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Marlon Avery

Building AI.
Teaching the Future.

Marlon Avery helps leaders, teams, and organizations understand artificial intelligence by building real systems, teaching practical workflows, and creating moments where complex technology finally clicks.

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Trusted by teams and stages at

  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Visa
  • IBM
  • Uber
  • HubSpot
  • UNCF
  • Invest Fest
  • Earn Your Leisure
  • National Black MBA Assoc.
  • DC Startup Week
  • City of Miami
  • Rolling Out
  • Black Ambition
  • Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
  • GaETC
  • Dream Machine
  • Udacity
  • Treehouse
  • LiveRamp
  • Chime
Marlon Avery speaking on a fireside-chat stage
VP, Applied AI Lead · Founder · Educator

Who is Marlon Avery

The engineer behind engineering AI.

Not an AI commentator. Not a futurist with a slide deck. Marlon designs, builds, deploys, and scales AI systems — then teaches everyone else how to do it too.

  • Applied AI Executive
  • Engineer
  • Founder
  • Builder
  • Educator
  • Speaker
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The philosophy

Build. Learn. Teach. Inspire.

One flywheel drives everything: build real systems, extract the lessons, teach them in ways that stick — and inspire the next builder.

01

Build

Ship real systems where constraints are honest and outcomes are measurable. Real AI products, assistants, and workflows — because real stakes force clarity.

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02

Learn

Building creates understanding. Every production system surfaces lessons you can’t read in a blog post — what broke, what surprised you, what actually matters.

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03

Teach

Complex ideas become simple. Knowledge becomes accessible. 10,000+ professionals trained through sessions designed around the moment technology finally clicks.

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04

Inspire

The goal isn’t to transfer knowledge — it’s to show people what’s possible so they go build their own thing. People leave believing: “I can build this too.”

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Proof of impact

Selected work.

Dream Machine AI Library Project

Jul 2026

A Google + Dream Machine Innovation Labs partnership bringing hands-on generative AI education to underserved communities through public libraries — five cities, hundreds of first-time AI builders.

Authored the curriculum and headlined a five-city AI Library Project tour — hundreds of community members received hands-on generative AI training, many touching these tools for the first time.

  • OpenAI GPT-4
  • Prompt Engineering
  • AI Literacy Curriculum
  • Hands-on Labs
Case study → for Dream Machine AI Library Project

VoicePath AI

Jan 2025

VoicePath is an AI agency I founded to ship HIPAA-compliant voice agents that automate front-desk operations, after-visit summaries, and customer interactions across healthcare, insurance, finance, and legal.

Productized voice AI for regulated industries — including a HIPAA-compliant AI Phone Agent integrated with Veradigm EHR — that improved patient communication response times 60% and reduced administrative workload 50%.

  • OpenAI GPT-4o
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Whisper
  • ElevenLabs
  • Twilio
  • Vector Databases
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AImpact

May 2023

AImpact is the AI education organization I founded — contracted by Microsoft for Azure OpenAI bootcamps and commissioned by Google + Dream Machine Innovation Labs for the AI Library Project tour, with 80+ workshops delivered to 10,000+ professionals.

Translated frontier Generative AI into pragmatic workflows for 10,000+ professionals across 80+ workshops, including Microsoft Azure OpenAI bootcamps that lifted certification pass-rates 30% and a Google-backed five-city AI Library Project tour.

  • Azure OpenAI
  • OpenAI GPT-4o
  • OCR & Azure AI Document Intelligence
  • Azure AI Studio
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • LangChain & RAG
Case study → for AImpact

AI Grant Writer on GPT-3 (2021)

Jun 2021

One of the first GPT-3-powered grant writing tools, built at Lightship Capital to help nonprofits and portfolio companies author funding proposals before generative AI was a household idea.

Built a working AI Grant Writer in 2021 — well before ChatGPT — that enhanced grant response throughput 2.5x and delivered a 60% reduction in grant authoring labor.

  • OpenAI GPT-3
  • Semantic Search
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Python
  • Web App
Case study → for AI Grant Writer on GPT-3 (2021)
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Speaking

Keynotes that move rooms.

High-signal talks grounded in what actually ships in enterprise AI — tailored to your audience, industry, and moment.

Signature 60 min

AI in Operations

The flagship hour: how AI actually automates business operations — voice agents answering the phones, document intelligence clearing the backlog, assistants running the workflows your team dreads. Built from systems Marlon has shipped into production and delivered on stages from Earn Your Leisure to Microsoft's AI 404 Day, this talk leaves operators with an automation map for their own business.

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Signature 30–45 min

Voice AI in Production

What it actually takes to ship a voice agent that works in the real world — covering architecture decisions, failure modes, and the gap between demos and production. This talk goes beyond the hype to show what's technically required and organizationally challenging when deploying voice AI at scale.

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Recently on stage

  • Earn Your Leisure

    Automating Operations w/ AI · Atlanta, GA

    keynote

  • Tech Tuesday

    What’s the Hype? Hot Takes on AI · Miami, FL

    panel

  • Thrive Conference

    Beyond the Algorithm: AI's Impact on the Black Community · Fort Lauderdale, FL

    panel

  • NBMBAA® 46th Annual Conference and Exposition

    Generative AI & the Future of Work · Washington D.C.

    panel

Up next

Keynote · Washington, DC

AI in Action: Building the Intelligent Enterprise

A keynote on what it actually takes to build and deploy production AI systems at enterprise scale — moving beyond the hype to practical implementation. Covering voice AI, agentic systems, and responsible adoption.

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Track record

Enterprise organizations. Real classrooms. Real stages.

From Microsoft-contracted Azure OpenAI bootcamps to the Google AI Library Project’s five-city tour — Marlon teaches where it counts.

100+
Workshops Taught
10,000+
Participants Trained
10+
Industries Served
10+
Years in Applied AI
  • Marlon Avery teaching an Emerging AI Career Path session from a lectern
    Teaching an AI career-path session
  • Marlon working one-on-one with a workshop participant at a laptop
  • Marlon leading a live whiteboard strategy session

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What brings you here?

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Hands-on corporate AI training for your team — fundamentals to executive strategy.

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Learn AI

Start where you are. A guided path from curiosity to capability.

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Build an AI Curriculum

Custom AI curricula for your organization, university, or program — designed and taught by a builder.

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Let’s build what’s next.

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