Kevin Surace
Internationally Recognized Futurist/Visionary/Inventor on Disruptive Innovation & Generative AIKevin is a top-ten motivational speaker on generative AI, disruptive innovation
and Joy=Success!. He is a Silicon Valley innovator, serial entrepreneur, CEO, TV personality and edutainer. Kevin has been featured by Businessweek, Time, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, FOX News, and has keynoted hundreds of events, from INC5000 to TED to the US Congress. He was INC Magazines’ Entrepreneur of the Year, a CNBC top Innovator of the Decade, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, Chair of Silicon Valley Forum, Planet Forward Innovator of the Year nominee, featured for 5 years on TechTV’s Silicon Spin, and inducted into RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame.
Known as the father of the Virtual Assistant & Voice User Interface, Mr. Surace
led pioneering work on the first cellular data smartphone (AirCommunicator), plastic multichip semiconductor packages, the first AI virtual assistant (Portico) including ONStar for General Motors and the core technologies underlying Siri, Alexa and all assistants, soundproof drywall, high R- value windows, AI-driven building management technology, one of the first Generative AI products in 2017 (for software quality), supply-chain multivariate auctions, next gen cybersecurity (Token) and the window/energy retrofits of the Empire State Building and NY Stock Exchange. He is an accomplished music director, conductor, award winning film and Broadway producer, and percussionist.