Practical. Senior.
Execution-focused.

Available for keynotes, panels, workshops and masterclasses. Every session is highly interactive and comes straight from practice, not theory, built to be useful and genuinely memorable, not just impressive.

Alex Collins has a rare span of experience. As an EY Consulting Partner he led national-scale government transformation programmes across the UK and the Middle East, the kind measured in hundreds of people and hundreds of millions of pounds. He then co-founded RAI Digital, a consulting venture builder, and as its co-founder and COO built and scaled real ventures inside it, including Infinite PL, now operating in more than ten countries.

That range is what makes him different on stage. He is no academic or theorist: every session comes straight from work he has actually done, and he builds them to be highly interactive, with fewer slides, more doing, real decisions and honest debate. He is as comfortable challenging a board as energising a thousand-person room or rolling up his sleeves with a delivery team, and he tunes each session to the people in front of him.

Alex has spoken at events including the Doers Summit Dubai, Parcel+Post Expo, Biban Global and the University of Surrey, and is available across the Middle East, the UK and internationally.

Beyond speaking, Alex takes on a small number of board and advisory roles, startup advisory, and charity and pro-bono work where he can genuinely help.

Alex Collins speaking at the Doers Summit in Dubai
Doers Summit, Dubai
Alex Collins presenting at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund
MBR Innovation Fund Accelerator
Alex Collins judging the connect2posts competition at Parcel+Post Expo
Parcel+Post Expo, connect2posts
Alex Collins on a leadership panel
Leadership panel
Alex Collins delivering a keynote at a company town hall
Keynote, company town hall
Alex Collins presenting at a town hall in Saudi Arabia
Town hall, KSA

Keynote

30–60 minutes. Opening or closing address for conferences, summits and leadership events.

Panel

Moderated or participant. Ideal for industry events, innovation summits and sector forums.

Workshop

Half or full day. Practical, facilitated sessions for executive teams and transformation programs.

Masterclass

Deep-dive session for professional audiences: consulting firms, tech companies, business schools.

Signature talks

Five themes I am booked to speak on. Each is a keynote, panel or workshop drawn from building and operating in these areas, not a summary of the writing on this site.

01

Implementing Agentic AI: From Pilot to Operating Reality

Most AI stalls after the pilot. This talk is about what it actually takes to put agentic AI into live operations: the operating model redesign, the governance and accountability, the workforce trust, and the leadership calls that decide whether AI scales or stays a demo. Grounded in the agentic AI and autonomous logistics work we are doing at Infinite PL.

Audience

Government leaders, enterprise executives, COOs and CTOs, AI transformation teams, logistics and postal operators

KeynotePanelWorkshop
02

Building Successful Government and PPP Ventures

How you actually build ventures, products and platforms with and inside government, where the incentives, risk appetite and timelines were never designed for it. Drawn from building Infinite PL with Saudi Post, running the MBRIF accelerator for the UAE, and venture building across the RAI Digital ecosystem. Honest on operating models, governance, commercial reality and what makes a public-private partnership genuinely deliver.

Audience

Government entities, public-sector innovation leaders, corporate venture teams, PPP and infrastructure programmes

KeynoteWorkshopMasterclass
03

From Advice to Owned Outcomes

How consulting is moving from advice to owned outcomes, and what it takes to make that move: the mindset changes, the skills that transfer, the gaps to close, and the mistakes I watch people make. Whether you are stepping into an operating role or rebuilding how you deliver inside a firm, I have lived this from EY Partner to co-founder and COO of a consulting venture builder, so I speak from the messy middle of it, not the theory.

Audience

Consulting firms, business schools, and professional development programmes

KeynoteMasterclassWorkshop
04

Culture, Leadership and the Uncomfortable Debate

Real transformation asks leaders to step into the Zone of Uncomfortable Debate: the place where the real blockers, unspoken assumptions and awkward trade-offs live. A session on leadership courage, change culture and the honest conversations that decide whether a transformation programme works or quietly dies six months in.

Audience

Executive leadership teams, change and transformation programmes, government entities, business schools

KeynoteWorkshopLeadership Day
05

Helping Future Leaders Succeed in Consulting and Tech

Practical, honest lessons for students, graduates and early-career people finding their way through consulting, technology and leadership, from someone who has moved through consulting, intrapreneurship, venture building and operating roles, and still spends real time with students through Surrey Leaders.

Audience

Universities, business schools, graduate programmes, early-career and professional development events

TalkQ&APanel

Doers Summit Dubai

Panel

Logistics and AI: agentic augmentation, autonomous mobility and moving from pilot to scale

Parcel+Post Expo 2025

Speaker / Judge

Logistics innovation, the connect2posts startup competition and the future of postal ecosystems

Biban Global

Speaker

Innovation, entrepreneurship and venture building: showcasing Infinite PL and its product ecosystem

Surrey Business School (University of Surrey)

Guest lecturer

Guest lecture: The Future of Consulting, on how AI is reshaping the profession and what the next generation should do about it

Surrey Leaders (University of Surrey)

Speaker

The new consulting, venture building and AI lessons from Infinite PL

Interested in a talk or workshop?

Get in touch with the event name, topic area and format you have in mind. Alex responds personally to all speaking enquiries.