A spotlit podium awaiting a speaker

The AI-Powered Expert Summit

How Coaches, Consultants & Authors Are Using AI to Multiply Their Reach

Twelve speakers. One recorded session. Six permanent placements.

And the studio to build it in.

October 21–22, 2026 Virtual Free to Attend

Tune in live: thespeakercollective.com/live

Applications close October 5, 2026. This summit's twelve speakers are The Founding 12 — the first cohort ever to take the SpeakerCollective stage, a designation that can only be earned once.

The Difference

A Produced Summit, Not a Webinar

Every session opens with a branded trailer and a personal welcome from our producer.

Sessions premiere on a broadcast schedule with the speaker live in chat.

Every session lives on afterward — YouTube, a Collective Conversations podcast episode, clips, and a PodRealm guest directory listing.

Before You Record

Every other summit asks you to send a recording.

We hand you the studio.

Here is what nobody tells you about virtual summits. You apply, you get accepted, and then you are alone with a webcam, doing take after take, trying to judge your own timing, with no idea whether what you just recorded is any good. Most speakers submit the take they are least embarrassed by.

Your session deserves better than that, and so does the room watching it.

Every Collective speaker gets Sterling Stages for their summit session. Not a discount code. Not a trial. The actual room where the session gets built.

  1. 01

    Find the talk you already have.

    Sterling interviews you. You talk the way you would to a colleague, and he captures the stories, the phrases you keep reaching for, the framework hiding inside what you repeat.

  2. 02

    Build it as structure, not a script.

    An ordered sequence of slots, each with a duration and a story pulled from your vault.

  3. 03

    Rehearse it with someone listening.

    Teleprompter, timer, and a transcript of every take.

  4. 04

    See the number before they do.

    Every take is scored.

See the studio

Programming

The Program: Six Lanes. Your Session.

You don't choose from a list of assigned topics. You pitch the session only you can give — and we cast it into the lane where it shines. Twelve speakers, two to three per lane.

01

AI Content & Media Multiplication

Turning one idea into a month of published work without losing your voice.

02

AI in Client Delivery

Where AI belongs inside the work clients actually pay you for.

03

AI-Powered Marketing & Sales

Pipeline, positioning, and follow-up that runs while you're on stage.

04

AI Operations for Solo Experts

The back office of a one-person practice, quietly automated.

05

The Human Edge

Positioning, ethics, and the parts of expert work AI can't replace.

06

AI + Books & Thought Leadership

Research, drafting, and audience building for authors who still write the book.

Programme

Premiere Agenda

Premieres October 21–22.

Individual air times announced October 16 — register below and the full broadcast schedule reaches you first.

The Lineup

Confirmed Speakers

Announced as each session clears review.

There is still room on this stage.

Apply to Speak

Recognition

Speaker Spotlight

The speakers who bring the most of their audience earn real placement advantages — tracked live from each speaker's personal registration link.

15+

Registrants

1 month of RealmBureau membership — our premium bureau membership (normally paid).

25+

Registrants

3 months of RealmBureau membership, plus a feature in the daily summit emails.

40+

Registrants

Priority premiere placement — the marquee air time of the summit — plus a second daily-email feature.

Standings go live as speakers are confirmed. Every registration is tracked to the speaker who sent it.

Reserve Your Seat

Attend Free

Sessions are prerecorded and premiere at set times, so the speaker is in the chat with you while it airs. Register once and receive the full schedule plus a reminder before each premiere.

Register free

The Format

Sessions run 25–30 minutes plus a 5-minute live chat Q&A with the speaker. Prerecorded, professionally produced, premiered live.

The Path

How Speaking Works

Call for Speakers: closes October 5.

  1. 01

    Apply with your session pitch — about five minutes.

  2. 02

    A personal review, with an answer within three to five days.

  3. 03

    Accepted speakers record a 25–30 minute session on their own schedule.

  4. 04

    We produce it — branded trailer, producer welcome, professional packaging.

  5. 05

    It premieres live with you in the chat, then lives on: YouTube, podcast, clips, and your directory profiles.

Apply to Speak at This Summit

Speakers keep everything: broadcast-grade footage, a YouTube placement, a Collective Conversations podcast episode, a PodRealm guest directory listing, social clips, and a SpeakerRealm directory profile. 12 slots.

Plus Sterling Stages for your summit session: rehearse it, score it, re-record it, and submit without leaving the room.

Call for Speakers: closes October 5

Apply to Speak

More summits coming: Authors & Thought Leaders (November) · Reinvention (December)

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