Neil Redding

The Near Futurist™, Founder + CEO, Redding Futures; Career Computer Scientist, Software Engineer and and Innovation Leader at companies including Apple, Oracle, BBDO, Mediacom, Gensler, and ThoughtWorks

Neil Redding is The Near Futurist™. A 30-year technologist with a philosopher’s eye, Neil is driven by engineering the possible, currently focused on successful leadership in the AI era. His frameworks including Clock Drift, Doers to Deciders, and Delegate First give leaders the mental models to make better, faster decisions as AI takes an increasingly active role. A global keynote speaker, Neil has delivered featured talks at SXSW, World Business Forum, and São Paulo Innovation Week, and at corporate events for Meta, Microsoft, American Express and more. Throughout his career Neil has worked with world-class brands like Apple, Nike, Visa, and PwC to translate frontier technology into practical transformation, unlocking growth, resilience, and a radically connected future.

  • Neil Redding Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    New York, USA

  • Neil Redding Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    New York, USA

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Orchestrate or Obsolete: Leadership in the Age of AI Participation

The problem isn’t AI — it’s our leadership model. We’re still leading like humans are the only ones in the room… as the room quietly fills with AI agents. AI systems are no longer just tools. They’re becoming active participants across the ...

The problem isn’t AI — it’s our leadership model. We’re still leading like humans are the only ones in the room… as the room quietly fills with AI agents.

AI systems are no longer just tools. They’re becoming active participants across the business, soon to co-author every meaningful decision. The dynamic has a name: Clock Drift — the widening gap between the speed of AI execution and how slowly organizations decide. The answer isn’t tighter control — it’s a different kind of leadership, one that turns AI participation into compounding advantage.

In the Agentic Era, leadership must evolve from command and control to the orchestration of human–AI dynamics. The talk features a working orchestration dashboard, built by agents as the audience watches — demonstrating the keynote’s defining principles in practice.

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Keyshop

The Keyshop is a facilitated executive working session that turns near-future insight into practical, organization-specific action. An extended form of the keynote, it shifts leaders from listening into active participation through structured discussion and guided exercises ...

The Keyshop is a facilitated executive working session that turns near-future insight into practical, organization-specific action. An extended form of the keynote, it shifts leaders from listening into active participation through structured discussion and guided exercises grounded in real business context.

Neil Redding introduces clear mental models for understanding AI agents as active participants in the business and leads teams through where delegation, orchestration, and human judgment matter most. Each session is tailored to the audience and designed to produce shared language, sharper decisions, and clear next steps where leaders can take action immediately.

The Keyshop stands in place of the keynote rather than alongside it, up to 40 senior leaders in a smaller room, versus the full room from the main stage.

Designed for leaders who want to move from insight to action.

WHAT LEADERS LEAVE WITH:

  • An approach to solve your Clock Drift, resolving AI incoherence and aligning decision speed with execution velocity
  • A common language for orchestrating human–AI dynamics across the team
  • Prioritized use cases and opportunity areas specific to your business and industry
  • Practical clarity on what successful delegation to AI agents actually requires
  • Greater confidence in where human judgment remains essential and where it doesn’t
  • A shared mental model for making AI decisions consistently across the leadership team
  • Leadership alignment that translates into how the organization actually executes

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Testimonials

“This session was truly remarkable. We had the presence of Neil Redding, a Near Futurist, who took us on an exciting journey, challenging us to rethink concepts and reflect deeply on the transformative potential of AI in our organizations and in our lives!”

Manuel D.

National Technology Officer & Executive Board Member, Microsoft

“Neil Redding’s participation in the Meta Brazil activation during SXSW was incredibly valuable. His deep understanding of AI allowed him to effectively address the specific challenges and needs of our clients’ businesses.”

Conrado L.

VP & Managing Director, Meta

“Currently, lectures on artificial intelligence have taken over our timelines and events. As one of the keynote speakers, Neil brought to the audience a depth that is not only technological, but also questions the way we understand what our reality is, what our main challenges and opportunities may be in this journey of integration and evolution of humans and of technologies. If you don’t know him, as I didn’t, here’s my tip: Mind blowing.”

Cristiane C.

CEO, IAB Brazil

“We sponsored Neil’s opening keynote at the annual IAB Brazil event in São Paulo. The presentation brought intriguing perspectives on emerging technologies that engaged the audience and triggered tons of positive feedback about his session. Always easy to communicate and flexible, Neil is great to partner with.”

Laura C.

Head of Agency, Meta

“Neil brings an exciting new lens to business model evolution and to solving humanity-scale challenges.”

Karel G.

CEO, Indeed Innovation

“Neil Redding’s session on spatial computing offered a profound philosophical journey into the nature of reality, suggesting that our perceptions are more malleable than we might think. By comparing augmented reality (AR) to lucid dreaming, Redding proposed that AR allows us to construct and experience our own realities, blending the digital and physical worlds in unprecedented ways.”

Justin W.

Global Chair, Technology Sector, Edelman

“Near Futurist Neil Redding called this convergence of spatial and AI a ‘huge unlock for the promise of co-creating reality,’ thanks to its ability to deliver a sense of presence and togetherness. Reality is no longer objective he said, pointing to OpenAI’s SORA as a precursor for how we will conjure our own realities. We’re at a turning point where ‘quantum reality becomes reality’ said Redding, and once we realise that ‘we co-create reality, everything becomes possible.’”

Marie S.

Global Director, Intelligence, VML

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