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Book Ray Kurzweil for your next corporate event, function, or private party.
As one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, Ray Kurzweil genius is certainly impressive, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Ray is the Director of Engineering at Google, heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding. Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray has written five national best-selling books, including New York Times bestsellers The Singularity Is Near and How To Create A Mind. Called “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, Kurzweil was also selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” PBS selected him as one of the “sixteen revolutionaries who made America.”.

How to hire Ray Kurzweil for an event

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Frequently Asked Questions about booking Ray Kurzweil to speak.

Many performers, actors, speakers and other talent like Ray Kurzweil in certain cases will consider virtual appearances via live streaming. They perhaps may accept lower fees too. If you are seriously interested in booking Ray Kurzweil or other talent shown on our site, we will research their desire and the specific fee for your live-streaming event or project request.
Ray Kurzweil's current work schedule and location in relation to your event's type, date, budget, and locality will play a primary factor in the acceptance of booking Ray Kurzweil for your party. As long as your funding is commensurate with the price range to book Ray Kurzweil, CTI will propose your event to the official agency representing Ray Kurzweil. After we consult with them, we will provide a personal and accurate quote that includes: final costs, availability, and actual interest in being hired for your specific event or party.
CTI can give you the accurate Ray Kurzweil booking price once we submit your event details to their camp. "How much does it cost to book Ray Kurzweil for an event?" is a frequent question we get. The final Ray Kurzweil booking price is contingent on many variables and the booking fee we may show is based on a range derived from our past experience with what will Ray Kurzweil charge for an event. An example fee to book Ray Kurzweil is in the starting range of $75,000-$149,999. However, any recent popularity change would cause a price fluctuation well beyond this example. Also, their speaking fee might be different than the fee shown for the cost to perform or to just appear. Popularity, career stage, along with current demand will cause fluctuations in their speaking price as well. The final booking price may be more than what is shown, but you should at least have a budget within that range for them to consider an appearance, performance or speaking engagement.
CTI negotiates on behalf of professional event planners and talent buyers for paid appearances! We cannot give out direct contact information of the Ray Kurzweil agent or help distribute fan mail, personal messages, gifts, requests for free appearances, or donations of time. The Ray Kurzweil manager and agent will only work with us if we present them with funded offers for their client to work your event.
There is low probability to book Ray Kurzweil for a party with anything substantially less than the published booking cost price range. We will negotiate with the Ray Kurzweil agent on your behalf if your funding is in place. By not having funding ready then it will more difficult to book Ray Kurzweil, because they get many offers to work events that are at or above asking price. It is also important to consider the travel costs when researching the Ray Kurzweil booking fee, as additional expenses like this, as well as an entourage of staff and equipment, are not necessarily built-in to the booking fee range shown. If your budget does not factor that in, then there is no benefit for them to want to be hired. We do not personally speak for Ray Kurzweil, but in our experience in booking talent for over 25 years, this is generally the outcome of inadequate funding.
Type
Speaker
Speaking Topic
Science-Technology
Range
Environment-Green Topics, Author, Environment, Business-Technology, Author-Celebrity, Internet Related, Science Technology, Social Issues, Business, Environment-Sustainability, Internet Related-Technology, Science-Technology-Green, Business-Futurist, Male, Age Group-60's+, Age Group-30's-50's
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