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Sol Rashidi

    • Former Chief AI & Data Officer for Estée Lauder and Merck; now CEO of Executive AI, helping companies scale AI with measurable business outcomes
    • CSO for Cyber Security at Cyera and one of the first female Chief AI Officers — named to Forbes AI Mavericks and 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech
    • Holds 10 patents and wrote Your AI Survival Guide (Top 100 AI Book of 2024); recognized on the Global 100 Power List and Top 100 AI Leaders
    • Makes data, AI, and transformation initiatives actionable for C-suites, boards, and executive teams ready to lead in the Age of Intelligence
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$30,000 - $50,000

Virtual Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

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Florida

How to avoid becoming irrelevant | Sol Rashidi | TEDxNewAlbany

How to avoid becoming irrelevant | Sol Rashidi | TEDxNewAlbany

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Sol Rashidi Speaker Biography


Sol Rashidi doesn’t just talk about the future — she’s built it.

As one of the first Chief Data & AI Officers in the Fortune 100, Sol has led digital transformations inside some of the world’s most iconic brands — including Estée Lauder, Merck, Sony Music, and Royal Caribbean. She played a pivotal role in launching IBM’s Watson in 2011, one of the most ambitious AI projects in history, and has since helped global organizations deploy AI at scale across 70+ countries, generating over $1B in enterprise value along the way.

Equal parts technologist, strategist, and storyteller, Sol connects the boardroom to the backend in a way few leaders can. She’s held C-suite roles across eight major industries, holds 10 patents in data and AI, and is a trusted advisor to CEOs, boards, and executive teams looking to move beyond buzzwords and into real business impact.

Her keynote speeches bridge the gap between vision and execution — making complex concepts like AI, machine learning, and data governance relatable, actionable, and even entertaining. Whether she’s advising Fortune 100 boards or addressing thousands on stage, Sol helps leaders understand one thing clearly: innovation isn’t about shiny tools — it’s about the systems, culture, and decisions that make transformation stick.

Named to dozens of global power lists — including Top 100 AI Leaders, Top 10 Global Women in AI, Chief Analytics Officer of the Year, and Forbes AI Maverick of the 21st Century — Sol continues to redefine what’s possible when technology meets bold leadership.

She is also the CEO of Executive AI and CSO for Cyber Security at Cyera, and the author of Your AI Survival Guide, a bestselling playbook for business leaders navigating the real-world messiness of AI deployment.

If your organization is ready to move from experimentation to execution in the Age of Intelligence, Sol Rashidi is the guide you’ve been looking for.

The New Workforce of the Future, the AI + Human Workforce

As some employees adopt AI, while others resist it, AI will undoubtedly be a part of a company fabric no matter what scale of AI you’re deploying and it will come in various forms, the adoption of AI Agents, AI Models, and/or embedded AI systems (like Microsofts co-pilot, Salesforce, Snowflake, etc). What should you do to prepare for this human +AI workforce integration? What should you look out for? What assumptions won’t hold true? How should your HR, Leadership, and Middle-Management teams proactively plan for whats to come in the next 1-3 years.


Your New Organizational Operating Model after AI

The goal of AI is to amplify and accelerate what we do best in order to do MORE with the SAME (not less). So how do you prepare your organization model post-launch? What is the new Operating Model after deployment? What considerations and assumptions do you need to know NOW to achieve your ROI, establish a regenerative growth model, and drive “Catalytic commerce” – where AI as an enabler that creates compounding value generation vs. taking a one-time slingshot approach with barely any returns.


AI: Fact or Fiction

Geared for Non-Technologists who want to make sense of the AI world and what it entails, this conversation gets past the ‘Art of the Possible’ and into the ‘World of the Practical’. A majority of us aren’t technologist, so its important to understand what all this means today, for the future, and how to best be prepare for it personally and professionally. It also discusses the hype, the marketing, whats fact vs. fiction, and how to tell the difference.


The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Ugly sides of Innovation

While many companies strive to be innovative, nearly 76% of all innovation projects fail and nearly 92% fall short of expected results. This conversation focuses on how to avoid the pitfalls and quicksand of innovation and why BUSINESS VALUE is not the metric of choice when choosing your innovation projects. It also discusses, how to make sense of the new world of CXO’s where the boundaries of technology have expanded past the CIO. How should one think through the division of labor, motivating a work force that can be apprehensive or resistant towards the latest advents of today, and how to forecast innovation projects.


Enterprise Data: Why all the FUSS

Many organizations are focused on being ‘Data Centric’, ‘Data Driven’, and monetizing on data because its the new enterprise oil. However, most organizations fail to make the pivot, with nearly 73% of organizations fall short of what they set out to accomplish with their data strategy. This discussion will go into all the reasons ‘Why’, and what we can do to course correct, evangelize, and create a movement that will build a last legacy with data. Everyone can be data-centric without removing the creativity, critical thinking, and experience we bring to the table.


How to Be Responsible & Safe with AI

With the advent of AI and with nearly 86% of organizations investing in AI-based capabilities, its been proven that AI is not a fad or a trend that will go away. However, what we can’t measure are the economical and moral impacts AI will have on our society. Like parents, who are the caretakers of children, their responsibilities are to teach children right from wrong and to embed a moral compass in each of us. Similarly, WE as humans are the caretakers of AI, also teaching it right from wrong, yet we’re at a cross roads with moral compass because of the biases, poor practices, falsification, and misinformation we’re helping it propogate. I will share a personal story of how ‘fake news’ almost ruined my 20+ career and how I caught it, and how to embed safer and responsible practices for AI.


Why All Leaders Should Go Rogue

Change is hard. Disruption is hard. With the pace of change being the fastest its ever been, leaders have an unfair advantage in todays world. Constantly distracted by messages and emails, combined with the pressures of motivating teams, aligning strategic priorities, balancing workloads, and all while innovating, leaders are not set up to succeed, UNLESS THEY GO ROGUE. This discussion is all about finding the rogue in us. The leader who focuses on not being busy, but being productive. The leader who lets go of the need to respond in exchange for the need to reflect. Leaders who in spite of resistance can see beyond the trees and around the corner, and put forth passion and relentless pursuit to achieve what needs to be accomplished, and all while staying sane. This discussion is about managing our energy so we can show up in the right way, in the right time, and for the right people to drive change and create outcomes.

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