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Nina Schick
Generative AI Authority & Author | Founder, Tamang Ventures | Adviser to Biden, NATO & Macron | LinkedIn Top Voice on AI
Nina Schick is one of the world's leading authorities on generative AI — a rare voice who identified the technology as a civilizational inflection point years before ChatGPT made it a household term. Author of DEEPFAKES (2020), founder of Tamang Ventures, and former geopolitical adviser to Biden, NATO, and Macron, she gives senior audiences the clearest account of what the AI era means for business, power, and society.
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Nina Schick biography
Nina Schick is one of the world’s foremost authorities on generative AI — a researcher, author, and adviser whose work anticipated the current AI moment by years. While most of the world was still treating AI as a technical curiosity, Schick was already mapping its implications for power, democracy, and society. Her 2020 book DEEPFAKES: The Coming Infocalypse was the first work to establish a geopolitical and social framework for generative AI, published years before ChatGPT made the technology a global phenomenon. It has since been translated into five languages and is widely regarded as the foundational text in public discourse on AI-generated content.
Before her focus shifted to AI, Schick spent a decade operating at the center of European geopolitics — advising on Brexit, working on Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign, building the Democracy Perception Index (the world’s largest machine-learning study on global attitudes toward democracy), and advising geopolitical clients including U.S. President Joe Biden, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and the U.S. Army. That background gives her AI analysis a dimension that purely technical voices lack: a deep, practitioner-level understanding of how power actually works, and what it means when a technology as consequential as generative AI enters the hands of states, corporations, and individuals simultaneously.
As an AI speaker, Nina Schick is the founder of Tamang Ventures, an advisory firm working exclusively with frontier AI companies. Her active portfolio includes Synthesia (the global pioneer in enterprise AI video generation, valued at $4 billion), Qlik (a $12 billion enterprise analytics platform, where she is a founding member of the AI Council), and Truepic (the global leader in digital media authentication and provenance). She is a LinkedIn Top Voice on AI, a regular keynote at CES, Web Summit, TEDx, and CogX, and a contributor to WIRED, MIT Technology Review, Time, and The Times. She speaks seven languages and is fluent across English, German, and French.
What Distinguishes Nina Schick’s Perspective
What makes Schick’s lens on AI distinctive is its fusion of geopolitical depth, commercial fluency, and frontier access. Most AI speakers approach the technology from either a technical angle (what it can do) or a policy angle (how to regulate it). Schick operates across all three dimensions at once — grounding her analysis of AI’s capabilities in a decade of watching how power, institutions, and information ecosystems actually function under stress. She has briefed DARPA, the UN, and Fortune 500 boards including Microsoft and Adobe on AI strategy, and her advisory work with Synthesia and Qlik puts her inside the companies building the next generation of AI infrastructure. The result is a speaker who can tell a senior executive audience not just where AI is going, but what it means for them — with a specificity and authority that few can match.
As a speaker, Nina Schick is known for her ability to make the most complex and fast-moving technology story of our era feel clear, credible, and directly relevant to the decisions her audiences face. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to book Nina Schick for your next event.
Nina Schick Speaking Videos
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Nina Schick Keynote Topics
Schick's signature keynote frames generative AI not as a future technology to prepare for but as a present transformation already reshaping industries, competitive dynamics, and the economics of content, knowledge work, and decision-making. She walks audiences through the current state of the technology — what it can do, where it is being deployed, and at what pace — and translates that into a clear-eyed analysis of the specific implications for their sector. Calibrated for senior decision-makers who need strategic orientation rather than technical detail, this is the most commercially grounded AI keynote available from a speaker with genuine frontier access.
Schick was the first author to map what synthetic media would do to information ecosystems, and the landscape she described in 2020 has since become the operating reality of every institution that communicates at scale. In this keynote, she examines how generative AI has transformed disinformation, media authentication, and the economics of trust — and what organizations, governments, and individuals can do about it. Drawing on her advisory work with Truepic and her decade of experience on state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, this is an essential session for organizations in financial services, media, government, and any sector where information integrity is a strategic asset.
Schick's decade advising at the intersection of technology and geopolitics — from Brexit to the Russia-Ukraine war to Macron's presidential campaign — gives her a perspective on AI's geopolitical implications that is unmatched on the keynote circuit. In this session, she examines how AI is reshaping national power, the race for AI sovereignty, the divergent regulatory approaches of the U.S., EU, and China, and what the resulting fragmentation of the AI landscape means for multinationals operating across jurisdictions. A keynote for boards, government relations teams, and senior executives whose organizations are already navigating the geopolitical dimension of the AI transition.
Beyond the technology and the geopolitics, the AI transition poses a set of specifically human and organizational questions that most organizations are ill-prepared to answer: how do you govern AI adoption across a complex enterprise? How do you maintain the trust of employees, customers, and regulators simultaneously? What does responsible AI leadership look like in practice, and who should own it? Schick draws on her advisory work with boards, the UN, DARPA, and frontier AI companies to offer a framework for AI governance and leadership that is grounded in how the technology actually works — and what is genuinely at stake.
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FAQs on Booking Nina Schick
Why Nina Schick?
Booking Nina Schick means bringing to your stage the person who saw the generative AI moment coming earlier, more clearly, and with more strategic depth than almost anyone else. She published the foundational book on generative AI's societal implications in 2020 — before ChatGPT, before the mainstream conversation, before most of her audiences had heard the term. She now advises Synthesia ($4B), Qlik ($12B), and Truepic from inside the frontier, while simultaneously briefing governments, military institutions, and Fortune 500 boards on AI strategy. Her ability to translate all of that into a clear, compelling narrative for senior executive audiences is what makes her one of the most sought-after AI keynote speakers in the world. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check availability and fees.
What is DEEPFAKES about?
DEEPFAKES: The Coming Infocalypse (2020) was the first book to establish a geopolitical and social framework for generative AI. Published years before ChatGPT entered the public consciousness, it examined how AI-generated synthetic media — text, images, audio, and video — would transform the information ecosystem, enable new forms of disinformation and manipulation, and fundamentally challenge society's ability to distinguish what is real from what is fabricated. The book has been translated into five languages and is widely cited as the foundational public text on AI-generated content. It positioned Schick as one of the first analysts to argue that generative AI was not merely a technical phenomenon but a civilizational one.
What companies does Nina Schick advise through Tamang Ventures?
Through Tamang Ventures, her AI advisory firm, Nina Schick holds active advisory and equity roles with frontier AI companies. Her current portfolio includes Synthesia, the global pioneer in enterprise AI video generation (valued at $4 billion); Qlik, a leading enterprise analytics and AI platform (valued at $12 billion), where she is a founding member of the AI Council; and Truepic, the global leader in digital media authentication and provenance technology. She has previously advised Truepic from its early stages and was involved with Synthesia during its period of rapid enterprise growth. In 2025 she also became an adviser to a stealth startup building verifiable, decentralized AI inference infrastructure.
What topics does AI speaker Nina Schick cover?
Nina Schick speaks on generative AI and its implications for business strategy, the geopolitics of AI and the race for AI sovereignty, synthetic media, deepfakes, and the crisis of information authenticity, AI governance and responsible leadership in the AI transition, and the broader societal and economic transformation underway in the Age of AI. She speaks in English, German, and French, and has delivered keynotes for audiences ranging from Fortune 500 boards and government ministries to leading technology conferences including CES, Web Summit, TEDx, and CogX. Aurum Speakers Bureau can advise on the right topic for your event and provide full details on Nina Schick's speaking fees and availability.
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