scenarios make those stakes concrete and memorable on stage.
• A forthcoming book is a timely, newsworthy hook for event promotion, and a reason to book Ramy now, ahead of the early-2027 release.

“Ramy’s energy & expertise when it comes to the role of emerging technology are unrivalled. He brought a passion & enthusiasm to my team that helped drive us to new heights in terms of data-driven digital transformation.” 

Rob Fodor, Chief Data Officer, Interac

“This presentation was the first that helped our executive team understand how we drive AI initiatives forward and build the right metrics into our strategic technology roadmap. The outcomes will directly and positively impact the ROI of our investments into AI.” 

Robert Bricker, TD Bank

“Ramy’s approach to introducing the complex topic of generative AI helped our team better understand where the key business opportunities exist, and gave us the tools to build our own internal AI investment strategy and roadmap.”

Thomas Anderson, Apple

“Ramy has a unique approach to presenting AI & emerging technologies that combines deep understanding of the topic with an undeniable enthusiasm that engages the audience in a meaningful and personal way.” 

Monica Radulescu, TELUS

“The presentation transformed how our leadership thinks about strategic planning. Ramy has a unique ability to uncover how the trends of today will shape the business environment of tomorrow. His framework helped us uncover ROI-driving opportunities.”

Erica Sweeney, New Balance

“Ramy’s presentation on AI, generative AI, and emergent technologies was a fantastic way to kick off our first ever technology summit. He was collaborative before the event and ensured that his presentation not only aligned with our theme but called out other speakers coming later in the day to help set up their sessions. Besides having a world-class presentation, Ramy was fantastic to work with. Overall a 10 out of 10 experience.”

Dave Richardson, VP of Sales, Microserve

Select past clients

Apple, TD Bank, Verizon, Government of Canada, Disney, TELUS, Air Canada, New Balance, Sun Life Financial, Cineplex, Sport Chek