Paul Daugherty keynote speaker

Futurist, author, and technology speaker Paul Daugherty is among the most innovative executives in modern tech. A passionate and entertaining public speaker, Paul Daugherty shares insights gleaned from a career of brilliant ingenuity and constant innovation.

Paul Daugherty is consulting giant Accenture’s Group Chief Executive for Technology, and its Chief Technology Officer. He helps Accenture’s clients innovate at scale by doing the same for his own firm, directing its overall technology strategy. He also oversees Accenture’s R&D efforts, its tech-related ventures, and its role in the broader tech ecosystem.

While building a culture of constant innovation, Daugherty launched Accenture’s first cloud, SaaS, big data, and open-source businesses. He launched pioneering AI and blockchain initiatives, and has developed and scaled extended reality and quantum computing businesses. As a result, Accenture has proven to be a model for the kind of guidance its clients seek.

Daugherty’s writing appears in The Financial Times, the Economist, the Harvard Business Review, and other distinguished publications. He also co-authored the groundbreaking 2018 book, Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI. In it, Daugherty argues that wholescale, often disruptive, adoption of AI throughout an organization is good business. Human + Machine has been translated into six languages.