Speaking and executive education
Dr. Irina Raicu has run the programs she speaks about. At Microsoft she led custom Copilot and agentic AI adoption across a 2,000+ person global support organization spanning the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, reaching 90%+ daily active use within nine months. Every talk is built around one decision a leadership team has to make, and the operating change that follows.
Selected audiences
Stages, programs and institutions where this work has been presented. Not clients.
Signature keynotes
Each keynote is adapted to the room.
AI programs open with a strategy deck and close with a tool rollout. The constraint is rarely the model, it is whether anyone can show the output is good enough for a customer.
Best for
CIO, CDO, and COO audiences. Board and PE operating-team sessions. Enterprise AI summits.
Strategy becomes operational only when the output can be tested.
Once agents absorb real work, the org chart stops describing what happens. This talk draws on a hybrid hub-and-spoke model that linked a central AI Innovation Hub to regional enablement leads, managers, practitioners, and a 65-person champion network.
Best for
CHRO, COO, and transformation audiences. Operations and shared-services leadership. Executive education programs.
Central standards. Distributed capability. Named decision rights.
Machines are moving into public view, and the design problem is no longer capability. Trust, attention, and interpretation decide whether people accept a system or work around it.
Best for
Innovation forums, technology summits, design and creative-technology conferences, university lecture series.
People read the system before they understand the technology.
Marketing and brand organizations keep framing AI as a procurement question. The sharper question is which production decisions you will hand to a model, and what check stands behind each one.
Best for
CMO and brand leadership audiences. Marketing and creative industry summits. Agency and holding-company leadership offsites.
Automation does not remove the decision. It relocates it.
AI programs open with a strategy deck and close with a tool rollout. The constraint is rarely the model, it is whether anyone can show the output is good enough for a customer.
Best for
CIO, CDO, and COO audiences. Board and PE operating-team sessions. Enterprise AI summits.
Strategy becomes operational only when the output can be tested.
Once agents absorb real work, the org chart stops describing what happens. This talk draws on a hybrid hub-and-spoke model that linked a central AI Innovation Hub to regional enablement leads, managers, practitioners, and a 65-person champion network.
Best for
CHRO, COO, and transformation audiences. Operations and shared-services leadership. Executive education programs.
Central standards. Distributed capability. Named decision rights.
Machines are moving into public view, and the design problem is no longer capability. Trust, attention, and interpretation decide whether people accept a system or work around it.
Best for
Innovation forums, technology summits, design and creative-technology conferences, university lecture series.
People read the system before they understand the technology.
Marketing and brand organizations keep framing AI as a procurement question. The sharper question is which production decisions you will hand to a model, and what check stands behind each one.
Best for
CMO and brand leadership audiences. Marketing and creative industry summits. Agency and holding-company leadership offsites.
Automation does not remove the decision. It relocates it.
Panels, fireside formats, and moderated roundtables are available on the same topics. Talk through a keynote ↗
Executive workshops
These are working sessions, not presentations. Participants bring their own workflows and leave with a document their team can act on the following week.
01
Audience · Executive team plus function leads.
What participants leave with
A scored and sequenced portfolio of candidate use cases, each with a named owner, a value hypothesis, the data it depends on, and the evaluation that decides whether it ships.
02
Audience · CIO, CDO, COO, and transformation leadership.
What participants leave with
A drafted operating model on a single page: what sits central and what sits in the business, the enablement layer, the champion network, the intake path, and the metric each decision forum owns.
03
Audience · A single function or delivery organization, including its front-line managers.
What participants leave with
Two or three core workflows redrawn end to end: what the human keeps, what an agent takes, where review sits, and who is accountable for quality. Scope and sequence are set with the sponsor beforehand.
Selected engagements
Enterprise AI adoption and the operating change that follows a rollout.
How agentic tools change production and review inside a brand team.
Watch / listen
Podcast
A long-form conversation about the operating conditions behind useful AI, not another tour of tools.
For conference programs
Short bio (50 words)
Dr. Irina Raicu is an enterprise AI transformation executive and advisor with a PhD in AI. Formerly Microsoft Global AI Director, Enterprise AI Adoption & Support Transformation, she led custom Copilot and agentic AI adoption across a 2,000+ person global support organization, reaching 90%+ daily active use within nine months.
Medium bio (100 words)
Dr. Irina Raicu is an enterprise AI transformation executive and advisor with 15+ years across consulting, AI product delivery, digital transformation, and organizational adoption. Formerly Microsoft Global AI Director, Enterprise AI Adoption & Support Transformation, she led custom Copilot and agentic AI adoption across a 2,000+ person global support organization spanning the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, reaching 90%+ daily active use within nine months. She holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and works with executive teams on AI operating models, use-case portfolios and the organizational change that adoption requires.
