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From AI experiments to enterprise advantage
Why pilots stall, where AI value really concentrates, and how leaders move from scattered tools to an AI-first operating model.
AI strategy
AI strategist · Builder · Speaker
AI changes the shape
of the possible.
I help leaders turn frontier AI from a promising technology into a new operating reality—for companies, teams, and the people inside them.
BCG Senior MDPEnterprise transformation
Chief AI OfficerFrom strategy to scaled impact
Founder ×4Operator's instinct
BCG Henderson Institute FellowResearching what comes next
The leadership question
The question is no longer
“What can AI do?”
It is: what will you redesign now that intelligence can scale?
The companies pulling ahead are not simply adding AI to yesterday's work. They are rethinking where judgment lives, how decisions move, and what becomes possible when people and agents operate as one system.
That shift is strategic, organizational, and deeply human. It is also already underway.
Speaking topics
Ideas built to move
an executive room.
Every session is tailored to the audience, grounded in current research, and designed to turn urgency into a sharper set of choices.
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The missing middle of knowledge work
AI will reshape far more jobs than it replaces. The leadership opportunity is to redesign roles, teams, and the compact between people and the enterprise.
Future of work
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Agents, autonomy, and accountability
What changes when AI can plan and act—not just answer—and how to create the trust, controls, and human ownership that real delegation requires.
Agentic AI
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Competing in the token economy
When intelligence becomes abundant, advantage shifts to the firms that apply it best. A new lens on AI investment, capacity, and return on intelligence.
Competitive advantage
On stage
Not another
AI keynote.
Matt combines the altitude of a strategist, the pragmatism of a builder, and the candor of a founder. The result is a conversation that is provocative without being abstract—and practical without being incremental.
- 01See the technologyLive, tangible, and current.
- 02Reframe the decisionFrom tools to operating choices.
- 03Leave with a pathClearer moves for Monday morning.
About Matt
A strategist who
still likes to build.
Matt Kropp is a BCG Senior Managing Director and Partner, Chief AI Officer, BCG Henderson Institute Fellow, technologist, and repeat entrepreneur.
He advises senior leaders on AI strategy and the transformation of work, helping organizations move from experimentation to durable advantage. Before BCG, Matt spent 15 years as a technologist and entrepreneur, building four internet and software companies across consulting, medical informatics, and logistics.
His work sits at the intersection of frontier technology and the practical realities of enterprise change: how leaders allocate capital, redesign workflows, mobilize people, and build systems that earn trust.
Selected ideas
Research for
the decisions ahead.
Artificial intelligence · 2026
The Era of Token-Based Competition Is Here
When intelligence becomes abundant, advantage comes from applying it to business problems more productively than competitors.
Read the article Future of work · 2026AI Will Reshape More Jobs Than It Replaces
Task automation does not equal job loss. Workforce strategy must be designed into the AI strategy from the start.
Read the article AI adoption · 2025The AI Adoption Puzzle
Why widespread usage has not yet translated into impact—and what it takes to move people toward true AI collaboration.
Read the articleStart a conversation
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AI question.
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Based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Speaking globally
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