For organizers & press
Approved bios, an introduction your host can read word for word, and high-resolution photos.
01Bios
50 words · programs and social posts
Sandy Carter is CEO of Equs, which builds privacy-first identity and trust infrastructure for AI agents. A former IBM and AWS executive who grew businesses to more than $5 billion, she is a Forbes contributor, host of The AI Marketing Companion podcast and author of the bestseller AI First, Human Always.
100 words · event websites
Sandy Carter is a globally recognized AI leader, keynote speaker and CEO of Equs, a company building privacy-first identity and trust infrastructure for the agentic AI era. She previously held executive roles at IBM and Amazon Web Services, growing the businesses she led to more than $5 billion, and served as COO of Unstoppable Domains. Sandy writes a weekly AI column for Forbes, hosts The AI Marketing Companion podcast, and is the author of six books, including the bestseller AI First, Human Always. Named to Adweek’s AI Power 100, she has spoken in more than 91 countries.
200 words · press and proposals
Sandy Carter is a globally recognized expert in artificial intelligence who has led AI initiatives since 2013. As CEO of Equs, she is building privacy-first identity and trust infrastructure for the agentic era, so that every AI agent acting on behalf of a person or business has a verifiable identity, explicit boundaries and an accountable record.
Before Equs, Sandy held executive roles at IBM and Amazon Web Services, where she grew the businesses she led to more than $5 billion, and served as COO of Unstoppable Domains. She has served on the board of Altair, now part of Siemens, and on the World Economic Forum’s AI committee.
Sandy writes a weekly column on AI and leadership for Forbes and hosts The AI Marketing Companion podcast. She is the author of six books, most recently the bestseller AI First, Human Always (Wiley). Her recognition includes Adweek’s AI Power 100, Microsoft MSN’s Top 10 AI Entrepreneurs and CNN’s Ten Most Powerful Women in Tech.
A sought-after keynote speaker at SXSW, CES, Davos and the United Nations, Sandy has addressed audiences of up to 50,000 in more than 91 countries. She founded Unstoppable Women of AI, which has helped thousands of women step into leadership in emerging technology. She holds a computer science degree from Duke and an MBA from Harvard.
02Speaker introduction
About 45 seconds when read aloud.
Our next speaker has spent her career where new technology meets real business. At IBM and Amazon Web Services she built businesses worth more than five billion dollars. Today she is CEO of Equs, building the trust layer for AI agents. She writes about AI every week for Forbes, hosts The AI Marketing Companion podcast, and wrote the bestseller AI First, Human Always. She has spoken in more than 91 countries, and she has tried McDonald’s in every one of them. Please welcome Sandy Carter.
