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Dhiraj Mukherjee
Shazam Co-Founder & Keynote Speaker on Leadership and AI
Speaker Dhiraj Mukherjee provides a glimpse into the future by sharing unique experiences from his time at the forefront of innovation—investing in and advising groundbreaking startups, including his early involvement with Shazam, long before the emergence of the app store. His insights help teams and organizations learn crucial lessons about staying flexible in the present and beyond. Dhiraj's engaging and heartfelt approach to speaking unites and motivates audiences to aim high.
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Dhiraj Mukherjee biography
Dhiraj is an international keynote speaker on leadership, AI, and adapting to emerging technology. He helped grow Shazam from the original idea to over 100 billion uses, and was named one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs by the Financial Times. Since Shazam’s sale to Apple, he has invested in over 250 leading AI and technology startups, including OpenAI (creators of ChatGPT).
Previously he held senior roles in Financial Services, Technology, and media and entertainment, and has an MBA from Stanford Business School. Dhiraj’s expertise is helping leaders build adaptable organisations, combining practical experience building an iconic company with first-hand foresight of a technology-driven future.
Dhiraj advises corporate leaders to build organisations that embrace adaptability as a core competency. He guides executives to systematically create companies that learn, evolve, and reinvent themselves, rather than reacting to disruption after it occurs.
His advisory work with major corporations including UBS, Eli Lilly, Unilever and PWC gives him a deep understanding of how large organizations approach innovation and transformation across diverse industries. His portfolio of 250+ investments across AI and emerging technologies provides a comprehensive source of innovation trends, business models, and success factors. Dhiraj draws on learnings from 35 years of company building, enabling audiences to understand both long-term strategic thinking and actions they can implement immediately.
Over the past year, Dhiraj has engaged with policymakers, regulators, and enterprise leaders across the Middle East and Asia on building resilient, future-ready AI ecosystems. He has shared global perspectives with senior officials at the Saudi Ministry of Culture, spoken at Fintech Forward Bahrain hosted by the Economic Development Board, and addressed leaders at Deloitte Middle East and First Abu Dhabi Bank. More recently, his participation in the Seoul Future Conference has provided first-hand exposure to national AI strategies and governance approaches, positioning him at the intersection of leadership, policy, and emerging technology.
Dhiraj Mukherjee Speaking Videos
Assemblea Generale 2025 - Intervento di Dhiraj Mukherjee, cofondatore di Shazam
Dhiraj Mukherjee: AI 2.0
Dhiraj Mukherjee Keynote Topics
GenAI has rapidly evolved from experimental to essential for growth in most organisations. This creates a fundamental challenge for leaders to shift from early initiatives to seize the opportunity to scale AI in the enterprise. Drawing on his experience as a founder, investor and early participant in the AI ecosystem, Dhiraj advocates “AI 2.0”: the shift from pilots to productive deployment across the organisation. Dhiraj helps leaders understand how to make better judgments about where AI truly adds value and how leadership must innovate and evolve as AI becomes a core part of the workplace.
Leaders today are grappling with ever-accelerating technological change, volatile geopolitics, and dramatic business and workforce transformation. This keynote focuses on the leadership skills required to operate under uncertainty: building foresight, moving beyond rigid planning, and designing organisations that can evolve in real time. Drawing on decades of experience building Shazam through multiple market cycles and advising global organisations, Dhiraj explores how leaders can learn while they lead to transform their businesses. Dhiraj believes the best way to predict the future is to create it, and he shares proven methods for re-inventing business and building lasting success.
Most organisations are still building teams for jobs that won’t exist in a few years’ time. Technology is reshaping how we work, and the next generation of talent requires new skills to redefine the workforce. In this keynote, Dhiraj focuses on the leadership challenge of pairing future talent with emerging technology. Rather than optimising for specific skills or tools, he argues that organisations must rethink how they identify potential, develop people, and build teams to transform the workplace. The focus is practical and grounded, helping leaders make better decisions about who they hire, how they lead, and how they prepare their workforce for jobs that don’t yet fully exist.
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FAQs on Booking Dhiraj Mukherjee
Why Dhiraj Mukherjee?
Booking Dhiraj Mukherjee for your event means bringing one of the most credible voices at the intersection of entrepreneurship, AI, and leadership to your stage. As co-founder of Shazam — grown from an original idea to over 100 billion uses before its $400M acquisition by Apple — Dhiraj speaks from real, hard-won experience building an iconic global company through two financial crises. His portfolio of 250+ investments across AI and emerging technologies, including OpenAI, gives him unmatched foresight into where business is heading. Clients such as Google, Mastercard, BCG, Real Madrid, and UBS consistently rate his sessions among the highlights of their events, praising his rare blend of depth, humour, and authenticity. Whether your audience is navigating AI adoption, workforce transformation, or strategic uncertainty, Dhiraj delivers practical frameworks they can act on immediately. Aurum Speakers Bureau is proud to represent him for engagements worldwide.
What makes Dhiraj Mukherjee an authority on AI?
Dhiraj's AI credentials go well beyond theory. He co-founded Shazam, one of the earliest applications of machine learning and audio recognition at consumer scale, and has since invested in more than 250 AI and technology startups — including OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. This combination of founder experience and active investor perspective gives him a front-row view of how AI is evolving across industries. He has engaged with enterprise leaders, policymakers, and regulators across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe on building AI-ready organizations, and advises major corporations including UBS, Eli Lilly, Unilever, and PWC on innovation and transformation strategy.
What did Dhiraj Mukherjee do before Shazam?
Before co-founding Shazam, Dhiraj held senior roles in financial services, technology, and media, including Head of Banking Innovation at Virgin Money, where he developed digital banking products for over 2 million students. He also worked in strategy and innovation roles at Bauer Media, Infosys, Reuters, and Save the Children. He holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a degree in Mathematical Economics from Dartmouth College — a foundation that shapes the rigorous, evidence-grounded thinking he brings to every keynote.
What topics does speaker Dhiraj Mukherjee cover?
Dhiraj's keynotes span three core areas that are top of mind for senior leadership teams today: AI strategy and enterprise-scale deployment; adaptive leadership under uncertainty and geopolitical volatility; and building the workforce of the future. His sessions are tailored to each client and consistently go beyond inspiration — audiences leave with concrete frameworks for making better decisions about AI adoption, talent development, and organizational resilience. To explore availability and speaking topics for your event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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