Keynote SpeakersDaniël Rood is a Google executive and AI keynote speaker who built a billion-dollar Generative AI business from the ground up, driving innovation worldwide.
Daniël leads Google’s AI business in Western Europe. He built Google Cloud’s first European AI team and now works with enterprise leaders on putting AI, and increasingly AI agents, into production at scale.
Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at SAP and Dow Jones.
He speaks on what AI changes for strategy, budgets and operating models, and keeps the stage honest with live demos: he was Chief Demo Officer at Google Cloud Next ’25.
As Director of AI Go-to-Market (GTM) for Google Cloud, he leads the commercial effort to help enterprises adopt the latest AI technology at scale. After building Google’s first AI team in Europe, Daniël architected and executed the GTM strategy that took Google Cloud’s AI business from zero to over $1B in annual recurring revenue in under three years.
His success stems from a rare ability to bridge high-growth technology and complex enterprise needs. He fundamentally reimagined the commercial engine through an AI-first lens, developing the playbook that others now follow. His unique perspective comes from leading both Google’s AI Startups division and its highly regulated Financial Services EMEA business, giving him unmatched experience scaling innovation from scrappy startups to the world’s most complex institutions.
This in-the-trenches experience has made him a trusted advisor to the C-suite. He doesn’t just talk theory; he partners with leaders to solve their live, high-stakes challenges in AI implementation, commercial strategy, and cultural transformation.
As a keynote speaker, Daniël Rood cuts through the media hype to deliver the realities of AI transformation.
He gives organisations a proven, operational playbook for this new era. What sets Daniël apart is his ability to make the abstract tangible; he moves audiences beyond simple AI model prompting by bringing strategy to life with exciting live demonstrations of how AI applies to critical business processes.
He reveals what agentic AI truly means for revenue, why traditional business metrics are breaking, and how to master fundamentals before deploying agents at scale or risk automating the path to failure faster.
Daniël Rood delivers the candid AI strategy that only a proven operator can.
Daniël Rood Speeches – AI, AI Strategy, and Agentic AI
- Why AI changes which ideas a company can afford to pursue.
- Running AI agents in production: What breaks, who can stop them, and what to budget for.
- AI and cyber: How AI changes both attack and defence, and what leaders should do about it.
- The Tokenomics of AI: What AI really costs to run, and how that shapes strategy and budgets.
- From AI that knows to AI that does: Agentic AI in go-to-market and the P&L.
