I speak about AI not as a tool, but as a cultural force reshaping cognition, creativity, and sovereignty. My talks range from strategic foresight for leaders to embodied creativity for artists and innovators. Each session can be adapted to context — from executive summits to design conferences.
“One of the leading experts on the topic of AI.”
(Katerina Havrlant - Founder, Investor)
TALKS
available themesCreative Sovereignty in the Generative Limbo
We’re not afraid of AI. We’re disoriented inside it.
As generative systems accelerate production, many leaders and creators sense something thinning out: depth, authorship, independent judgment. This talk explores creative sovereignty as the ability to guard your thinking, cultivate literacy, and stay rooted in your own cognitive center — instead of dissolving into the interface.
Creative AI Workflows: Designing Agency, Not Automation
How do you increase output without flattening creativity? This talk explores structured AI workflows that expand capacity while preserving creative sovereignty, authorship, and critical judgment.
The Normalization of Synthetic Reality
We once feared deepfakes — political manipulation, fraud, the collapse of visual trust. Now we willingly generate them, even of ourselves.
This talk examines how synthetic media moved from scandal to normality in record time, and what that cultural acceleration reveals about trust, identity, and responsibility.
Embodied Creativity: The Advantage AI Doesn’t Have
AI has no body. You do. That difference matters.
While automation accelerates execution, human creativity remains embodied, intuitive, and deeply situated. This talk explores how to cultivate creative sovereignty through attention, self-knowledge, and systemic awareness — and why embodiment may be the ultimate differentiator in an automated world.
SELECTED APPEARANCES:
Over the past decade, I have presented my work across technology, design, and research platforms, including:
Dutch Design Week
IxDA Interaction
CultTech Summit Vienna
DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art
UMPRUM – Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design
View the complete list of lectures and recordings →
WORKSHOPS
available formatsCreative Sovereignty (coming soon)
An executive workshop exploring cognitive sovereignty in AI-driven environments. Designed for founders, leadership teams, and decision-makers navigating accelerated automation. More details soon.
Creative AI Workflows for Creative Professionals
A hands-on workshop for creative teams, design studios, and educational institutions exploring how to use generative AI without surrendering authorship. Participants learn to design intentional workflows that expand capacity while preserving clarity, originality, and critical judgment.
Tuning In - Embodied Human-AI Co-Creation
An experiential workshop for artists, researchers, and creative practitioners who want to explore AI as a relational medium rather than a production engine. Through guided experimentation, participants observe how ideas arise in the body — and how to collaborate with AI without losing that signal.PAST WORKSHOPS:
A selection of past workshops and experimental formats.
For the full archive of programs, locations, and documentation, see here →
AI Sketching (2024)
An experimental workshop exploring design fixation in AI-assisted rapid prototyping. Participants role-played designer–client dynamics while generative systems translated sketches into photorealistic outputs, revealing how AI mediation reshapes iteration and authorship.Presented at ARCHIP and Creative AI Meetups Prague.
Scrying Through AI (2021-2022)
A speculative design workshop investigating text-to-image diffusion as a closed-loop interface. Participants could only iterate through textual modification of generated images, exposing the tension between language, intention, and visual imagination. Explored collective authorship and the metaphor of “scrying” — where describing a vision transforms it.Presented at FAMU, SVITAVA - transmedia art lab, & AIxDESIGN platform.
Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality (2019-2021)
An early speculative workshop crowdsourcing future scenarios for emerging AI models. Using a custom card system, participants imagined use cases and societal implications — mapping both utopian and dystopian trajectories of synthetic tools.Presented at Google, CtrlZ.AI Zine Fair, 2020 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), Interactions 2021 Conference IxDA, DOX - Center for Contemporary Art in Prague and others.
Curious to collaborate, co-host, or dream up a new format together?
Drop me a line at lenka@creativeaiworkflows.com — I'd love to hear from you.