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Jaimy Szymanski
As an experienced market intelligence, research, and digital strategy leader, Jaimy Szymanski specializes in data-driven initiatives that result in business growth. During her career, she has developed and scaled global market intelligence and digital transformation functions, delivering actionable insights derived from deep analysis of macroeconomic trends, competitor positioning, market forecasting, and customer behaviors. Her current work leading a global market intelligence function bridges the gap between data and decision-making, ensuring alignment across go-to-market, innovation, and strategy teams.
With 15 years of expertise in emerging technology analysis, Jaimy is also a former founder of research firm Kaleido Insights, authoring dozens of reports on AI and automation, digital transformation, regenerative business, and customer experience (CX). She has also advised numerous clients that include Google, Facebook, Cisco, Nestlé, and AARP. As a keynote speaker at global conferences and a former podcast host, Jaimy regularly shares insights on deciphering intelligence from market…
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The Dawn of Autonomous Insights: AI, Agents, & Market Intelligence
Market intelligence, inherently dependent on the speed of data, is naturally evolving at pace with AI. Gone are the days of static reports, reactive decision-making, and manual analysis. In this speech, Jaimy explores how AI-powered market intelligence and self-service analytics models are transforming the way businesses track macroeconomic indicators, competitor positioning, addressable market forecasting, and customer trends in real-time. With experience leading cross-functional, global market intelligence functions, she has seen firsthand how automation, AI, and agentic systems are redefining how businesses capitalize on market data to inform strategy at scale.
In her keynote, Jaimy will delve into recent research, case examples, and real-world experiences that outline key considerations:
• How AI and machine learning are revolutionizing market intelligence by uncovering patterns, predicting trends, and enabling real-time decisions
• Data integrity, trust in AI and autonomous analysts, and when to incorporate human strategic oversight within the market intelligence function
• Building an insights roadmap that capitalizes on today’s AI-driven software while planning for tomorrow’s agentic systems and addressing output ownership, go-to-market strategies, and the future of hybrid intelligenceAI-Driven Competitive Intelligence: Predict, Adapt & Outmaneuver Rivals
In today’s hyper-competitive world, AI isn’t just analyzing the market—it’s shaping it. The rise of AI and agentic systems means that businesses no longer need to rely solely on human-driven competitor research. Instead, autonomous AI agents can monitor market shifts, track market changes in real-time, and even generate strategic direction to better competitive positioning. In this speech, Jaimy presents a view of competitive intelligence’s future: an AI-powered system that works harmoniously with your team to autonomously scan financial reports, analyze market forecasts, incorporate analyst trends, and decipher CX insights to predict the competition’s next move before they even make it.
With experience leading global market intelligence functions, developing AI-driven self-service dashboards, and leveraging Power BI capabilities, Jaimy has experienced firsthand how AI is revolutionizing competitive analysis.
In this speech, you’ll learn:
• How to use AI to detect early warning signals, forecast industry disruptions, and optimize product and service offerings
• When AI is– and isn’t! – the right partner to help adjust pricing strategies, product attributes, refine go-to-market plans, and simulate competitive scenarios
• How much autonomy companies should grant AI systems, and recommendations for safe, ethical use of AI within human-agent hybrid market intelligence org structuresEthical AI in Market Intelligence: Navigating Bias, Data Privacy & Human Oversight
AI-powered market intelligence is transforming the way businesses analyze competitors, predict trends, and shape strategies. But can we truly trust AI-driven insights? Bias in AI models, data privacy risks, and the over-reliance on automated decision-making pose real challenges for businesses looking to leverage AI ethically.
With experience in leading global market intelligence functions, utilizing AI-driven analytics platforms, and mentoring emerging technology research teams, Jaimy has seen firsthand how AI can both unlock powerful insights and reinforce dangerous blind spots.
In this speech, she’ll answer key questions that lead to a balanced approach that blend AI’s speed with human intuition:
• When AI scrapes data, tracks competitor moves, and forecasts market trends, who ensures those insights are fair, unbiased, and accurate?
• When should AI inform decisions, and when can it replace human judgment?
• How can we detect bias through ethical AI governance and oversight, and how will it shift with the rise of agentic AI?Because the real question ultimately isn’t whether AI should shape market intelligence–that’s inevitable. It’s how we can ensure it does so responsibly.
Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Customer Engagement
The rise of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning are beginning to disrupt the customer journey in ways that present companies with both new opportunities for engagement and also new challenges to overcome in reaching consumers. When mobile applications, smart home devices, autonomous vehicles, and other consumer technologies automatically make decisions for their owners, where do existing digital, marketing, sales, research, and customer service strategies fit in? In this speech, Jaimy Szymanski will explore:
· How influencing the real “decision maker” requires organizations to adopt a hybrid mix of data science and customer experience (CX) design skills.
· How change agents and digital transformation leaders in myriad functions and industries are incorporating cognitive technologies into purchase/decision funnel strategies to better meet evolving customer expectations.
· Tailored case examples that showcase how leading companies are deploying AI in order to positively impact CX and core company metrics. Technologies covered may include: deep learning, chatbots, predictive analytics, biometric and voice recognition, geolocation, and more.How VR & AR Technologies Enhance Workforces to Transform the Enterprise
Though consumer applications may receive most of the fanfare, mixed reality technologies like virtual, augmented, and extended reality (VR/AR/XR) offer enterprises many opportunities to supercharge employee skill-sets as well. Companies can increase collaboration and transform traditional approaches to education and training, repairs and maintenance, sales, product and site design, and more. In this presentation based on original research, Jaimy Szymanski explores in detail the six most effective cross-departmental use cases of mixed reality within organizations and the advantages of utilizing XR over traditional processes, practices, and legacy technologies. Audience members will learn:
· Benefits of each XR use case over traditional approaches, applicable to nearly any industry, complete with illustrative case examples.
· Catalysts driving mixed reality adoption within corporations, typically driven by a corporate innovation charter.
· Challenges encountered along the way to XR success, including lack of understanding and education; inter-departmental coordination; and budget constraints.
· Best practice considerations for beginning mixed reality experimentation and implementation.The Future of Work & the Employee Experience
2020 brought dramatic shifts in office environments, work-from-home arrangements, and accelerated automation adoption. The Future of Work is here, and every organization must adapt its technology, employee engagement, and innovation strategies to the reality of virtual work and a more distributed workforce. As work and personal life blur for employees, and artificial intelligence (AI) becomes mainstay, a “hybrid workforce” takes on a whole new meaning. In this speech, Jaimy Szymanski will explore:
· How emerging technologies are unlocking a new phase in digital transformation of the employee experience (EX), wherein the Future of Work is shaped by people and augmented by responsible use of technology to build trust
· Several key external trends that influence how employers and workers alike regard technology and data activation opportunities and risks on-the-job
· Diverse technology applications and case examples that span the employment lifecycle across industries, functions, and roles
· How to grow in EX maturity, specifically examining impacts to: talent gap analysis and recruiting; education management; cultural analysis; collaboration; empowerment; training; and partner engagement.
· Building the business case for diversity and bridging the “digital divide,” as organizations move from inclusion to equity in order to attract and retain talentPutting the Customer at the Center of Digital Transformation
Emerging technologies are shifting customer experiences, expectations, and behaviors, changing the way your organization must operate to remain relevant and competitive. To digitally transform, companies must align on strategic direction, collaborate across functions and hierarchies, develop digital literacy, and plan for inevitable future disruption––all with their customer at the core of innovation. In this speech, Jaimy Szymanski will focus on empowering digital leaders by covering:
· The principles of digital transformation, levels of maturity, and the seven areas that require alignment within an organization
· Drivers, catalysts, roadblocks, and challenges that change agents will encounter
· How to grow in digital transformation maturity, specifically examining impacts to customer experience (CX) that include: co-innovation, content strategy, customer engagement processes, journey mapping, persona development, customer research, experience automation, and real-time relevancy.
· How to overhaul the approach to CX design with data-driven personalization.
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