AI Can Help Us Move Faster. But People Are Still the Point.

Introduction

Gravity Speakers, LLC (“Company”,“We”, or Us”), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.gravityspeakers.com (“Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Company is the data controller for information processed through the Website.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children

Our Website is not intended for nor targeted towards children as defined by applicable law. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are younger than the age of consent in your jurisdiction, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the applicable age of consent, please contact us at Privacy@gravityspeakers.com and we will delete it.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as organization, company or comments you may provide; and/or
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us.

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence with us (including email addresses).
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically can be associated with other personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see International Data Transfers
When you use the Website and provide information to Company through the Website, your information may be transferred to a destination outside your jurisdiction, including to the United States. The United States has not received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under Article 45 of the GDPR. Company has executed agreements between its affiliates and subsidiaries in accordance with Article 46 of the GDPR. Company also relies on derogations for specific situations set forth in Article 49 of the GDPR in order to transfer personal information across international borders outside of Company, its affiliates, and subsidiaries. In particular, Company transfers personal information across international borders only: with your consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate interest of Company in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose to fulfilll our legitimate interests or with your consent.

For more information, see International Data Transfers

When you use the Website and provide information to Company through the Website, your information may be transferred to a destination outside your jurisdiction, including to the United States. The United States has not received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under Article 45 of the GDPR. Company has executed agreements between its affiliates and subsidiaries in accordance with Article 46 of the GDPR. Company also relies on derogations for specific situations set forth in Article 49 of the GDPR in order to transfer personal information across international borders outside of Company, its affiliates, and subsidiaries. In particular, Company transfers personal information across international borders only: with your consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate interest of Company in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated anonymized information about our users without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

International Data Transfers

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. Our website does not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to Privacy@gravityspeakers.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website: https://www.networkadvertising.org/.

Your Rights

To the extent required by law, Company provides you with (i) reasonable access to the personal information collected through the Website, and (ii) the ability to review, correct, export, and delete such personal information. Please contact us using any of the methods identified in the “Contact Information” section if you would like to exercise your individual rights and for information on any fee required to obtain copies of your personal information. We may need to obtain or confirm certain personal information in order to accommodate your request. We will not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to Privacy@gravityspeakers.com or write us at: 570 El Camino Real, #150-250, Redwood City, CA 94063, Attn: General Counsel.

Data Security

We use commercially reasonable measures to secure information collected through the Website. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

We retain your information for as long as needed: (i) to conduct business with you; (ii) as needed for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy; (iii) as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce any agreements.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address provided by you or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

570 El Camino Real, #150-250, Redwood City, CA 94063, Attn: General Counsel

Email: Privacy@gravityspeakers.com

European Union: Company’s Data Protection Officer is Nausheen Razzak, and can be contacted using the information above. You can request copies of Company’s GDPR Article 46 agreements from the Data Protection Officer. Please contact the Data Protection Officer if you believe Company has processed your information in a manner inconsistent with your privacy rights. You also have the right to contact a supervisory authority if you believe Company has processed your information in a manner inconsistent with your privacy rights.

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AI Can Help Us Move Faster. But People Are Still the Point.

July 23, 2026 9:50 PM

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I’ve had this strange burst of energy lately. Maybe it’s the middle of the year. Maybe it’s the World Cup happening in the background. Maybe it’s because Ricky and I have officially caught the AI bug and suddenly have a hundred new things we want to test. Whatever it is, I’ve felt this real surge of productivity.

I want to try new systems, clean up the processes we’ve been tolerating for too long, and finally tackle some of the ideas we said we’d get to when things slowed down, even though we all know things never really slow down. There’s something satisfying about finding a tool that can take a messy thought, a pile of notes, or an administrative task that’s been hanging over your head and help you make sense of it.

Ricky and I have been experimenting with AI more lately, especially behind the scenes at Gravity. We’re using it to organize information, simplify repetitive tasks, work through ideas, and get past that annoying blank-page stage when you know what you want to say but can’t quite get it out. Sometimes it’s incredibly useful. Sometimes the result makes absolutely no sense. We’re still learning.

But somewhere between testing new tools and watching the World Cup (congratulations Spain!), I’ve found myself thinking about what productivity is actually supposed to give us. Is the goal just to get more done, or is it to make more room for the work, people, and moments that matter?

The Systems Make the Moment Possible

The World Cup is an almost impossible example of logistics at scale. There are schedules, security plans, transportation, ticketing systems, media operations, venues, technology, and thousands of people working behind the scenes to make every match happen.

Most of us will never see that work. We’ll remember the crowd, the celebration after a goal, the tension in the final minutes, and the sight of complete strangers reacting to the same moment together. We’ll remember how it felt.

That’s true of the events we work on too. There are contracts, calendars, speaker briefs, travel arrangements, production calls, invoices, emails, and last-minute changes happening behind every great keynote. That work matters because the experience can’t happen without it, but the spreadsheet isn’t the part anyone came for.

People came to feel something. They came to learn, laugh, think differently, meet someone new, or be reminded that they’re part of something larger than their own day-to-day responsibilities. The systems support the experience. They aren’t the experience.

Letting AI Take Some of the Administrative Weight

There’s a lot of work in the speaking and events industries that probably shouldn’t take as much time as it does. Finding one detail buried across six documents, cleaning up notes after a meeting, comparing proposals, organizing speaker research, or drafting a recap email when your brain is done forming complete sentences can take up more of the day than we’d like to admit.

AI can help with those things. It can organize information, create a usable first draft, summarize a long conversation, and bring some order to a process that’s gotten unnecessarily complicated.

I’m not interested in using AI just because it’s the topic everyone’s talking about. I’m interested in whether it can give us time back, and not so we can immediately fill that time with twenty more tasks.

Maybe it gives us an extra thirty minutes to talk with an event professional about what their audience actually needs. Maybe it creates room to check in with a speaker and hear how their message is evolving. Maybe it means we’re not rushing through an introduction between two people who could genuinely help each other.

That’s where the value is for me. The technology should make more room for the relationship, not replace it.

Some Things Still Need a Person

AI can generate a list of speakers in seconds. What it can’t do is fully understand the people who’ll be sitting in the room.

It doesn’t hear the pause in someone’s voice when the event theme isn’t quite getting to the real issue. It doesn’t know that the speaker with the most recognizable name may not be the person the audience needs. It doesn’t understand all the context behind a simple request like, “We need someone who speaks about AI.”

AI for whom?

A marketing team trying to rethink customer behavior needs a different conversation than an HR audience worried about trust, jobs, and workplace culture. Executives making decisions about investment and risk need something different from an industry association trying to understand how AI will affect its members.

You can type a topic into a search box and get names back, but a real recommendation comes from asking better questions, listening to the answers, and understanding what the event is trying to accomplish.

That’s the part of our work I never want to automate.

Faster Isn’t Always the Same as Better

I think this is the tension a lot of us are feeling right now. AI makes it possible to move incredibly quickly. You can generate an agenda, draft an email, summarize a meeting, or brainstorm fifty ideas before you’ve finished your coffee.

That can feel amazing, especially when you’re riding a productivity high. But speed can also make us skip the part where we stop and think. Is this actually the right idea? Does this sound like us? Are we solving the real problem, or did we just produce an answer quickly? Did we make the experience better, or did we simply make the process faster?

AI can help draft an event agenda, but it may not notice that attendees have no time to talk to one another. It can write a perfect-looking speaker brief, but it may miss the deeper tension the organization is trying to address. It can help us communicate more efficiently, but it can’t build trust on our behalf.

That still happens between people.

Nothing Replaces Meeting Someone in Person

Some of my favorite moments in this industry have nothing to do with checking something off a list. They’re the moments when we finally meet a speaker in person after months of calls, emails, and planning.

They’re the conversations in a hallway after a keynote when someone shares that one idea changed the way they’re thinking about something in their own life or work. They’re the moments when you can physically feel the energy in a room shift because a speaker said exactly what the audience needed to hear.

You can’t recreate that feeling through a system. You can’t automate the exchange of energy between a speaker and an audience, and you can’t manufacture the trust that develops between an event professional and a bureau partner who truly understands what’s at stake.

AI can make all the work surrounding those moments easier. It can’t create the moments themselves.

Maybe Productivity Is About Making Room

I’m still enjoying this little burst of productivity. I’m still testing tools, cleaning up systems, and asking how we can work more efficiently. But I’m also trying not to confuse doing more with doing better.

Maybe the real opportunity isn’t using AI to pack more into the day. Maybe it’s using AI to clear away some of the noise so we have more capacity to think, listen, connect, and be present when it matters.

That feels especially relevant while watching the World Cup. For all the technology and infrastructure behind it, the heart of the event is still people coming together. People from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds are sharing one experience, even when they’re cheering for opposite sides.

There’s plenty in the world trying to pull people apart. Events give us a chance to do the opposite.

That’s what Greater Together has always meant to Ricky and me. It’s not just our tagline. It’s the belief that the right speaker, the right audience, and the right conversation can create something none of them could create alone.

It’s believing relationships matter, thoughtful collaboration is worth the extra conversation, and the best ideas become more meaningful when they’re shared with other people.

AI can help us organize the details, simplify the work, and get to the moment faster. But people are still the point, and no matter how productive we become, we don’t want to lose sight of that.

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