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Keynotes and workshops that turn AI curiosity into capability.

Built for executive audiences, brand teams, creative leaders and AI adoption programs, each talk is anchored on a single working idea rather than a tools tour.

Keynote 01 · Creativity & robotics

Standing Next to the Machine: Creativity as the Interface We Forgot to Design

Creativity as the emotional interface between humans and robots. As machines move into the physical world, the missing design layer is not capability, it is the human, emotional interface we never built for working alongside them.

Humanoid robot and AI-directed creative work

Keynote 02 · Org design & ROI

Start With the Eval, Not the Strategy

Redesigning the organization: Strategy → Agentic Execution → Capability → Real ROI. Org redesign for AI usually starts with a strategy deck and ends with a tool rollout. The lag is never the tool. It's adoption, and underneath adoption sits the thing most teams skip: the evaluation that lets a leader say "I trust this enough to put it in front of a customer." Documented ROI is downstream of that trust, not upstream.

Keynote 03 · Brand & production

Which Production Decisions Will You Let a Model Make?

AI for future-ready brands: an agentic adoption roadmap. Brand AI adoption gets framed as a tool-procurement question, which platform, which subscription. The real question is narrower and harder: which production decisions you're willing to hand to a model, and how you check what comes back.

Keynote 04 · AI-native ventures

One Founder, Many Agents: How to Build an AI-Native Startup

Building an AI-native startup, with real use cases from solopreneurs. An AI-native startup is not a normal company with tools bolted on. It is built so one founder can run the work of a team, with agents owning whole production steps and the human owning judgement and direction. This session walks through how solopreneurs are already doing this in market, what they hand to models, where they keep a person in the loop, and how the economics change when headcount stops being the constraint.

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Meet the Judges of the 2026 Imagine Cup World Championship
Microsoft Tech CommunityMay 2026
Named Judge · 2026 Imagine Cup

Meet the Judges of the 2026 Imagine Cup World Championship

“Dr. Irina Raicu brings a powerful combination of AI expertise and real-world execution to the Imagine Cup stage. An AI leader, founder, and former Microsoft product manager, she has spent more than 15 years translating emerging technology into measurable business impact.”
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AI for Leaders of Future-Ready Brands
MetaOctober 2025
Workshop Lead · Meta · Future-Ready Brand

AI for Leaders of Future-Ready Brands

“Executive workshop for Meta on how organizations transform into agentic ones, where AI agents handle the production layer underneath human creative and strategic direction.”
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Designing with AI at Milano Fashion Institute
Milano Fashion InstituteApril 2026
Workshop Lead · MFI · Designing with AI

Designing with AI

“With Irina Raicu, AI has moved into the design process itself. Creative directions that did not exist two years ago are now in market, prototyping cycles have collapsed, and a new generation of AI-native fashion ventures is being built, not as speculation, but as practice.”
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Garmin International Women's Day campaign workshop
GarminMarch 2026
Workshop Lead · Garmin Marketing

Garmin's International Women's Day campaign, built in a single workshop

“An on-site workshop with the Garmin marketing team: in one session, we designed and produced their complete International Women's Day campaign, using AI as the production layer underneath the creative direction.”
No public outbound link
How brands can build AI content with soul
University of Central FloridaDecember 2025
Guest Lecturer · UCF Marketing

How brands can build AI content with soul

“My students had the privilege of learning from Dr. Irina Raicu, one of the leading voices in AI-driven creative work. Irina joined us live from Romania to deliver a masterclass on how brands can build AI content with soul.”
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AI + Creativity: The Age of Amplified Imagination
Meta for Business2024
Featured Contributor · AI + Creativity

AI + Creativity: The Age of Amplified Imagination

“Amid an abundance of change and opportunity through AI, while creative can be automated, creativity never will.”
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“AI does not replace the decision. It moves the decision to which work you hand a model, and how you check what comes back.”

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Executive AI events and leadership programs on AI transformation and the future-ready organization; innovation forums and creative-technology summits; fashion and luxury innovation; women in AI panels and leadership; and hands-on workshops for teams that need to turn AI curiosity into capability.

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