Michael Chase speaker kit.Everything a programmer needs.
Bios at three lengths, an introduction your MC can read cold, photos, the talk titles and the logistics. Copy what you need. Print files and anything missing are one email away: michael@luxthink.com.
Bios
Three lengths.
Michael Chase is a Toronto-based AI futurist and keynote speaker who builds what he forecasts. Founder of AI Imagine Labs and one of Forbes' 100 most-followed CMOs, he built the AI travel startup TRAVAI, sold it to Kognitiv, and led the Nvidia digital-twin work for BMW and Mercedes-Benz EV factories.
Michael Chase is an AI futurist and keynote speaker who builds what he forecasts. One of Forbes' 100 most-followed CMOs, he counted Google, Nvidia, Thomson Reuters and Nike as clients and built Cup of Jo for St. Joseph into a franchise with millions of views. He founded AI travel startup TRAVAI, sold it to Kognitiv, created Deloitte's Novel and Exponential Technologies group, and led the Nvidia digital-twin work for the BMW and Mercedes-Benz EV factories. Through Atelier Superintelligence he ships agentic systems in production. He has spoken at CES, SXSW, NRF Big Show and the Digital Signage Expo.
Michael Chase is an AI futurist, keynote speaker and capital strategist, founder of AI Imagine Labs and co-founder of Atelier Superintelligence. His career has one through-line: he takes a new technology from the deck to the budget, as a marketer, consultant, founder and builder, and now as the person companies call when the AI question reaches the board.
As a marketer he was named by Forbes one of the 100 most-followed CMOs and built Cup of Jo for St. Joseph into a franchise with millions of views. His clients included Nike, where he worked with Wayne Gretzky and the Right To Play Foundation; Google, where he helped build out the cloud and digital signage business; and Thomson Reuters, where he built the Times Square digital signage package and broadcast content studios.
He founded the AI travel startup TRAVAI and sold it to Kognitiv, then as Partner and Chief Strategy Officer built its fungibility and loyalty engines, developed PC Travel and helped raise $500M globally. At Deloitte he created the Novel and Exponential Technologies group and wrote the future roadmap for LifeLabs and its CEO. He led the Nvidia digital-twin work for the BMW and Mercedes-Benz EV factories and the cognition-driven call centres for Desjardins.
He has spoken at CES and SXSW, three times at NRF Big Show, five times at the Digital Signage Expo, in the round at C2 Montréal, and headlined a cross-Canada tour for Canada Post, eleven cities, two years running, with stages from New York and San Francisco to London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Next: Fasten Your Seatbelts, his flagship keynote, at TiECon Canada 2026, Ottawa, 30 October. He is based in Toronto.
MC introduction
Forty seconds, read cold.
Our next speaker is an AI futurist who builds what he forecasts. Michael Chase was named by Forbes one of the 100 most-followed CMOs. He founded the AI travel startup TRAVAI and sold it to Kognitiv, created Deloitte's Novel and Exponential Technologies group, and led the Nvidia digital-twin work for the BMW and Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle factories. Today he runs AI Imagine Labs and co-founded Atelier Superintelligence, where his team ships agentic systems that run in production. He has spoken at CES, SXSW, NRF Big Show and the Digital Signage Expo. Please welcome Michael Chase.
Pronunciation: Chase, as in the bank. Michael is fine from the stage.
The talks
Seven titles, one line each.
- Fasten Your Seatbelts The flagship. Where AI is taking the market in the next eighteen months, opening with the Exquisite Corpse, and the three moves your company makes this quarter. Next on stage at TiECon Canada 2026, Ottawa, 30 October 2026.
- Exquisite Corpse Why companies build monsters by accident when their teams cannot see what the others are doing, and how to design the joint instead.
- 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.
- Show Me the Multiples AI as a capital allocation problem, for people who have to put money somewhere.
- Rehearse in Software. Build in Steel. Plants that practise in software before they change on the floor.
- Superintelligence, Minus the Hype The plain-language board briefing on frontier models.
- Brand Is the Last Moat When agents do the shopping and content costs nothing, brand is what is left.
Logistics
The practical part.
- Travels from Toronto (YYZ). In person or virtual.
- Formats: keynote 45 to 60 minutes, fireside 30 to 45, board briefing 60 to 90 inside the meeting, half-day executive session.
- Before the event: a briefing call, so the talk fits your audience and its numbers.
- One-page PDF: the speaker one-sheet, with bio, the seven titles, formats and contact.
- Video: a full 35-minute keynote on YouTube (Think INSIDE the Box, The Carlu, Toronto, 2016) and the TiE fireside reel, 88 seconds, captioned.
- AV and travel details come with the confirmation.
- Contact: michael@luxthink.com, or the booking form. Replies within one business day.