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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Two ways to book Tim
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
Anthropic is removing the human approval step, and the reason should worry you
Most AI governance comes down to one sentence, that a person approves what the machine does. Anthropic went and measured it. Users clicked approve on 97% of the prompts from Claude Code, its coding tool, so the check had become a reflex. From Friday it stops asking on paid plans and screens the dangerous actions itself, and in the same test the machine caught 89% of harmful actions while the humans caught 13.6%. Security researcher Simon Willison wants independent confirmation before he trusts that. Your own AI policy probably still says a person signs off somewhere. That line deserves a reread this week.
- 02
Two AI models cracked a 25-year-old problem in how your phone works
When your phone talks to a mast it sends several signals at once, and something has to separate them again. Doing that perfectly takes so long it is useless, and for 25 years nobody could find a fast route to the same answer. Dimitris Papailiopoulos, a researcher at Microsoft Research, put the question to GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5. They came back with different methods. He took Fable's, used GPT to find the holes in the proof, and a week later it was finished. He checked every step himself and it has not been peer reviewed. Read it next to the story above: here the human in the loop earned the job.
- 03
Amazon's next data centre would be the most polluting power plant in America
Every data centre story eventually stops being about computing and starts being about the place it lands in. The New York Times has seen the paperwork. Amazon has bought land and permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data centre with its own gas-fired power station, cleared to emit 33 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. No other power plant in the country emits that much. Amazon co-founded the Climate Pledge, and its own emissions rose 16% last year. A spokesperson now says the world looks different than when they signed. Texas paused new data centre building last week and Google is fighting residents over water in India. Somebody local always pays.
- 04
OpenAI bought a slide deck startup and is quietly assembling an office suite
OpenAI keeps buying small companies, and what it is building is getting hard to miss. This week it picked up NextSlide, whose product turned notes and documents into finished presentations, and put the team to work on ChatGPT. Set that beside the analytics firm and the finance apps it absorbed earlier this year, and an office suite is quietly taking shape inside a chatbot. Awkwardly, the product NextSlide set out to replace is PowerPoint, and Microsoft is OpenAI's largest backer. These deals are mostly hires with a product attached. Would you rather have your work rebuilt around AI, or AI added to the tools you already own?
- 05
The man who predicted superintelligence just bet $400m on breaking a monopoly
Leopold Aschenbrenner made his name arguing that AI smarter than us was almost here, then raised billions to trade on that view with no trading experience at all. July went badly. His fund halved, and he sold most of his public holdings to the rival hedge fund Citadel while keeping his Anthropic stake. This week he put $400 million into Source Foundry, a startup of Stanford researchers making chip manufacturing faster and cheaper. They are aiming at ASML, the Dutch company with no serious competitor, whose machines make every advanced AI chip on earth. Where a man who just lost half his fund still puts money tells you plenty.
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