Jack Shaw is an AI Transformation Advisor, keynote speaker, and author who helps executives make the AI decisions that actually move the needle: where to apply Tactical AI now, which choices belong at the board level, and how Strategic AI reshapes competitive position over the next three to five years. Drawing on more than four decades in AI and enterprise technology, Jack has delivered more than 1,000 keynote presentations across 26 countries for organizations including IBM, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, GE, Siemens, Bosch, Caterpillar, Rockwell Automation, Oracle, and 3M.

Jack’s proprietary Dual Path framework gives leaders a decision structure they can act on immediately: Tactical AI drives measurable productivity wins within twelve months, while Strategic AI drives the operating-model transformation that changes how an organization competes. Organizations must use the Dual Path Tactical AI and Strategic AI planning process to transform, quickly and effectively, into Autonomic Enterprises™ capable of competing in the global Autonomic Economy™ now emerging. In an Autonomic Enterprise, AI handles the routine sensing, routing, and response of daily operations at machine speed, while human judgment is reserved for non-delegable decisions.

Jack is the author of Manufacturing’s AI Imperative: An Executive Mandate, the first volume in The AI Imperative Series, a growing library of industry-specific guides that apply the Dual Path framework to the AI decisions facing today’s C-suite. His keynotes and executive briefings speak directly to the questions boards are asking now: how to escape pilot purgatory, how to close the decision latency that slows AI-driven organizations down, and how to build the compounding advantage that separates AI leaders from AI laggards.

Jack holds a degree from Yale University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He speaks and advises internationally on executive AI strategy, AI governance, and workforce transformation.

Around the world, organizations are rethinking their business models, processes, and technologies in light of on-going disruptions ‒ not just the COVID pandemic, but the war in Ukraine, Climate Change, and the impacts of emerging technologies.

Innovation and Technology Strategist, Jack Shaw has a practical approach to how emerging technologies will spur innovation and allow organizations to foresee, plan for, and manage disruptive change.

Jack has decades of experience helping leaders leverage new technologies to transform their organizations. He integrates his executive experience in industry, technology, and consulting to speak on Innovation, Technology, and the Future. His experience designing, developing, and implementing emerging technologies enables him to explain leading-edge concepts and technologies such as AI, Blockchain, 5G, the Internet of Things, and the Metaverse in easily understood terms.

He has spoken on Blockchain nearly 100 times in a dozen countries since 2014. A Global Thought Leader, he was voted one of the World’s Top 25 Speakers and one of the Top 5 Technology Futurists in polls conducted by Speaking.com. He has spoken for dozens of associations as well as such Fortune 500 organizations as Mercedes Benz, Bosch, GE, Coca-Cola, IBM, Oracle, and SAP.

Jack has presented over 1,000 keynotes and executive forums to over 300,000 top leaders and professionals in 26 countries and every U.S. state. He has also spoken remotely for over 20 years and is experienced with a wide variety of virtual platforms. He is a Yale University graduate, with a Kellogg MBA in Finance and Marketing.