She makes the complicated part make sense, so audiences leave knowing what to do next.
Iliana Oris Valiente has spent more than a decade advising boards, Fortune 500s and high growth startups on emerging technology. On stage she does what she does in the boardroom: takes a subject buried in jargon and hands the room a way to act on it.
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She talks about technology the way people actually have to use it.
Iliana is a CPA and CA who has built and led innovation practices inside a global consultancy, sat on boards, and backed early stage companies. That mix is the reason her talks land in two places at once: the strategy the executive team needs to agree on, and the work the person in row twelve has to do on Tuesday morning.
Every session is built on primary research and real client engagements, and shaped around the audience in the room. She sends a short brief ahead of time, tunes examples to the industry, and stays for the questions that matter more than the keynote.
Iliana has done keynotes, workshops, off sites and closed-door briefings for boards, executives and investors.
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AI as Your Growth Engine
A playbook for business impact
C-suite leaders and senior executives face relentless pressure to translate AI hype into real business value. Drawing on more than a decade of advising boards, Fortune 500s and high growth startups, and a global pulse check of 24,000 leaders, Iliana delivers a rigorous, jargon free exploration of where AI stands today and where it is headed next.
She shares her three layer AI stack framework, Foundation to Applications to Human Experience, accelerated by the rise of robotics and agentic systems, to give executives a roadmap for driving real results within 30 days.
What leadership teams leave with
- Map today's AI landscape and where to focus, from large language models and infrastructure through to business use cases.
- Pinpoint three high impact levers, including industry specific AI pilots and cross functional frameworks, that drive measurable ROI.
- Understand what comes next, from multimodal breakthroughs to agentic systems and the rise of humanoid robotics.
- Generate ideas for sparking AI initiatives across functions, equipping executive and mid level teams with concrete next steps around tools.
- Understand the mindset shifts needed to mobilize employees around experimentation, backed by real examples of rapid learning innovation labs.
You will leave with a heavyweight, peer to peer playbook rooted in real client engagements and hundreds of millions in delivered impact, one that demystifies AI's present and charts a clear path to future proof growth.
Who it is for
- C-suite executives and senior leadership teams, with a framework that resonates across industries and functions
- Mid level and department leaders seeking actionable AI strategy playbooks
- Company wide events aiming to spark experimentation and equip teams with practical tools for AI integration
Iliana's insights support executive decision making and day to day implementation, helping organizations move from hype to impact, top down and bottom up.
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The Rise of the Flexible Class
Decoding global citizens
A growing class of senior professionals, founders and investors no longer lets one country define their life. They live across two to four cities, choose where they pay tax and raise their families, and shop for countries the way they shop for any major purchase.
A record 142,000 millionaires moved across borders in 2025. The much larger flexible class behind them barely shows up in any official count. For the brands, banks, governments and employers who serve them, this cohort is hiding in plain sight.
What the room leaves with
- Meet the flexible class. Who they are, the five tells that identify them, and how they differ from the digital nomad stereotype.
- Think of a country as a product. Why people now compare countries on perks, fit, cost and what they get in return, and what pushes, pulls and enables them to move.
- Read the global signal. Track the golden visas, nomad visas and tax incentives countries use to compete for this cohort, because policy moves are the early warning system for where they go next.
- Spot who is wired for it. Use the Potted Plant Theory to see how mindset predicts a multi base life long before booking history or a résumé does.
- Design for the six life stages. From the Explorer trying cities on to the global nomad settling down, each transition is where the biggest decisions, and the biggest opportunities, sit.
You will leave knowing who the flexible class is, what they want and where they are heading next. You will also have a starting point for the products, services, policies and workplaces that will win their loyalty.
Who it is for
- Brands in travel, hospitality, luxury and real estate
- Banks, wealth managers and insurers
- Governments, investment agencies and policy makers
- Founders, investors and innovation teams
- CHROs and leadership teams competing for senior talent
Ideal for industry conferences, leadership offsites and innovation sessions at organizations ready to serve the next generation of global citizens. Available as a keynote or a 90 minute innovation workshop.
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Signature talk
You, Inc.
An AI playbook for the business of your life
Today's most ambitious leaders are quietly running a second company: their own life. Building an enterprise, sitting on boards, growing a personal brand, backing side ventures. Every leader is effectively the CEO of a business that has no chief of staff, no operations team and no back office.
Most are racing to apply AI to the day job, and almost no one is applying it to the enterprise of their own life. Drawing on her own experience building an AI digital twin to extend her reach, Iliana reframes AI as the operating system for the life you are actually running. The real work is building the infrastructure those tools can support and maximize.
What leaders leave with
- Map your spinning plates. Take honest inventory of every life department you personally run, across investments, boards, brand, family and health, and see the business of your life clearly for the first time.
- Diagnose before you automate. Map your own processes and decision flows so AI amplifies a system that works instead of accelerating the chaos.
- Build the infrastructure. Design the personal operating system of routines, delegation and data that turns scattered tools into a coordinated back office.
- Deploy AI strategically. Pinpoint the highest leverage places to save time and mental load, from agents and digital twins to lightweight automations you can put to work this week.
- Reclaim your capacity. Free up the time and attention that compounding growth requires, so you can lead your enterprise, and your life, on purpose.
You will leave with a clear eyed map of the business you did not realize you were running, and a practical AI infrastructure to run it with intention. From juggling spinning plates to operating a coordinated system, you gain the tools to buy back time, cut the overwhelm, and scale your impact without scaling your hours.
Who it is for
- Founders, executives and multi hyphenate leaders juggling ventures, boards and personal brands
- C-suite and senior leaders seeking practical, personal AI adoption that goes beyond the day job
- High performing professionals and entrepreneurs looking to buy back time and reduce overwhelm
Ideal for leadership retreats, executive offsites and founder communities ready to run the business of their lives as intentionally as they run their companies.
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The Next Wave of Venture Capital
What 1,000+ emerging fund managers reveal
Venture capital is at an inflection point, and the old playbook will not carry the next decade. Where the smart money is flowing has changed, and so has who gets to allocate it.
Iliana unpacks how innovation capital is being redefined, which sectors the next wave is backing, and what that means for anyone raising or deploying it.
What the room learns
- Where the capital actually sits. Which sectors are over and under allocated, and what that signals about the next decade's breakout markets.
- How the models are changing. The new fund structures and collaborative strategies reshaping investment ecosystems.
- What the operators are doing now. How founders and GPs co invest with smart capital and future proof their raise.
Who it is for
- Investor summits and LP to GP forums
- Accelerator programs
- Financial innovation events
Your presentation was not only inspiring but truly transformative. Your ability to captivate and engage the audience is exceptional.
Of all the speakers, Iliana, you were one of the highest, if not the highest, rated, 9+ on a scale of 10. We unanimously wanted you back.
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Iliana takes a small number of invitations each year, chosen for the audience and the question. Enquiries below.