Farid Mheir

A practical keynote on artificial intelligence

Chihuahua
or muffin?

Why artificial intelligence changes what our organizations can do.

For executive offsites, conferences and professional events. Surprising images and tailored demonstrations help your audience understand what AI could make possible in their business.

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30 or 45 minutes · English or French · In person or online

A collection of lookalike Chihuahuas and blueberry muffins

It starts with a smile.
Then it gets down to business.

A Chihuahua or a muffin? Telling them apart seems obvious to us. For computers, it was a challenge for a long time.

Today, AI processes text, images, audio and video. It finds patterns in data and generates content. Combine these capabilities with our software and data, and we can build solutions that used to be too complex, too expensive or impractical.

Farid Mheir shows what becomes possible in organizations, with demonstrations tailored to your audience. Your participants see the results, the limitations and the implications for their work. No technical background required.

Farid Mheir speaking on stage at a business event

Three questions to understand what’s changing.

  1. How do machines do that?

    Use simple examples to understand how AI learns to process text, images, audio and data.

  2. What can we do now?

    See these capabilities at work in business situations. Start with a familiar task and explore new possibilities.

  3. What does this change for us?

    Look at how tasks change, which results need checking and where human judgment matters.

Examples your audience can relate to.

Three demonstrations in 45 minutes, two in 30 minutes. The selection reflects your industry and your audience’s roles and responsibilities.

  • Customer service

    Interpret a customer request, consult their file and draft a response with supporting sources.

  • Sales and marketing

    Draft proposals and follow-ups. Examine how a product or service appears in AI assistants’ answers.

  • Administration and finance

    Match invoices against purchase orders and receipts. Flag discrepancies for review.

  • Operations and inventory

    Spot inventory anomalies or analyze service requests to identify recurring problems.

  • Procurement

    Compare supplier proposals, identify exclusions and prepare questions to ask.

  • HR and project management

    Find answers in internal policies. Turn a meeting into a draft record of decisions and follow-ups to confirm.

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Formats and options for tailoring it to your event.

Your participants leave with a clear picture of what AI could make possible in their business.

  • Understand

    Understand how AI can contribute to their organization’s activities, and where its limits lie.

  • Recognize opportunities

    Connect the demonstrations to tasks, processes and services in their own business.

  • Start the conversation

    Take away ideas to explore and useful questions for assessing a first use case.

A format that fits your program.

For an executive offsite, a conference, an association event or a team development day.

30 or 45 minutes
A keynote featuring two or three demonstrations.
An optional 15 to 45 minutes of discussion
Explore the examples further and take questions from the audience.
Tailored to your audience
Executives and boards, managers or professionals. Examples selected for your industry.
In English or French
In person or online. Language and references adapted to your audience and market.
Farid Mheir smiling, wearing glasses and a light blue shirt

Your speaker

Farid Mheir

Engineer, entrepreneur and author of AI Mindsets.

Farid has been building technology solutions for over 35 years. A pioneer of grocery e-commerce in Quebec in 1996, he advises organizations on digital transformation and teaches at the McGill Executive Institute.

He brings a builder’s perspective: explain AI’s capabilities in plain language and show what organizations can do with them.

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