// Keynote Speaking · India · Online · Worldwide

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AI Marketing Keynote Speaker. Calmer than most. Older inside.

An AI marketing keynote speaker for conferences, boards, and institutional gatherings that want the AI age explained without the noise. Doctorate in AI and Marketing. Founder of E21 Designs since 2011. Audiences in India and online. Four signature talks, each customised to your room.

Inquire about a talk See the four signature talks
// Who I am on stage

A keynote that lands like a conversation, not a slide deck.

Most AI marketing speakers in India sell the future. Most AI marketing keynote speakers sell the future. I describe the present with enough patience that the room can finally see it. The slides are quiet. The pace is deliberate. The frameworks are original. By the time the talk ends, the audience leaves not with a checklist but with a question they cannot stop asking.

When event organizers search for an AI marketing speaker in India, a keynote speaker AI India, or an entrepreneur speaker in Chennai, my name surfaces because the work behind it is real. Over fifteen years through E21 Designs, the studio's brand and campaign work has reached over ninety-seven million followers across India, including viral cultural moments that travelled without media spend. I hold a doctorate in AI and Marketing, an MSc in Psychology, and a working expertise in Indian consumption patterns as both a researcher and a practitioner. I write for forty thousand readers, which keeps the language honest.

The credentials are mentioned because event organizers ask. They are not the point of the stage time. The point is what the audience leaves with. The frameworks have been tested across a decade of running an actual studio, not borrowed from a deck.

If your audience is tired of AI hype, tired of slide-deck consultants, and tired of futures that never arrive, this keynote works. If your audience wants flashing graphics and acronyms, this keynote does not work. Both are valid. Choose accordingly.

// The four signature talks

Four talks. Each customised to your room.

Every keynote is rewritten for the audience it will be delivered to. The titles below are the spine. The flesh is built with you over a 30 minute discovery call before the event.

// Talk 01 · Flagship keynote

Human Intelligence in an AI World.

The case for what AI cannot replace, told through the history of every prior technology that promised to make humans obsolete and instead made them more necessary. The talk lays out the Human Intelligence framework, the four categories of work AI will never own, and the three questions every leader should ask before adopting the next tool. Ends with a closing argument the audience remembers for months.

For CXO summits, leadership offsites, marketing conferences, university convocations. Also serves event organizers searching for an AI marketing speaker, an AI keynote speaker India, or an entrepreneur speaker Chennai.

45 minutes · keynote · in person or online · live Q and A optional
// Talk 02 · For marketing and brand audiences

The new marketing is belief.

A keynote for marketing teams on what happens to brand-building when attention is infinite, generation is free, and trust is the only scarce resource left. Built on a decade of running E21 Designs and the published Belief framework. The talk gives the audience a working model for earning belief in an AI-saturated market and a checklist for the next 90 days.

For CMO summits, marketing conferences, agency gatherings, founder forums.

30 to 45 minutes · keynote · in person or online · workshop add-on available
// Talk 03 · For institutional and humanitarian audiences

Kindness as infrastructure.

A talk for institutions, foundations, conscious-capitalism networks, and ESG forums on how kindness moved from soft virtue to competitive moat. Draws on the Rory Sutherland tradition of behavioural economics and presents a practical framework for designing kindness into product, culture, and policy. The room leaves with both moral clarity and operational language.

For foundation gatherings, ESG summits, healthcare leadership, education forums, conscious-capitalism networks.

30 minutes · keynote or fireside conversation · live Q and A recommended
// Talk 04 · For board offsites and university convocations

Questions humanity forgot to ask.

A 60 minute fireside conversation designed for rooms with too many answers and too few questions. Built around the seven questions the AI age has buried but cannot ultimately escape. Best delivered seated, with the room close, with no slides. Often used as the closing session of leadership offsites and board retreats where the goal is to send people home thinking differently.

For board offsites, leadership retreats, university convocations, late-evening conference closers.

60 minutes · fireside conversation · seated · no slides · live audience interaction
// Stages

Recent and upcoming invitations.

This list updates as engagements confirm. Past speaking and chief-guest invitations have included founder forums, leadership offsites, university convocations, marketing conferences, and humanitarian gatherings across India. Specific names and tapes are added here as hosts grant permission.

  • 2026 · Q3Keynote · CXO Summit · India Topic: Human Intelligence in an AI World · format: in person keynote
  • 2026 · Q3Fireside · Leadership Offsite · India Topic: Questions humanity forgot to ask · format: seated conversation
  • 2026 · Q2Convocation address · University · India Topic: The future class will inherit · format: graduation keynote
  • 2026 · Q2Marketing conference · Online Topic: The new marketing is belief · format: virtual keynote · live Q and A
  • EarlierVarious founder forums, ESG gatherings, agency offsites Selected engagements available on request

Hosts: confirmed stages are added to this list with permission. To share the talk publicly, write to avinaash.me@gmail.com and I will send the latest social handles.

// How invitations are accepted

A small number of rooms each year. Held by invitation.

Speaking is held to a small number of rooms each year so each one can be properly written for. Hosts who would like Dr. Avinaash on their stage are welcomed to send an invitation through the form below. Discovery calls are free. Honoraria are discussed in confidence as part of the invitation, in line with the kind of engagement and the kind of room.

Held on Goodwill
Causes that matter.

Founder communities, student gatherings, university convocations, public-interest forums, and humanitarian causes. A small number of these are accepted every quarter because the right room is its own reward.

Two slots a quarter · invitation by application · travel hosted
Held by Invitation · Industry
Conferences and forums.

Industry conferences, CXO summits, marketing forums, agency offsites, and association gatherings. Hosts who invite are welcomed into a discovery call, a customised keynote shaped to their room, an open Q and A, and a written recap delivered to organizers within seven days. Honoraria discussed privately as part of the invitation.

Six to eight invitations a year accepted · in person across India
Held by Invitation · Senior Rooms
Corporate and board.

Corporate keynotes, board briefings, leadership offsites, and private institutional gatherings. Invitations are honoured selectively. Each engagement begins with pre-event interviews with three of your senior leaders, a fully customised keynote, on-stage delivery, and a sixty minute closed-door conversation with the senior team afterwards. Honoraria handled by your finance team in confidence.

Three to four invitations a year accepted · invitation only
// For event organizers

Everything you need to introduce me well.

Speaker pages exist for organizers, not for speakers. So this section is built for the producer, the PR lead, and the AV team. Use what you need. Email if anything is missing.

Short introduction · for the host

Use this on the day. Three sentences. Reads in 18 seconds.

"Dr. Avinaash is the pioneer of Human Intelligence in an AI World. He holds a doctorate in AI and Marketing, a masters in psychology, and runs E21 Designs, a marketing studio in Chennai he founded fifteen years ago. He writes for forty thousand readers about how to live and lead meaningfully in the AI age. Please welcome him."

Long bio · for programme notes

Reads in 60 seconds. Use in conference brochures and pre-event collateral.

"Dr. Avinaash is the pioneer of Human Intelligence in an AI World, an emerging framework for what AI cannot replace and why that matters for leaders, brands, and societies. He holds a doctorate in AI and Marketing, a Master of Science in Psychology, and a PGDM in Marketing. He is the founder of E21 Designs, a Chennai-based marketing studio he started in 2011, and the author of a widely-read body of original frameworks on AI visibility, brand belief, kindness as infrastructure, and humane growth. His writing reaches more than forty thousand readers, and his keynotes have been delivered at CXO summits, leadership offsites, university convocations, and humanitarian gatherings across India."

Headshot pack

Two crops, sRGB, retina ready. Use either for stage screens, conference brochures, and programme web pages.

  • Square portrait · 1440 × 1440 · saffron-light side · for social and slide screens
  • Landscape portrait · 1920 × 1080 · darker mood · for cinema-format screens

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AV requirements

Simple. Quiet. Works in almost any room.

  • Wireless lapel or handheld microphone (clip-on preferred)
  • Confidence monitor at the foot of the stage
  • HDMI or USB-C input for the laptop · 16:9 ratio · 1080p minimum
  • Adequate stage lighting · no harsh top-down spotlight
  • For fireside format · two chairs · low table · still water · no slides

Travel and accommodation

Outstation engagements include economy or business class travel for journeys above 90 minutes, one night of accommodation, and on-ground transfers. Outside India, the host covers visa support, business-class travel, and accommodation. All travel is booked by the host directly to avoid GST friction.

For procurement and finance

For corporate bookings, the engagement is invoiced through Dr. Avinaash's professional practice. GST applies at 18 percent. Invoice format includes PAN, GST, and HSN code. PO terms negotiable. Payment net 30 days. International engagements invoiced in USD where requested.

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// Inquire about a talk

Tell me about the room. I will write back within 48 hours.

Every keynote begins with a 30 minute discovery call. The call is free. It is also the only way I take an engagement seriously. Use the form to start, or write directly to avinaash.me@gmail.com.

All inquiries read personally. No assistants. Slow but certain.

Submitting opens your mail client. If that fails, write to avinaash.me@gmail.com directly.

// Before you go

A note from the desk.

A talk does not begin with a slide. It begins with a single sentence and a long silence. The room exhales. Some people uncross their arms. Then the first idea lands, and the rest of the hour follows from there. The slowest part is the first thirty seconds. Everything else is its consequence.

If you would rather read before you decide, the Dispatch is a private letter, sent rarely, never automated. The next writing is "The Quiet Power of the First Sentence", due July 2026. To receive it, write to avinaash.me@gmail.com with the word DISPATCH.

Slowly,
Dr. Avinaash.

Chennai · written by hand · narrated by voice · 2026