Talks that move ideas to market.

The signature keynote, and the idea behind the new book. Work is breaking down: organizations get slower despite more technology, and AI alone won't fix it, because the real problem isn't intelligence, it's collaboration. Patrick presents a coherent operating model for organizations where diverse people and AI agents create value together, with stories from manufacturing, retail, healthcare, consulting and technology.

"The companies that win won't have the best AI. They'll have the best collaboration between humans and AI."

AI isn't replacing people. It's replacing the way work is organized. This keynote shows why organizations are getting slower despite more technology, what an AI-native organization actually looks like, and how humans and AI become one high-performing team. Built for CEOs, executives, strategy leaders and innovation conferences.

Building on the thinking behind Business Model Generation, this keynote introduces the next evolution. AI doesn't just improve businesses, it rewrites business models: traditional value chains disappear, AI becomes a new production factor, intelligence challenges the subscription, and agentic businesses change what a company even is.

"Your biggest competitor won't build a better product. They'll build a better business model."

Most transformation programs fail because they focus on projects. Winning companies focus on weekly learning, customer problems, measurable outcomes and cross-functional teams. Patrick shows how organizations move from strategy to projects to customer journeys to weekly growth sprints, turning learning into better business, week after week.

Most companies obsess over solutions. Winning companies obsess over customer problems. This keynote takes Business Model Generation thinking and updates it for AI: customer journeys replace departments, jobs-to-be-done and pains and gains sharpen the focus, and AI-generated customer insights power faster learning loops.

"Companies don't lose because their products become outdated. They lose because their understanding of customers becomes outdated."

The biggest challenge isn't AI. It's collaboration. Patrick's strongest leadership keynote explores why silos still exist, why meetings don't create alignment, and how shared canvases, a shared language, shared metrics and AI agents as team members combine into a single operating system for teams.

"Innovation doesn't happen because brilliant people work harder. It happens because diverse minds think together."