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Enterprise AI strategist. Multi-patent inventor. Guinness World Record holder. Former Coca-Cola Global Group Director of Digital Innovation, now founder & CTO of Spaceship Alpha 9 — writing as Space Pirate Zero. Featured in Forbes, Fortune, BBC, VICE, VentureBeat, and Google.
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Greg Chambers is an enterprise AI strategist and multi-patent inventor who spent a decade teaching one of the world's largest companies how to think in software. As Global Group Director of Digital Innovation at The Coca-Cola Company, he deployed conversational AI across more than 15,000 retail locations and built the world's first 3D robotic billboard in Times Square — a Guinness World Record.
Today he is founder and CTO of Spaceship Alpha 9, an AI-native indie studio shipping six products with zero venture capital, and writes investigative AI journalism under the alias Space Pirate Zero. His work has been covered by Forbes, Fortune, BBC, VICE, VentureBeat, and Google.
Conference talks and keynotes on enterprise AI strategy and connected commerce.
Greg Chambers delivers a keynote on unlocking enterprise AI at scale — reframing artificial intelligence as the foundational intelligence layer beneath every Coca-Cola consumer touchpoint.
Greg Chambers presents Coca-Cola's global digital landscape strategy — using deep learning and computer vision to drive real-time, context-aware consumer engagement.
Greg Chambers delivers the landmark VentureBeat keynote articulating Coca-Cola's unabashed AI strategy: humanizing machines and embedding conversational AI as the kernel of every brand experience.
Greg Chambers and Pandorabots CEO Lauren Kunze explore the integration of conversational AI into enterprise brand strategy.
Coverage from Forbes, Fortune, BBC, VICE, VentureBeat, Google, and more.
Forbes profiles Coca-Cola's multi-front AI strategy: harvesting flavor preference data from 50,000+ Freestyle machines and deploying image recognition in retail.
Fortune covers how Google Cloud won major Fortune 500 clients including Coca-Cola — citing Greg Chambers' selection of Google infrastructure to power AI-driven retail.
Fortune covers Coca-Cola's creative technology experiment — converting recyclable cardboard 12-pack boxes into functional VR headsets.
VentureBeat profiles Greg Chambers' privacy-first AI philosophy at Coca-Cola — treating consumer 'sensitivities' as actionable data inputs.
BBC News covers Kuki AI's decisive triumph over Facebook's BlenderBot in a two-week 'date' experiment.
VICE investigates Kuki — demonstrating superior emotional coherence and user engagement over Facebook's BlenderBot.
Marketing Dive covers Greg Chambers' debut of AI-powered Coca-Cola vending machine apps, enabling real-time pre-ordering and personalized offers.
Official Google Cloud blog spotlights Coca-Cola's smart retail transformation — deploying Chromebit-powered digital signage at global scale.
BIA/Kelsey covers Greg Chambers' keynote arguing that operating at the hyper-local level is 100x more strategically valuable than broad national campaigns.
Marketing Dive features Greg Chambers' strategy for leveraging third-party mobile apps and Bluetooth beacon technology for connected retail.
Digital Signage Today profiles Project Neko — Greg Chambers' AI-powered digital endcap system at Coca-Cola.
NRI Digital ranks Coca-Cola as a top AI leader in the global beverage industry, citing the 'Coke On' app and pioneering computer vision deployments.
Two granted U.S. patents plus a filed application — inventions in AI, IoT, and security systems.
A patented hardware dongle system enabling real-time dynamic content on electronic menu boards, driven by live sales trend data.
A networked security architecture for percussive massage devices deployed in commercial environments.
An AI-driven intelligence engine that personalizes percussive therapy protocols by fusing real-time tracking data with biometric inputs.
A survival guide for digital insurgents operating behind enterprise lines — how to smuggle radical innovation past the bureaucratic immune system.
Digital Insurgency introduces 'The Trojan Horse Protocol,' a battle-tested methodology for bypassing the corporate 'white blood cells' that kill new ideas. Drawing on Greg Chambers' years leading digital innovation at The Coca-Cola Company, it lays out 'Inception Engineering' and 'Architecture as Camouflage' — a framework for shipping Generative AI and agentic workflows inside legacy Fortune 500 environments. Available now in paperback and Kindle.
Greg Chambers is an enterprise AI strategist, multi-patent inventor, and the founder and CTO of Spaceship Alpha 9, an AI-native indie software studio in Atlanta. Under the alias Space Pirate Zero he also writes investigative AI journalism and produces music. He formerly served as Global Group Director of Digital Innovation at The Coca-Cola Company.
He is best known for deploying conversational AI across 15,000+ Coca-Cola retail locations, building the world's first 3D robotic billboard in Times Square (a Guinness World Record with 1,760 independently moving LED cubes), holding two U.S. patents, and founding Spaceship Alpha 9 and StyleLift.
The Coca-Cola Company, Apple (Apple Intelligence infrastructure), Epic Games, OpenAI, Therabody, Meijer, Eaton, Black & Veatch, and dosist, among others.
Forbes, Fortune, BBC News, VICE, VentureBeat, Google's official blog, Marketing Dive, Digital Signage Today, and BIA/Kelsey, covering his work in enterprise AI, retail innovation, and connected commerce.
Yes. Greg Chambers is an available keynote speaker on enterprise AI strategy, governed AI, and AI-native product development. Booking and press inquiries can be sent through the Spaceship Alpha 9 contact page.
Digital Insurgency is Greg Chambers' book on smuggling radical innovation past corporate bureaucracy — the 'Trojan Horse Protocol' for shipping generative AI and agentic workflows inside Fortune 500 environments. It is available now in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.
