Conference keynotes
A 30 to 45 minute session for business-owner and leadership audiences who need to understand how AI agents change everyday work, without the hype.
Speaker
Speaker on AI agents and the future of work.
Jim Stewart does not speak about AI in theory. He runs a business where agents do real work every day, with real approval boundaries and real mistakes along the way. Audiences get what actually happened, what it changed, and what to try first.
CEO and founder of StewArt Media. Author of Beyond Google. 25+ years helping businesses understand search, marketing, ecommerce, and AI-driven change.
Signature talk
When AI starts doing the work
Jim runs his own business with AI agents doing real work every day: invoicing, client research, reporting, and follow-up. This session shows what that actually looks like, where it goes wrong, and what still needs a human decision.
A real working example, start to finish, with nothing dressed up.
Where the agent was allowed to act, and where it had to stop and ask.
The mistakes worth making early, and the ones that cost real money.
How to choose a first workflow that is useful rather than impressive.
See Jim speak
A recent keynote, in full.
Jim speaking on agentic AI to a room of senior leaders. Useful if you are deciding whether his delivery suits your audience.
Room-ready clarity
Designed for audiences who need useful decisions after the talk.
The best sessions do more than explain what changed. They help the room see what to do next, what to ignore, and how search, AI, ecommerce, and brand authority connect.
Formats
Useful for rooms that need signal, not jargon.
Jim’s speaking work is built for business audiences: clear enough for non-technical operators, sharp enough for senior decision-makers, and practical enough to create next steps after the session.
Executive briefings and leadership days
Focused sessions for boards, CEO groups, and senior teams working out what to delegate to agents, what to keep human, and how to govern it.
Workshops and hands-on sessions
Interactive formats where the room maps its own workflows, and Jim works through which ones are genuinely worth handing to an agent first.
Topics
Popular speaking topics
Sessions can be shaped around AI, SEO, digital marketing, brand authority, ecommerce, or the specific commercial questions your audience is facing.
AI agents and the future of work
What changes when software can research, draft, and prepare work end to end. Practical delegation, oversight, and what leadership needs to decide.
Running a business with agents
Lessons from operating StewArt Media with agents in the loop. Real examples, real limits, and the approval boundaries that keep it safe.
Who buys when your customer has an agent?
How agent-assisted discovery and buying is starting to reshape search, ecommerce, and what it means to be findable at all.
Audience value
What audiences leave with
The aim is not to impress a room with buzzwords. It is to make hard digital change easier to understand, easier to discuss, and easier to act on.
- Understand what AI agents can genuinely do today, and what is still theatre.
- Know where a human decision must stay in the loop, and why that matters commercially.
- Leave with one realistic first workflow worth trying in their own business.
- Get a complex, fast-moving subject explained in plain English with real examples.
Proof
Trusted by business audiences and event organisers
Jim has spoken for business-owner and senior-manager audiences, with sessions described as dynamic, practical, understandable, and highly rated.
“Jim is a dynamic communicator that truly knows his subject. His ability to explain complex subjects and make them understandable is welcomed by our audience of business owners and C-Level executives. Jim rates highly in our survey — we have him back every year.”
“Jim Stewart is such a dynamic, engaging speaker that we felt very lucky to have him on stage. His session was rated by 96% of audience members as very good to excellent.”
Video credibility
Video proof before YouTube existed
Jim began publishing digital marketing and SEO videos in 2003, before YouTube existed. That archive gives event organisers a public record of how he explains complex topics in plain English.
Watch Jim on YouTubeCamera-ready authority
Decades of public teaching across SEO, ecommerce, AI search, paid media, and practical digital growth.
Useful for event due diligence
Organisers can see Jim’s communication style before booking a keynote, workshop, or training session.
Fit and fees
Paid work funds it. The right room gets it anyway.
Most engagements are paid, but a fee is not the only thing that makes an event worth doing. Community fundraisers and causes Jim supports are genuinely welcome.
Paid engagements
Conferences, association events, corporate leadership days, and team training. Fees depend on format, travel, and preparation.
Community and cause events
Jim regularly speaks without a fee for fundraisers, community groups, and causes he backs. If the room matters, ask anyway.
Speaking enquiries
Bring Jim in to talk about AI agents and the future of work.
Send the event, the audience, the date and location, the format you need, and the question your audience is actually asking. Jim will tell you straight whether it is a good fit.