Ted Souder keynote speaker

Ted Souder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quoin.ai, the Intelligence Infrastructure Company. Quoin enables organizations to produce verified, cited, structured intelligence for high-stakes decisions, compressing what once took teams of analysts days into minutes. That same infrastructure powers the Quoin Daily Intelligence Brief, which points Quoin's research engine at the day's news and delivers sourced, citation-backed reporting straight from the primary record.

Before founding Quoin, Ted spent more than two decades at Google as one of the company's earliest employees, helping scale it from a scrappy startup into one of the most consequential companies in history. He built and led high-performing teams in Chicago and Paris and advised many of the world's largest organizations across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on search, mobile, video, cloud, and the earliest waves of AI. Few operators have had a closer  view of every major platform shift of the internet era, and fewer still have helped the world's biggest brands navigate them all.

Today, Ted works at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and economic transformation. He serves on the boards of 1871, one of the world's leading tech innovation hubs, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a premier geopolitical think tank. He is a member of the National University of Singapore's Medicine International Council and is a partner at HTAT Journeys, a conservation-focused safari company operating across Eastern and Southern Africa.

A sought-after keynote speaker and lecturer on AI business strategy at Section, Ted advises CEOs and boards on building AI-first organizations. His THRIVE framework gives leaders a  practical roadmap for navigating The Great Compression, the most disruptive economic period in a century, and converting that disruption into a competitive advantage.