Tim Cortinovis Biography

Tim Cortinovis is one of the world´s leading keynote speakers on AI in sales, transforming how organizations understand and leverage AI in sales and business innovation.

Cortinovis was recently rewarded as a Top 10 Thought Leader Agentic AI and as a Top 10 Thought Leader Sales by Thinkers360.

Forbes called him a ""tech visionary."

Fortune 500 companies' event attendees love his energetic way of telling stories that resonate. Since 2011, Cortinovis has been traveling globally with keynotes and workshops in English, German, and Spanish to help companies use innovative technologies such as AI, the metaverse, or blockchain to grow exponentially.

Among his clients are companies like Siemens, Avaya, ING, Arvato or e.on.

Cortinovis is the author of eight books on AI in sales. His most recent book is “Agentic Revenue Systems: How Revenue Leaders Build Autonomous Execution Engines for Predictable Growth.” His book, “Single-Handed Unicorn: How to Solo Build a Billion-Dollar Company,” was an Amazon bestseller, and featured in Forbes.

He is a former TV news anchorman and has a university degree in linguistics. Cortinovis´s insights have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. Arabia, International Business Times, and Les Echos.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/16/2026.

Tim Cortinovis Speaking Topics

  • Sales Transformation, Artificial Intelligence & Revenue Strategy

    Agentic AI in Sales: The Quiet Shift from Human-Orchestrated to Machine-Orchestrated Revenue

    The biggest change in sales since the arrival of the CRM is already underway, and most organizations are missing it. AI is not the next productivity tool for sellers. It is a new category of teammate that can research accounts, detect buying signals, draft outreach, qualify opportunities, and move pipeline forward without waiting to be asked. In this keynote, Tim Cortinovis takes sales leaders inside the quiet shift now unfolding across Fortune 500 revenue organizations, where core functions are crossing a threshold from human-orchestrated to machine-orchestrated systems. Drawing on work with Siemens, ING, E.ON, Bosch, and Infosys, Tim Cortinovis shows how agentic AI changes the shape of a sales team, what roles disappear, what roles are newly essential, and how to redesign quota, coaching, and forecasting for a world where agents do much of the execution. The message is not adoption. It is architecture.

    Attendee Results:

    • Understand what separates agentic AI from generative AI, copilots, and traditional sales automation, and why the distinction matters for leadership decisions.
    • See live examples of autonomous agents executing prospecting, qualification, and deal-progression tasks end to end.
    • Learn how to identify which parts of your current sales motion are ready for agentic execution and which still require human judgment.
    • Leave with a framework for reshaping sales team design, comp plans, and manager responsibilities around human plus agent collaboration.
    • Gain a forward-looking view of where competitive advantage will sit once agentic sales becomes the baseline, not the differentiator.

  • Revenue Operations, Enterprise AI Strategy & Organizational Design

    Agentic Revenue Systems: Building the Three-Layer Architecture That Beats the Bottom-Up Trap

    Most companies are deploying AI in sales and marketing from the bottom up, a pilot here, a tool there, a chatbot bolted onto the funnel. The result is noise, duplication, and an organization that gets busier without getting better. In this keynote, based on his new book Agentic Revenue Systems, Tim Cortinovis presents the architecture that Fortune 500 revenue leaders are now using to build top-down instead. The framework rests on three layers: Human Judgment, where strategic decisions and accountability live; Agentic Execution, where pipeline orchestration and signal detection run autonomously; and Governance and Data, where compliance, explainability, and trust are engineered in from day one. Tim walks executives through how the three layers interact, where most transformations fail, and what a properly designed agentic revenue organization looks like eighteen months in. This is the session for leaders who are done with pilots and ready to build a system.

    Attendee Results:

    • Learn the Agentic Revenue Architecture framework and how Human Judgment, Agentic Execution, and Governance and Data fit together as one coherent system.
    • Diagnose where your current revenue stack is stuck in the bottom-up trap and what a top-down redesign actually requires.
    • Understand the governance, compliance, and explainability decisions that determine whether agentic systems scale or stall.
    • See case patterns from enterprise deployments showing which sequencing choices accelerate ROI and which quietly destroy it.
    • Walk away with an executive-level blueprint you can bring into your next strategy offsite or board conversation.

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Tim Cortinovis Videos

📖 New Book on AI And Human Development

📖 New Book on AI And Human Development

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Tim Cortinovis Moderating Siemens REALIZE LIVE

Tim Cortinovis Moderating Siemens REALIZE LIVE

Tim Cortinovis emceeing Siemens REALIZE LIVE user conference in Berlin.

Global keynote speaker on AI and Automation

Global keynote speaker on AI and Automation

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