Michael Rogers
Award-winning journalist, best-selling author, futurist, and business consultant regularly seen on Good Morning America, the Today Show, and CNN, Michael Rogers is a keynote speaker with a focus on artificial intelligence and emergent technologies.
Michael Rogers Booking & Availability
Speaking fees, availability and booking details for corporate events, keynotes and private appearances.
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What is Michael Rogers’s speaking fee?
Michael Rogers’s current speaking fee is $15,000–$20,000. Final pricing can vary by date, location, event format and scope of the appearance.
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What types of events can Michael Rogers be booked for?
Corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events and virtual programs may be available depending on the engagement.
Michael Rogers Keynote Topics & Programs
Michael Rogers speaks on business, futurism and journalists through keynote presentations and related programs.
These topics are only suggestions. Clients often mix and match from the list—or Michael will create a presentation specifically tailored for the audience and goals of the event.
AI: MANAGEMENT’S BIGGEST CHALLENGE….EVER
Never before has management’s role been so challenging: disruption is everywhere. AI is now integrating the existing digital infrastructure, from smart sensors and wearable computers to extended social networks and virtual workplaces. Leaders must deal with not only difficult strategic decisions but broader quandaries such as the nature of privacy, white collar automation, reskilling workers, and the rule of law in cyberspace. How can successful managers discover and implement innovation while still meeting the daily challenges of business?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE NEXT CHAPTER
Michael has written about AI since the early days of primitive neural networks. Now the rise of generative AI programs (such as ChatGPT) has focused corporate and public attention on the technology. AI automates many white collar tasks. AI gives robots better vision and precise control. AI-generated video and audio challenges the search for accurate information. Emotional relationships with AI companions are growing more common. And this is only the early days. AI will still continue to disrupt our lives and businesses with new intelligence. It should also lead us to embrace more strongly the traits and skills are uniquely human.
AI AND WORK: ROUGH WATERS AHEAD
Michael will create a realistic scenario of the workforce challenges your profession or business will face due to the rise of AI. What positions are most vulnerable in both the white collar and blue collar world?. How can entry-level workers—often replaced by AI—be trained and integrated into the workforce? What skills will remain valuable? What must management do to keep the workforce productive?
AI GOES TO SCHOOL
Online teaching already challenges both educators and their institutions and the addition of AI creates even larger new quandaries. Ultimately, of course, AI tools must be integrated into the curriculum. The challenge now is how we use them—and what do we teach? What skills will our students initially bring (or not bring) to campus? What skills will they need to make their way in an increasingly automated world? AI has enormous potential to improve education. Individual customized tutoring is an expense that many families can’t afford, but AI could provide that experience for all students.
Michael has spoken to educators worldwide ranging from K-12 to college, law and medicine.
AI AND HEALTHCARE: A PROMISING PRESCRIPTION
The future is bright for medical technology: telemedicine, wellness monitors, personal genomics, electronic health records, and more. Now add AI, and the results could range from AI assistants in the examining room to “digital twins” that will compare your health records with thousands of similar individuals, warning of potential new problems as well as suggesting the best treatment options. But how do we keep the human element in healthcare? What are the privacy implications of personal genomic data? How do we fund the latest technologies while still making sure that basic healthcare is affordable?
Michael has presented this topic to pharmaceutical companies, hospital networks, health insurers, medical educators and more.
Michael Rogers Biography & Credentials
Michael Rogers is an award-winning journalist and highly sought-after keynote speaker on artificial intelligence and disruptive technologies. He has spoken to leading organizations ranging from Boeing and GE to Microsoft, Pfizer and American Express, as well as NASA and the Department of Defense.
For ten years, he was the vice president of The Washington Post Company’s new media division. Additionally, his work in interactive media includes projects with LucasFilm and Apple in early ground-breaking developments. Furthermore, Rogers is an inductee of the Magazine Industry Digital Hall of Fame and recipient of the World Technology Network Award for Lifetime Achievement in Media and Journalism.
His most recent book, Email from the Future: Notes from 2084, is available now in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Michael Rogers’s fees.
Want to book Michael Rogers for an event?
Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at 215-995-0905 to book Michael Rogers for a keynote speech, corporate event, leadership program, workshop, fireside chat, virtual appearance, or other private or professional event.
Our team will help confirm Michael Rogers’s availability, speaking fee, travel requirements, and fit for your audience. To start the booking process, please share your event date, location, audience size, event format, and the type of presentation you are looking for.
The Mollie Plotkin Group is a full-service keynote speaker agency and entertainment bureau that helps organizations secure keynote speakers, entertainers, athletes, celebrities, and thought leaders for corporate meetings, conferences, fundraisers, and special events.
Education
Michael Rogers is a Stanford University alumnus with additional training in finance and management at the Stanford Business School Executive Program.
Journalism
Rogers began his career as a writer for Rolling Stone. Later, he joined Newsweek to create the magazine’s Technology section. There, he covered the bleeding-edge topics of the day, ranging from Chernobyl and genetic engineering to the rise of the internet. Rogers would go on to serve as the editor and general manager of Newsweek.com. As a visionary for the 21st century, Rogers’ work with Newsweek would earn him the Distinguished Online Service award from the National Press Club for coverage of 9/11.
Michael Rogers was the futurist-in-residence for The New York Times and a columnist for NBC.com. He is also a best-selling novelist, writing fiction exploring the human impact of technology. Today, he resides in New York City.
