Speaking

Ideas That Move From the Stage Into the Real World

Sherry Comes brings a rare perspective to the stage: she has spent her career not simply talking about emerging technology, but building it, commercializing it, scaling it and operating with it in the real world.

Across more than three decades, Sherry has worked at the intersection of technology, business and human potential, from the early commercial Internet and enterprise computing to cognitive computing, conversational AI, generative AI and agentic systems.

She has built global technology and AI capabilities, created new products and platforms, led major enterprise transformations, founded and operated businesses, and helped organizations turn emerging technologies into measurable business outcomes. Her current executive profile reflects that same focus: moving AI beyond experimentation into operating models, governance, platforms, talent systems and value realization.

Sherry's talks challenge audiences to think differently about what is coming next, while giving them practical frameworks for what to do about it.

Signature Speaking Topics

Human Ingenuity in the Age of AI

Knowledge is becoming abundant. The ability to apply knowledge well is becoming increasingly valuable.

As AI gives people access to extraordinary amounts of information and intelligence, competitive advantage shifts toward the uniquely human capabilities required to use it: critical thinking, systems thinking, judgment, creativity, curiosity and problem solving.

Sherry explores what this means for leaders, organizations, education and the future of work, and why the next great challenge may not be creating more intelligence, but learning how to apply it wisely.

From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Impact

Organizations have no shortage of AI pilots. What many lack is the operating system required to turn experimentation into enterprise value.

Drawing from her experience building and scaling AI capabilities across major global organizations, Sherry explores what separates successful AI transformation from endless experimentation.

She addresses the organizational capabilities leaders increasingly need to build around AI, including governance, operating models, talent, architecture, platforms, adoption and value realization.

Her career includes building enterprise AI capabilities from the ground up and leading organizations that scaled to hundreds of millions of dollars in opportunity and thousands of professionals.

What Comes After Agentic AI?

The technology landscape is moving extraordinarily quickly.

Generative AI changed how we create. Agentic AI is changing how work gets done. The next wave will increasingly combine AI, automation, robotics, new computing architectures, advanced interfaces and other emerging technologies.

Rather than predicting a single future, Sherry helps audiences understand the patterns that matter.

What will these technologies make possible?
Which capabilities should organizations begin building now?
What should remain distinctly human?
And how should leaders make decisions when the technology is moving faster than traditional planning cycles?

Building What Does Not Yet Exist

Some of the most important opportunities arrive before there is a proven playbook.

Throughout her career, Sherry has repeatedly worked in those moments, helping create new technology practices, products, operating models and businesses.

She shares lessons from building in uncharted territory: how to identify a real problem, simplify complexity, secure sponsorship, assemble the right team, prototype quickly, learn from failure and turn an idea into something people actually use.

Her work has included developing AI platforms and reusable solutions, creating new technology practices, inventing patented technologies and building businesses from the earliest days of Internet commerce.

The Future of Work Is Applied Knowledge

For generations, education and business rewarded access to knowledge.

AI changes that equation.

When nearly everyone can query sophisticated models and instantly access expertise, the differentiator becomes the ability to frame problems, question assumptions, connect disciplines and apply knowledge to real-world situations.

Sherry explores how education, leadership development and workforce strategies may need to change, including a greater emphasis on experiential learning, multidisciplinary teams, real-world problem solving and emerging technology as a tool rather than the destination.

Turning Complex Problems Into Executable Solutions

The hardest problems are rarely purely technical.

They involve technology, people, organizations, incentives, economics and uncertainty.

One theme runs consistently through Sherry's career: the ability to take extraordinarily complex situations, identify the underlying problem and translate complexity into something leaders and teams can act upon.

A former banking CIO described her as having a rare ability to quickly break a problem, technical or otherwise, into simple components that almost anyone can understand. Her recommendation materials repeatedly highlight this ability to connect technology with practical business outcomes.

What Audiences Can Expect

Provocative ideas without the hype.

Sherry combines a futurist's curiosity with an operator's discipline. Her talks connect emerging technology to the realities of organizations, markets and people.

Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of:

• what is changing

• why it matters

• where the real opportunities are

• what risks leaders should consider

• and what they can begin doing differently now

Her style is candid, energetic, practical and grounded in decades of firsthand experience building and operating technology at scale.

Selected Speaking Engagements

Sherry has spoken to executive, technology, business and academic audiences around the world.

Selected appearances include:

CFO Executive Summit
The Future of Finance: Leveraging RPA and AI

CIO Summit at The Harvard Club, New York City

Grace Hopper Celebration / Anita Borg Institute
Women Transforming Technology

IBM Innovation Conference, Chile
Invited Keynote Speaker

GovTech Technology Conference, Cape Town, South Africa

Bosch Women in Technology, Mexico City
Invited Keynote Speaker

Internet Retailer Conference, Boston
Internet commerce, digital business and entrepreneurship

Her career materials document invited speaking engagements across these executive, technology and international forums.

Speaking Formats

Sherry is available for:

Keynote Addresses
Big ideas, emerging technology and leadership perspectives designed to challenge and energize an audience.

Executive Leadership Sessions
Interactive discussions for senior leadership teams navigating AI, emerging technology and transformation.

Board & C-Suite Briefings
Focused conversations on AI strategy, governance, operating models, emerging technology and enterprise value.

Leadership Offsites
Working sessions that combine inspiration with practical frameworks and facilitated discussion.

Panels & Fireside Conversations
Thought-provoking conversations on AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, technology and the future of work.

Universities & Education Forums
Discussions focused on human potential, applied knowledge, emerging technology and preparing the next generation for a rapidly changing world.

Bring Sherry to Your Next Event

The most valuable conversations about emerging technology are not really about technology.

They are about what becomes possible because of it.

If you are looking for a speaker who can connect the future of technology with business, human potential and real-world execution, Sherry would welcome the conversation.

Keynotes • Executive Forums • Board Sessions • Leadership Offsites • Panels

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Speaking

Ideas That Move From the Stage Into the Real World

From AI and emerging technology to human potential, innovation and the future of work, Sherry brings the perspective of someone who has spent decades building what comes next.