Bridging AI frontiers and global realities

Ian Slade is a healthcare technologist, policy advisor, and sought-after speaker who fuses ancient wisdom with frontier AI strategy to help leaders and nations thrive amid disruption. He co-founded the Kennedy Center for Cybersecurity with former Maryland Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, shaped landmark patient-privacy and cybersecurity legislation under the Obama administration, and advanced digital inclusion across Africa through the Partnership for Digital Access in Africa (PDAA) during the Biden administration. His collaboration with California Governor Gavin Newsom on the state’s historic $6 billion broadband expansion—designed to power tomorrow’s AI infrastructure—earned him the prestigious HIMSS Global Advocate of the Year award. A TEDx speaker, Ian broke new ground with his talk “How AI Can Make Us More Human,” becoming the first person to share the iconic red dot with Hannah, an AI co-speaker—a living embodiment of his conviction that technology must amplify, not replace, our humanity. His Amazon top-10 bestselling book Flow Like Water offers leaders timeless strategies drawn from ancient philosophy to navigate complexity, constant change, and AI-driven transformation.