2026-2027 KEYNOTES WORLDWIDE
AI ethicist, designer-researcher & keynote speaker.
Organisations face unprecedented opportunities and challenges in a world reshaped by AI. The path forward calls for leading with grace, treating disruption as a catalyst for innovation and business resilience. Through keynotes, workshops and consultancy via the GRACE framework, I help leaders navigate towards a future with AI that we actually want.
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“AI is shaping the decisions that shape us. It demands not just intelligence, but wisdom. Not just efficiency, but responsibility. Not just prediction, but agency.”Learn more about Lisanne →
Speaking.
On stage I untangle AI’s complexity and make ethics practical.
[ Talks, by subject ]
- 01Keynote · Workshop
Agentic AI & the future of work
Agency, augmentation, and making the future of work workable.
- 02Keynote · Workshop
AI & the future of innovation
From extraction to regeneration, design briefs for the next decade.
- 03Keynote · Workshop
AI ethics & leadership
Discernment and systems thinking as leadership competences.
- 04Keynote · Workshop
AI in 2026 & beyond
Reading the signals: where the field is going beyond the hype.
- 05Keynote · Workshop
AI & superintelligence
Holding the long view without losing what we care about.
[ Across industries ]
- +Food & agriculture
- +Education
- +Health & wellbeing
- +Energy & climate resilience
- +Architecture & design
- +Storytelling & new media
- +Travel & leisure
- +Finance
- +FASHION & BIODESIGN
[ GRACE: GENERATIVITY · RESONANCE · AGENCY · CONNECTEDNESS · EMBODIMENT ]
A FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN–AI-NATURE ALIGNMENT AT SCALE
Gracious AI
Strategic advisory
through Gracious AI.
I'm the founder of Gracious AI - an ethical AI research, strategy and governance lab in Amsterdam. Through the GRACE framework, we help leaders, companies and institutions choose and design ethical AI strategies and applications that align with human wellbeing, social resilience, and ecological regeneration.
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[ Services ]
AI Strategy & Governance
Designing ethical AI strategy and governance aligned with organisational values and long-term resilience.
Maturity & Risk Diagnostics
Assessing AI maturity, risk exposure, and alignment through the five pillars of the GRACE framework.
Futures Foresight
Scenario planning and futures thinking workshops that help leadership teams anticipate disruption and design possibilist strategies.
Leadership & Ethics Training
In-house programmes on AI ethics, leadership capabilities, and responsible innovation for boards, executives, and design teams.
THANKS so much, Lisanne, for the outstanding moderation at DPG’s headquarters last Thursday.
We have received beautiful feedback from our 400+ guests about her contribution.
Few thinkers move as fluently between philosophical depth, stage charm and practical foresight as Lisanne does.
“We live in a perfect storm - environmental collapse, deepening inequality, conflict, and despair. Yet beneath it, something else pulses: the possibility of radically gracious futures. AI is not our savior. It is a mirror, a partner, and a force multiplier. The question is not whether AI will shape your organisation - it already is. The question is whether you will shape it back with insight, rigour, and grace. Through keynotes, workshops, speculative design and strategic advisory, I help leaders turn that question into strategy, culture, and action. ”
Futures to be
immersed in.
The ethical stakes in AI are high, but they tend to be perceived as abstract and far away. Rather than waiting for the first crisis before taking action, I believe in foresight and speculative design as tools to bring scenarios, both positive and negative, to life. This inspires action more than statistics on a slide.
Explore the work
Overflow 2032
2032 (a scenario)Foresight · Speculative design · AI · Biomaterials
Can the sea serve as a role model and agent at the table in decisions about water and land management?
Grace ŒS
2021 - ongoingSHORT FILM · AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION · PUBLICATION
A short film and audiovisual installation enveloping visitors in the Amorphocene.
Next Senses
2019Critical design · Film · Installation
A critical design project into the ethics of sensor technology and bodily sovereignty.
Co-Emerging Economies
BookPublication · Workshops · Research
Radical perspectives on post-anthropocentric economies.
Anchored in
science. Tested in business.
Brought with levity.
Complementary intelligence
Automation is inevitable. The loss of agency is not. Complementary intelligence combines human, artificial and living capacities while protecting what we find meaningful.
Ethics by design
I believe in science-backed ethics as a strategic and design discipline, not a compliance checklist - paired with the courage to imagine better futures.
The long view
Decade-scale strategy, designed for resilience rather than the next quarter. I help organizations anticipate systemic risks, adapt under uncertainty and create value that remains meaningful for generations to come.
Resources
& news.
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[ TECH RIDER ]
Tech rider & bio - PDF.
Two-page document containing everything you need to know as an organiser. Bio, preferred set-up, AV requirements, recording policy.
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Essays on AI & the future.
Occasional essays containing my deeper thinking. For organisers and leaders thinking beyond the next quarter.
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Designing conditions
for grace to emerge.
Lisanne Buik works at the intersection of AI ethics, futures thinking and design. She is the founder of Gracious AI, a consultancy that helps leaders, companies and institutions choose and create an ethical AI strategy and infrastructure that aligns with human and ecological values.
She is also a speculative designer and artist. Her practice materialises future scenarios through films, writing and installations. Making futures tangible is not a side project; it is her way of making the consequences of our ethical decisions tangible, and gives her audiences ways to step into the future to bring back a path forward.
Her PhD research in AI ethics and design at Sapienza Università di Roma underwrites a practice that is scientifically rigorous without being cold, and possibilist without being utopian. Over the past 10 years, she has delivered keynotes for Philips Design, Microsoft, KPMG, Van Gogh Museum, the Government of Luxembourg, TEDx and many others.