AI is ending the Industrial Era.
Your people build the Human Era.
AI keynote speaker and optimistic futurist. Helping organizations turn AI into a human advantage.
Controls engineer turned Chief of Staff at Intel. Automating the work, before the world called it AI.
The future isn't less human, it's more. Technology creates the gaps; people fill them with creativity, insight, and possibility.
Eric J. Rodriguez helps organizations turn AI and innovation into human advantage.
Industrial Era to
HUMAN ERA
What Eric speaks about
Building the Human Era
Every technology shift in history has been announced as an ending. This one is being announced to your people directly, and most of them have not been told the part that matters: the era replacing the industrial one needs them more, not less.
This keynote moves a room from anxious to unmistakably useful. It draws on seventeen years of building the automation from the inside, at a Shell refinery and then at Intel, and on the one lesson that experience teaches. Technology rarely fails at the silicon. It fails at the seam where it meets human beings.
Your audience walks out saying the same sentence to each other in the hallway: "I'd never seen it that way. This change can be led by me, not at me."
Best for: general sessions with a technical or operational audience, where the organizer needs the human question answered before people go home and decide for themselves what to think.
Your World in the Human Era
Same core argument. Your language, your stories, your examples.
Leading Safety in the Human Era for safety and risk professionals Leading Research in the Human Era for clinical and scientific research Engineering the Human Era for engineering associations and technical staff Leading Your Team in the Human Era for corporate leadership teams
Your audience hears their own work in the title.The custom layer is thin by design. The arc underneath is the one that has already worked in rooms like theirs, which is exactly why it holds up.
The ACT Framework
01
Adapt
Build the muscle to move faster than the technology cycle.
02
Connect
Align your technology decisions with the people who have to live with them, across every function and generation.
03
Translate
Turn AI complexity into clear, actionable decisions your workforce can execute.
Eric J. Rodriguez brings a unique blend of technical expertise and human insight. As a former global innovation leader at Intel, he has navigated the complex intersection of technology and workforce transformation. His executive background provides a critical perspective for enterprise leaders who must convert AI from a threat into a competitive advantage.
“Eric and the ACT Framework were incredibly well received. I would highly recommend him for any event where you're looking to incorporate an AI element without losing the all-important human touch.”
Suzanne shalaby, founder, travel pivots