Will Taubenheim
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Keynote Speaker

AI keynotes from the engineer who actually builds it.

Most AI speakers are one of two things: engineers who cannot hold a room, or professional speakers who have never built anything. Will Taubenheim is both the engineer and the operator. 2x NASA award winner, founder of Lost Frame Ventures, and fractional CTO to real businesses, he speaks on AI strategy, security, and the future of work for audiences that want clarity, not hype.

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Trusted on stage by chambers of commerce, trade associations, entrepreneur networks, and defense conferences.

The Keynote

The Signature Keynote

Flagship Keynote

The AI Mindset: How to Think About AI So Every Decision Gets Easier

Most AI talks hand the audience a tool list that expires in two weeks. This keynote hands them a mental model that does not. Where AI actually is, where it is going over the next five years, the use cases beyond marketing, the security threats that are already here, and a 90 day plan to act on all of it.

45 to 60 minutes plus Q&A · Non-technical audiences welcome · Adapts to any industry

The room walks away with

  • A mental model for evaluating any AI tool or vendor from this point forward
  • A plain language picture of where AI is actually heading, grounded in Will's 248,000 word State of AI report
  • Specific, non-marketing AI applications attendees can trial the same week
  • A security checklist covering deepfakes, shadow AI, and hard data boundaries
  • A concrete 90 day action plan: three decisions, two pilots, one metric

The One-Pager

The Speaker One-Sheet

The whole pitch on one page. Download it, print it, or forward it to your events committee.

Speaker One-Sheet

Will Taubenheim

Keynote Speaker. AI Engineer. Founder, Lost Frame Ventures.

Will Taubenheim

Will pairs frontier engineering with an operator's grasp of business. He is a 2x NASA award winning AI engineer and defense contractor who spends his weeks as a founder and fractional CTO, building AI that pays for itself inside wealth management firms, healthcare practices, real estate companies, and the trades. On stage, he translates both worlds into plain language and a plan your audience can execute the next morning.

2x NASA Award WinnerU.S. DoD AI ContractorMeta Partner (Quest 3)Epic Games MegaGrantGoogle Gemini Team PartnerTechnical Lead, Escape the Backrooms

2x

NASA awards

Selected from 1,200+ global submissions

20+

AI systems shipped

Healthcare, finance, real estate, the trades, defense

Weeks

from concept to production

Deployed AI, not decks and roadmaps

248,000

words of AI research

Self-published State of AI report

Signature Talks

  • The AI Mindset

    A mental model for AI that makes every tool and vendor decision easier. The flagship keynote.

  • Scaling Your Business with AI

    From concept to deployed in weeks. Real playbooks from live enterprise deployments.

  • Protecting Your Business in the Age of AI

    Deepfakes, shadow AI, and the one page policy every company needs.

  • AI & Geopolitics

    Chips, energy, and the arms race that will define the next decade.

  • AI & The Future of Human Work

    What automation actually displaces, what it creates, and how to be on the right side of it.

Why Rooms Book Will

  • He speaks both languages. A working engineer who also builds and runs companies. Technical depth, delivered in business terms.
  • Nothing to sell. No software, no vendor pitch. Rooms trust the talk because it is educational first.
  • Audiences leave with a plan: a 90 day roadmap, a one page AI policy, and three questions to ask any vendor.

Within 24 hours of the summit, I used some of his examples to streamline tasks I'd been dreading for months. That one win alone made the summit worth attending.

Maggie Uravich, Immanuel · Brookfield Chamber AI Summit attendee

Recent & Upcoming Stages

  • Greater Brookfield Chamber AI SummitOpening keynote, half-day summit · June 2026
  • Entrepreneurs' Organization, Washington D.C.Chapter keynote on AI strategy
  • I/ITSEC Defense ConferenceDefense simulation and training technology
  • Not an Accident PodcastAI, automation, and the future of work
  • IRGA Annual Conference, NashvilleConference keynote and workshops · October 2026

Booking: will@lostframe.ai · willtaubenheim.com/speaking · Based in Tampa Bay, Florida. Speaks nationwide.

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The Difference

Most AI speakers describe the frontier. Will builds on it.

He speaks engineer and owner

Most AI speakers are one or the other: technical people who cannot hold a room, or professional speakers who have never shipped software. Will is a working engineer who also builds and runs companies. He explains AI the way an owner thinks about it: cost, capacity, risk, and return.

He builds what he talks about

Two NASA prize winning projects, AI for the U.S. military, and production systems inside wealth management firms, healthcare practices, real estate companies, and the trades. When your audience asks hard questions, they get engineering answers, not talking points.

Nothing to sell

No software, no vendor pitch, no commissions. Organizers can promote the event honestly: no products, just an engineer telling the room what is real. That positioning filled the Brookfield summit.

Built for your room

Before the event, Will surveys your attendees on the tools they use and what worries them most, then builds the examples and live demos around their answers. A room of contractors sees permitting automation. A room of advisors sees document intelligence. Nobody gets a recycled deck.

The room leaves with a plan

Every attendee walks out with a 90 day action plan, a one page AI policy template, and three questions to ask any AI vendor before spending a dollar. At Brookfield, attendees were executing within 24 hours.

The talk keeps working after the event

Keynotes can ship with a recap packet and a companion microsite that includes an AI assistant trained on the actual talk, so attendees keep getting answers for weeks. No other speaker offers this. See the Brookfield Summit Report below.

You are the moat. I can't start a wealth management firm or a plumbing company. You have the domain knowledge, the relationships, and the trust. AI only accelerates what you are already doing.

Will, on stage at the Brookfield AI Summit

The Talks

More Keynote Topics

Scaling Your Business with AI

The real playbook for implementing AI that generates ROI. Not chatbots, but full-stack systems that automate core operations and create defensible competitive advantages. Built from live deployments across healthcare, finance, real estate, and the trades.

CEOs, founders, operators

AI & Geopolitics: The Arms Race

The U.S. and China AI competition, the chip supply chain, the energy wall, and what it all means for business. The geopolitical map is being redrawn by algorithms and compute.

Business leaders, investors, policy audiences

Protecting Your Business in the Age of AI

AI is being weaponized by competitors and bad actors. Deepfake fraud, shadow AI, and data leakage are present tense problems. This talk includes a live demonstration your audience will not forget.

Executives, security professionals

The Autonomous Revolution

Lessons from building autonomous systems for NASA and the U.S. military that every business leader needs to understand. What production AI means when the stakes are real.

Technology leaders, engineers, defense professionals

The AI Founder Playbook

A first-principles look at building AI companies: structuring for defensible IP, selling to enterprises and government, and building at 90% margins with AI-assisted engineering.

Founders, VCs, accelerators, universities

AI & The Future of Human Work

A grounded, technically informed take on what AI automation actually displaces, what it creates, and how individuals and organizations position themselves on the right side of the shift.

General audiences, HR leaders, chambers of commerce

Every talk adapts to your audience and format, from 20 minute conference keynotes to half day summits.

Proof

Case Study: The Brookfield AI Summit

Half-day

keynote, Q&A, panel, and hands-on workshop

62.5%

of members surveyed said knowledge was their #1 AI barrier

24 hrs

until the first attendee reported a result

7

sponsors backed the event

The event

In June 2026, the Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce built a half day AI summit around Will: opening keynote, extended Q&A, a panel of local businesses, and a hands-on workshop. The Chamber's pre-event survey showed 62.5% of members felt they lacked the knowledge to use AI at all. Will built the keynote and live demos directly around the attendees' survey answers, covering real case studies, AI economics, a live deepfake demonstration, and a one page AI policy every business could take home.

The outcome

The Chamber reported overwhelming positive feedback and began planning follow-on programming. One attendee used the keynote's examples to automate a PTO tracking process for 80+ employees within 24 hours, and her organization started drafting a formal AI policy the same week. After the event, every attendee received a recap packet and a companion microsite with an AI assistant trained on the full keynote and Q&A, so the talk kept answering questions long after the room emptied.

Explore the Summit Report companion site

Testimonials

What organizers and audiences say

Will's presentation was practical, engaging, and immediately actionable. I started taking notes the moment he began, and I haven't stopped applying what I learned since.

Maggie Uravich

Immanuel, Brookfield

Brookfield Chamber AI Summit attendee

Within 24 hours of the summit, I used some of his examples to streamline tasks I'd been dreading for months. That one win alone made the summit worth attending.

Maggie Uravich

Immanuel, Brookfield

Built a PTO tracker for 80+ employees the day after the keynote

We have received overwhelming positive feedback on the AI Summit! THANK YOU!

Carol White

President & CEO, Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce

Summit host, June 2026

For Organizers

Bio & Media Kit

Copy-ready introductions and bios for your program, press release, and event page, plus downloadable assets.

Will Taubenheim headshot

Will Taubenheim

Keynote Speaker · AI Engineer · Founder

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Stage introduction (read aloud)

Please welcome Will Taubenheim: a two time NASA award winning AI engineer, defense technology contractor, and founder of Lost Frame Ventures. He has built AI for NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense, and businesses across the country, and he is one of the few AI speakers who actually builds the systems he talks about.

Short bio (event marketing)

Will Taubenheim is a 2x NASA award-winning AI engineer, serial tech founder, defense technology contractor, and founder of Lost Frame Ventures. He has engineered autonomous AI systems for NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, built software played by millions of people worldwide, and helped businesses across healthcare, finance, real estate, and the trades deploy AI that generates real ROI. He is one of a handful of engineers operating at the frontier of artificial intelligence who translates complex technical realities into language business leaders can actually use. He speaks nationally on AI strategy, implementation, and the future of work.

Full bio (program & press)

Will Taubenheim is a frontier AI engineer, serial entrepreneur, and keynote speaker at the intersection of artificial intelligence, national security, and business strategy. He is the founder and CEO of Lost Frame Ventures, a technology firm that has built and deployed AI systems across some of the most demanding environments in the world. His work includes two NASA prize-winning projects (selected from over 1,200 global submissions), a DoD contract for AI-integrated ballistic missile defense aboard U.S. Navy destroyers, and autonomous wildfire suppression systems for the U.S. military under a NAWCTSD and SERDP award. He has delivered AI solutions across healthcare, finance, real estate, the trades, and enterprise software, consistently going from concept to production in weeks rather than years. Will has been recognized by Epic Games (MegaGrant recipient), Meta (Presence Platform Grant, flown to Meta HQ for Quest 3 development consultation), and works closely with the Google Gemini team as a trusted technical partner. He served as technical lead at just 16 years old on Escape the Backrooms, a co-op horror game with 130,000+ "Very Positive" Steam reviews and millions of players worldwide. As a keynote speaker, Will brings rare credibility: he has operated at the frontier of AI in environments where failure has real consequences. He does not speak about what AI might do someday. He speaks about what it is doing right now and how business leaders can build a strategy around it before their competitors do. He speaks on: AI strategy and implementation, practical AI for business, security and risk, the future of work, and building AI-first organizations.

Formats

Ways to work with Will

Keynote

45 to 60 minutes plus Q&A. The flagship format. Adapts from 20 minute conference slots to full length openers.

Half-day summit or workshop

Keynote plus live demos, table exercises, and a strategy canvas. The format behind the Brookfield AI Summit.

Executive briefing

60 to 90 minutes with a leadership team or board. Closed door, direct answers, specific to your business.

Panels, podcasts & media

Moderated conversations and interviews on AI strategy, security, geopolitics, and the future of work.

Based in Tampa Bay, Florida. Speaks nationwide. A pre-event attendee survey and prep call are included with every booking.

Booking

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