Speaking
AI, from hype to working capability.
Alexey Makarov: Founder & Global Lead, AI Center of Excellence (SEFE). Talks on how work changes with AI, and what organisations have to build to keep up.
- in-person runs of the Applied Gen AI Training
- 25
- in-person runs of the Applied Gen AI Training
- of global staff in the AI community I lead
- 17%
- of global staff in the AI community I lead
- colleagues in the core team
- ≈35
- colleagues in the core team
- consulting, corporate finance, transformation
- 20 yrs
- consulting, corporate finance, transformation
Alexey Makarov
AI Strategist, Practitioner & Educator
Talks · pick one to see it in full
Signature talk
AI Ways of Working: how work is changing, and how to change with it
Not which tools to use, but how the work itself changes: what we do differently now, which habits matter, and how teams move from trying AI to working with it. Delivered internally with great success.
For: Everyone from teams to leadership. Keynote or workshop.
Format
In English.
Discuss this talk →Formats: keynote (20–45 min) · panel · fireside chat · half-day workshop for leadership teams · private training for teams and leaders. Language: English.
Where I've spoken
Applied Gen AI Training
Creator and facilitator, delivered in person 25 times across all SEFE offices
AI Ways of Working
Internal training, the basis of the signature talk
Private AI training
A six-session programme, designed and delivered one to one
Keynote
SEFE graduate programme welcome events, London and Manchester
Keynote
SEFE internal town halls: the HR town hall and the AI Center of Excellence town hall
Watch me present
Bios for your programme
In the third person, ready to paste into a conference programme.
Short bio
Alexey Makarov is the Founder and Global Lead of the AI Center of Excellence at SEFE, a major European energy company, which he has led for two and a half years, with a community of 17% of global staff. He brings 20 years in consulting, corporate finance and transformation to the hard side of AI adoption: people, governance and capability, not demos. He shares what he learns at unrsnbl.ai.
Longer bio
Most AI programmes don’t fail because of the technology. They fail because organisations treat AI as a tool to install, when it is a capability to build. Alexey Makarov works on that harder path.
He brings 20 years in consulting, corporate finance and transformation. He founded the AI Center of Excellence at SEFE, a major European energy company, and has led it for two and a half years. He helped establish SEFE’s AI strategy and enablement framework, and leads an AI community of 17% of the company’s global staff and a core team of about 35 colleagues who drive AI adoption with him.
He created and runs the Applied Gen AI Training, delivered in person 25 times across the company’s offices. That’s where he sees what actually changes the way people work. On Unreasonable AI (unrsnbl.ai) he makes AI clear for leaders and knowledge workers, calmly and without the hype.
Contact
I’m open to conversations about AI in organisations, speaking, and working together.