Commonwealth Club: The Machine-Mediated Economy: When AI Becomes the Interface to Everything

We’re entering an economy where AI increasingly sits between people and the companies, products and services they choose. Discovery, evaluation, comparison and eventually transactions are moving inside AI.  What happens when your customer’s AI talks to your company’s AI before the customer ever talks to you? We’ll explore what this shift means for business and markets, along with what Toby Corey's team is learning firsthand building BrandCapsule, an AI discovery intelligence company. About the Speakers Toby Corey is a lifelong entrepreneur turned “Zentrepreneur” who has ridden three defining technology waves: personal computing, the rise of the web, and now AI. He co-founded USWeb, serving as president and COO of the $3B+ global web services company, and later served as CRO of SolarCity and EVP of Tesla Energy through the merger. Today, Toby is founder and CEO of BrandCapsule, an AI discovery intelligence company pioneering how brands get found, interpreted and chosen by AI. He taught Zentrepreneurship at Stanford University for 11 years. Marcia Daszko is a high-energy, strategic advisor and rare thought-leader. She introduces innovation in leadership thinking, exposes management fads and “best practices” that cause waste, and guides leaders to transform and scale. Mentored by Dr. W. Edwards Deming (the man who transformed Japan into a global competitor), Marcia has been called the catalyst leaders didn’t know they needed. She founded Marcia Daszko & Associates in 1994 and has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations, the U.S. Navy, health care, education, and global nonprofits. She has taught MBA leadership classes in five universities. She is the author of Pivot Disrupt Transform and the leadership Q&A columnist for the Business Journals’ BizWomen magazine.