Speaker kit

Alcir Candido Goncalves

I speak about how AI actually gets adopted.

Everything an organizer needs on one page: topics, recordings, bios, and a booking link. Keynotes, panels, fireside chats, and workshops. In person in New York or Sao Paulo, remote anywhere.

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English, Portuguese, and Spanish. New York and Sao Paulo.

Talks

Three talks, one throughline: the model was never the hard part. Each adapts to a keynote, a panel seat, or a working session.

The End of the All-Knowing Leader

Authority at work has always come from knowing more than the people you led. AI just ended that. When everyone on the team can ask a model anything, the leader who wins is not the one with the answers but the one who knows which questions matter, what good judgment looks like, and how to get a team to actually use what the machine can do.

The room leaves with

Why expertise-based authority is collapsing, and what replaces it
The difference between teams that demo AI and teams that adopt it
A working leader's playbook for building judgment, not just prompts

The Model Was Never the Hard Part

Companies do not fail at AI because the technology is not ready. They fail because adoption is a human problem: incentives, habits, fear, and workflows that were never designed for a machine teammate. This talk is a field report on the gap between what buyers say and what users actually do, and how to close it.

The room leaves with

The three places AI projects actually die (none of them are the model)
How to spot the difference between buying AI and adopting it
What the first 90 days of real adoption look like on a working team

Leading From the Seat of a User

Most people making the case for AI inside companies have never really used it; most people using it deeply never have to make the case. Doing both changes what you promise, and what you refuse to promise. This talk is about why that combination, strategic instinct plus lived technical practice, is becoming the profile that decides whether enterprise AI lands.

The room leaves with

Why credibility with AI decision-makers now requires being a user first
How daily AI practice changes the promises you make
How strategic and technical instincts combine in the next generation of AI leaders

Watch and listen

Full-length, unedited, so you can judge how I hold a room and a conversation.

Watch the talk NY Tech Week 2026

Beyond Automation: How AI Is Unlocking a New Era of Human Potential A NY Tech Week 2026 panel with Arun Sundararajan (NYU Stern), and leaders from C3 AI, Cisco, and NYU Stern.

Listen to the conversation Podcast, July 2026

The End of the All-Knowing Leader A conversation with Shivangi Walke on the Leadership at the Edge of AI podcast, about what leading looks like once AI is in the room.

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In the room drag to explore

AI That Converts, Business AI session
BTE Hackathon judge, Stern and Microsoft Garage
Beyond Automation panel, NY Tech Week 2026
Leadership at the Edge of AI podcast, with Shivangi Walke
Meta Business AI, Early Adopters Forum
Business AI Insider Forum, Meta
AI workshop, New York
NYU Stern, Leadership Storytelling Summit
AI-enhanced browsing, Business AI session
NY Tech Week 2026, Washington Square
NotebookLM workshop, NYU Stern
Meta Business AI, Early Adopters Forum
The Business AI team, Meta
With the winning team, BTE Hackathon
Ray-Ban Meta Display, hands-on
NYU Stern Executive MBA, global residency
Business AI Forum, Meta

BTE Hackathon, NYU Stern and Microsoft Garage Invited judge, 2026
Leadership at the Edge of AI, podcast Guest, with Shivangi Walke, 2026
NY Tech Week 2026, Beyond Automation Panel with NYU Stern, C3 AI, and Cisco
NY Tech Week 2026, in conversation AI: the next decade of work, capital, and culture
NYU Stern Leadership Storytelling Summit NotebookLM workshop, 2025
Meta Business AI sessions Recurring, on how AI actually gets adopted

Bios and materials

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Short, for programs

Alcir Candido Goncalves is a Business AI Specialist at Meta, where he takes emerging AI products from concept to paying customers. He has spent 15+ years in tech across North America and Latin America, is an Executive MBA candidate at NYU Stern (Class of August 2027), and speaks on how AI actually gets adopted inside companies.

Full, for event pages

Alcir Candido Goncalves works in AI go-to-market at Meta, taking emerging AI products from concept to paying customers for businesses from SMB to enterprise. Earlier he was part of the team that pioneered enterprise adoption of WhatsApp Business in the United States, and he is recognized internally at Meta among its most intensive AI power-users: he builds his own automations and meets customers from the seat of an actual user, not someone reading from a deck. He has 15+ years across tech, telecom, and e-commerce in North America and Latin America, is an Executive MBA candidate at NYU Stern (Class of August 2027), co-authored the book Pagina Internacional, and has spoken on AI at a16z NY Tech Week, Meta business forums, and NYU Stern. He is trilingual (English, Portuguese, Spanish) and based in New York.

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Languages English, Portuguese, Spanish

Based New York, and often in Sao Paulo

Formats Keynote, panel, fireside, workshop

Booking

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