Speaking
AI keynotes that make the room braver.
Six signature talks. Recorded rooms you can play now. Book the one that fits the people in front of us.
Planning a room
What your event team needs to know.
Kris Krüg is an AI keynote speaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He offers keynotes, workshops, executive briefings, and hosting and moderation for leaders, creators, schools, nonprofits, companies, and public-interest technology audiences.
Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Formats
Keynotes, workshops, executive briefings, and hosting and moderation.
Audiences and topics
Creative teams, executives, schools, nonprofits, public sector groups, and cultural organizations. Topics include creative agency, human judgment, leadership, trust, consent, power, and organizational memory.
What to send
Include the audience, date, location, format, and the question your room is trying to answer.
Next step
Signature keynotes
The six-talk bank.
This is the set. Workshops sit under it as add-ons. There is no seventh keynote card.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Watch the work
Recorded talks you can play now.
Two public recordings. No autoplay. The stills from those nights are not cleared for this page, so the videos carry the proof.
Punk Rock AI
Kris Krüg: The perils and parallels of AI’s future. Official CreativeMornings HQ recording.
Originally presented at CreativeMornings Vancouver.
Both Hands Full
What creatives actually need to know about AI. Full keynote on Kris Krüg’s channel.
Workshop add-ons
Labs that sit next to the talks.
These are add-ons, not a seventh signature keynote. Pair one 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
Formats
Keynotes
High-energy, story-rich talks for conferences, leadership rooms, creative teams, schools, and public-interest technology gatherings.
Workshops
Hands-on labs where people build real workflows, test tools, and leave with language they can use.
Executive briefings
Plainspoken AI sensemaking for leaders who need useful strategy without hype theatre.
Hosting and moderation
Warm, sharp facilitation for panels, salons, podcasts, livestreams, and rooms with too many acronyms.
Book Kris Krüg for a keynote
Send the audience, date, location, format, and the question your room is trying to answer. I will help shape the talk to the people in front of us.
See Kris Krüg’s event archive and testimonials about Kris Krüg’s work.