Futurist, AI Advisor, and Former Head of Go To Market at OpenAI
Zack Kass: Biography at a Glance
- Zack Kass is one of the world’s foremost authorities on applied AI, helping businesses harness its transformative potential to expand human capabilities.
- As the former Head of Go-to-Market at OpenAI, Zack led the sales, solutions, and partnerships teams, playing a pivotal role in commercializing AI and large language models.
- He has been a key strategist for executives, advising top business leaders on how to effectively deploy AI to drive innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.
- Zack is a trusted adviser to Fortune 1000 companies, including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Amgen, guiding them on AI strategy and implementation.
- His thought leadership has been widely recognized, with features in major publications such as Fortune, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider.
- In addition to his work with businesses, Zack is an academic and industry leader, serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and Chair of Ruder Finn’s AI Advisory Council.
- As a visionary keynote speaker, Zack helps businesses, nonprofits, and governments navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape with insightful and actionable strategies.
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Biography
Zack Kass is one of the world’s foremost authorities on applied AI, transforming the technology's immense power into business strategies and applications that expand human potential.
For the last 15 years, Zack has been at the forefront of AI. Most recently, he served as OpenAI's Head of Go-to-Market, responsible for building out the sales, solutions, and partnerships teams. Zack played a key role in early efforts at commercializing AI and large language models, channeling OpenAI’s innovative research into tangible business solutions while also serving as a personal adviser to many executives deploying the technology across their companies.
Today, Zack’s mission is to help businesses, nonprofits, and governments navigate the rapidly evolving AI environment. His thought leadership has been featured in top publications such as Fortune, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider. Zack continues to advise Fortune 1000 board rooms, including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Amgen. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and Chair of Ruder Finn’s AI Advisory Council.
Topics
The Next Renaissance
AI is the most powerful tool we’ve ever built for expanding human potential and human flourishing. But that outcome isn’t guaranteed. Rather than painting a utopian or dystopian future, Zack draws on 15+ years at the frontier of AI to demonstrate how technology expands what’s possible, but human choice determines where it leads. This talk is followed by an open Q&A session designed to address the specific questions and strategic choices facing your audience today, leaving them with practical frameworks, renewed optimism, and a compelling reason to build the future.
60 minute keynote
The Automation Boundary
If you could automate everything in your life and business, where would you stop? Zack introduces the Automation Boundary, a framework for distinguishing between the friction that holds us back and the friction that helps us grow. Rather than asking what AI can automate, he explores what it should and should not, and why the answer will shape the future of work, education, relationships, and society. This presentation is capped off by a live Q&A where he applies these concepts directly to your sector’s pressing challenges, leaving audiences with a clear model for deciding what to automate and what to preserve.
30 minute keynote
Intelligent Transformation
While most organizations focus on deploying new tools, intelligent transformation requires a more fundamental question: what becomes possible when intelligence is no longer the constraint? Drawing on years spent advising Fortune 500 executives navigating AI adoption, Zack explores how leaders can rethink not only how work gets done, but where people create value, and what their organizations can become. He addresses the professional identity shifts that make transformation difficult and shows leaders how to build trust, accountability, and agency with their teams. Zack’s keynote is followed by a live, consultative Q&A where he applies these concepts directly to your sector’s pressing challenges and real-time audience questions, leaving audiences with practical frameworks for turning abundant intelligence into progress.
30-45 minute keynote
The Intelligence Briefing (Fireside Chat / Q&A)
A dynamic, conversation-driven session tailored to the questions that matter most to your audience. Drawing on his experience at the forefront of AI and advising leaders across industries, Zack applies his perspective to the specific forces shaping your organization, industry, and community. From the future of work and education to leadership, economic opportunity, and the societal implications of increasingly capable AI, no two conversations are the same. Moderated by a host or driven directly by audience questions, the session gives participants the opportunity to explore the issues most relevant to them and hear Zack think through what they mean in real time
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