Speaking | The River Group

Not a talk about the technology. A talk about the decisions it is forcing on the executives who run the business, from someone who has sat in their seat.

What the talk is about. Agentic AI will make most companies faster at the work they already have, and a smaller number will use it to change what the work is. The talk is about the distance between faster and different, why that distance is where competitive position gets decided this cycle, and the decisions an executive has to take to close it. It is about operating strategy in the age of agentic AI rather than about models, platforms and what the technology can do.

What it is not. There is no AI platform to recommend and no implementation to sell, so nothing in the talk is steering anyone toward a purchase. The core questions are published for the same reason: what a client pays for is the outsider no team can be for itself, not access to the questions.

Formats. A keynote of forty-five to sixty minutes. A closed-door executive session, where the audience works the questions on their own outcomes rather than listening. Panels, both as a participant and as host, which Blaine does often. Podcasts and recorded interviews. Fees are set in conversation.

The record.