Speaking & Keynotes

The AI talk your
audience will actually
remember.

Not the polished success story. The honest one. The late nights, the expensive mistakes, the moment it finally clicked. Audiences respond because it sounds like their own experience — just with a better ending.

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Keynotefrom £1,500
Breakfast / after-dinnerfrom £750
Half-day workshopfrom £2,000
Full-day workshopfrom £3,000
Panel chair / event hostfrom £750
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Charity / not-for-profitenquire
Talk titles / Available now

Four talks.
All honest.

01

I Am Not a Tech Person.

And that is why you should listen.

The honest story of learning to use AI tools as a solo business owner with no developer background, no tech team, and no safety net. What went wrong, what the turning point looked like, and what most AI consultants will never tell you because they have never actually run a small business on their own.

Audience Conferences, business events, chambers, leadership offsites
Length 45–60 minutes + Q&A
02

You Have Already Been Using AI For Years.

You just did not call it that.

Spellcheck. Autocomplete. Photoshop fixing your white balance. These are all AI tools — they always were. This talk reframes the whole conversation and takes the fear out of the room without pretending the challenges are not real. Works well with audiences who think this topic is not for them.

Audience Mixed-ability business audiences, after-dinner, opening keynotes
Length 30–60 minutes
03

The Prep Is the Work.

Why brief-writing is the actual skill.

The biggest mistake most people make with AI is treating the tool as the starting point. This talk is about why the thinking, the planning, and the brief-writing are the actual skill — and how the business experience most people already have turns out to be exactly the right foundation.

Audience Leadership teams, management audiences, away days
Length 40–60 minutes + optional workshop
04

Stop Blaming the Tool.

Most AI horror stories are governance failures.

When a business loses data because of an AI deployment, the tool did not make a decision on its own. Someone skipped a step. This talk covers the practical guardrails every business needs before they start — and why getting them right is mostly a planning question, not a technology one.

Audience Risk-aware audiences, professional services, boards
Length 30–45 minutes + Q&A

All talks can be shaped to your audience and event. Get in touch to discuss what would work best.

Formats & fees

What's available.

Keynote45–60 min, full Q&Afrom £1,500
Breakfast / after-dinner30–40 min, less formalfrom £750
Half-day workshopTalk + hands-on session, up to 12from £2,000
Full-day workshopTalk + workshop + real work on your businessfrom £3,000
Panel chair / event hostConference, away day, or business eventfrom £750
Corporate packageCombined keynote and workshop dayenquire
Charity / not-for-profit / communityReduced fee, capacity permittingenquire
What clients say

"We worked with Krys on the development of two bids, which we needed to win and did not have the capacity within the team. He came in and within the week we had a solid plan that actually got us to the win. What he taught us is still helping now."

Ian — client, bid management
Previous engagements

Building the
programme.

The speaking programme is new. I'll be honest about that. The expertise behind it is not — it's built on nearly 30 years of commercial experience and a hard-won understanding of what actually happens when organisations try to adopt new tools.

If you're looking for someone with a long list of conference credits, I'm not your person yet. If you're looking for someone who will say something true, useful, and memorable — I might be exactly right.

Selected talks to date
Agile Methodology in Capture and Bid Management — conference keynote
Building an Inclusive Team Is More Than Box Ticking — panel talk
Pitfalls of Applying for Arts Funding — webinar host, lockdown series

Travel within the Midlands included.
Expenses outside the region at cost.

Booking enquiries

Got an event?

Tell me about it. The audience, the format, the date. I'll come back within 48 hours with availability and a fee. No obligation, no hard sell.

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krys@jq-iq.co.uk  ·  07525 986309  ·  Birmingham, UK