Mustafa Süleyman

AI capability is advancing faster than the organisations buying it can absorb. Boards are committing serious capital to systems whose behaviour will change before the contracts are signed, in markets where the regulatory floor is still moving. The question is no longer whether to invest. It is how to set strategy around technology that does not yet sit still. Complete the form below to check Mustafa Suleyman's availability. If you prefer, you can also send an email directly to our head office. Please provide details of your budget for Mustafa Suleyman's speaking fee, including currency. Few people in AI both ship the product and frame the public debate. As CEO of Microsoft AI he runs Copilot, Bing and Edge for hundreds of millions of users, while The Coming Wave was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year and called Bill Gates’s favourite book on AI. His “containment problem” framework gives boards a working language for asking governance questions about AI without lapsing into either hype or fatalism. He has been inside the founding team of three of the most consequential AI organisations of the past fifteen years: DeepMind in 2010, Inflection AI in 2022 and Microsoft AI in 2024. That operating vantage point on how AI strategy actually gets built is uncommon in the speaker market. A Senior Fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and a board seat at The Economist Group give him sustained credibility on policy and governance, not only on product. CEO of Microsoft AI since March 2024, with responsibility for Copilot, Bing, Edge, MSN and GroupMe. Co-founder of DeepMind (2010), former head of Applied AI; the company was acquired by Google in 2014 in its largest European deal at the time. Co-founder and former CEO of Inflection AI, where he built the Pi assistant with Reid Hoffman and Karen Simonyan. Author of The Coming Wave (Crown, 2023) with Michael Bhaskar: New York Times bestseller; shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year; book of the year at the Financial Times, the Economist, Bloomberg and the Guardian. Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School; board member of The Economist Group. CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours; named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023 and 2024; TED main-stage speaker, “What is an AI anyway?” (April 2024). DeepMind, Inflection AI and Microsoft AI are three of the most consequential AI organisations of the past fifteen years. Mustafa Suleyman co-founded two and now runs the third. His public argument turns on the containment problem. It is the task of keeping powerful technologies inside the control of the institutions meant to govern them, even as those technologies become cheaper and more accessible. He developed that argument in The Coming Wave , the book he wrote with Michael Bhaskar. It became a New York Times bestseller and was named a book of the year by the Economist, the Financial Times, Bloomberg and the Guardian. Outside Microsoft, he sits on the board of The Economist and is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. Suleyman’s TED main-stage talk from April 2024, which proposes a new metaphor for understanding AI as a kind of digital species, with all that the framing implies for control, deployment and safety. Suleyman’s argument for why the next decade will be shaped by a wave of fast-proliferating, general-purpose technologies, drawn from his New York Times bestseller of the same name. Click the button below to check Mustafa Suleyman's fees and availability for your event. Ulrich Walter is a former NASA Space Shuttle astronaut and Chair of Astronautics at TU Munich who helps organisations think clearly about AI, robotics and disruptive innovation from a working scientist’s perspective. Ramy Nassar is a former Mattel Head o