
An internationally acclaimed Swedish AI keynote speaker, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and corporate advisor specializing in enterprise AI adoption, digital commerce, and innovation
$25,000 + $2,500 flat expenses + hotel
Karl Lillrud has spent 30 years at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, customer behavior and business transformation. Today he works with leaders on AI, data, digital commerce, innovation and organizational change, while continuing to build and pressure test AI systems in practice. As a global keynote speaker, Karl is known for making complex technology useful to executive and mixed audiences. Rather than predicting a distant future, he focuses on capabilities that already exist and the decisions organizations need to make now. He is a two time TEDx speaker, the author of nine books including AI Your Second Brain: Evolve or Go Extinct, ranked #16 among Global Gurus 2026 Top 30 Motivational Speakers, and a Thinkers360 2026 Top 10 thought leader (Digital Twins #8), also ranked in its Top 50 for Artificial Intelligence (#48) and Generative AI (#36). He is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.
Keynote #1 : Agent-Ready: How to Win When Customers Send AI Agents
Your next customer may be an AI agent. Karl Lillrud, the ecommerce and pricing entrepreneur behind Pricelizer, shows leaders how to become the company agents choose, and how to turn AI pilots into profit while they do it.