“Inspired an audience from around the globe.”

When I was eight years old, I spotted a strange light swirling in the night sky over our family farm. I was so certain a UFO was about to land that I convinced my mother to call the local news station and ask them to send a camera crew. She called. They didn't come. Neither did the aliens.

I was the kid melting crayons together to invent new colors, baking questionable recipes in the summer sun, and asking "why" until the adults ran out of the room.

Nothing felt impossible. I didn't know it then, but that little girl was preparing me for a future none of us saw coming.

I'm not an engineer. I don't write code. Yet wonder has carried me to the forefront of generative AI.

In this keynote, I'll share stories from my journey and introduce The WonderLoop, a framework for using AI to turn every "I wonder if…" into discovery, learning, and real progress.

Because for the first time in history, the astonishing power of AI begins with something remarkably human: noticing when you wonder, stopping long enough to follow it, and asking a question—just the way a child would.

Not long ago, building a brand, launching a product, or analyzing a market took teams, budgets, and months. Today, one curious person with AI can do it in an afternoon.

I've watched it happen again and again: a solo entrepreneur outpacing a corporate team, a teacher building her own learning tools, a first-time founder turning a napkin sketch into a working prototype. The playing field hasn't just been leveled. It's been redrawn.

This isn't a keynote where you just hear about AI. You'll see it in action. Through live demonstrations and interactive moments, I'll show real, practical use cases that collapse the distance between idea and execution, helping you move faster, think bigger, and deliver better results than you ever imagined possible.

Most importantly, I'll give you a mental model for how AI fits into your work and life that's so simple, it will become a habit. You'll start seeing opportunities everywhere.

You don't need a big team or a technical background. You just need to know what's now possible, and the courage to try it.

AI doesn't change who we are. It amplifies it.

Our curiosity or our complacency. Our generosity or our shortcuts. Our best thinking or our laziest. Every time we open an AI tool, we bring ourselves to it, and it hands that self back to us, magnified.

As the world accelerates toward automation, it's tempting to hand everything to the machines. But just because AI can doesn't mean it should. Every time we use it, we're making a choice about what we delegate, what we keep, and who we become in the process.

In this keynote, I'll help you discover your human superpowers: the judgment, empathy, creativity, and connection that no machine can replicate. Because the better you understand what makes you uniquely human, the easier it becomes to see exactly where AI fits, and where it doesn't.

AI is a choice. You'll leave knowing how to make it wisely, so that what AI amplifies is the very best version of you.