# Silicon Valley Speakers

> A curated speaker bureau connecting event professionals with keynote speakers who embody the Silicon Valley mindset—entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries who have built transformative products and companies.

Silicon Valley Speakers (SVSB) helps event planners find and book keynote speakers in AI, innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, peak performance, and future of work. We represent speakers who have built groundbreaking products and companies.

## Our Speakers

### Shannon Rowbury
*First woman in US history to medal in the Olympic 1500-meter race*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/shannon-rowbury
- Type: both
- Based in: San Francisco, CA
- Topics: Sales, Women, Leadership, Peak Performance, Business Strategy, Motivational, Sports
- Bio: Shannon Rowbury is a three-time Olympian, Olympic bronze medalist, and two-time World bronze medalist who brings world-class performance tools to business and leadership environments. As the creator of Medalist Mindset™, Shannon helps leaders and teams strengthen resilience, improve performance under pressure, and build a mindset for long-term success.

### Noah Cheyer
*Built custom AI tools used by over 2,000 event professionals worldwide*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/noah-cheyer
- Type: both
- Based in: San Francisco
- Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work
- Bio: Growing up as the son of Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer, AI always felt unapproachable to Noah Cheyer. It wasn't until the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, Noah realized that you didn't need to be technically minded or in AI for 40 years to find tangible value in the technology. Helping launch Speak About AI, he booked top experts in AI for Fortune 100 corporations and events everywhere from Brazil to Korea.

### Zach Rattner
*AI Founder & CTO with physical industry customers in 20+ countries*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/zach-rattner
- Type: both
- Based in: San Diego, CA
- Topics: Sales, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work, Technology, Cybersecurity
- Bio: Zach Rattner is an AI founder, inventor, and keynote speaker with 25+ patents. As CTO & Co-Founder of Yembo, he built an AI platform used in 20+ countries. Author of Grow Up Fast: Lessons from an AI Startup, he helps organizations implement AI that amplifies human capability.

### Adam Cheyer
*Co-Creator of Siri and 5x founder at the intersection of AI and human potential*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/adam-cheyer
- Type: keynote
- Based in: Oakland, California
- Topics: Sales, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work, Technology, Business Strategy, Motivational
- Bio: Adam Cheyer is a pioneer in AI and intelligent user interfaces. As an entrepreneur, Adam helped start five successful companies – he was co-founder of Siri (sold to Apple to build the Siri assistant - 2B devices); of Viv Labs (sold to Samsung to build their new voice assistant - 500M devices); of Sentient (large scale machine learning company sold to Cognizant - 2M CPUs/GPUs); of GamePlanner.ai (AI tools to help the world make better decisions, sold to Airbnb), and founding member of Change.org (the world's largest petition platform with 500M+ members). Adam has authored more than 60 publications and 50 patents. He is also an award-winning magician, having performed for Presidents in palaces, in stadiums for students, and on television for Penn and Teller.

### Maya Ackerman
*CEO of WaveAI & AI Professor at Santa Clara University*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/maya-ackerman
- Type: both
- Based in: San Francisco, California
- Topics: Women, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work, Technology, Education, Motivational, STEM, Creativity
- Bio: Dr. Maya Ackerman is a world-renowned AI researcher, entrepreneur, and musician and artist who has pioneered human-centered generative AI since 2015. As CEO of WaveAI and Professor at Santa Clara University, she bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world creative applications. Named a "Woman of Influence" by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, she has spoken at the United Nations, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, Stanford, and Oxford University.

### Milly Tamati
*Founder of Generalist World — built a 150,000-person global movement from a Scottish island with 191 residents*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/milly-tamati
- Type: both
- Based in: Scottish Highlands, Scotland, UK
- Topics: Women, Innovation, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Future of Work
- Bio: Milly Tamati is the founder of Generalist World, a 150,000+ person global movement championing non-linear careers and the power of generalists. From a remote Scottish island with just 191 residents, she built a multi-six-figure bootstrapped business with 47,000+ newsletter subscribers, 700+ paid community members, and brand partnerships with Notion, Canva, Zapier, Reddit, and Lovable — all with no funding, no VC, and no traditional playbook. A proven keynote speaker and event MC, Milly has held stages at Websummit, SXSW London Global House, Turing Fest, and universities across the UK. She helps organizations understand why generalist talent is their greatest competitive advantage in the age of AI.

### Chris Barton
*Founder & Creator of Shazam, Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Tech Investor*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/chris-barton
- Type: keynote
- Topics: Sales, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Motivational, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Technology
- Bio: Best known as the creator of Shazam — the first mass consumer AI product — Chris Barton inspires audiences to believe in the impossible through his "Start From Zero" thinking. He held key roles at Google and Dropbox, holds 12 patents, and founded Guard AI.

### Mo Tiwari
*Ex-OpenAI researcher, Stanford CS PhD bridging cutting-edge AI with real-world impact*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/mo-tiwari
- Type: keynote
- Based in: San Francisco, California
- Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Technology, Cybersecurity
- Bio: Mo Tiwari is currently a Staff Research Scientist at Google. He was previously a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. With a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford (advised by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Piech) and a BS in Mathematics and Physics from Caltech, he brings deep expertise in AI and machine learning to the stage. His career spans OpenAI, Facebook (ThreatExchange), and Expanse (acquired for $800M by Palo Alto Networks), plus research at CERN. A J.P. Morgan AI Research Fellow with 20+ peer-reviewed papers at top venues, Mo translates bleeding-edge AI research into actionable strategies for business leaders.

### Drue Kataoka
*Visual AI pioneer who has keynoted at Davos, Milken Global, the Vatican Academy of Pontifical Sciences, and the world's most prestigious stages*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/drue-kataoka
- Type: both
- Based in: Los Altos, CA
- Topics: Women, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Motivational, Creativity
- Bio: Drue Kataoka is an award-winning authority on visual generative AI, and its impact on business, leadership, and innovation. Her keynotes empower audiences to think visually, act strategically, and lead boldly in the AI era. As a serial entrepreneur who built a global technology art studio from scratch, serving collectors in over 30 countries, Drue brings firsthand insight into innovation, reinvention, and scaling ideas that matter.

### Philip Lakin
*Director of AI Transformation at Zapier and the operator companies call when AI adoption stalls, with 1,000+ hours turning enterprise teams from AI-curious to AI-capable*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/philip-lakin
- Type: both
- Based in: Atlanta, GA
- Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work, Innovation, Leadership, Technology
- Bio: Phil Lakin is Zapier's Director of AI Transformation and the person companies call when AI adoption stalls. He co-founded NoCodeOps, the enterprise automation community Zapier acquired in 2024, and has spent more than 1,000 hours in the field helping enterprise teams move past AI theater into real, daily practice. A former working actor turned operator, he is unusually at home on stage: hands-on, interactive, and focused on getting people building rather than watching slides. His forthcoming book, Figure It Out People, gives language to the quiet problem-solvers who hold modern companies together.

### Bryan McCann
*Anthropic Researcher & Unicorn Founder*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/bryan-mccann
- Type: both
- Based in: United States
- Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Innovation, Future of Work, Education
- Bio: Bryan McCann is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. His work focuses on the grounding problem in AI — the question of how language models source claims about the world, and what happens when that sourcing fails. He came to AI from philosophy at Stanford, and his earlier research on contextualized word vectors (CoVe), unified multitask learning (decaNLP), controllable text generation (CTRL), and language-model approaches to dialogue helped shape how the field thinks about transfer learning and large language models today. Before Anthropic, he co-founded and served as CTO of you.com.

### AJ Eckstein
*Founder & CEO of Creator Match | LinkedIn Creator Economy Expert*
- Profile: https://www.svsb.ai/speakers/aj-eckstein
- Type: both
- Based in: Austin, Texas
- Topics: Future of Work, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy
- Bio: AJ Eckstein is founder and CEO of Creator Match, a B2B influencer-marketing platform connecting brands with top LinkedIn creators. He's a LinkedIn Learning instructor with 150,000+ students, a contributor to Fast Company and Business Insider, and a TEDx and keynote speaker who has presented at 50+ events including SXSW, VidCon, and the 1 Billion Followers Summit.

## Speaker Topics

- [AI Keynote Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/keynote-speakers/artificial-intelligence)
- [Innovation Keynote Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/keynote-speakers/innovation)
- [Leadership Keynote Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/keynote-speakers/leadership)
- [Future of Work Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/keynote-speakers/future-of-work)
- [Peak Performance Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/keynote-speakers/peak-performance)
- [Entrepreneurship Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/keynote-speakers/entrepreneurship)

## Event Types

- [Sales Kickoff Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/events/sales-kickoffs)
- [Leadership Retreat Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/events/leadership-retreats)
- [Customer Conference Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/events/customer-conferences)
- [Annual Meeting Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/events/annual-meetings)
- [Team Offsite Speakers](https://www.svsb.ai/events/team-offsites)

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## For More Detail

- [Full speaker details with talks and credentials](https://www.svsb.ai/llms-full.txt)

## Contact

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