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Visionary Speaker. Educator. Investment Executive.
Rick Lake, CAIA®, CETF®, CBDA, is an award-winning writer, speaker, and investment executive. From co-founding Lake Partners with over $5 billion in advisory assets, to lecturing at Boston University, to pioneering digital marketing & Al in financial services, Rick brings a rare blend of technical expertise and communication skill.
Talks That Move Audiences to Act
From Chatbot to Killbot
Last week, Anthropic refused to let the Pentagon use its AI without restrictions on autonomous killing and mass surveillance of Americans. Within hours, the Trump administration blacklisted the company as a national security threat, a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries. On Friday night, OpenAI announced it had struck a deal with the recently renamed Department of War (DoW) to deploy its models on classified networks.

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