Book Harry Glorikian to Speak
AI is creating an invisible layer between human intent and execution. Most organizations are focused on the technology. The real question is who controls the defaults, the memory, and the trust architecture. That question belongs in the boardroom, not the server room.
Harry Glorikian brings thirty years of building and investing in technology-driven companies, original research from the MIT Media Lab, and the strategic frameworks from his new book The Invisible Interface (Ideapress Publishing / Simon & Schuster, June 2026) to keynotes, board briefings, and executive workshops.
He doesn’t do product demos or vendor pitches. He gives leaders the language and the frameworks to make better decisions about the most consequential technology shift since the internet.
Keynote Topics
- The Invisible Interface: Is Your Board and Management Team Asking the Right Questions About AI — The interface between people and software is dissolving. When AI agents act on behalf of users, the companies that control the defaults control the decade. This talk reframes AI from a technology initiative to a fiduciary question and gives boards a framework for evaluating their strategic position.
- Cognitive Rent: The Hidden Cost Your AI Vendor Isn’t Telling You About — Every organization using AI is building implicit dependencies they can’t see on a balance sheet. Cognitive rent is the price you pay when your intelligence layer is controlled by someone else. This talk gives CIOs, CTOs, and management teams a practical framework for evaluating where their real lock-in lives and what to do about it.
- Own the Default, Own the Decade: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Competitive Advantage — When the customer’s agent becomes the buyer, marketing changes, distribution changes, and competitive advantage changes. This talk examines how default positioning in AI agent ecosystems will reshape commerce, healthcare, financial services, and every industry where a customer used to start by searching and now starts by asking.
- Proofseconds: Why Most AI Deployments Stall and What the Winners Do Differently — The difference between AI that gets adopted and AI that gets abandoned comes down to one metric: how fast can a human verify that the system got it right? This talk introduces proofseconds as the operational metric that separates organizations scaling AI from those stuck in pilot purgatory.
What People Are Saying
‘Harry Glorikian anticipates the future with his book The Invisible Interface, a dramatic change in how we will interact with our digital technologies. His insights of a Personal Operating Layer paints an exciting vision of effortless, comfortable interactions that will feel so natural, so essential, that we will wonder how we ever got along without it.’
Don Norman, Author of The Design of Everyday Things and Design for a Better World
‘Most AI books explain the technology. The Invisible Interface explains the economics – specifically, why the layer between users and AI services is the most valuable real estate in the digital economy right now. Harry Glorikian gets the commercial dynamics exactly right: the default is the moat, memory is the switching cost, and trust is the new acquisition channel. That’s the game.’
GC Lionetti, Chief Commercial Officer, OpenAI
About Harry
Harry Glorikian is a General Partner at Scientia Ventures and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab, where he studies how AI rewrites competitive strategy, workforce design, and governance. He is the author of four books including The Invisible Interface (June 2026) and host of The Harry Glorikian Show. He has delivered keynotes at TEDxBoston, the National Institutes of Health, and executive forums across financial services, life sciences, and technology.
Book Harry
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