<p>Considered the greatest chess player that ever lived, Russian world champion Garry Kasparov shares insights on strategy, innovation, leadership, and risk. </p><p>Garry Kasparov is widely regarded as the greatest chess player in history, becoming the youngest world champion ever at 22 in 1985 and spending twenty years as the world’s top-rated player. His legendary matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997 made him a central figure in artificial intelligence and the evolution of the human-machine relationship. </p><p>He retired from chess in 2005 to become a leader of the Russian pro-democracy movement against the rising dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. He is the chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation and has become a powerful voice for individual freedom worldwide. As a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, Kasparov specializes in interdisciplinary collaboration and, as he puts it, “how our technology can make us more human.” He is a member of the executive board of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics.</p><p>Garry speaks and writes frequently on innovation, decision-making, and risk. His latest book is <em>Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins</em>. His earlier books include <em>How Life Imitates Chess </em>(2007), <em>Winter Is Coming: Why Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped </em>(2015) and two acclaimed series of chess books,<em> My Great Predecessors</em> and<em> Modern Chess. </em>The Kasparov Chess Foundation promotes chess in education around the world with five centers on four continents.</p>
Highest-rated Chess Player in the World, Master of Strategy, Pro-Democracy Activist
<ul><li><strong>Keynote Speaking Engagements</strong></li><li>Forceful, compelling and knowledgeable are words used to describe a speech by Garry Kasparov. Speaking in English. The subject matter is at your selection and ranges from Strategy, Chess & Life, Logical Thinking to Politics and World Affairs.</li><li><strong>Seminar with Garry Kasparov</strong></li><li>A seminar with Garry Kasparov is a unique chance to get hands-on coaching from a man with a lifetime of high-pressure peak performance to share. Ideal for top management and especially for technology companies.</li><li><strong>Armchair Speech with Moderator</strong></li><li>Same as keynote speech except that Kasparov is unscripted and dialogue is “off the cuff”. Garry and the interviewer chat for approx. one hour. Subject matter selected by Sponsor. Q&A follows. Questions selected by Moderator.</li></ul>