Phil Lakin

Phil speaks on practical AI adoption: how leaders and their teams go from being curious about AI to actually building with it. His talks draw on the program that took Zapier to a 97% AI-literacy rate and on more than 1,000 hours spent helping companies from early startups to UPS put AI to work.

Phil is a practitioner, not a commentator. He built and led Zapier's company-wide AI transformation, so his sessions come from having done the thing he teaches, and audiences leave having built something themselves.

Both. Phil delivers keynotes, but his signature format is hands-on: leaders build a working AI agent themselves before they leave the room, and his team sessions move a whole group from AI-curious to AI-capable.

Teams leave able to put AI to work on what they actually do day to day. Phil builds each session around a group's real scenarios, which is why leaders like Miro's CIO have called the learning hands-on and immediately useful.

Yes. Phil builds sessions around your team's actual workflows and industry rather than running a generic overview. That relevance is the point: participants work on scenarios they recognize, so the skills carry straight back to the job.

Phil works well with executive teams and full-company audiences, and fits leadership offsites, all-hands meetings, customer conferences, and sales kickoffs. He has worked with organizations ranging from two-person startups to enterprises like UPS, in person or virtually.