Tim Frank Andersen on stage in front of a large conference audience

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

Tim Frank Andersen

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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Speaking

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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.

29 Aug 2026
  1. 01

    OpenAI cuts off the coding tool Elon Musk just bought

    Ten weeks from now, the AI coding tool a very large share of developers use every day loses the models it was built around. OpenAI said yesterday it will shut off Cursor's access on November 12, two weeks after SpaceX bought Cursor. It says it cannot trust Elon Musk's businesses to stay inside its terms, pointing at Twitter and xAI breaking earlier agreements. Watch who actually pays here. The developers picked neither the buyer nor the fight, and they lose the tool they rely on anyway. Do you know who owns your most important suppliers this morning?

  2. 02

    A judge told the Pentagon it cannot punish an AI company for saying no

    Anthropic drew a line earlier this year: its models could not be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of American citizens. The Pentagon answered by labelling the company a supply-chain risk and barring the whole US military from using Claude. On Thursday a federal judge, Rita Lin, called that decision illegal and baseless, and unlawful retaliation against protected speech. I did not expect to read that sentence this year. The government is appealing, so this is far from over, but a court has now defended an AI company's right to refuse work on principle, and that protection did not exist on Wednesday.

  3. 03

    Meta puts robots on the data centre floor

    Two days ago Meta shelved its plan to hand employees' desk work to AI agents. It is now trying the floor instead, testing machines from robotics firms in the US, Canada and Switzerland that swap cables, restart servers and inspect equipment inside its data centres, according to Wired. A Meta employee reckons a working cable-swapping robot could take as much as eighty percent of the work in certain roles. Meta says the opposite, that it needs more skilled hands rather than fewer. The robots meanwhile run out of battery and get stuck in dense cabling, which tells you how early this still is.

  4. 04

    British performers want to own their own voice by law

    Around eighty performers, among them Hugh Bonneville and Nicola Coughlan, signed an open letter this week asking the UK government to make your voice something you legally own. The campaign behind it, Save Our Voices Now, says three seconds of audio is now enough to clone someone convincingly, and a petition sits on the government's own site alongside the letter. The model they point at is Denmark, where a bill giving people rights over their own face, voice and body is working its way through parliament. A voice is the cheapest part of a person to copy, and the same question runs underneath the Anthropic ruling above: who gets to say no.

  5. 05

    South Korea picked who will hand every citizen a free AI

    Most governments are still at the strategy stage. South Korea has picked the companies that will deliver one, choosing three consortia led by SK Telecom, KT and Kakao to give every resident a free chatbot plus an agent that can complete government paperwork for them. At least half of what runs underneath has to be a Korean-built model, and foreign models only where strictly necessary. A public test starts in October and the full service is meant to go live before the year is out. Europe is still writing the rulebook while Korea ships the product, and we will find out which bet paid off well before either is finished.

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