AI keynotes, workshops, and culture-shifting rooms
I help audiences meet AI with courage, taste, and usable imagination.
I am an AI keynote speaker, creative technologist, photographer, and community builder. My talks mix live demos, field stories, creative rebellion, practical workflows, and the hard questions about power, taste, trust, memory, and what we refuse to automate.
The goal is not hype. The goal is a room full of people who leave with better instincts, stronger language, and a concrete sense of what to try next.
- World AI Film Festival
- CreativeMornings Vancouver
- Whistler Institute
- LaSalle College Vancouver
- ChannelNext
- Bass Coast Brain Stage
- CBC Radio Early Edition
- Horizons by Compass Datacenters
- Podcast guest appearances
- Event host / emcee
- SXSW Interactive
Bring me in when the room needs courage, clarity, and a little voltage.
I speak to leaders, creators, students, associations, festivals, cultural organizations, and community builders who know AI is already changing the ground under their feet.
My sweet spot is the space between creative practice, civic responsibility, community organizing, and hands-on AI adoption. I can make the future feel less like a compliance memo and more like a set of choices people can actually make.
Common formats
- 45-60 minute keynote
- Keynote plus moderated Q&A
- Half-day AI mindset workshop
- Executive or board briefing
- Creative team working session
- Podcast, broadcast, or video guest
- Host, emcee, or moderator
Keynotes
High-energy, story-rich talks for conferences, festivals, associations, colleges, and leadership audiences.
Workshops and custom trainings
Hands-on AI mindset sessions, practical workflows, team experiments, and creative implementation support.
Podcast and video guesting
Big-production interviews, niche shows, panel conversations, and fast-moving AI explainers with a human pulse.
Hosting, emcee, and moderation
Room energy, connective tissue, speaker bridges, sharp questions, and enough live signal to keep an audience with you.
Signature keynote topics
These are modular talks. Each one can become a keynote, a keynote plus workshop, or a custom session for your audience.
Both Hands Full
For filmmakers, artists, and creative leaders trying to stay human while AI gets very good at making everything.
Punk Rock AI
Agency, taste, sovereignty, and making culture with the tools without becoming a content machine.
Developing an AI Mindset
A practical keynote/workshop for teams that need confidence, shared language, and a humane starting point.
Compost AI
Turn archives, stories, decisions, and relationships into sovereign creative soil instead of extractive data exhaust.
Leadership After the AI Point of No Return
For organizations that need to ship useful experiments while holding the line on trust, safety, and consent.
Power, Taste, and Trust
How human judgment stays visible when AI becomes the layer nobody notices but everyone depends on.
Watch selected talks
A few useful proof points from the recent speaking archive: graduation rooms, festival brain stages, channel leadership audiences, and public-interest AI conversations.
Both Hands Full: What Creatives Actually Need to Know About AI
A graduation keynote about judgment, taste, and creative survival in the AI era.
Dear AI, Before We Go Any Further… We Need To Talk About Your Soul
Festival-stage AI ethics, culture, intimacy, weirdness, and what we owe each other.
The Future of Humanity: AI Keynote on Chaos & Creativity
A strategy-forward talk for technology leaders trying to navigate the AI shift without losing the human plot.
Inside Vancouver’s AI Boom (and why it matters)
A long-form public conversation about Vancouver’s AI ecosystem, civic responsibility, and what this moment asks of us.
Keynote portals
Some talks become more than a stage slot. I rebuild them as standalone websites with scripts, exercises, resources, prompts, and tools people can use after the room empties.
Both Hands Full
World AI Film Festival edition for filmmakers working through synthetic media, authorship, taste, and responsibility.
Punk Rock AI
A CreativeMornings Vancouver keynote rebuilt as a maker-first portal for human agency in the AI age.
Developing an AI Mindset
A foundational AI adoption resource for teams that need practical language and a humane starting point.
Broadcast and recurring rooms
I do not only parachute into conferences. I also host, convene, interview, explain, and keep showing up in recurring public rooms where people are trying to understand AI in real time.
The CBC Radio Early Edition AI Sandbox segments became a useful public-facing version of that work: grounded explanations, human stories, and a little productive mischief for normal people trying to make sense of the machine age.
CBC Radio Early Edition
AI Sandbox brought accessible, locally grounded AI conversations to a mainstream broadcast audience.
Podcasts, interviews, hosting, and emcee work
Not every high-impact room is a keynote. I also show up as a guest on podcasts and video shows, host or emcee events, moderate messy conversations, and help producers make AI, creativity, and community feel human instead of abstract.
Horizons: Exploring AI Models
A polished Horizons by Compass Datacenters series on AI, creativity, workflows, human-computer interaction, and practical use of generative tools.
We Trained AI on Stolen Work… And I’m More Creative Than Ever
A public conversation from Vancouver AI about holding the tension: the tools are compromised, powerful, weird, and still changing what creative people can do.
Podcast guest
I can bring high-signal, story-rich conversation to big-production interview shows, niche creator podcasts, and video series about AI, creativity, photography, community, ethics, media, and the future of work.
Host / emcee / moderator
I can shape the room, keep the energy alive, connect speakers to the audience, and make a complex program feel coherent without turning it into corporate oatmeal.
Custom training
For teams that need more than inspiration: hands-on AI workflows, practical experiments, creative direction, and a shared language people can use the next morning.
Stage energy
Recent rooms include polished keynotes, raw festival talks, meetup stages, student audiences, and civic conversations. The throughline is live presence plus practical translation.
Speaker proof
Kris helped shift how my design students see their future. In one hour, he demo’d building client prototypes in real-time, turned lectures into podcasts, and showed them how to be design orchestrators, not pixel pushers.
Jai Djwa
Kris’s talk and event design felt like a masterclass in community organizing.
Ed Kennedy
Visceral, real, and incredibly current. Truly authentic and up to date.
Audience feedback
Past stages and rooms
- World AI Film Festival, Sao Paulo
- CreativeMornings Vancouver
- LaSalle College Vancouver
- Bass Coast Brain Stage
- ChannelNext
- Whistler Institute
- CBC Radio Early Edition
- Horizons by Compass Datacenters
- Podcast and video guest appearances
- Host, emcee, and moderator roles
- BC + AI Ecosystem events
- Vancouver AI Community Meetup
- Social Media Camp Victoria
- TEDx Shanghai
- South by Southwest Interactive
- UN Global Youth Summit on HIV
- Emily Carr University
- Vancouver Institute of Media Arts
- WebVisions
- Gnomedex
- PechaKucha Night Vancouver
- Hollyhock Summer Gathering
- Private executive AI sessions
Field notes and deeper artifacts
The best talks keep producing artifacts after the applause: transcripts, scripts, portals, companion essays, prompts, and follow-up resources.
Your Taste Is Your Moat
Companion essay and visual recap from the LaSalle College Vancouver keynote.
Both Hands Full
Standalone portal for the World AI Film Festival keynote and related creative AI resources.
Punk Rock AI
CreativeMornings Vancouver keynote portal about AI, culture, and agency.
Book Kris for a keynote, workshop, podcast, or hosted event
If your audience needs a keynote, workshop, training, podcast guest, moderator, host, or emcee who can make AI feel practical, alive, and culturally literate, let’s talk. I can tailor the format for creative teams, leadership audiences, associations, festivals, schools, and community networks.