Sandy Carter is a renowned speaker and author who has earned herself a position among America’s greatest businesswomen over the course of her career. Founder and Former CEO of Silicon-Blitz – a key component in the growth of many start-ups and companies within the diversity in technology field – and Chief Business Officer of Unstoppable Domains, she’s accumulated a wealth of knowledge that she’s proud to share with all sorts of audiences. As a keynote speaker, she touches on topics such as artificial intelligence and triumphing in the tech world as a woman.
As expected of such a sensational woman, Sandy’s journey began with a bang. In 2013, she was appointed General Manager of IBM, and she helped to develop the organisation's first business model for AI partnerships and played a key role in generating revenue growth through facilitating IBM's largest acquisition to become the market leader. She exited as Channel Chief, a role in which she developed a $7billion business built on AI, Cloud and IoT, before transitioning to Vice President of Amazon Web Services in 2017, she established the Enterprise Workload Division and founded the company's first employee women's group, creating a C-Suit Women's group which fostered diversity and inclusion on a global scale. In 2021, she joined Unstoppable Domains as Chief Operating Officer and Head of Go To Markets, progressing to her current role of Chief Business Officer, where she leads go-to-market across sales, marketing and community and successfully deploying AI systems at scale. Sandy has been a board member at NASDAQ: ALTR, chairman of the board for the non-profit organisation Girls in Tech and non-governmental organisation Women in Technology International, and is currently a Fellow and Chair of Applied AI at The Digital Economist. Continuing to share her passion for diversity and inclusion within the tech space, Sandy founded Unstoppable Women of Web3 and AI.
Her bestselling books, including "AI First, Human Always" and "Extreme Innovation", have helped to solidify her reputation as an authority in the field of business, marketing, and emerging tech. As a Forbes Contributor, she has earned five Editor's Choice recognitions and has been named SXSW 2017’s “Top 3 Innovation Influencer”, Forbes 2016 Digital Influencer, Top Channel Chief by CRN Magazine, AI Executive Champion of the Year, and has been featured in CNN Top 10 Women in Tech, Forbes' 50 Over 50 list, Adweek's AI Power 100 and Constellation Research's Top Business Leaders. She is also the host of the award-winning podcast 'Marketing Companion with Sandy Carter'.
Sandy Carter is a celebrated voice in the AI, tech, marketing, and business leadership realms, and has also given two TEDx talks, 'Women Rock! Paper Sisccors', and 'Three Superpowers Needed for Innovation'. She was recently a guest speaker at SXSW Austin, helping to bridge the gap between AI thinking and actionable implementation. Sure to captivate audiences and pull back the curtain on the strategies that lead to success, Sandy is the perfect addition to a range of events with her unique ability to connect with individuals across a multitude of sectors.
Social Media
Books
AI First Human Always
Extreme Innovation
Get Bold
The New Language of Marketing 2.0
The New Language of Business: Soa & Web 2.0
Reviews
Sandy Carter received a 5 star rating across 9 events in 2025
Agent Reccomendation
Sandy Carter is an exceptional keynote speaker, blending deep technical expertise with inspiring leadership insight. With senior roles at IBM and AWS, and as COO of Unstoppable Domains, she delivers practical, real-world strategies on AI and innovation. Her engaging style, combined with a strong focus on diversity in tech, ensures audiences leave informed, motivated, and ready to act in an evolving digital landscape.
Sandy Carter's official speaking topics are listed below:
Innovation: Up, up and away! Superpowers Needed For Out of This World Innovative Cultures
Topics:
- Leadership
- Creativity
- Team
- Innovation
Audience: C-suite eager to deliver stronger innovation across the enterprise
We live in a Shark Tank world: the competition is fierce, the talent is better than ever, and threats now emerge from all over the globe. Firing squads are everywhere; the world is now truly flat. CEOs everywhere are seeking to innovate, but doing so is elusive and complex. In fact 81 percent say their teams are not equipped to meet the challenges needed to compete in today’s marketplace.
Consider the following: half of the S&P 500 companies will be replaced in the next ten years. In addition, companies used to be on the S&P 500 for 33 years. Now it is only 14 years. The new mantra is: innovate or die.
Executives are searching for the right answers: How exactly do large enterprises remain nimble, and innovate quickly? What role does diversity play in innovation? Can corporations and large enterprises employ lean startup techniques to nurture innovation? What extra powers are needed to innovate? Is it enough to have speed and vision? Or is something else needed to fly high?
In this session, participants will gain insight into best practices for hiring and innovation. Most importantly, they will see the value of wild ducks. In this session, executives will develop and hone their super powers: agility, speed, telepathy, x-ray vision, and the spidey sense needed to capture their future clients. These insights are based on Sandy Carter’s research of founders and 20+ years of experience in a Fortune 25 company. Put simply: When companies learn how to innovate, their products become more desirable, their customers turn into advocates, and their best employees never want to leave. Takeaways include how to:
- Identify your levers in your industry
- Learn and assess your Super Powers
- Explore value of Innovation Outposts, Garages, and more
- Increase value among teams
This is a powerful, funny, high-energy presentation, filled with interaction. Each participant and team discovers how environment impacts the top five super powers.
Creating a Technology Toolkit:Epic Technologies Your Business Needs to Survive
Topics:
- Information technology
- Business impact
- Innovation
Audience: C-suite business leaders gain insights on how new technologies drive business outcomes.
It is a given that technology is embedded into every aspect of business. Along with this technology is globalization, which drives a world of tomorrow – one that looks very different than today. However, technology is only valuable if it focuses on business outcomes.
In this session, participants will learn about five epic technologies that are guaranteed to deliver strong business outcomes. What is the best way to employ these new technologies? How can an innovative culture foster the best possible uses of these technologies? How can business leaders use them to disrupt the status quo? How do you create the measurable to form a business case, and what role do metrics play in all this?
Sandy Carter teaches audiences in understandable terms that can be digested by all audiences. How can executives embed new technologies into their companies using the internet of things, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, social business and gamification. She will present real world examples of companies employing these technologies now, providing a glimpse into the next generation. Based on her current views into the latest innovations, research, insights gleaned as an advisor to startups and accelerators, and 20+ years of experience in a Fortune 25 company, audiences will learn:
- Business implications of the technologies
- Examples of how competitors in your industry are using these epic technologies today
- How startups are jump-starting innovative business models with these technologies
- Assess business needs
- Increase skills of your teams.
This is a powerful, funny, high-energy presentation, filled with interaction. Each participant and team discovers how these technologies impact your business outcomes.
The Big Bang: Digital Transformation of Your Business
Topics:
- Digital transformation
- Social sales and marketing
- Innovation
Audience: C-suite focused on social selling and marketing eager to learn best practices and how to jump into the digital world.
Everyone’s talking about digital. From the client who is shopping via a phone to the employee who is leveraging their iPad with software in the cloud to your sales team gaining leads through social media.
The amount of data to analyze within these transactions is staggering. Marketing teams are completely overwhelmed. However, if companies don’t personalize their customer care, someone else will. And while digital transformation will look different at each company, there are five common actions necessary for a big bang.
Digital transformation is not just about technology but a cultural mindset. While the technology is not easy, a recent Forrester study finds that company culture is often the stumbling block in digital transformation efforts.
Sandy explores the five digital and social actions needed from her experience as one of the Forbes Digital Influencers in 2016 and from her 20+ years of experience in a Fortune 25 company. In this presentation, participants will gain insight on how to master best practices in digital to transform both the client and employee experience, and add value in first projects. Participants will learn from examples and frameworks so that they can begin to leverage social networks in their current environments.
Audiences will learn how to:
- Identify the core changes in the landscape
- Address company culture
- Navigate new skills needed
- Explore new business models and ecosystems (subscription, freemium, and more)
This is a powerful, funny, high-energy presentation, filled with interaction. Each participant and team discovers how environment impacts the top five digital actions to create a big bang.
Official Feedback for In-Person Events:
"Sandy Carter spoke at our inaugural Global Leadership Congress at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School on implementing a Marketing strategy that leverages Web 2.0 technologies. Sandy's presentation described how to energize the community of influencers around your business to foster collaboration and co-creation with customers, business partners and academic institutions. Sandy illustrates how taking a strategic approach to Marketing by using a variety of Web 2.0 tools to energize channels and communities enables a company to to take part in shaping the dialogue around its products, services and industry. By using these tools to build and foster close, intimate relationships within communities, companies can significantly increase sales activity and fuel product and service innovation. Sandy very generously donated more than 100 copies of her book, "The New Language of Marketing 2.0." She and her team were absolute professionals in managing media coverage and logistics for Sandy's participation in our event. After her presentation, and after the audience flocked around Sandy to have her autograph their books, people complimented me! - They said, "How did you get her. She's a rock star." That was the perfect summary. Sandy is a Rock Star and I was honored to have the privilege of working with her on our conference." - Sue, Chief Strategy Officer, Udemy
"Sandy Carter rocked the stage at IoT Emerge and educated me on the future of business usage with real world examples." - IoT Emerge
"Bot Power is a topic our audience wanted to hear about - but from a business perspective. Sandy brilliantly mixed the tech we needed to know with the informative business use cases in an entrancing way. Sandy exemplified exceeding our client needs." - SV Bot Team
"When I invited Sandy to deliver keynote at SMW, the intent was to give audience international perspective and share information about future of marketing through artificial intelligence. I must say her talk was informative, engaging and thought provoking. Delegates were awestruck and twitter was buzzing for long with questions. One word that describes Sandy in totality is "Exuberant" - Rohit Varma, Founder & Managing Director, R SQUARE Consulting
"That was the best AI session I've attended. Your deck with the actual use cases made things really easy to understand. The business context was really helpful, and the organizational adoption process made it very easy to consider where one stood wrt to the actual corporate process for AI adoption." - Catherine, Managing Partner, Falcon Associates
"Working with Sandy was a game-changer for our company. Her insights on digital transformation have positioned us as industry leaders.” - Dean, Managing Director
- 2026 - Speaker at SXSW Austin
- 2026 - Speaker at DavosWeb3
- 2025 - Named "Most Inspirational Women of Web3 & AI" by Unstoppable Women of Web3
- 2025 - Published "AI First, Human Always: Embracing a New Mindset for the Era of Superintelligence"
- 2025 - Earned the Unstoppable Domains Whale credential
- 2024 - Appointed Executive Fellow at The Digital Economist
- 2021 - Appointed Chief Operating Officer & Head of Go-To-Market at Unstoppable Domains
- 2021 - Joined the Board of Directors at Altair (NASDAQ: ALTR)
- 2021 - Became a Forbes Contributor
- 2017 - Published "Extreme Innovation: 3 Superpowers for Purpose and Profit"
- 2017 - Launched and led AWS’ Enterprise Workload Division
- 2017 - Created and introduced the AWS Launch Manager
- 2017 - Founded AWS’ first women’s employee group and CSuite Women’s group
- 2016 - Named a Forbes Digital Influencer
- 2015 - Became Chairman of the Board at Girls in Tech
- 2011 - Published "Get Bold: Using Social Media to Create a New Type of Social Business"
- 2008 - Published "The New Language of Marketing 2.0: How to Use Angels to Energize Your Market"
- 2007 - Published "The New Language of Business: Soa & Web 2.0"
How to hire Sandy Carter
Contact the Champions Speakers Agency to provisionally enquire about hiring Sandy Carter for your next event, today. To get in touch, simply call an official booking agent on 0207 1010 553 or email us at [email protected] for more information.
** We do NOT accept requests for autographs, signed merchandise, fan mail, birthday messages or any other non-commercial contact with the speakers or acts. Each speaker on the website may not have necessarily worked with Champions in the past but are known to perform such engagements within the industry.
