Jim Stolze

AI strategist · Author · Pioneer

Data & AI Ambassador

Jim Stolze is Data & AI Ambassador at Schuberg Philis, ranked the Netherlands' #1 IT company and its most trusted provider of mission-critical services. In that role, he helps organizations move AI beyond the pilot phase and into daily operations, building on a reliable foundation so AI and agents can take on real work, sharpen decisions, and fit into processes where continuity is essential.

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— Jim as a Speaker

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Jim Stolze at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven
2025

Bringing AI to the boardroom.

At the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, leaders from across a global distribution business gathered to understand what AI really means for their operations. The job: cut through the noise, ground the conversation in practical strategy, and give the room the confidence to act.

Jim Stolze at the Singularity Spain Summit
2024

Live demo in Madrid.

At the Singularity Spain Summit Jim Stolze gave a live demo of Google's Notebook LM. Showing an audience of European executives how a research assistant powered by AI changes the way we think, learn, and decide. Nothing beats a stage where theory meets practice, live and unscripted.

Jim Stolze at Microsoft Ignite, The Hague
2023

On stage at Microsoft Ignite.

Microsoft Ignite in The Hague brought together thousands of developers, IT leaders, and enterprise decision-makers. Jim Stolze focused on how AI is reshaping the way software is built and what that means for the humans building it. High energy, high stakes, a perfect match.

Neelie Kroes, Tim Cook, Gillian Tans, Pieter van der Does, Steven Schuurman and Jim Stolze, backstage at Startup Fest Europe 2016
2016

Backstage with Tim Cook.

In 2016 we brought together Tim Cook (Apple), Eric Schmidt (Alphabet), and Travis Kalanick (Uber) for Startup Fest Europe, a five-day match-making marathon across fourteen Dutch cities. Backstage moments like this one, with Neelie Kroes, Gillian Tans, Pieter van der Does, and Steven Schuurman, are what happen when the right people come together.

Jim Stolze teaching at Singularity University, Mountain View
2016

Explaining the Singularity.

At Singularity University's campus in Mountain View, Jim Stolze teaches AI strategy, exponential thinking, and ethics to senior executives from global organisations. The conversations go straight to the strategic and ethical stakes of deploying AI at scale, building relationships with decision-makers across industries and geographies that outlast the session.

Jim Stolze at TEDxAmsterdam 2015
2009 - 2016

Ambassador for TED.com

Jim Stolze learned the art of public speaking from the best in the world, through years of collaborating with TED.com. They selected him as one of twelve ambassadors worldwide. Under his helm successful editions of TEDxAmsterdam took place, as well as TEDx productions in the Middle East, the Caribbean, and even at the United Nations in New York.

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