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Maurice Conti
AI Futurist & Deep Tech Authority | Former CIO, Telefonica Alpha | Former Head of Innovation, Autodesk | 13M+ TED Talk Views | 12+ Patents
Maurice Conti is a rare breed in the AI conversation: a hands-on inventor who has built innovation labs, filed over a dozen patents, and advised Nike, Tesla, and Airbus on deploying emerging technology. Former CIO at Telefonica's moonshot factory and Head of Innovation at Autodesk, his TED Talk on AI has surpassed 13 million views. Audiences gain a clear, actionable lens on what AI, robotics, and immersive tech mean for their industry — right now.
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Maurice Conti biography
Maurice Conti is one of the most credible voices in the global conversation on artificial intelligence — not because he theorizes about it, but because he has spent two decades building it. As Director of Applied Research and Innovation at Autodesk, he constructed a multidisciplinary lab from the ground up, leading teams doing applied research in AI, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, additive manufacturing, and ocean health. He pioneered the field of generative design, helping develop tools that use machine learning to solve engineering problems no human designer could optimize alone. That work produced more than a dozen patents and established him as a genuine architect of the technologies now reshaping every industry.
He went on to serve as Chief Innovation Officer at Telefonica Alpha, Europe’s first moonshot factory — a long-horizon innovation organization modeled on Google X. There he assembled a world-class team and built a systematic process to develop moonshot projects across energy, food, the metaverse, oceans, climate change, synthetic biology, and cybernetics: ventures designed to reach hundreds of millions of people, grow into billion-euro businesses, and be a net positive force on the planet. That combination of practitioner depth and systems-level ambition is what distinguishes Conti from the crowded field of AI commentators.
Today the AI futurist speaker Maurice Conti works as a trusted advisor to the leadership teams of global organizations including Amazon Web Services, Nike, Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Lululemon, Airbus, the Navy SEALs, and the Government of Japan, helping them think clearly about emerging technology, cut through the noise, and deploy AI in ways that genuinely benefit their people and their business. He holds more than a dozen patents spanning robotics, AI, immersive reality, and design.
13 Million Views and Counting
His TED Talk on AI and the future of human-machine collaboration has surpassed 13 million views, making it one of the most-watched technology talks in TED’s history. The talk captures what makes Conti exceptional as a communicator: the ability to translate genuinely complex systems into ideas that feel urgent and accessible without being dumbed down. He has since been invited back to deliver additional TED talks and speaks regularly at the world’s leading innovation, technology, and business conferences.
As a speaker, Maurice Conti delivers something that most AI keynotes cannot: specificity grounded in hands-on experience. He does not talk about AI in the abstract. He has filed the patents, run the labs, built the moonshots, and advised the boardrooms. His keynotes give senior audiences a practical framework for understanding which technologies will matter, on what timeline, and what their organizations need to do differently starting now — delivered with the storytelling clarity of someone who has spent years translating the frontier for the people who most need to understand it.
Maurice Conti Speaking Videos
Maurice Conti - The incredible inventions of intuitive AI
Maurice Conti - The Promise of Man + Machine
Maurice Conti Keynote Topics
Drawing on his TED Talk and two decades of hands-on work at the frontier of emerging technology, Conti maps the convergence of AI, advanced robotics, and immersive reality into a clear picture of what the next wave of disruption actually looks like — and what organizations need to do about it. This is not a forecast built on speculation. It is built on patents, labs, and deployments across some of the world's most demanding industries.
Most organizations understand that AI matters. Far fewer know how to deploy it in ways that create durable advantage rather than short-term noise. Conti draws on his advisory work with companies including Amazon Web Services, Mercedes-Benz, and Lululemon to offer a practical framework for AI adoption: how to identify the highest-leverage opportunities, build the internal capabilities to execute, and avoid the most costly mistakes. A rigorous, example-driven session for leadership teams ready to move from curiosity to action.
At Telefonica Alpha, every project had to meet three criteria: reach at least 100 million people, grow into a billion-euro business, and be a net positive force on the planet. In this keynote, Conti unpacks the methodology behind moonshot innovation — how to set ambitions that seem impossible, build teams capable of pursuing them, and create organizational structures that protect long-horizon thinking from the short-term pressures that kill it.
The most important question in AI is not what machines will replace, but what humans and machines can accomplish together that neither could alone. Conti makes this case with hard evidence and compelling examples, from generative design at Autodesk to robotic collaboration in manufacturing to AI-assisted decision-making in high-stakes environments. Audiences leave with a more honest picture of where the future of work is headed — and a practical playbook for positioning their organizations to thrive in it.
FAQs on Booking Maurice Conti
Why Maurice Conti?
Booking Maurice Conti means bringing one of the world's most credible deep tech practitioners to your stage. He is not a journalist who covers AI or a consultant who advises on it — he is someone who has built AI systems, filed the patents, run the innovation labs, and helped organizations from the Navy SEALs to the Government of Japan deploy emerging technology at scale. His TED Talk has been watched more than 13 million times because he can make complex technology feel urgent and actionable to any audience. For events focused on AI, innovation, the future of work, or technology strategy, he offers a level of depth and practicality that theoretical futurists cannot match. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check availability and discuss how to tailor his session to your audience.
What is Maurice Conti's TED Talk about?
Conti's primary TED Talk, which has surpassed 13 million views, explores the dawn of the augmented age — a period in which AI, robotics, and immersive technology are fundamentally changing what humans are capable of creating and achieving. He argues that the most important shift is not machines replacing humans but humans and machines collaborating in ways that amplify both. The talk draws on his work at Autodesk with generative design and human-robot collaboration to illustrate what this looks like in practice, and why it represents one of the most significant transitions in the history of human work.
What is generative design and what was Maurice Conti's role in it?
Generative design is an approach to engineering and architecture in which AI algorithms explore thousands of possible design solutions simultaneously, optimizing for goals that a human designer specifies — strength, weight, cost, manufacturability — and producing results that no individual designer would arrive at through traditional methods. Conti was a pioneer of this field during his seven years as Head of Applied Research and Innovation at Autodesk, where his team developed early generative design tools that have since become central to how aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing companies approach product development.
What topics does AI futurist speaker Maurice Conti cover?
Conti speaks on artificial intelligence and its business applications, the future of work and human-machine collaboration, generative AI and design, advanced robotics and manufacturing, immersive technology (AR/VR/XR), moonshot innovation methodologies, and technology strategy for senior leaders. His sessions are especially valuable for technology conferences, leadership summits, innovation and R&D forums, and corporate strategy off-sites where the audience needs more than high-level futurism — they need practical insight from someone who has been inside the technology. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to explore availability and session formats.
How to book Maurice Conti as a keynote speaker?
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