Anders Sorman Nilsson

AI Speaker

Anders Sorman-Nilsson is a futurist and innovation strategist who helps people and organisations decode trends and plan for what lies ahead. As the Swedish-Australian founder of Thinque, he has become a valued strategist to Fortune 500s and ASX leaders since 2005.

Based in Sydney

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Anders Sorman-Nilsson AI speaker sessions are led by a global futurist and innovation strategist. He is the founder of Thinque, a strategic think tank. Anders helps organisations decode disruption, understand emerging trends and design future-ready strategies. He blends Scandinavian foresight with Australian pragmatism. As a result, he brings a rare mix of intellect, insight and inspiration to global audiences. Known for translating complex trends into clear, actionable foresight, he challenges leaders to bridge the gap between digital innovation and human connection.

Since 2005, Anders has worked across four continents as a speaker, futurist and author. He advises Fortune 500 and ASX-listed organisations on innovation and digital transformation. His clients include Apple, Johnson & Johnson, SAP, HP, Fuji Xerox, Pernod Ricard and the Australian Government. In addition, Anders is a regular commentator in The Financial Review, Sky News, Qantas Magazine and BRW. He is also the author of several books, including the acclaimed Digilogue: How to Win the Digital Minds and Analogue Hearts of Tomorrow’s Customer.

Anders Sorman-Nilsson AI Speaker: Keynote Topics

Book Anders Sorman-Nilsson AI speaker for AI with a Human Soul: Reimagining Customer Experience. This keynote explores how organisations can humanise AI by designing systems that amplify empathy, ethics and creativity. Digilogue reveals how businesses can find the sweet spot between digital efficiency and analogue emotion. Meanwhile, Seamless examines how organisations can create frictionless experiences across online and offline worlds. Finally, Waves of Change outlines the macro-trends reshaping every industry, from digital disruption to data dominance.

Through his work, Anders helps leaders navigate disruption with clarity. As a result, he turns future trends into tangible business advantage. A trusted voice on technology, ethics and the future of work, Anders helps companies future-proof their strategy while staying authentically human in a fast-changing world.

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Keynote Topics

DIGITAL ADAPTATION AND HUMAN TRANSFORMATION

How do organisations design customer experiences that move effortlessly across digital and physical environments?

In this thought-provoking keynote, Anders explores how intelligent technologies – particularly artificial intelligence and data-driven systems – are enabling brands to create more connected, intuitive, and human-centred experiences. Rather than treating technology as an end in itself, the focus is on how it can remove friction, enhance service, and deepen trust across every touchpoint.

Through contemporary case studies and practical insights from leading organisations, this presentation examines how forward-thinking brands are using technology to elevate customer experience, strengthen relationships, and deliver lasting value.

This tailored presentation provides:

  • A clear framework for designing seamless, end-to-end customer experiences
  • Insight into how intelligent technologies can simplify complexity and amplify human connection
  • Practical lessons from organisations successfully integrating digital and physical touchpoints

DIGILOGUE

How to win the digital minds and analogue hearts of tomorrow’s customers.

As some organisations careen recklessly into the digital future and others are left behind by remaining steeped in the ways of old, thought leaders are coming to realise there is an important middle ground. Most often that’s where your customers and clients want you to be, the place where digital and analogue converge – the ‘digilogue’. In the digilogue it is understood that digital satisfies a customer’s mind while analogue soothes the heart.

Knowing where this place is demands:

  1. An understanding of the parts of your business that simply cannot be allowed to go digital
  2. An intimate knowledge of the customer experience, of the touch points that thrill them, that speak to their hearts and not their heads
  3. An understanding of how your organisation tells its story to its public
  4. A recognition of the artisanal skill, or customer service, that keeps customers coming back

Every business must know where its middle ground lies, where the old-school artisan meets the efficiency and power of the future. This customised presentation will help your people find where that place is.

WAVES OF CHANGE

Global trends that will disrupt your existence.

Waves of change are rolling towards us and you’d better be prepared. But how do you spot the waves, or identify what’s going on in the market? How do you sense the direction of the currents, or establish what it means for your business? And how do you best position yourself so you’re not washed away, or choose a market position and ride the wave?

The waves of change threatening every business are:

  1. Digital Disruption – managing the tension between the analogue and digital touch points
  2. Media Madness – realising that every company must think like a media company
  3. Data Driven Dominance – working out how to turn data into competitive knowledge

This keynote will provide you with the following foresights:

  • Which new markets you should target, and how to identify and engage them
  • How to step back and deconstruct your own business model to identify new, non-traditional partnerships
  • How to sort through the data storm to turn customer insight into intelligent and strategic business assets
  • How to build innovation strategy that disrupts your competitors

Testimonials

“I’ve never seen such positive feedback on our leadership meetings. People really left energised and engaged!”
• President of Business Unit, Fortune 500 – Pharmaceutical Company

“Anders’ style is as entertaining and engaging as it is upbeat and informative. From the audience feedback, I know the attendees appreciated your unique take on forces at play in our global business environment and the personal transformations we must all undergo to remain compatible, effective and relevant!”
• CEO & President of Fortune 500 Company, Fortune Magazine’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, Transport and Defence Industry