Founder & CEO of VEOX; Former Chief AI Strategist at DataRobot & Dataiku; Expert on Machine Invention, AI Agents & the Future of Work
Jepson Taylor Biography
Jepson Taylor is an AI entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and Founder and CEO of VEOX, where he is building systems that automate algorithm discovery and parts of AI research. He helps leaders understand how AI agents and machine-generated algorithms change software, innovation, and the future of work—and how to turn those changes into practical decisions.
Taylor co-founded deep-learning company Zeff.ai in 2017, which was acquired by DataRobot in 2020. He subsequently served as Chief AI Evangelist and Chief AI Strategist at DataRobot, followed by Chief AI Strategist at Dataiku. His more than 18 years of applied machine-learning experience span semiconductor process control at Intel and Micron, quantitative finance, HR analytics, and enterprise AI. At HireVue, he led a data group whose work produced 14 patents.
As contributing faculty for the NYU School of Professional Studies–Intellibus AI Masterclass, Taylor translates technical developments into practical questions for senior leaders. He also hosts the Atomic Soul podcast, exploring leadership, human potential, and the forces shaping consequential careers.
His research includes “No Accidental Software,” an exploration of how software designed for AI agents could reduce the cost of making verified changes. That work informs his broader focus on machine invention, software automation, and the relationship between human judgment and machine execution.
Taylor has been invited to speak for teams at SpaceX, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Chevron, Red Bull, Verizon, and branches of the U.S. government. His keynotes connect technical ideas with decisions about talent, investment, organizational change, and accountability.
Beyond technology, Taylor pursues big-wall climbing, backcountry touring, ultra-running, and remote adventures. Those experiences bring a personal perspective on curiosity, resilience, and human limits to his work on stage.
Jepson Taylor Speaking Topics
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Machines That Invent: The New Frontier Beyond Human Designed Algorithms
What if the next breakthrough algorithm is not written by a researcher, but discovered by a machine through competition, simulation, and self play?
Jepson Taylor takes audiences beyond generative text and images into generative algorithms: systems that search possible solutions and produce strategies, optimizers, and models humans might not imagine. Live demonstrations reveal machines learning through self play, discovering unexpected rules, and producing high performance solutions from a single prediction.
Drawing on two decades of applied machine learning and his work at VEOX Inc., Jepson explains why this shift could transform science, engineering, finance, logistics, and enterprise decision making. He also addresses the essential question of trust: how do we validate a solution we did not design and may not fully understand? Audiences leave with a concrete view of the next AI platform shift and a framework for deciding where machine invention can create the greatest advantage.
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The 1Mx Engineer: Redesigning Work for the Age of AI
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?
Jepson Taylor Videos
Jepson Taylor - Toronto Machine Learning Society
Unleashing the Algorithm Genie: AI as the Ultimate Inventor
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Jepson Taylor is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Machines That Invent: The New Frontier Beyond Human Designed Algorithms, The 1Mx Engineer: Redesigning Work for the Age of AI, The Last Commit: What Happens When Software Begins to Build Itself, One Billion Tokens a Day: How to Scale Intelligence Without Scaling Chaos and Beyond Bigger Models: How to Evaluate Progress Toward AGI. 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, Shingai Manjengwa and Matt Maher. 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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