Former Chief AI Strategist for DataRobot and Dataiku; Author of "The Last Commit"

Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Jepson Taylor Biography

Jepson Taylor is an AI entrepreneur, executive, educator and speaker with more than 20 years of experience applying machine learning to complex real-world problems. Taylor is the author of the book, "The Last Commit." His career spans semiconductor manufacturing at Intel and Micron, quantitative finance, HR technology, deep learning and enterprise AI. At HireVue, Taylor led the data science organization and contributed to work resulting in 14 patents. In 2017, he co-founded the deep-learning company Zeff.ai, which was acquired by DataRobot in 2020. Taylor later held senior AI leadership roles at DataRobot and Dataiku.

Taylor is a sought-after global speaker who has presented to organizations including SpaceX, Goldman Sachs, Verizon, Aramco, Red Bull, Amazon and branches of the U.S. government. He teaches an executive AI course at New York University through the AIMasterClass.

Taylor is CEO and CTO of VEOX Inc., where he focuses on a new frontier in AI: systems that can generate high-performance algorithms and optimizers on demand, extending AI beyond human-designed machine-learning approaches.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/24/2026.

Jepson Taylor Speaking Topics

  • The Last Commit: What Happens When Software Begins to Build Itself

    Every technological era has a final moment when the old rules still apply. In software, that moment may be the last commit written entirely by a human.

    Drawing from his book, "The Last Commit," Jepson Taylor takes audiences inside the shift from coding tools to systems that reason, create, test, and improve their own solutions. Through vivid stories and live demonstrations, he shows why the future of engineering is not simply faster programming. It is a new relationship between human intent and machine execution.

    This keynote replaces fear with a practical leadership framework. Audiences learn what work remains uniquely human, how teams can preserve judgment and accountability, and how organizations can prepare for a world where the most valuable skill is no longer writing every instruction, but defining the right objective. The talk opens with wonder and closes with a clear challenge: decide what humans should remain responsible for before machines can decide for us.

  • The 1Mx Engineer: Why the Future Belongs to Smaller Teams With Bigger Ambition

    For decades, technology celebrated the 10x engineer. The next era belongs to the 1Mx engineer: a capable person amplified by models, agents, simulation, and nearly unlimited digital labor.

    Jepson Taylor presents a hopeful vision of the future of work in which intelligence becomes abundant but purpose, taste, courage, and trust remain scarce. He shows how one person can direct work once requiring an entire department, why traditional job descriptions begin to break, and how leaders must redesign teams around outcomes rather than tasks.

    This is not a story about replacing people. It is a story about removing the distance between an idea and its impact. Audiences leave with a practical model for developing AI fluent talent, organizing human and machine collaborators, rewarding judgment, and creating opportunity without creating chaos. The central question is both personal and strategic: when everyone gains extraordinary leverage, what will you choose to build?

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Jepson Taylor Videos

Accelerate24 Speaker Series | Navigating Tomorrow: AI-Driven Innovation for E-Commerce

Accelerate24 Speaker Series | Navigating Tomorrow: AI-Driven Innovation for E-Commerce

In this recorded session from Accelerate24, delve into the future of work with an in-depth look at how AI is setting new standards in e-commerce....

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Jepson Taylor is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Last Commit: What Happens When Software Begins to Build Itself, The 1Mx Engineer: Why the Future Belongs to Smaller Teams With Bigger Ambition, AGI Is Not a Bigger Model: The Missing Pieces of Machine Intelligence, Machines That Invent: The New Frontier Beyond Human Designed Algorithms and One Billion Tokens a Day: How to Scale Intelligence Without Scaling Chaos. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jepson Taylor for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Jepson Taylor generally travels from Salt Lake City, UT, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Adam Curphey, Rocky Scopelliti, R "Ray" Wang, Nish Rana and Noelia Amoedo. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jepson Taylor for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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