Dhiraj Mukherjee

Shazam co-founder Dhiraj Mukherjee is a keynote speaker on AI, leadership and innovation. Drawing on global tech and investment experience, including OpenAI, he helps organisations adapt and build future-ready teams.

Leaders across industries are struggling to move beyond early AI experiments and scale intelligent systems across the enterprise without clear frameworks for where technology truly adds value or how to lead teams through constant transformation. Dhiraj Mukherjee is an international keynote speaker on leadership, artificial intelligence, and organisational adaptability who helps executives build companies capable of learning, evolving, and reinventing themselves in real time. As co-founder of Shazam, he helped grow the platform from its original idea to over 100 billion uses, earning recognition from the Financial Times as one of Europe's Top 50 technology entrepreneurs. Since Shazam's sale to Apple, he has invested in over 250 leading AI and technology startups, including OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, positioning him at the forefront of emerging innovation trends and business models.

Dhiraj's credibility stems from 35 years of company building combined with active engagement across the global technology ecosystem. His senior roles in financial services, technology, and media and entertainment, alongside an MBA from Stanford Business School, provide a foundation for understanding how organisations operate and transform under pressure. His advisory work with major corporations including UBS, Eli Lilly, Unilever, and PwC gives him deep insight into how large enterprises approach innovation and navigate transformation across diverse industries. Over the past year, he has engaged with policymakers, regulators, and enterprise leaders across the Middle East and Asia, sharing global perspectives at events including Fintech Forward Bahrain hosted by the Economic Development Board and advising senior officials at the Saudi Ministry of Culture. His participation in the Seoul Future Conference has further positioned him at the intersection of leadership, policy, and emerging technology, offering audiences first-hand exposure to national AI strategies and governance approaches.

Dhiraj equips leaders with the foresight and practical tools to shift from reactive disruption management to proactive adaptability. He helps audiences understand how to make better judgements about where AI truly adds value, how to design organisations that evolve in real time, and how to build workforces prepared for roles that don't yet fully exist. His approach combines long-term strategic thinking with actions executives can implement immediately, enabling organisations to move from pilots to productive deployment across the enterprise. Audiences leave with renewed confidence to lead through uncertainty, practical methods for reinventing their businesses, and a clearer understanding of how to create lasting success in a technology-driven future.