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Gene Marks

Gene Marks

    • President and CEO of The Marks Group
    • Author & Small Business Management Columnist
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$20,000 - $30,000

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Travels From

Pennsylvania

Gene Marks Speaking Highlight Reel

Gene Marks Speaking Highlight Reel

Gene Marks Speaker Biography


Gene Marks is a best-selling author, business keynote speaker and columnist. Gene presents at over 70 live events per year — from Fortune 500 sales meetings and corporate groups, to large trade association conferences. His keynote presentations are funny, energetic, and packed with valuable content.

Gene helps business leaders understand the political, economic, operational and technological ISSUES AND TRENDS that will impact their companies. But most importantly, Gene provides ACTIONS they need to take to continue to grow and build a valuable company.

As an author, business owner, business keynote speaker and columnist for The Hill, The Guardian, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chicago Daily Herald, Gene has spent two decades both running a successful business and interacting with influential leaders across industries.

His role as a speaker is to be a vessel for your audience, reporting back to them what he’s learning and seeing all across the country so they can walk away with some good, tangible, actionable ways to navigate their companies around the challenges they face as they build value in their organizations.

Whether its navigating a slow economy, managing through inflation or finding and retaining the best talent, Gene Marks shares what his best clients, readers and business leaders in his community are doing to build value and grow their companies each year.

CHATGPT, AI, AND BEYOND
Game-Changing Technologies That Will Impact Your Industry *
How will AI impact your business this year? In 5 years? Where should you be investing? What's reality and what's hype? You’ve read about ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Google Gemini, and other AI tools that will be changing the way we work, both in the short and longer term. As a business leader you want to leverage this technology to increase both productivity and profits. So what should you know now? Where should you be investing?

During this fast-moving, informative and entertaining presentation, Forbes technologycolumnist and consultant Gene Marks, CEO of The Marks Group, will share will share histhoughts on the biggest technology and AI trends that will affect your industry in the near andlong term and help you make the right investment decisions.

After Gene's presentation, audience members will be able to:
-Understand the latest AI advancements from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI and how they will impact business operations.
-Leverage AI agents to improve productivity and streamline workflows.
-Analyze real-world AI implementations by major companies and assess their potential applications.
-Develop strategies to build AI solutions within their own business, similar to larger corporations.
-Optimize back-office functions like HR, Accounting, and CRM by integrating AI-driven tools.
-Identify industry-specific AI use cases and upcoming innovations to stay ahead of trends.
-Prepare their business and workforce for AI adoption by implementing data management strategies and policies.

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