AI keynote speaker for London and UK events: AI shown working, live
Hitesh Motwani is a corporate AI trainer and author who speaks at conferences, leadership offsites, L&D summits and company town halls. Every keynote is built around live demonstrations on real work, so the room sees what AI can do today and leaves with three or four things to try the next morning. Live in London by arrangement, or virtual on UK hours.
- ✓Seven keynote topics — AI at work, leadership, agentic AI, AI literacy and more
- ✓Keynote, fireside chat, panel or keynote + workshop — 20 to 90 minutes
- ✓Tailored to your sector and audience — after a free briefing call
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Booking an AI keynote speaker in the UK: the essentials
If you are planning a conference, leadership offsite or all-company event in London or elsewhere in the UK and need a speaker who makes AI practical rather than abstract, this is the one-minute version.
| Speaker | Hitesh Motwani, corporate AI trainer, author of Generative AI 360° and visiting faculty at K J Somaiya Institute of Management |
| Speaks on | Making AI stick at work, hands-on AI for leaders, agentic AI for business, AI literacy for whole organisations, AI return on investment, responsible AI and a live on-stage AI build |
| Formats | Opening or closing keynote, fireside chat, panel, keynote + hands-on workshop, virtual keynote, leadership briefing |
| Length | 20–30 minutes (short slot) to 45–60 minutes (full keynote); workshops from half a day |
| Delivery in the UK | Live in London and other UK cities by arrangement, or virtual and hybrid on UK hours (GMT/BST). Based in Mumbai; no UK office |
| Audience | Conferences, leadership teams, L&D and HR summits, company town halls, industry associations, sales kick-offs |
| Fee | Quoted per event, based on format, length, tailoring and travel |
| To book | Check availability with your date, or book a free call |
Hitesh is a practitioner rather than a futurist. He spends most of his working week training company teams to use ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Gemini and AI agents on their own emails, reports, spreadsheets and decks. His keynotes come from that work: what people actually struggle with, what changes their habits and what leaders need to decide. That is why the talks lean on live demonstrations and concrete next steps rather than predictions about 2040.
Seven AI keynote topics for UK audiences
Each topic is a starting point. After the briefing call it is tailored to your sector, your audience’s seniority, the tools your organisation has approved and the theme of your event.
Making AI stick at work: from licences to daily habits
Many organisations have bought AI licences and seen little change in how work gets done. This talk explains why, and what moves people from trying AI once to using it every day.
- Why usage drops after the launch email
- Live demo: a real weekly task, redone with AI in minutes
- The three habits that make AI part of the job
- What managers should ask for on Monday
Best for: company town halls, L&D summits, transformation events
The AI-first leader: hands-on AI for leadership teams
Leaders set the pace of AI adoption by how they use it themselves. This keynote puts the tools in leaders’ hands and covers the decisions only they can make.
- Live demo: a board paper and a decision memo built with AI
- Where AI pays off first, and where it does not yet
- Building an AI-fluent leadership team
- Questions to ask before funding the next AI project
Best for: leadership offsites, CXO summits, board away-days
From chatbots to agents: agentic AI for business
AI has moved from answering questions to carrying out multi-step tasks. This talk separates what agents can reliably do today from the marketing, and shows one working.
- What changed between chatbots and AI agents
- Live demo: an agent completing a real research or reporting task
- Where agents need human review and guardrails
- What the shift means for roles and processes
Best for: technology and innovation conferences, operations leaders
AI literacy for the whole organisation
AI won’t replace your people, but people who use AI well will outpace those who don’t. A high-energy talk that turns AI anxiety into practical confidence for every role.
- What AI is good at, and where it makes things up
- Live demo: three everyday tasks for non-technical staff
- What never to paste into an AI tool
- A simple personal plan for the next 30 days
Best for: all-employee events, town halls, conferences with mixed audiences
AI return on investment: separating signal from hype
For CFOs and leaders deciding where AI money goes. How to judge AI spend like any other investment, and how to tell whether it is working.
- How to estimate value before you buy
- Common ways AI budgets get wasted
- A simple way to measure adoption and benefit
- The questions every CFO should ask
Best for: finance leadership events, investment committees, strategy days
Responsible AI without killing momentum
Plain-language guidance on privacy, accuracy, bias and accountability, so teams can move quickly inside sensible rules. It complements, and never replaces, your legal and compliance advice.
- The real risks of ungoverned AI use
- What a usable AI policy contains
- Checking AI output before it reaches a client
- Guardrails that people actually follow
Best for: governance, risk and compliance events, public-sector audiences
Live AI build: watch something get made on stage
A signature closing keynote. Starting from a blank screen, Hitesh builds a small working tool or deliverable with AI, taking suggestions from the audience as he goes.
- A real build, not a recorded video
- Audience-suggested features, added live
- What the process reveals about how AI works
- Why the people who learn this now pull ahead
Best for: flagship conference closers, innovation days, sales kick-offs
Every topic can be tailored to
- Your sector: financial services, professional services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, education and more
- Your audience: board, senior leaders, managers or all staff
- Your tools: ChatGPT, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude or Gemini
- Your event theme, slot length and the message you want people to leave with
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Tell us about your event. Get dates, format and a quote.
Share your date, city or venue, audience size and theme. Hitesh’s team will confirm availability and suggest a topic and format that fit. Prefer to talk first? Book a free call.
- ✓Live in London by arrangement, or virtual on UK hours
- ✓Talk tailored to your sector and audience
- ✓Reply from Hitesh’s team, usually within one working day
Keynote, fireside chat, panel or keynote + workshop
Pick the format that fits your agenda. All formats include live demonstrations, and all can be tailored to your audience.
| Format | Typical length | Best for | How it is delivered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote | 45–60 minutes, including Q&A | Opening or closing a conference or summit | Live in London or the UK by arrangement, or virtual |
| Short keynote | 20–30 minutes | Packed agendas, award dinners, team kick-offs | Live or virtual |
| Fireside chat | 30–45 minutes | A conversation with your CEO or host, with audience questions | Live, virtual or hybrid |
| Panel | Your panel slot | Adding a practitioner’s view to a wider AI discussion | Live or remote panellist |
| Keynote + workshop | Keynote, then a half-day or full-day hands-on session | Turning the keynote’s energy into working habits | Workshop live in London by arrangement, or live online |
| Virtual keynote | 30–60 minutes | Distributed UK teams, hybrid events, multi-country audiences | Live (not pre-recorded) on Zoom, Teams, Webex or your event platform |
| Leadership briefing | 90 minutes to half a day | Board or executive team deciding where AI goes first | Live or virtual, closed room |
Virtual keynotes on UK time
Hitesh is based in Mumbai, which makes UK time zones straightforward. A virtual keynote is delivered live in your slot, with the same demonstrations screen-shared to every attendee and live Q&A through your platform’s chat or a moderator.
| Your UK slot | Time in Mumbai in winter (GMT) | Time in Mumbai in summer (BST) |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 opening keynote | 14:30 | 13:30 |
| 13:00 after-lunch session | 18:30 | 17:30 |
| 16:30 closing keynote | 22:00 | 21:00 |
India Standard Time is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT and 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of BST, so the whole UK working day falls in the Indian afternoon and evening. Virtual keynotes run live in your slot.
Who books an AI keynote speaker, and why
Event organisers usually want one of three things from an AI keynote: to reassure a nervous audience, to wake up a complacent one, or to help leaders make decisions. The talk is shaped around which of these you need.
| Who books | What the talk does for the event | Topics that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Conference and summit organisers | An opening or closing keynote that makes AI concrete and gives delegates something to talk about | Chatbots to agents; Live AI build; AI literacy |
| Leadership offsites and board away-days | A frank, hands-on session that gets leaders using AI themselves and agreeing priorities | The AI-first leader; AI return on investment |
| L&D and HR summits | A practical view of how AI skills are actually built and measured across a workforce | Making AI stick at work; AI literacy |
| Company town halls and all-hands | Energy and reassurance about AI, plus a clear next step for every role | AI literacy; Making AI stick at work |
| Industry and trade associations | A sector-specific look at where AI is already changing the work of members | Any topic, tailored to the sector |
| Sales and team kick-offs | A short, high-energy session with demos people can copy the same week | Live AI build; Making AI stick at work |
Events across London and the UK
- Conferences and summits, whether in the City, Canary Wharf or a venue outside London
- In-house leadership offsites and strategy days
- L&D, HR and people-leader summits
- All-company town halls, in person or hybrid
- Client events hosted by consultancies, banks and law firms
Audiences he speaks to
- Boards, founders and CXOs
- Senior and middle managers
- Mixed, non-technical audiences of every function
- Finance, HR, sales, marketing and operations teams
- Technical teams curious about agents and automation
What your audience leaves with
A good AI keynote changes what people do the next day. These are the outcomes every talk is designed around; they are aims, not guaranteed results.
A clear picture of AI in 2026
What today’s tools can and cannot do, without hype or doom, explained in the language of your sector.
AI seen working, live
Real tasks done on stage: a report summarised, a proposal drafted, an analysis built, an agent completing a job.
Three or four next steps
Specific things to try the next morning, sized for each role, so the talk turns into practice.
Confidence, not anxiety
A practical way to think about AI in their own job, and the rules for using it safely at work.
| What organisers ask for | How Hitesh’s keynote handles it |
|---|---|
| Something more than slides about the future | Live demonstrations of AI doing real work, chosen for your audience |
| Relevance to non-technical staff | Examples from finance, HR, sales, operations and management, not only code |
| A message that survives the coffee break | Three or four specific actions, written on the final slide and in a short follow-up note |
| Honesty about limits and risk | Where AI is unreliable, what not to paste in and why output must be checked |
| Fit with the tools you already pay for | Demos on ChatGPT, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude or Gemini, matched to your stack |
What a live demo looks like on stage
Demonstrations are chosen during tailoring so they match your audience. These are typical examples, using sample or sanitised material, never your confidential data unless you supply and approve it.
Board pack to decision memo
A long, messy board pack goes in; a one-page summary with risks, open questions and a recommendation comes out, and Hitesh shows how to check it.
Policy questions answered
A sample policy is loaded and staff questions are answered in the company’s tone, with the gaps and errors the AI makes shown openly.
Variance commentary in minutes
A budget-versus-actual sheet becomes draft commentary, then one key number is rebuilt by hand to show why review still matters.
An agent doing a multi-step job
An AI agent researches a market question, gathers sources and assembles a short brief, while the audience sees each step it takes.
From enquiry to keynote in four steps
Booking is simple and there is no obligation until you confirm. Most of the work happens in tailoring, so the talk fits your room.
Enquiry
Send your date, city or venue, audience size and theme through the availability form or WhatsApp. You get a reply with availability, usually within one working day.
Brief call
A free 15–30 minute call with you or your event team: audience, objectives, slot, format and any sensitivities. Book it here.
Tailoring
A proposed title and outline, demos matched to your audience and tools, and a run-through of AV and timings. Speaker bio, headshot and abstract are supplied for your programme.
Delivery and follow-up
The keynote on the day, live or virtual, with Q&A. Afterwards, a short note of the key actions, and an optional hands-on workshop for teams who want to go further.
Speaking in London and the UK: how delivery works
Straight answers on where Hitesh is based, how in-person bookings work and what the venue needs.
Live in London, by arrangement
- Hitesh is based in Mumbai and has no UK office
- In-person keynotes in London and other UK cities are arranged per event, typically for conferences, larger audiences and leadership sessions
- Travel and accommodation are agreed up front and shown separately in the quote
- Pairing a keynote with a workshop the same week makes the trip better value
Virtual or hybrid, on UK hours
- Delivered live in your UK slot, not pre-recorded
- Works on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex or your event platform
- Live demos are screen-shared at full resolution for every attendee
- Hybrid: in-room audience on the big screen, remote attendees on the stream, one Q&A queue
What the venue needs (in person)
- Projector or LED screen with HDMI or USB-C input from a laptop
- A reliable, preferably wired, internet connection for live demos
- Lapel or headset microphone; a handheld for Q&A
- A confidence monitor if available, and a 20-minute tech check
What helps a virtual keynote
- A tech rehearsal on your platform a day or two before
- Presenter rights for screen sharing
- A moderator to read out chat questions
- Agreement in advance on whether the session is recorded
Hitesh Motwani, AI keynote speaker
Hitesh Motwani, AI keynote speaker and trainer
Hitesh’s day job is getting people to use AI on their own work: emails, reports, spreadsheets and decks. Teams complete real tasks in his sessions, so the time saved shows up the next morning, and across an organisation it compounds into faster execution. His keynotes bring that same practical, demo-first approach to the stage.
| Name | Hitesh Motwani |
| Role | Corporate AI trainer and keynote speaker; founder and lead trainer, Skillopedia |
| Experience | 17+ years training professionals; 200,000+ trained across 16+ countries |
| Clients include | Google, Microsoft and Tata Group |
| Author | Generative AI 360° (ZebraLearn, 2025) |
| Academic | Visiting faculty, K J Somaiya Institute of Management |
| Rating | 4.8★ average session rating |
| Expertise | LLMs, AI agents, prompt engineering and automation; leadership-focused AI training for founders and CXOs |
| Style | Practical and demo-led: AI shown on real work, with a clear next step |
| Based | Mumbai, India; speaks live in London by arrangement and virtually on UK hours |
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How to choose an AI keynote speaker for a UK event
Whoever you book, these questions will help you pick the right person. Speaker bureaus in London ask the same things.
Questions to ask first
- Which angle does your audience need? Risk and governance, operational results, or culture and adoption
- Practitioner or futurist? Practitioners show how to use AI now; futurists paint the long-term picture
- Does the speaker fit your sector and seniority? Ask for examples from audiences like yours
- Can they handle sceptics? Live Q&A with hard questions is a good test
- What happens after the talk? A workshop or follow-up turns energy into habits
Where Hitesh fits
- A practitioner: his keynotes come from training teams every week
- Strongest on the operational and adoption angles, with practical governance
- Best for audiences who need to use AI, not only hear about it
- If you need a long-range futurist or a deep AI-ethics academic, a specialist in that field may suit you better, and we will say so
Booking an AI keynote speaker in the UK: common questions
Fees, travel, virtual delivery, AV and tailoring. If your question is not here, ask us directly.
It depends on what you need the audience to do afterwards. If you want people to leave able to use AI on their own work, choose a practitioner who demonstrates live. Hitesh Motwani is a corporate AI trainer and author of Generative AI 360° who has trained 200,000+ professionals across 16+ countries, and speaks in London by arrangement or virtually on UK hours. See how to choose an AI keynote speaker.
Hitesh’s fee is quoted per event, based on format, length, how much tailoring is needed, and whether the talk is in person (with travel) or virtual. As a reference point, one UK speaker agency’s 2026 guide puts most AI keynote fees between £5,000 and £50,000. Send your date and format through the form for a quote.
Yes, by arrangement. He is based in Mumbai and has no UK office, so in-person keynotes in London and other UK cities are arranged per event, with travel agreed up front. Many organisers pair the keynote with a workshop the same week.
Yes. Virtual keynotes are delivered live in your UK slot on Zoom, Teams, Webex or your event platform. The UK working day falls in the Indian afternoon and evening, so morning, afternoon and closing slots all work. See formats and time zones.
Seven core topics: making AI stick at work, the AI-first leader, agentic AI for business, AI literacy for the whole organisation, AI return on investment, responsible AI, and a live AI build closing keynote. Each is tailored to your sector and audience. See keynote topics.
Yes, every talk is. After a briefing call, the title, examples and live demos are matched to your sector, your audience’s seniority, the AI tools you use and your event theme. Past corporate clients include Google, Microsoft and Tata Group, along with ONGC, HPCL, Adani, HUL, Flipkart, Siemens and Pfizer.
A full keynote runs 45–60 minutes including Q&A. Short keynotes of 20–30 minutes suit packed agendas, fireside chats run 30–45 minutes, and a keynote plus workshop can fill half a day or a full day.
Yes. Demos run live on stage using current AI tools, with sample or sanitised material. A backup is prepared in case the venue internet fails, but the default is always live, because seeing AI work in real time is what makes the point.
A screen or projector with HDMI or USB-C input, a reliable (ideally wired) internet connection for live demos, a lapel or headset microphone, a handheld microphone for Q&A and a short tech check before the session. A confidence monitor helps but is not essential.
Yes, and it is the best way to turn a keynote into lasting change. The workshop is hands-on: people complete their own tasks with AI while Hitesh reviews prompts and output. Half-day and full-day options run live in London by arrangement or live online.
Yes. He can join a fireside chat with your CEO or host, or sit on a panel in person or remotely, and is comfortable taking unscripted audience questions on AI at work, agents, risk and adoption.
Usually, yes. Recording and internal sharing are agreed during booking. Tell us if you plan to publish the recording externally so it can be covered in the agreement.
As early as you can, especially for in-person keynotes that need travel. Send your date through the availability form and you will hear back, usually within one working day, whether it is free.
More from Hitesh for UK organisations
Many organisations book a keynote and then a workshop for the teams who want to go further. These pages cover the training side.
| If you are looking for | Go to |
|---|---|
| An AI keynote speaker for a London or UK event | This page |
| Hands-on generative AI training for a UK team | generative AI training in the UK |
| A comparison of AI trainers in London | top generative AI trainers in London |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot training for a London team | Copilot corporate training in London |
| A speaker for an event in India | AI speaker for conferences in India |
| A speaker for an event in the UAE | AI keynote speaker in Dubai |
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