
Tariq excels at inspiring leaders to use technology to enhance their teams' potential. I would gladly work with him again.
Rahul Jain
VP Transformation APAC, PepsiCo
Keynote · AI & the Future of Your Industry
I've spent two decades inside enterprise as AI turned it upside down. Most industries are three to five years behind that curve, which means the disruption already reshaping one sector is heading straight for the next. I show your audience what's coming, and how to lead it before it arrives.
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Tariq excels at inspiring leaders to use technology to enhance their teams' potential. I would gladly work with him again.
Rahul Jain
VP Transformation APAC, PepsiCo
The outcome
Not the hype, not the doom. A vivid picture of where AI is actually taking work, so the room stops guessing and starts seeing the shape of what's ahead.
I've watched this play out for real, not in theory. Your audience gets the pattern from an industry that's already been through it. And what it signals for their own.
People don't act on fear. They leave ready to lead the change instead of bracing for it, with a first step they can actually take.

Tariq delivered an impactful keynote at Alexion's EUCAN Annual Finance Conference in Barcelona, where he empowered CFOs to lead with confidence in the AI era. If you are a finance leader looking to harness AI and technology to transform your organization, I highly recommend reaching out to Tariq. His expertise will guide you through the change and motivate your teams towards common goals.
Faraz Lutfi
Head of Finance, Alexion (AstraZeneca)
Signature keynotes
Each keynote is tailored to your industry and your room. These are the starting points.
Every CFO and Finance team knows where AI could take them. But many are hesitant to take the first step. Here's how to design it.
Most transformation is a pile of ad-hoc tools. The winners design it on purpose. How to build an operating model that runs itself, not just more complexity.
The future is not the one driven by AI. Neither is it one of AI vs Humans. It is the one intentionally designed by humans, where AI & Humans co-create.

Why Tariq
+$20m
Enterprise value delivered
20+
Years experience
30K+
Hours saved
4
Countries
Author
Author of Reimagine Finance and a LinkedIn Learning instructor on AI: work leaders are actually using, not just reading.
Experience
20+ years across PepsiCo, AkzoNobel, Big 4, and many other firms, leading large-scale and complex digital transformations.
Framework
His three-eras-of-AI thinking, drawn from Reimagine Finance and years inside enterprise, turns a confusing topic into a clear narrative any industry can act on.
Delivery
Delivering impact from international stages (including Singapore, Barcelona, Malaysia, the US, the UAE) to boardrooms and leadership offsites.
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Keynotes, executive advisory, and workshops, tailored to your transformation agenda.
How AI is reshaping work, and how leaders move their people from anxiety to action. Signature themes include decision intelligence for finance, designing autonomous operating models, and leading the augmented human workforce. Every keynote is built for executive rooms, not tech demos.