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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Hidden Talent
Decoding digital nomads and global citizens
Millions of professionals, including your own people, are quietly nomading under the radar, and 50% of today's workforce is actively rethinking where and how they work.
Ignoring this shift risks losing your best people and opens your organization up to a number of risks. Iliana maps where borderless work is actually going, using the policy signals that move before the talent does.
What the room leaves with
- Surface the silent majority. Run a simple pulse check to uncover the untapped nomad cohort already in your ranks.
- Read the global signal. Track which countries are rolling out digital nomad visas, tax incentives and portable benefits schemes, because policy moves are the early warning system for borderless work.
- Bring it down to earth. Understand the HR and business realities of immigration, taxation, benefits portability and compliance, so policy choices stay pragmatic.
- Pilot outcome based programs. Launch low risk experiments that shift the focus from face time to measurable results, testing real flexible location initiatives.
You will leave understanding where and how your people actually want to work, and with a blueprint to navigate it. From surfacing under the radar global talent to designing outcome based pilots, you gain the tools to future proof your workforce strategy while minimizing risk.
Who it is for
- Business and HR leaders
- CHROs and people operations teams
- Innovation leaders and line managers navigating workforce transformation
Ideal for companies rethinking workforce policy and ready to unlock the value of flexible, location agnostic talent.
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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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Signature talk
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.