Move the room. Change how it decides.

Rahim Hirji is a London-based keynote speaker specialising in AI and human judgement, and the author of SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI (Kogan Page, 2026). He gives keynotes to boards, executive teams, leadership offsites and conferences, in person worldwide and online, on where human judgement has to remain as AI takes over the tasks. He founded the skills platform EtonX, later acquired by Eton College, and led Quizlet's international growth across more than 60 countries.

An AI keynote speaker helps a leadership audience understand what artificial intelligence changes about their work, their decisions and the skills their people need, in a single session of 30 to 90 minutes. The useful ones do less explaining of the technology and more equipping of the humans: what to protect, what to build, and what to do differently on Monday. His sessions focus on one question: as AI takes the tasks, where does human judgement have to remain?

A keynote is 30 to 90 minutes, built to change how a large audience thinks. A workshop is a half day or full day with a smaller group, built to change what they do. Many organisations book a keynote to open an event, then a workshop for the leadership team the following day. He delivers both.

Whichever word you use. A good number of the bookings are not main-stage keynotes at all: board sessions, leadership presentations, a briefing before a strategy day, a conference breakout, a fireside conversation.

The distinction that matters is not the label but the room. Forty minutes to eight hundred people at a conference and ninety minutes with twelve directors around a table are different pieces of work, and he builds them differently. The argument is the same; how much of it you can interrogate is not.

So tell him the room, the number of people and what you want different afterwards, and he will tell you which of these it is. If it turns out you want a working session rather than a talk, say so, because that changes the shape and it is usually the better buy.

His keynotes run 30 to 90 minutes depending on the slot, with optional audience Q&A and breakout facilitation. In person or virtual. Every session is tailored: he works with your team in advance to understand the room, the sector and what the event needs to achieve.

Six to twelve weeks is workable for most dates, and short notice is often possible from London. Three to six months is better for in-person keynotes that involve travel, and later slots in a calendar year fill first. Each city page carries the real lead time for that market rather than one number applied everywhere.

Yes. He is based in London and has delivered recently in Istanbul, Dubai, Singapore, Madrid and across Canada. He delivers across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America in person, and worldwide virtually. All sessions are in English.

A shared language for where judgement stays human, a way to locate their own organisation on the drift versus design matrix, and specific decisions they can act on the next morning.

Yes. Private board and executive sessions on AI and decision quality, distinct from conference keynotes: smaller room, more challenge, built around the decisions that organisation is actually facing.

Every keynote is tailored. Recent rooms include banking, logistics, law, advertising, higher education and technology, and the preparation includes conversations with your team beforehand. For the Kaplan retreat in Istanbul, Rahim interviewed students and families directly, unasked, to bring the room evidence it did not have.

Yes. A small number of slots each year are kept for schools, charities and universities. Ask, and be straightforward about budget; the answer is often yes.