Jesse Arlen Smith

"Changing people, companies, and societies for good". 

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Rewrite the future for good

Jesse is an experienced entrepreneur and disruption strategist, driving innovation by empowering people, companies and societies to change for good. He believes in the power of people to rethink, rewrite, and reinvent the future by understanding the world's fundamental shifts and using technology to take bold action towards disrupting how things are done for lasting transformational change.

 
 
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Speaking Engagements

Keynote openings and closings.  A sought-after speaker, Jesse actively shares his vision and experiences to help organizations understand and embrace the dynamics defining the rise of digital transformation, innovation and transformational change.

 
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Facilitated Workshops

Facilitated sessions in-company corporate disruption workshops, on transformation principles. Organize an industry specific customized workshops in in artificial intelligence, disruption, creativity, innovation, problem solving and more.

 
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Boardroom Sessions

Invite Jesse to stimulate a boardroom discussion about disruptive trends in your industry. Then turn these ideas into action with a followup engagement or consultancy

 
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Personal Coaching

Personal and professional development Coaching. Work one-on-one with Jesse to understand how your industry is changing and how you can prepare yourself to be a change agent in your career and company.

 
 
 

Transformation Principles

Whether you’re seeking a keynote speaker for a conference, a facilitator for a strategy workshop or a fresh perspective for a boardroom discussion, Jesse's presentations act as a powerful catalyst for innovation, ingenuity and inspiration.

 
 
 
 
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Take Action

Embrace Change

With an engaging blend of case studies, global perspectives and cutting-edge research, Jesse’s original insights help business leaders understand and unleash their future potential. 

Whether you’re seeking a keynote speaker for a conference, a facilitator for a strategy workshop or a fresh perspective for a boardroom discussion, Jesse's presentations act as a powerful catalyst for innovation, ingenuity and inspiration.

Your customers are changing. Your competitors are circling. Your employees are evolving. Without a plan for transformation, your business is living on borrowed time. In his research on the world's most innovative companies, Jesse  has identified the Transformation Principles that will help you and your company make transformational changes and disruption.

Winning requires thinking, and acting, outside the box. Jesse’s 15-year track record as a leader in innovation management, developing and implementing strategies to take advantage of emerging trends, has shown companies around the globe how to unleash business growth through innovation.

As new competitors and market shifting trends threaten everyone’s core business, Jesse can show you how to avoid be whipped by externalities and instead be an industry leader giving customers what they really need, – often well beyond what they might ask for.

 

Philanthropy

AI for Good

Although it feels like in many parts of the world inequality is increasing, Jesse is excited about the future, because he believes we have the power to change it for good. Jesse is the founder and managing director of JohnnyFive. AI Limited a Hong Kong registered AIforGood company that AI systems for research and development projects that work on solving problems using AI to make the world a better place. Jesse is also the lead consultant and commercial director for AIHealth  an initiative out of National Yang Ming University that is developing a sustainable ecosystem for AI technologies that provide social welfare and healthcare improvements to the citizens of Taiwan and the world.

Believing in the disruptive power of AI to do both harm and good, Jesse founded AIforgood.Asia an initiative that is promoting the responsible use of AI development. AIforGood.Asia is an initiative dedicated to to addressing the existing and potential applications, and the questions that are raised for society and public policy by the rapid progress in AI.  The initiative fosters activities to maximize the benefit of AI technologies for social good and ensure that these technologies are being developed responsibly.

AIforGood.Asia is an initiative dedicated to AI development in Asia, addressing the existing and potential applications, and the questions that are raised for society and public policy by progress in AI. The initiative fosters activities to maximize the benefit of AI technologies for social good and ensure that these technologies are being developed responsibly.

This initiative promotes the responsible development of AI in Asia, its existing and potential applications, and addresses the questions that are raised for society and public policy. We also work with public and private sectors to make recommendations for specific further actions by government agencies, companies and other actors to steer the development of AI for the betterment of all people in Asia and throughout the world.

 
Speaking at TEDx Canggu - AIforGood Learning from machines to be better humans

Speaking at TEDx Canggu - AIforGood Learning from machines to be better humans

Speaking on NGO’s using AI at The Robot Of The Year in Paris France

Speaking on NGO’s using AI at The Robot Of The Year in Paris France


 
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Guided Transformation

Consultancy

Understand the trends that will have big impact on your business. Learn how to create transformational change in a AI-driven, information-centric world and take advantages of these new technologies to stay competitive and relevant in this new digital shift. Future strategy consulting - industry analysis trend identification -incubation – corporate venturing and intrepreneurship consulting

Jesse believes in sustainable, social and economic responsibility when doing business or creating companies. He is the founder of AIforgood.Asia and believes that we can rewrite the future by leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and block chain to transform industries, and change the world creating a better place for all.

Jesse helps set up and guide future committees and R&D teams within companies and in their innovation journey. Using techniques like design/ transformational thinking Jesse helps companies set up parallel entities that are small lean and can focus on breakthrough innovation and  industry disruption. The goal of these parallel entities is to essentially try to put the other entity out of business with a breakthrough innovation by harnessing the startup culture and finding ways to capitalize on the digital revolutions taking place in world.

Jesse is a highly sought-after international consultant and future strategist, specializing in disruptive innovation and has worked with fortune 500 companies and some of the worlds most well-known brands.

 
 
 

Contact Jesse today

 
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