Speaker one-sheet
Adam Anderson — Where AI Belongs in Your Business
A practical keynote for owners and executives deciding where AI deserves time and money.
The talk
Most leaders are being told to use AI everywhere. Adam gives them a better way to decide. Using a simple map of how a business creates value, he shows audiences how to find the few opportunities worth testing, recognize where AI does not belong, and demand evidence before making a larger investment. The result is practical judgment leaders can use immediately—without hype, jargon, or a sales pitch.
Audience outcomes
- A simple 5x5 map for seeing where AI could affect revenue, cost, risk, speed, or customer experience
- A way to score opportunities on impact, readiness, adoption friction, cost, and risk
- An evidence loop: start with business friction, run a small experiment, then stop, continue, or invest
- Permission to choose deliberately—because higher AI maturity is not automatically better
Formats
Keynote — 45 minutes
The full talk for a general owner or executive audience: how to tell the opportunities worth funding from the ones that only sound good, and what evidence to demand before spending.
Executive briefing — about 20 minutes
A tighter version for people who have to make the call. The decision framing, the common failure patterns, and the questions to ask your own team next week.
Facilitated workshop — 60–90 minutes
Working session. Attendees lay out their own operation, grade where AI already sits, and score their own candidates so they leave with a shortlist rather than notes.
Ideal for
- Founder and CEO groups
- Executive summits
- Industry associations
- Client events hosted by banks, CPA firms and law firms
- Boards and leadership offsites
- Private-equity portfolio-company programs
About Adam
Adam Anderson helps owners and CEOs decide where AI belongs in their business and manage the strongest opportunities as a portfolio of business outcomes. He is CEO and co-founder of ThreatCaptain, an AI-enabled company he runs day to day. Across 26+ years in technology and entrepreneurship, Adam has founded or invested in roughly 30 companies, advised more than 100 CEOs, and sold his own firm in a multimillion-dollar exit. He has advised governments and heads of state across nine countries and is the author of eight-plus books. Repeat speaker for TIGER 21 groups.
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