Michael Chase, AI keynote speaker. Next: TiECon Canada 2026, Ottawa, 30 October.Wake up. The future already shipped.
Michael Chase is an AI futurist who builds what he forecasts. He speaks to boards and conferences, advises on where AI capital belongs, and ships agentic systems that run in production.
Forbes 100 most-followed CMOsFounded TRAVAI, sold to KognitivNvidia digital twins for BMW and Mercedes-Benz
Clients
- Nvidia
- Thomson Reuters
- Nike
- Desjardins
- LifeLabs
Built at
- Deloitte
- Kognitiv
- St. Joseph
- BMW and Mercedes-Benz Nvidia digital twins
- PC Travel
Stages
- CES
- SXSW
- TiE Toronto
- C2 Montréal
- NRF Big Show 3x
- Digital Signage Expo 5x
- Canada Post tour 11 cities, 2 years
Cities
New York · Las Vegas · San Francisco · Chicago · Austin · Orlando · Scottsdale · Cleveland · London · Singapore · Hong Kong · coast to coast across Canada
On stage
Watch Michael in the room.
Hosting the fireside with venture capitalist John Ruffolo at TiE Toronto's Spirit Awards. Full 35-minute keynote.
Where we are now
The pilot is over.
Whether it works has been answered. What is left is a capital question.
For two years every company ran an AI pilot. Most of them proved the same thing: the model works, and the organisation around it was never built to use it.
That phase ended. Agents now hold context across a whole task, use the systems a company already runs, and finish the work without waiting for a prompt. Whether the technology is real has been settled. The question in the room now is where intelligence sits in the company, what it costs to run, and what it earns back.
That is the gap Michael works in. He has spent his career at the point where an exponential technology stops being a slide and becomes a line item, from Deloitte's Novel and Exponential Technologies group to the digital twins of two EV factories. Today he does it with agents.
Read the full dispatch →Keynotes
Talks with a thesis, built for the room.
Seven titled talks, one flagship. Each is built for the room in front of it, whether that is a board of twelve or a conference main stage.
- 01
Fasten Your Seatbelts
Where AI is taking the market in the next eighteen months, who is already there, and the three moves your company makes this quarter. Opens with the Exquisite Corpse. Next on stage at TiECon Canada 2026, Ottawa, 30 October 2026.
- 02
Exquisite Corpse
Finance drew the head, creative drew the torso, operations drew the legs, and nobody unfolded the paper. Why companies build Frankensteins by accident when their teams cannot see what the others are doing, and how to design the joint instead.
- 03
Kill the Pilot
Why 2026 is the year proofs of concept die and production begins, and what changes when software no longer needs to be asked. What the companies that crossed already know, and what it cost them.
Advisory
Advice for the people who sign the AI budget.
Three ways to work with Michael. He has sat in the chair, signed the budget and shipped the system, and he advises from that seat.
C-suite coaching
A monthly one-on-one for executives who have to lead an AI programme they did not grow up with. A standing agenda: what happened, what is coming, what you decide.
Growth advisory
For AI startups and scaleups moving to enterprise grade. Positioning, go-to-market and the operating discipline that earns a premium multiple.
Capital strategy
For family offices, funds and boards deciding where AI exposure belongs. A working view of the ecosystem, the beneficiaries and the traps.
About
The chair he speaks from, and what he builds from it.
Michael Chase has run marketing as one of Forbes' 100 most-followed CMOs, founded and sold the AI travel startup TRAVAI to Kognitiv, counted Google, Nvidia, Thomson Reuters and Nike as clients, created Deloitte's Novel and Exponential Technologies group, and led the Nvidia digital-twin work for two EV factories. He started AI Imagine Labs to do the same job with AI: take it from the deck to the budget.
- 100 most-followed CMOsForbes
- Novel and Exponential Technologies groupDeloitte
- CES and SXSWStages
- Co-founderAtelier Superintelligence
Wake Up Imagine · Dispatches
Notes from the front of the curve.
Short reads on what moved in AI and why it matters to the people who allocate money and attention.
The pilot is over
The pilot bought time and proved the model works. It also became the way a company avoids deciding anything.
Read the dispatch →
▶Vacuums today, strawberries tomorrow
You can now buy strawberries grown by Dyson. Yes, the vacuum company.
▶We are very good at filling the sky
In 1957 the whole planet held its breath to hear one satellite beep. Look up now: more than 15,000, and the dark is filling in.
▶Ace plays a game. The architecture does not.
A Sony robot just beat elite humans at table tennis. Nine cameras around the court. Real-time spin estimation. A peer-reviewed Nature paper logging the wins.
Book
Bring Michael into the room.
Keynotes, executive sessions, advisory and media. Tell Michael about the room and the date.
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