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AI keynote speaker & practitioner

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Thibault Montoya builds the AI systems he talks about — agents, RAG, cloned voices in production — and runs them live on stage. The keynote resets what your organization considers normal performance.

FR / EN Based in Paris Travels worldwide Keynote 45–60 min · Masterclass ½–1 day
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Thibault Montoya delivering an AI keynote at Société Générale
Keynote — Société Générale, Paris
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Three talks. One thesis: the standard has already moved.

01

One Week → One Day

The pivot equation. What took a team a week now takes a day — same effort, same headcount. 91% of companies use AI; 74% of the value is captured by 20% of organizations: the ones that steer, not the ones that endure. This talk resets the room's definition of normal performance — then shows, live, what the new normal looks like.

Keynote 45–60 min · All audiences · Sources: PwC 2026, WEF 2026
02

The Comfort Illusion

The biggest AI risk in the room is not the technology — it is the comfort of waiting. Your teams are not behind on AI; they are waiting to be told what is expected of them. The implicit contract between leaders, control functions, managers and teams is rewritten on stage, one floor at a time.

Keynote 45–60 min · Executive & leadership audiences
03

The Loop

The practitioner's talk. The secret of AI is not the model — it is the loop: absorb, reason, act, measure, correct. Built live from real production systems: a voice cloned from 30 seconds of audio, an agent that reads three contracts and delivers a synthesis, a mail bot answering the room's questions in five seconds.

Keynote or masterclass · Live demos · Tech-friendly
Live on stage

Most AI speakers show slides.
This one ships.

Cloned voice

30 seconds of an executive's voice recorded in the room — with consent — becomes 3 minutes of generated speech. The audience compares. The room goes quiet.

Agent, live

An autonomous agent reads three contracts and delivers a comparative synthesis while the audience watches it reason, step by step.

Your questions, answered

A production mail bot built on 487 business knowledge cards answers questions from the audience in five seconds — the same system evaluated against experienced human advisers.

Track record

Rooms of 12 to 1,000.

1,000
people — client keynote on the Salesforce World Tour 2025 stage
3 floors
trained in one national organization: executive committee, managers, teams
20 yrs
international banking — Japan, Australia, US, Belgium
Société Générale HEC Paris IRC congress ENSIIE
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AI keynote at Société Générale
Keynote — Société Générale
Keynote at the IRC congress
10th IRC Congress
Public conference, 500 students
Public conference — 500 students
About

The practitioner on the stage.

Thibault Montoya is the founder of Smalaxy and an AI keynote speaker who ships what he shows. After 20 years in international banking (BNP Paribas, Dexia — Japan, Australia, the US, Belgium), he now runs AI agents in production for enterprise clients: mail bots answering from 487 business knowledge cards, multi-agent pipelines, cloned-voice systems.

His framework, the Triple Unlock, names the three human locks that keep AI out of organizations — control functions that must loosen without losing the frame, managers who must learn what they can now demand, teams who must do — and the obligation underneath: keep training the young.

For organizers

  • Scoping call at D-15 — your sector's case woven into the talk
  • Live demos prepared for your context (optional: an executive's cloned voice, with consent)
  • Deliverables — slides PDF, replay rights, "first steps" pack
  • Tech rider — HD projector or 4K screen, stable internet, lavalier or handheld mic, demo table
  • Languages — English or French, same content
  • Optional — half-day or full-day masterclass on D+1, executive sparring afterwards
Booking

Check Thibault's availability.

  • Answer within 24 hours.
  • Fee guidance: from €8,000 in France · Europe and international on request · virtual formats available.
  • Keynote + D+1 masterclass bundles are the most requested format outside France.

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