Dan Gentry — CONNECT 2026 speaker reel
Dallas · Approximately 80 seconds

AI doesn't build trust.
You build trust.
AI just gives you back the time
so that you can.
Now, one of my core things
that I talk about
is the difference between
machine work and meaning work.
Okay.
Machine work:
It's what we should be having AI do.
What we should be letting the machines do.
Creating email drafts.
I draft the email:
Rewrite this so that I won't go to HR.
Anyone else? Anyone else?
All right.
That's where I go into my meaning work.
It's — I make the phone calls.
I have the face to face.
I have the conversation.
That's the power, right?
If you get back time,
are you going to spend it just being more productive, do more busy work?
Are you actually going to be present?
Be present with your spouse.
Be present with your children.
Be present with your friends.
Be present with your fellow business people.
Be present.
Because in a trust recession,
the most important thing you can do
is not being efficient.
It is being real.