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
Argentine police search a teenager's home after his ChatGPT chats reach the FBI
Should a chatbot company call the police? All year that argument has been about Canada, where OpenAI is being sued for banning the account of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter without telling police. OpenAI has since made it easier to alert them, and this week the opposite case played out near Buenos Aires. A 15-year-old asked ChatGPT how to attack his classmates, the FBI passed the conversations to Argentine police, and they searched his home on Wednesday. Nobody has explained officially how the FBI got the chats. Anyone at your company typing into a chatbot should assume a private firm decides when a conversation becomes a police matter.
- 02
Anthropic's CEO asks the AI industry to slow down. Altman and Musk agree
Days after Sam Altman's private offer to slow down leaked, Dario Amodei took the idea public. The CEO of Anthropic, the maker of Claude, argues in a Saturday essay that AI has sped up since the summer because models now help build their own successors. He warns that swarms of rogue AI agents could take over large parts of the internet within six to twelve months. Altman and Elon Musk agreed within hours, and Altman pushed OpenAI's stock market listing to 2027, citing safety. Critics say the plan names no speed limit and would keep newcomers out. I think both criticisms hold, and both mean the biggest labs get to set their own limit.
- 03
Meta cut its managers to become an AI company and now wants some of them back
Meta cut around 8,000 jobs in May, and managers were hit worst. The bet was that AI would make a flatter company work. Now, according to Business Insider, Meta is asking engineers in its new AI division whether they would like to lead teams again. It is voluntary and confined to one division, so call it a quiet correction. Somebody still has to set priorities, coordinate and say no, and building AI apparently needs more of that. I would treat it as a useful data point the next time your board is told AI makes middle managers unnecessary.
- 04
China's Ant Group teams up with Visa and Mastercard to write the rules for AI agents that pay
Before AI agents can book and pay for things on our behalf, a shop needs proof of who the agent is and that a real person authorised it. Ant Group, the Chinese company behind the payment app Alipay, wants to be the one that checks. At its Bund Summit in Shanghai on Friday, it said Alipay will launch an assistant that verifies an agent before it pays. Ant International, its overseas arm, is also working with Visa and Mastercard on a shared standard, so an agent verified once is recognised everywhere. Whoever writes a payment standard usually collects the toll. A Chinese firm now has a hand in writing this one.
- 05
The EU's own watchdog questions why Brussels made the chairman of Siemens its AI envoy
Europe's AI rules are being written with industry in the room. One of those seats is under formal scrutiny. The European Ombudsman, the watchdog for how EU institutions behave, has opened an inquiry into the Commission's choice of special envoy for industrial AI. The envoy is Jim Hagemann Snabe, the Danish chairman of Siemens. Campaign groups warned in June that he cannot be impartial while chairing a company that lobbies Brussels heavily, and the Commission never replied. Across this week the companies have been drafting the rules while public bodies struggle to keep up. Danish readers know Snabe from Maersk and SAP, and the Commission's silence is what bothers me.
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