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The Moment

The room becomes the material

A stage, a room, a day.

Esmee van de Giessen on stage at a strategy summit

My talks live at the intersection of technology and what it asks of us as people.

On AI and the human pause a machine will never have. I bring old technology on stage: the machine that once promised the future, next to the one promising it now. And then I put the audience to work. A pair of 3D glasses you look through. Ninety seconds of actually listening, which lands harder than any slide.

And I’m technology agnostic: no vendor to plug, no platform to defend. I look at every technology with the same interest and the same open, critical eye.

People leave having lived the shift,
not just heard it.

The moments where your organisation sets direction: the quarterly event, the strategy day, the kick-off.

Where talk of technology tends to be either hallelujah or deeply technical, and neither lands. As your chair, I connect it to the people in the room: what does this future mean for us, why do we want it, and what do we see standing in the way.

Three ways on a stage.

  • Keynote, 30 to 60 minutes, always interactive, designed around your audience and occasion.
  • Chairing your strategy day or quarterly event, giving technology its place and its meaning.
  • Panels and debates, where I bring my own view and make room for the voices that would otherwise stay silent.
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Let’s talk.

Not a pitch. Not a proposal. A conversation about what’s really going on.

The work starts in January 2027. The conversation can start now.

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