Richard Florida
Bestselling Author of The Rise of the Creative Class | University Professor, University of Toronto | Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt
Salman Khan
Founder & CEO of Khan Academy | Author of Brave New Words | AI in Education Pioneer | Creator of Khanmigo
Speaker Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, reaching more than 160 million learners in 190 countries with free, world-class instruction. His AI tutor Khanmigo and bestselling book Brave New Words have put him at the center of the global conversation on AI in education. Senior audiences gain a clear, practical roadmap for using AI to lift performance, close opportunity gaps, and reinvent how their teams learn.
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Salman Khan biography
Speaker Salman Khan is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Khan Academy, a nonprofit on a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. With more than 160 million registered users across 190 countries, Khan Academy has become one of the most influential learning platforms ever built, reshaping how teachers teach, how students study, and how families think about technology in the classroom. Sal Khan is now widely regarded as one of the most important voices on the future of learning in the age of artificial intelligence.
His path is a study in turning an experiment into a movement. While working as a hedge fund analyst, Sal began tutoring his cousins over the internet. The lessons grew into YouTube videos, the videos grew into a library, and the library became Khan Academy, recognized by Time on its list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, profiled by 60 Minutes, and featured on the cover of Forbes. Sal holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Reimagining Education with AI
In partnership with OpenAI, Sal launched Khanmigo, an AI tutor and teaching assistant built on GPT-4 that is designed to ask better questions rather than hand out answers. Khanmigo is now used in school districts across the United States and abroad, and The Washington Post has highlighted it as a leading example of public-benefit AI. His latest book, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing), was named one of the most important business books of 2024 and lays out how families, teachers, and policymakers should approach AI in the classroom. Sal is also the author of The One World Schoolhouse, the foundational text behind Khan Lab School, the project-based, mixed-age school he founded in Mountain View, California.
As a speaker, Salman Khan combines the rigor of an engineer with the warmth of a teacher. He challenges audiences to rethink what classrooms, exams, and credentials should look like, and shows how education leaders can use AI to lift every learner rather than leave them behind.
Salman Khan Speaking Videos
Sal Khan - How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education
Sal Khan - Let's teach for mastery, not test scores
Salman Khan Keynote Topics
Public worry about AI in classrooms has masked a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Drawing on the playbook he developed for Khanmigo and the global Khan Academy network, Sal Khan shows how AI can finally deliver the long-promised 'two-sigma' tutoring effect at scale: a personal tutor for every student, an intelligent assistant for every teacher, and a way to close achievement gaps that human-only systems have failed to fix.
Senior audiences gain a clear-eyed view of what AI can and cannot do in education today, how to evaluate vendor claims, and how to deploy AI in learning and development programs inside their own organizations without sacrificing rigor.
Based on his bestseller Brave New Words, this keynote walks audiences through the full arc of AI in education, from elementary classrooms to corporate upskilling. Sal Khan addresses the questions on every leader's mind: Will AI make students lazy? How do we keep humans in the loop? What will teachers and managers actually do differently?
Drawing on his work with OpenAI, Khan Academy's school district partnerships, and Khan Lab School, Sal lays out a practical framework for responsible adoption, mastery-based learning, and building an AI-fluent workforce.
What would school look like if we designed it from scratch today? Sal Khan tells the unlikely founding story of Khan Academy, from tutoring a cousin in math to building the world's largest free education platform, and shares the vision behind his own school, Khan Lab School. He challenges the factory model of education, explains why mastery-based learning works, and shows how the same principles apply to corporate training, leadership development, and lifelong learning.
FAQs on Booking Salman Khan
Why Sal Khan?
Sal Khan is the rare keynote speaker who has actually built the future he describes. As founder of Khan Academy, he is responsible for educating more than 160 million people in 190 countries, and his partnership with OpenAI on Khanmigo gives him insight into how AI is being deployed in real classrooms that almost no other speaker can match. On stage he is calm, structured, and remarkably warm, qualities that translate equally well to school superintendents, university trustees, and the C-suite of Fortune 500 companies thinking about workforce reinvention. Book Sal Khan through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring one of the most credible voices on AI and education to your stage.
What is Khan Academy and how does it work?
Khan Academy is a nonprofit founded by Sal Khan in 2008 that offers free, world-class courses, videos, and practice exercises in math, science, economics, history, and more. Learners create a free account and progress through self-paced lessons with personalized practice and instant feedback; teachers and parents can monitor mastery and assign content. The platform serves more than 160 million registered users across 190 countries, in over 50 languages, and partners with school districts, universities, and governments around the world. Its AI tutor, Khanmigo, layers a Socratic chatbot on top of every lesson so that learners get guided, one-on-one help in real time.
What is Khanmigo and how does Sal Khan use AI in education?
Khanmigo is the AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant Khan Academy built on top of OpenAI's GPT-4. Unlike a chatbot that hands out answers, Khanmigo is designed to ask Socratic questions, debate ideas, give feedback on writing, and help teachers plan lessons and grade. Sal Khan worked directly with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman ahead of ChatGPT's public release to develop Khanmigo, and it is now used by hundreds of school districts. In his talks and in his book Brave New Words, Sal frames AI as a way to give every student a personal tutor and every teacher an intelligent assistant, an idea long thought impossible at scale.
What companies and leaders book Sal Khan as a keynote speaker?
Sal Khan is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers on AI, education, and the future of work. His audiences include Fortune 500 leadership teams, school district superintendents, university boards, sovereign wealth funds, foundations, and global education conferences. He is equally effective opening an executive offsite, addressing thousands at a learning and development summit, or engaging a board of trustees on responsible AI strategy. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check his availability and bring Sal Khan to your next event.
How to book Salman Khan as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Salman Khan speaking fee?
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