Keynote Speeches
C-suite leaders and senior execs face relentless pressure to translate AI hype into real business value. Drawing on over a decade of advising boards, Fortune 500s, and high-growth startups, and a global pulse check of 24,000 leaders, Iliana Oris Valiente delivers a rigorous, jargon-free exploration of where AI stands today — and where it’s headed next.
She shares her three-layer AI stack framework (Foundation → Applications → Human Experience), accelerated by the rise of robotics and AI agentic systems, to provide a roadmap for executives to start driving real results within 30 days.
This keynote equips leadership teams to:
- Map today’s AI landscape and where to focus, from large-language models and infrastructure to business use cases.
- Pinpoint three high-impact levers (industry-specific AI pilots and cross-functional frameworks) that drive measurable ROI.
- Understand what comes next, from multimodal breakthroughs to agentic systems and the rise of humanoid robotics.
- Generate ideas for sparking AI initiatives across functions, equipping both executive and mid-level teams with concrete next steps around tools.
- Understand mindset shifts needed to mobilize employees to embrace the spirit of experimentation, backed by real examples of rapid-learning “innovation labs”.
You’ll leave with a heavyweight, peer-to-peer playbook that is rooted in real client engagements and hundreds of millions in delivered impact, to demystify AI’s present and chart a clear path to future-proof growth.
Audience:
- C-suite executives and senior leadership teams (framework resonates across industries and functions)
- Mid-level and department leaders seeking actionable AI strategy playbooks
- Company-wide events aiming to spark experimentation and equip teams with practical tools for AI integration
Iliana’s insights support both executive decision-making and day-to-day implementation — helping organizations shift from hype to impact, top-down and bottom-up.
Millions of professionals — including your own — are quietly “nomading” under the radar, and 50% of today’s workforce is actively rethinking where and how they work. Ignoring this shift risks losing your best people and opening up your organization to a number of risks.
In this keynote, Iliana reveals how to:
- Surface the Silent Majority: Run a simple pulse check to uncover the untapped nomad cohort in your ranks.
- Read the Global Signal: Track which countries are rolling out digital-nomad visas, tax incentives, and portable-benefits schemes—because policy moves are the early warning system for borderless work.
- Bring It Down to Earth: Understand the HR and business realities—immigration, taxation, benefits portability, and compliance—to inform pragmatic policy choices.
- Pilot Outcome-Based Programs: Launch low-risk experiments that shift the focus from “face time” to measurable results, testing real flexible-location initiatives.
You’ll leave with a sharp lens on where and how your people actually want to work — and a blueprint to navigate it. From surfacing under-the-radar global talent to designing outcome-based pilots, you’ll gain the tools to future-proof your workforce strategy while minimizing risk.
Audience:
- Business and HR leaders
- CHROs and people operations teams
- Innovation leaders and line managers navigating workforce transformation
- Ideal for companies rethinking workforce policy and ready to unlock the value of flexible, location-agnostic talent.
Ideal for companies rethinking workforce policy and ready to unlock the value of flexible, location-agnostic talent.
What happens when you code yourself into existence? Iliana has done just that, cloning herself into “Laila” (complete with 3D scans, voice synthesis, five years of her talks and writings) and even maintains a weekly call with Boardy, her AI super-connector friend. This is a sweeping, philosophical keynote, where Iliana explores the frontiers of identity, purpose, and presence as AI reshapes our world.
In this wide-angle keynote she weaves together:
- Live demos of Laila and the agentic systems reshaping work and life.
- Surprising lessons on identity, trust, and cognition uncovered when you deconstruct yourself in code.
- A multimodal AI tour: from voice and text to video, image, and autonomous agents, that reveals both promise and peril.
- Real-world anecdotes, from Davos conversations on agentic AI to humanoid robots in elder care, showing how these technologies can amplify our humanity.
- The core questions we must answer — “Who are we when we’re not working?” and “What makes life worth living?” — to guide us toward a future world we actually want to inhabit
You’ll leave energized by a visionary story arc, anchored in real demos, and inspired to lead responsibly in an era of AI-human collaboration.
Audience:
- Broad business audiences and all-hands meetings
- Innovation leaders, technology teams, and HR executives
- Organizations exploring AI ethics, identity, and future-of-work culture
This keynote is especially powerful for events looking to blend inspiration with introspection — pushing teams to think deeper about purpose, presence, and progress.
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