{"id":900566,"date":"2026-04-26T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=900566"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:51:27","slug":"my-ted-ai-talk-is-live-the-human-secret-behind-the-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/my-ted-ai-talk-is-live-the-human-secret-behind-the-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"My TED AI Talk Is Live: The Human Secret Behind the AI Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC03956-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-900567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC03956-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC03956-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC03956-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC03956-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC03956-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My TED AI Talk Is Live: The Human Secret Behind the AI Boom<\/strong><br>The video from my closing keynote at TEDAI San Francisco 2025 just dropped on TED.com. It is 7.5 minutes. Short post, because I want you to watch it.<br><br>Click: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jeremiah_owyang_the_human_secret_behind_the_ai_boom\">Watch the full talk on TED.com<\/a><br><br><strong>The thesis in one line<\/strong><br>San Francisco&#8217;s AI edge is not the technology. It is the community, and there is an operating formula behind it. In the talk, I map five distinct cultures emerging in the AI workforce, and I share data on AI native startups that explains why a small team can now outperform a much larger incumbent. Examples include revenue per employee benchmarks I have never seen presented in this type of presentaiton before.<br><br><strong>How I prepared<\/strong><br>I want to be honest about what went into this. I rehearsed the talk over 100 times. I worked with the TED speaker coaches that the program provided, and I took every note seriously. I brought original data to the stage that had not been seen in public before, including the revenue per employee benchmarks for AI native Bay Area startups. Most of all, I treated this as a performance, not a presentation. I focused on storytelling and body language. For example, I rewrote the opening several times to start with a single moment tying our local redwood ecosystem to tech instead of a stat, and I rehearsed every gesture and pause so the data landed with emotion, not just numbers. Hope you enjoy, and I can\u2019t wait to bring this type of talk to your next event, details <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/speaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on my speaking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My TED AI Talk Is Live: The Human Secret Behind the AI BoomThe video from my closing keynote at TEDAI San Francisco 2025 just dropped on TED.com. It is 7.5 minutes. Short post, because I want you to watch it. Click: Watch the full talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/my-ted-ai-talk-is-live-the-human-secret-behind-the-ai-boom\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My TED AI Talk Is Live: The Human Secret Behind the AI Boom<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900569,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900566\/revisions\/900569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}