Sherrif Karamat, CAE, President and CEO, PCMA & CEMA today announced Convening Leaders’ Tuesday, January 12 Main Stage speaker. Zack Kass, Global AI Advisor and former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI, will join “The Next RenAIssance” session. Drawing on more than 15 years at the frontier of artificial intelligence, Kass will move beyond the utopia-or-dystopia debate to explore where technology is headed and why the choices made matter more than ever. His message is clear: AI expands what’s possible, but human choice determines where it leads.
“AI is no longer a future conversation for our global community — it is here and it is reshaping how we design, deliver and measure every experience we create,” said Karamat. “Zack isn’t asking our community to fear the technology or to wait and see; he’s challenging us to lead it. The choices we make now will shape how the world meets and making them with intention is how we will lead our industry forward.”
Registration for Convening Leaders 2027 is open at conveningleaders.org.
About Zack Kass
Kass is a researcher, keynote speaker, and Global AI Advisor, and the former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI. He now works with Fortune 1000 boardrooms and leadership teams, including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Amgen, helping leaders figure out what AI means for their business. His insights have been featured in Fortune, Newsweek, and Business Insider.
About PCMA
PCMA, PCMA Foundation and CEMA educate, inspire, and listen, creating meaningful experiences where passion, purpose and commerce come together. We are the world’s largest community for Business Events Strategists, providing senior-level education, networking, and market intelligence for the global business events industry. Our mission is to drive social and economic progress through business events. Headquartered in Chicago, IL PCMA has 17 North American Chapters, regional communities in APAC, EMEA and LATAM, and members in 72 countries and communities. The Corporate Event Marketing Association (CEMA), a PCMA subsidiary, advances strategic event marketing and marketing communications for senior-level event marketers and industry professionals. Visit us at pcma.org.
About PCMA Foundation
The role of the Foundation of PCMA is to support the mission of PCMA through fundraising and grant-giving focused on scholarships, education and research that will advance the business events industry. Annually the Foundation funds over $900K in impact, and since 1985 has funded over 2,500 scholarships, 100 research studies and education programs, and $2.7M in charitable giving.
