Keynote Speaker
Artist, Artificial Intelligence Expert, CEO of Drue Kataoka Studios
Drue Kataoka is a recognized expert in visual generative Artificial Intelligence, and its intersections with business, leadership & creativity. Her talks are visually stunning, inspirational & filled with actionable takeaways. She’s sent her works into space, exhibited and spoken at Davos and Necker Island, & collaborated with Nobel laureates, astronauts, & global CEOs. She equips audiences to lead confidently in the AI era.
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Drue Kataoka is an award-winning authority on visual gen AI, and its impact on business, leadership, and innovation. Her keynotes empower audiences to think visually, act strategically, and lead boldly in the AI era. As a serial entrepreneur who built a global art studio from scratch, serving collectors in over 30 countries, Drue brings firsthand insight into innovation, reinvention, and scaling ideas that matter. She helps audiences see around corners, revealing how Visual AI is rapidly reshaping leadership, communication, and strategic decision-making across industries. With experience on the world’s most prestigious stages—from Davos to Milken to the Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi, Drue’s talks are as intellectually rigorous as they are visually stunning. She leaves her audiences armed with practical tools and tangible takeaways they can use immediately. Her keynotes and workshops are renowned for unlocking visual intelligence, sparking transformative insights, and creating immediate momentum for teams. Clients book her to futureproof their leadership and act on what’s next.
This talk is highly customized for every client, whether in healthcare, education, finance, local business, travel, transportation, manufacturing or other.
Generative Artificial Intelligence is poised to reshape your industry. Are you ready? Mastering visual AI is the critical new skill that will make you thrive. This highly customized session explores exactly how generative images, video and 3D models, digital twins and avatars, AI cloning, and vibe coding will transform your specific sector, providing a hands-on roadmap for what’s next.
What if a digital avatar could share your message, in every language, while you sleep? Or, imagine vibe-coding a new app for your business without having to deal with engineers. What if you could take your pitch preparation to a whole new level by AI-cloning your client? What if you could set your team culture on fire with stunning, high production value videos?
This talk moves beyond hype to deliver tangible, industry-specific strategies. You’ll learn how to harness AI-driven storytelling and blend visionary thinking with AI fluency to lead your organization into the future.
As Artificial Intelligence transforms every industry, we are entering a new era of leadership where vision isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s everything. Now you have the creative power of an army of designers and a major movie studio in your pocket. But how do you unleash it? What does it truly mean to lead with vision in the age of Artificial Intelligence? How can you and your team train your Vision Muscle™ to excel and thrive?
What if you could vibe-code a new website, ideate products at lightning speed without expensive consultants, or create a multilingual avatar to engage customers globally? How can you reshape team culture with custom videos, or dominate social media with on-brand creativity? Drue Kataoka challenges leaders to embrace a “Visual AI-First” mindset. In this high-impact session, she delivers tangible takeaways and hands-on strategies to answer these critical questions, ensuring you’re not just keeping up with Artificial Intelligence but leading with it.
Today, leaders use PowerPoint to convey their vision. But what if your next big idea could be prototyped, visualized, and tested within minutes? Visual AI is becoming the new canvas for leadership and innovation in business. It transforms the way we explore, refine, and communicate our biggest ideas.
Visual AI enables leaders to ideate and build consensus in hours, not months: but only if they have the right skills. What if you could prototype a new car in real-time, reshape an architectural blueprint instantly, or simulate complex strategies with unmatched clarity? This practical and inspirational talk explores how to sharpen your vision, harness AI-driven storytelling, and blend visionary thinking with Artificial Intelligence tool fluency to lead in this new era.
Whether you’re leading a startup or a Fortune 500, it’s time to bring your ideas to life at the speed of AI.
What can three of history’s most visionary minds teach us about thriving in an AI-transformed world? Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, and Albert Einstein didn’t just master tools—they invented the future. How can we adopt their mindsets to navigate the visual AI era not just as users, but as visionary creators?
With Artificial Intelligence, if you think small, you’ll get small ideas back. So how do you learn to think big and radical? How can da Vinci’s wild to-do lists, Jobs’ obsession with interdisciplinarity, and Einstein’s visual daydreaming unlock timeless strategies for leading bolder and collaborating with technology in more human ways? This talk offers a powerful blueprint for unlocking your own visionary potential in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
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