Eric J. Rodriguez
Eric J. Rodriguez is an AI keynote speaker. His subject is the Human Era: what happens to people when technology stops being the hard part.
An electrical engineer by training, he spent seventeen years in industry, almost exactly half of it on each side of his own work. Four years as a control systems engineer at a Shell refinery, then four more at Intel in manufacturing. Then nine years on Intel's business side, in roles including Chief of Staff for a global business of 200 people across four industries.
He built the automation, then watched people absorb it. Some were displaced. Most found something the machines could not do and became more valuable for it.
His argument: the future is not less human. It is more.
Jin-Ya Huang
Jin-Ya Huang is a social impact, community architect and creative innovator with a focus on the intersection of equity, design, and social justice work. She is the founder of Break Bread, Break Borders, a social enterprise empowering refugee women economically through the storytelling of food and culture. Huang is an accomplished published writer and keynote speaker for corporations, nonprofits and NGOs.
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Why Cultural Fluency Is the New Leadership Superpower
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The Playbook for Staying Ahead and Creating the Future
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Rethinking Technology, Reclaiming Humanity
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Turning Uncertainty into Strategic Advantage
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Building Impact Through Everyday Leadership
He came to the question early. Moving from Houston to Guayaquil, Ecuador at eleven, he saw firsthand how uneven technology and opportunity are distributed, and it set the question he has worked on ever since: how do you get the benefit of new technology to the people whose work depends on it?
He spent the next seventeen years answering it from the inside, almost exactly half of it on each side of his own work. The first eight years he spent building the automation. Four as a control systems engineer at a Shell refinery in Louisiana, where he learned that the people closest to the work know things the engineers do not. Then four more at Intel in manufacturing, installing systems that changed how a factory ran long before anyone called it AI.
The next nine years he spent on Intel's business side, running factory operations, managing a $100M product portfolio, and serving as Chief of Staff for a global business of 200 people across four industries. Close enough to watch what his own work had done. Some people were displaced by it. Most found something the machines could not do and became more valuable for it.
That is the Human Era. The industrial era rewarded standardization and throughput, and AI has made both of them cheap. What is left is the work only people can do: judgment, trust, and the calls nobody can write a rule for.
The future is not less human. It is more.
Technology rarely fails at the silicon level. It fails at the seam where it meets human beings, and that seam is where he works. He is the founder of Change Maker LLC and the creator of the ACT Framework, Adapt, Connect, Translate, and he teaches a five-session executive AI program at Maricopa Corporate College with leaders from TTI Success Insights, SRP, Pella and Sunland Asphalt.
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