Speaking

Keynotes and workshops that send your audience home with tools they use on Monday.

After 100+ conversations with event professionals, the pattern is clear: “doing more with less” is the actual job description now. Every keynote and workshop is built around tools that fit that reality, and the same approach works for any team that runs on email, documents and meetings.

Speaker reel

Three minutes from recent talks.

Tools you take home

Every session ends with a custom GPT or working framework the audience can use that week.

Shaped by 100+ talks

Frameworks built from real conversations with working event professionals, not desk research.

Events and beyond

Event teams are home base. I also speak to business schools, startup communities, associations and leadership teams in other industries, and rebuild every session around that audience's own work.

Noah broke it down in a way that was really easy to digest - as an event planner who is constantly looking for amazing, relatable and relevant speakers - Noah just shot to the top of my list!
Faith Gladden
Chief Experience Architect, Gladden & Associates Event Management Firm

Speaking topics

Where AI Delivers Real ROI

45–60 minKeynote

Your audience has heard 'AI is coming' a hundred times by now. What they're missing is the 0–10 scoring system that tells them which tasks AI handles well today and which still need a human. They leave with three custom tools, one personalized scorecard, and a framework they can apply on Monday.

Key takeaways

  • The 0–10 AI Readiness Scale for evaluating any task
  • Live demo of custom AI tools built for their industry
  • Implementation guides and a personalized AI adoption roadmap
  • Real-world case studies from 100+ event professionals

The AI-First Team: What Changes When Everyone Has an Assistant

45–60 minAny industry

Built for audiences outside events: sales, marketing, operations, HR and professional-services teams, and the leaders who run them. I run my own companies on AI, so this talk starts from a real week of my own work. The audience sorts their own tasks with the 0–10 readiness scale, watches a working assistant get built live on a task the room picks, and leaves knowing which three tasks to hand off first.

Key takeaways

  • The 0–10 readiness scale applied to the audience's own weekly tasks
  • One working assistant built live on a task the room picks
  • A four-part recipe for any AI system: instructions, an example, the input, the check
  • A one-page AI policy starting point leaders can adopt that week

AI in Events: Do More With Less

90 min workshopBeginner-Friendly

Still spending hours on event timelines, wrestling with stakeholder comms, drowning in post-event survey data, and rebuilding the same RFP every quarter? This workshop uses the 0–10 AI Readiness Scale to sort every task into one of three buckets: automate, augment, or keep firmly human. The hands-on session sends participants home with custom AI tools that cut hours off real workflows.

Key takeaways

  • Personal AI Readiness Scorecard with your workflow mapped to the 0–10 scale
  • Event Timeline Generator built and customized during the session
  • Know Engine vs. Do Engine framework for evaluating any AI tool
  • Priority implementation list: three tasks to automate this week
  • Access to the full AI tools library (12 custom GPTs)

AI as Your Strategic Advisory Board

90 min workshopWorkshop

Most event pros are stuck answering task-level questions while leadership wants strategic ones. This keynote turns AI into your C-suite advisory board so you can analyze any challenge through CFO, CMO, CEO, and COO lenses at once, then make strategic decisions with the same clarity executives expect.

Key takeaways

  • Custom GPT for the C-Suite Advisory Board exercise, built during the session
  • Framework for mapping decisions to executive priorities (the Four Lenses)
  • Build a stakeholder-ready business case during the session
  • Cheat sheet: what each C-suite role cares about when evaluating events

Upcoming

PCMA NextGen

AI for the next generation of event professionals

November 5, 2026

Virtual webinar

Boldpush+

AI for Event Marketing: live demos on a sample event

November 12, 2026

Virtual, with Julius Solaris

IBTM World 2026

The Future Stage: what AI can do for event teams right now

November 17 to 19, 2026

Fira Barcelona Gran Via · Barcelona, Spain

EXHIBITORLIVE 2027

Pre-show webinar for EXHIBITORLIVE attendees

February 1, 2027

Virtual pre-conference webinar

EXHIBITORLIVE 2027

Two sessions: Getting your week back, and Proving the event worked

February 16 and 17, 2027

Colorado Convention Center · Denver, CO

Past speaking

AI for Events: Demo Day

Co-moderated with Julius Solaris: 25 companies demoed their AI tools live

October 22, 2026

Virtual, with Boldpush

IAEE Student Insights

Build Your First Event AI System, Live

October 19, 2026

Virtual webinar

Destination California (Northstar Meetings Group)

Collaborating With AI to Solve Real Event Challenges. Rated 4.9 out of 5 across 27 attendee reviews

September 1, 2026

Hyatt Regency SFO · Burlingame, CA

MPI WEC 2026

The AI Readiness Framework for Events

June 4, 2026

San Antonio, TX

Exhibitor Advocate

Deep Dive on GPTs for Event Professionals: From Theory to Action

May 6, 2026

Virtual webinar

Boldpush

Co-moderated AI for Events: Demo Day, a 5-hour live demo of 39 AI tools to 1,500 event professionals

April 30, 2026

Virtual

Northstar Meetings Group

AI for Event Planners: Interactive Workshop of Time-Saving Use Cases

April 22, 2026

Virtual webinar

MPI ACE

Keynote: Where AI Delivers Real ROI

March 31, 2026

Hyatt Regency SFO · Burlingame, CA

EXHIBITORLIVE 2026

Two workshops: AI Strategic Advisory Board + Do More With Less Using AI Tools (CTSM5 Approved)

March 29, 2026

Tampa Convention Center

MPI

Keynote: Do More With Less Using AI

August 2025

The Chapel · San Francisco, CA

Smart Meetings

AI-Powered Career Success: Building Your Future in Events (with Gary Bolles and Robin Farmanfarmaian)

July 29, 2025

Virtual webinar

Watch the recording
Northstar Meetings Group

Back to the Sandbox: The Latest AI Tools for Event Professionals

July 16, 2025

Virtual webinar

Watch the recording
Epic Events by vFairs

Practical AI for Event Professionals: What Works, What Doesn't, and Where to Start

2025

Podcast

Listen to the episode
Sidecar Sync

How Siri's Co-Creator Predicts the Next AI Wave (with Adam Cheyer)

2025

Podcast · Episode 131

Listen to the episode
Argyros College of Business

Fireside chat with Adam Cheyer (Siri co-creator) on AI in business

March 1, 2025

Chapman University · Orange, CA

TechBBQ

AI talk for the Nordic startup and events community

September 2024

Copenhagen, Denmark

Chapman University

Fireside chat on AI and the next generation of builders

November 2023

Orange, CA

Fees

Transparent pricing.

Keynote fees by format. From-priced so longer formats, custom content, and exclusive rights are scoped at a fair premium.

Keynote, virtualfrom $3,000
Keynote, in-person (US)from $5,000
Keynote, internationalfrom $7,500 + travel

Workshops priced separately: see workshop fees.

What changes the fee: multi-day formats, exclusive content rights, white-label use.

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Let's talk about your event

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What happens next

  1. 1I'll review your event details and respond within 24 hours
  2. 2We'll schedule a quick call to discuss your audience and goals
  3. 3I'll send a customized proposal with topic and format options

Direct contact

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noah@svsb.ai

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