Example topics
Past and example talk tracks.
Ben speaks on any AI and CX topic, adapted to the audience and context. Below are examples of recent and available talks. All are grounded in real environments, real data, and real organisations.
01
The Six Patterns: Why Most AI in CX Underperforms
A framework-first keynote built around the six behavioural archetypes that drive most AI in CX decisions. Audiences consistently recognise their own organisation within the first ten minutes. The talk ends not with a prediction, but with a decision: which pattern are you in, and what would it take to shift?
45 to 60 min
Audience: Leadership, CX, Technology
Interactive version available
02
AI Does Not Fail in Isolation. It Inherits the System Around It.
The most important AI decisions are made before a model is chosen. This talk examines the operating model, design, and governance conditions that determine whether AI creates value or quietly destroys it. Built on case studies from financial services, government, telco, and retail.
30 to 60 min
Audience: Executives, Board
Workshop version available
03
From First Touch to Lasting Loyalty: CX Reimagined with AI
A commercial keynote that makes the case for AI as a loyalty and revenue lever, not just a cost reduction tool. Explores how the organisations winning with AI are building customer relationships at scale, not just automating transactions. Best suited to commercial leadership, sales, and customer strategy audiences.
30 to 45 min
Audience: Commercial, Customer Strategy
Partner-ready version available
04
Designing for Responsibility: AI, Trust, and the Customer
As AI becomes more capable, failure becomes more subtle. This talk examines what responsible AI in CX actually requires, from conversation design to governance to the human experience of interacting with a system that sounds right but may not be. Drawn directly from the book.
45 to 60 min
Audience: Leadership, Risk, Design
Workshop extension available
05
Autonomy in CX: "The System Decided" Is Not an Acceptable Answer
Agentic AI does not emerge. It is granted. This talk reframes autonomy as a transfer of responsibility — not an efficiency gain — and examines what organisations must get right before delegating authority to systems that act on behalf of customers. The most important talk for any organisation currently evaluating AI agents.
45 to 60 min
Audience: Executives, Board, Legal, Risk
Board briefing version available