Keynote speaker & moderator on AI and technology
Tim FrankAndersen
I’ve worked in tech for 30 years. Right now the big shift is AI
- I help organisations understand what’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for them.
About
Thirty years in tech - from founding one of Denmark’s first digital agencies to co-founding Institute of AI. Author, tech expert on TV, and advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands.
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Format 01
Keynote - The AI Explosion
What’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for you. Live demos, honest answers, and a look at the next 12-24 months, which will change our world.
Format 02
Moderator
The person tying it all together - sharp questions and a clear thread through your conference.
What organisers say
Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews.
“I’ve heard plenty of talks about AI, and never found it more captivating or relevant than yours.”
Rikke Ekelund
“He inspired us all. Not a generic set of examples, but real, recent insight - told with genuine care for the work we do.”
Marc Amin
“Thank you for an extremely exciting talk - on a topic every company will relate to. Exciting to think about where we’ll be in 5 years: we must see opportunities, not limitations.”
Gitte Taulov Rude, Senior Business Advisor, Danske Bank
Updated every day
Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter
Curated by Tim, every morning.
- 01
The world's biggest humanoid robot maker finally has a public price
Until this week nobody could tell you what a humanoid robot company is really worth, because none of them traded anywhere. Unitree, the Chinese firm that shipped more walking robots last year than anyone else on earth, priced its Shanghai listing on Thursday at around nine billion dollars. Here is what makes that number interesting: America's Figure, which sells almost nothing, carries a private valuation four times higher. Unitree's growth has already slowed sharply and its quarterly profit fell by half. The market is about to tell us which of those two prices was fiction.
- 02
Canva cut its own growth forecast because AI was too expensive to serve
If you have put AI into a product your customers pay a flat monthly fee for, read this one twice. Canva, the design tool millions of businesses build their presentations in, has cut its growth forecast from thirty percent to twenty. Founder Melanie Perkins told shareholders plainly that the average cost of serving an AI task was simply too high, so they halted the rollout and rebuilt it on their own models rather than renting the big ones. Cost per task then fell ninety percent. It is the same bill Microsoft handed its own engineers on Wednesday, arriving this time on the revenue line.
- 03
Google borrowed twenty-five billion dollars for AI and was offered five times that
Google makes an enormous amount of money, so it is worth asking why it suddenly needs to borrow. On Thursday Alphabet went to the bond market for up to twenty-five billion dollars to fund its AI build-out, and investors put in orders worth a hundred and fifteen billion. Why it needs the cash showed up last quarter, when free cash flow went negative for the first time since Google listed in 2004. Not everyone gets this reception: the fund manager Fidelity has told clients to steer clear of new AI debt. When the safest borrower in tech starts paying interest to keep building, you are watching the real price of AI.
- 04
Google's biggest India investment is being fought over water and leopards
Every data centre story eventually stops being about computing and starts being about the town it lands in. Google is building a fifteen billion dollar hub in Visakhapatnam, its largest investment in India, next to a wildlife sanctuary that is home to leopards and pangolins. The city already delivers less water each day than its residents need, and rationing is normal there. Four separate court cases now demand a halt, with the first hearing on 24 August. Google says advanced air cooling will protect local water. Watch that hearing, because wherever you are planning capacity, this is the fight that now sets the timeline.
- 05
Nvidia's own researchers showed how cheap it has become to break into AI agents
The comforting assumption about attacks on AI agents has been that only well-funded attackers can afford them, since breaking into an agent meant paying for access to the best commercial models. At the Black Hat security conference on Thursday, two Nvidia researchers took that assumption apart. They tuned a free, downloadable model into a dedicated attack tool that matched the expensive ones at roughly a hundredth of the cost, runs entirely on the attacker's own machine, and leaves no trace with any provider. If you are rolling out agents that can click and buy on your behalf, price has stopped protecting you.
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