Keynote SpeakersBen Legg is a former COO of Google Europe, a three-time private equity-backed tech CEO and an AI keynote speaker.
His career runs from the British Army – where, as a Royal Engineers officer, he helped lead the relief of the Siege of Sarajevo – through McKinsey, the turnaround of Coca-Cola India, and hyperscaling at Google, where he wrote the monetisation blueprint for Search, YouTube and Mobile that is still in use today.
Today, Ben helps CEOs build agentic businesses and gives Wall Street investors operator-grade judgment on where value is being created and destroyed.
He advises five to ten senior leaders every week, from FTSE 100 boards to private equity firms and tech hyperscalers, and tracks $1.2bn in annual digital ad spend across more than 300 companies.
He has a documented record of calling shifts before consensus, from the GDPR non-event to the rise of AI-powered micro-businesses, and doesn’t just talk about AI; he builds with it daily.
Recent clients include Novo Nordisk, CVC, Tesco, DHL, AstraZeneca, Deloitte and SCG.
He is a regular commentator on Bloomberg, the FT, the BBC and The Times, the author of the award-winning “Marketing for CEOs: Death or Glory in the Digital Age”, and earlier founded The Portfolio Collective, a global community reshaping the future of work.
On stage, he is high-energy, candid and refreshingly practical, sending audiences away with a blueprint for what to do on Monday morning.
Ben Legg AI Keynote Speaker:
Ben Legg is a sought-after AI keynote speaker at major global events such as AdTech, Chief Disruptor, Future Car, The Future of Work Conference, and Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, as well as at internal conferences for Google, Coca-Cola, McKinsey, Samsung, and King Games.
Popular speaking themes include:
Beyond the Hype: How to Build an Agentic Business
Moving past AI theatre to real value – where to deploy AI first, how to redesign the work around it, and what to do on Monday morning.
The Liquid Organisation: Configuring your Business for Human + AI Collaboration
What the org chart looks like when bots start to outnumber humans, and how leaders shift their people from doers to designers of the machine.
Investing in an AI-Enabled World: Picking the likely Winners and Losers as AI becomes Ubiquitous
An operator’s lens on where value accrues as AI becomes ubiquitous, and how to separate the durable winners from those riding the wave on borrowed time.
