AI Keynote Speaker Kris Krüg

Kris Krüg · Vancouver, BC

AI keynotes that make the room braver.

I bring live demos, field stories, and the hard questions about AI. Your room leaves with language to talk about it and something real to try.

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Kris Krüg faces a room of raised hands at Vancouver AI Community Meetup 30. Play Punk Rock AI
CreativeMornings Vancouver Full recording on YouTube
Stage photo from Vancouver AI Meetup 30, H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, June 24, 2026. Michelle Diamond / Diamond’s Edge Photography.

Signature keynotes

What does your room need?

Find a talk for the people in front of us. Each one starts from the questions your audience is already asking.

Delivered

Both Hands Full

For filmmakers, artists, leaders, and organizations trying to stay human while AI gets very good at making everything. One hand on the risks, one hand on the possibilities, both feet still moving.

Best for festivals, creative conferences, leadership offsites, higher education, and cultural organizations.

Both Hands Full portal

Delivered

Punk Rock AI / Creative Rebellion

A maker-first talk about agency, taste, creative sovereignty, and using AI without surrendering the weird human parts that make culture matter.

Best for CreativeMornings-style rooms, design teams, agencies, schools, and arts organizations.

Punk Rock AI portal

Delivered

Developing an AI Mindset

Shared language, confidence, and curiosity before AI becomes another forced software rollout. Collaborator, mentor, muse, research assistant, workflow partner. Human judgment stays in the center.

Best for associations, companies, schools, nonprofits, and teams starting their AI journey.

AI Mindset portal

Available, in development

Compost AI

Turn archives, decisions, notes, stories, and relationships into sovereign creative soil instead of extractive data exhaust. Consent, context, and memory systems that make future work more alive.

Best for knowledge teams, artists, publishers, cultural organizations, and civic groups with rich archives.

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Leadership After the AI Point of No Return

For organizations that cannot wait for the AI dust to settle. Ship useful experiments, hold the line on trust and consent, and build governance people will actually use.

Best for executive audiences, associations, public sector groups, higher education, boards, and leadership retreats.

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Power, Taste, and Trust

Human judgment in the age of invisible AI infrastructure. Taste, trust, and power become the strategic layer when models and automation get cheap and everywhere.

Best for product leaders, design teams, policy audiences, founders, and organizations building AI-enabled services.

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On stage

Watch the talks.

Two full recordings from very different rooms.

For organizers

Let’s plan your room.

Send the audience, date, location, format, and the question your room is trying to answer. I’ll shape the talk around the people who’ll be there.

Formats
Keynotes
Story-rich talks with live demos, practical workflows, and room to ask hard questions.
Workshops
Hands-on labs where teams build real workflows and leave with language they can use.
Executive briefings
Plainspoken AI sensemaking for leaders who need a useful strategy.
Hosting and moderation
Facilitation for panels, salons, podcasts, and livestreams.
Workshop add-ons

Pair a lab with a talk, or book a half-day on its own.

  • AI mindset mapping for teams
  • Build your creative corpus
  • Prompting for taste, not just output
  • Personal knowledge-base and memory workflows
  • Community-first AI adoption
  • AI risk, consent, and cultural responsibility
  • Prototype day: from idea to public artifact

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