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Jarno Duursma is an AI expert and a highly sought-after AI speaker. He delivers energetic presentations filled with practical examples and humor about the impact of AI on work, business, and society. He shares sharp insights and future visions, with an eye for humanity in a technological world.
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Jarno Duursma is the most booked AI speaker in the Netherlands. He has given over 1,500 keynotes and lectures, with an average rating of 9.1. For ten years, he has been working daily with AI. This combination of stage experience, substantive depth, and practical knowledge makes him the first choice for organizations that want to understand and leverage AI.
Jarno speaks for companies, governments, industry associations, and educational institutions, from executive boardrooms to conferences with thousands of participants. His clients include Unilever, Randstad, EY, BMW, DPG Media, Salesforce, Rabobank, KPN, the Dutch government, UWV, VodafoneZiggo, and DHL.
As an author, Jarno has written four books on digital technology and AI. In 2017, he published his first book on AI, titled ‘The Digital Butler’. In 2019, he released two reports on generative AI. He was ahead of his time.
His opinion articles and analyses appear in the Financieel Dagblad, NRC, and de Volkskrant. He reaches over 49,000 subscribers through his newsletters “Trending in Tech” and “Signals from the Future” and hosts the tech podcast “Listening to the Future”.
National media regularly approach Jarno for commentary on AI developments. He has appeared on EenVandaag, NOS, and RTL and is quoted in national newspapers. On LinkedIn, he has over 60,000 followers and has been named an AI Top Voice. He is a TEDx speaker and was a finalist for the National AI Awards.
His presentations are energetic, sharp, and filled with current examples and humor. Jarno clearly explains how AI is changing the way we work and do business, what impact this has on people and society, and what you can concretely do with it. He demonstrates how tools like ChatGPT and AI agents work in practice, convincingly outlines what our future looks like as intelligent systems take over more work, and clarifies how we can remain human in that process. Each lecture is tailored in advance to the sector, the level of knowledge, and the questions that the audience has.
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As an independent technology expert, researcher and publicist, Jarno Duursma is the specialist in digitalisation. He regularly appears on television with NOS and RTL and in newspapers such as NRC and FD. There he likes to speak about the most far-reaching tech trends, digitalisation or, for example, Artificial Intelligence. Jarno Duursma is also connected to Speakers Academy as a speaker.
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Jarno Duursma is happy to tell his inspiring stories in English or in Dutch.
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