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Fab Dolan - Building the Future of Expertise

Keynote Topics

Two Intellectual Arguments. One Existential Choice.

Most AI talks speculate about the future of AGI. These talks focus on the future of You. Fab moves beyond the hype to address the only two questions that matter to leaders and builders: “How do we codify Expert knowledge?” and “Who owns the output?”

Choose the argument that defines your event's ambition.

For Executive Leadership (CMOs, CEOs, Strategy Officers)

The Stopwatch & The Synapse: Escaping the Efficiency Trap

We are living through "The Great Value Capture." While the market obsesses over using AI for speed ("The Stopwatch"), the true crisis is the commoditization of deep expertise ("The Synapse").

The Argument

Efficiency is a trap. When you use generic models to automate "average" work, you are merely scaling mediocrity. The only defensible moat left is Sovereignty—the tacit knowledge and proprietary ideas that define your firm's unique genius.

The Syllabus

  • 1
    The Productivity Paradox

    Why "doing more with less" is actually a transfer of wealth from your balance sheet to the model providers.

  • 2
    Digital Taylorism

    How the "efficiency mindset" is hollowing out the apprenticeship systems that create future leaders.

  • 3
    The Sovereign Strategy

    A roadmap to pivot your organization from a "Renter" of intelligence to an "Owner" of cognitive assets.

For Builders (Technical Founders, Product Leaders, Innovators)

The Expert's Playbook: Software is Worthless. Expertise is Everything.

The era of the "GPT Wrapper" is over. In a world of infinite, cheap processing power, the code is no longer the asset. The Expertise is the asset.

The Argument

You cannot compete on scale—the giants have already won that war. You must compete on depth. This talk offers a blueprint for building "Expert AI": highly differentiated systems trained on world-class human minds, not just public datasets.

The Syllabus

  • 1
    Codifying the Ineffable

    How to turn "tacit knowledge" (mental models and intuition) into structured, machine-readable data.

  • 2
    The Context Moat

    Why "Small Model + Deep Expertise" beats "Big Model + Generic Prompt" every time.

  • 3
    The Uncopyable Asset

    How to build a product that is impossible to clone because it runs on your unique human IP, not the internet's average.

Fab Dolan

About

The Architect of the Expert Economy

Fab Dolan is the founder of 99Ravens, the world's first intellectual talent agency, and the former Global Director of Marketing for Android at Google. He is currently an AI Fellow at the Ivey Business School.

Fab didn't just stumble into AI; he learned the hard way. After leaving Google to build a “Grammarly for Briefs,” the model failed. This failure revealed a critical truth: Software is not the asset. Expertise is.

Today, backed by leading AI investor Inovia Capital, Fab builds the infrastructure for the new expert-owned economy. He helps elite marketers codify their unique genius into proprietary AI assets they control—proving that the future belongs to amplified human ingenuity, not generic automation.

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Ex-Google · 99Ravens · Ivey AI Fellow

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