Zack Kass (US)

As the former Head of Go-to-Market at OpenAI, Zack Kass played a key role in translating cutting-edge AI research into practical business applications, advising executives and building the teams responsible for OpenAI’s sales, partnerships, and customer success. A consultant and author, he continues to lead the conversation about what AI is capable of, how it can and will affect business and society, and separating the hype from the reality.

With over a decade of experience working in the AI industry, Zack has held leadership roles at LILT, an enterprise platform using AI to translate content, and Figure 8, an AI training data business. As Executive-in-Residence at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, he helps prepare the next generation of tech and business leaders for an AI-driven world. Whilst as Chair of PR firm Ruder Finn’s AI Advisory Council, he continues to support new ways to apply the technology.

Zack is the author of the acclaimed book The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential, in which he argues that AI is the greatest technological leap in history, and one that will redefine entire industries, unlock human productivity, and shape a materially better future. He challenges the tendency to tell a doom-laden narrative around artificial intelligence, preferring to focus on it’s potential to innovate, liberate and reinvent.

With the goal of sharing the potential of AI, demystify the technology, and helping society, business and policy-makers to be active participants in the future, Zack is a regular media guest and his ideas have appeared in Fortune, Newsweek, and Business Insider. Drawing on parallels with other technological revolutions, he enables organisations to understand AI and create robust strategies, including in his work with Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Amgen.