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Ramy Nassar
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Leading with AI
Ramy Nassar helps leaders stop reacting to disruption and start designing what comes next in AI and emerging technology. A futurist, innovation keynote speaker, and author with 25+ years' experience, he has guided 250+ organizations including Apple, TELUS, and Verizon, and contributed to the global Barbie movie phenomenon.
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Ramy Nassar combines hands-on technical depth, strategic foresight, and storytelling to help leaders turn disruption into opportunity, drawing on more than 25 years spent building inside some of the world's best-known brands.
As former Head of Innovation at Mattel, he launched the company's first innovation lab and contributed to the production team behind the Barbie movie, which grossed $1.5 billion worldwide. He now serves as the de facto AI lead for a global clinical-research technology company and teaches AI and design thinking at NTNU in Norway and Toronto Metropolitan University.
Ramy has advised more than 250 organizations, including Apple, TD Bank, TELUS, Verizon, New Balance, and the Government of Canada, building enterprise AI agents, shaping governance frameworks, and separating genuine opportunity from hype. His forthcoming book, The World After AI, turns that hands-on experience into a practical guide for leaders who need to act now.
Audiences leave able to identify AI use cases with measurable returns, move initiatives past the pilot stage using frameworks built for enterprise scale, and set clear guardrails around trust and governance before problems emerge.
Book Ramy for a keynote or workshop that gives leaders an honest, practical roadmap for what AI means next.
Topics, sessions and talks
AI is no longer a future bet. It's an executive priority, and most leadership teams are still trying to figure out where to start. Drawing on 25+ years building inside Mattel, Apple, TD Bank, and 250+ other organizations, Ramy tells the real story of AI, daring leaders to confront what matters now, what's coming next, and what guardrails are vital. Audiences learn to identify AI use cases with measurable ROI, scale past the pilot trap, and align leadership on what to pursue, wait on, or walk away from.
What if your biggest risks aren't today's challenges, but tomorrow's blind spots? Linear planning was built for a world that no longer exists. Drawing on his forthcoming book The World After AI, Ramy challenges leaders to spot weak signals and trend convergences, apply foresight methods such as scenario planning and horizon scanning to decisions that hold up across multiple futures, and lead their organization through ambiguity with proactive direction setting instead of reactive crisis management.
How can enterprises learn to innovate with the speed and agility of startups? In today's AI-powered economy, adapting quickly is survival, yet most organizations are slowed by silos, legacy processes, and risk aversion. Drawing on lessons from startups and Fortune 500s, Ramy shows leaders how to build innovation systems that combine startup agility with enterprise scale, harness AI as a catalyst for creativity and competitive advantage, and reframe culture and risk as fuel for transformation.
The technologies that will reshape your industry aren't theoretical, they're already here. AI dominates the headlines, but quantum, biotech, and blockchain are quietly converging to reshape industries at unprecedented speed. Drawing on his forthcoming book The World After AI, executives will learn how to decode these technologies, when to experiment, scale, or wait, and build resilient strategies that adapt as technologies converge across industries.
Every enterprise wants the benefits of AI, but the risks are real. Hallucinations, bias, governance gaps, and lack of explainability can derail adoption and damage trust. Drawing on years guiding Fortune 500 companies through AI policy and governance design, Ramy equips leaders to recognize and mitigate AI risks, build responsible practices aligned with compliance needs, and deploy AI at scale without exposing the enterprise to unnecessary risk.
As former Head of Innovation at Mattel and current AI lead for a global clinical-research technology company, Ramy has advised more than 250 organizations including Apple, TD Bank, and Verizon. That combination of enterprise-scale execution and hands-on technical depth gives audiences frameworks grounded in real deployment, not theory.
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Ramy Nassar structures his sessions around case-based instruction drawn from 25+ years of hands-on work across organisations including Mattel, Apple, and TD Bank, translating that experience into frameworks leaders can apply directly — such as scenario planning, horizon scanning, and ROI-linked AI use case identification.
Ramy Nassar structures his sessions around case-based instruction drawn from 25+ years of hands-on work across organisations including Mattel, Apple, and TD Bank, translating that experience into frameworks leaders can apply directly — such as scenario planning, horizon scanning, and ROI-linked AI use case identification.
Ramy Nassar structures his sessions around case-based instruction drawn from 25+ years of hands-on work across organisations including Mattel, Apple, and TD Bank, translating that experience into frameworks leaders can apply directly — such as scenario planning, horizon scanning, and ROI-linked AI use case identification.
Ramy Nassar specialises in discussing artificial intelligence, innovation frameworks, product design and more.
Ramy Nassar specialises in discussing artificial intelligence, innovation frameworks, product design and more.
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