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Ramy Nassar helps leaders stop reacting to disruption and start designing the future.
As the former Head of Innovation for Mattel, he harnessed emerging technologies to reinvent one of the world’s most iconic brands, including contributing to the production team for the Barbie movie, which grossed $1.5B worldwide. Today, he brings that same builder’s mindset to leaders, helping them navigate what’s next in AI and emerging technology with clarity and confidence.
Ramy doesn’t watch the future unfold from the sidelines. He’s on the court, shaping it. With 25+ years of experience and trusted by more than 250 organisations including Apple, TD Bank, TELUS, Verizon, New Balance, and the Government of Canada, he combines hands-on technical depth, strategic foresight, and powerful storytelling to turn complexity into clarity and disruption into opportunity.
Author of The World After AI and a faculty member at universities in Canada and Europe, Ramy equips leaders with practical frameworks to reimagine business models, rewire risk, and accelerate innovation. His work includes building enterprise AI agents, advising AI governance teams, and launching innovation labs focused on real-world implementation. Cutting through the hype, he helps leaders navigate responsible use, emerging risks, and governance implications. A trusted futurist with a global track record, his keynotes and workshops leave audiences energised, empowered, and ready to build what comes next.
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 organisations, 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.
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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 organisations along through ambiguity, replacing reactive crisis management with strategic confidence.
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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 prioritisation), and participants receive a post-session toolkit to bring learning back into their organisations.
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.
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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 organisations 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.
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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 organisations 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 organisations 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.
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This keynote is tailored to each organisation’s unique industry and context. Many organisations pair it with interactive workshops that map enterprise-specific risks and create practical governance roadmaps, ensuring teams leave with actions they can implement immediately.
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.
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.
