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Jos Dirkx

Keynote Speaker

World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer; Founder, Beenova AI; Singularity University Faculty Member; Best Selling Author, Tackled! and Girls Do Good

Jos Dirkx dares to go where others don't. Jos has lived an extraordinary life across fifteen countries and brings this worldly experience to life on stage, seamlessly connecting her audience to global, must-know trends. Jos sets the bar for the new world of work — where creativity, connection, and collective intelligence drives our greatest ideas, just when we need them the most.

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Jos Dirkx dares to go where others don’t – she has lived an extraordinary life across fifteen countries. From warzones to boardrooms, she turns global insights from business, innovation, and education across a range of industries into relevant takeaways for forward-thinking organizations while seamlessly connecting her audience to must-know, global trends around great ideas, technology, inclusion, and education.

Her keynotes have inspired thousands around the world. Her experience as an award-winning founder, author, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, and Abundance360 member make her an engaging and inspirational highlight at any event. Jos sets the bar for the new world of work — where creativity, connection, and collective intelligence drive our brightest breakthroughs when we need them most.

For the past 20 years, Jos helped companies and communities unlock their potential by clearly demonstrating why teams stop innovating and how to keep ideation alive. Underpinned by an emphasis on the concept of range, Jos empowers her audience with what it takes to turn creative intelligence and inclusive practices into a driving force for profit and purpose.

Jos speaks with passion and authenticity about important, global trends: bringing to the forefront the essence of consistently, high-performing teams in a rapidly changing world. Jos speaks five languages, has written two books, and is finalizing her third, Why Great Ideas Die, a how-to guide for 21st-century innovation, featuring global thought-leaders, ground-breaking research, and real-life experience on mastering our cognitive and somatic capacity for relentless ideation.

Alongside her team, she received a letter of recognition from Former First Lady Michelle Obama for her work on girls’ health. Jos was selected as a 50 Global Heroes Ending Violence Against Children (alongside others like Hilary Clinton and Maria Eitel), a 2019 Woman To Watch, a Women Deliver and Gates Foundation Young Leader, a Nike Girl Effect Challenge winner, a Microsoft YouthSpark winner, an Ashoka Changemaker, and has spoken at global events from the TEDx Stage to Glowork in Saudi Arabia, to World Economic Forum: Women in Leadership in Dubai. Her work and research have been awarded and featured in publications worldwide. Jos and her team have built solutions and products reaching over 85k users globally and have recently received a grant from the Dutch Government to design learning solutions for change in education.

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Jos Dirkx’s Speech Topics

  • Making Sense of AI — What You Need to Know Today About AI

    • Identifying critical skills as part of your AI strategy
    • How exponential tech changes the Future of Learning and Work
    • What a robust AI roadmap looks like and how to create one
  • Why Great Ideas Die – Driving Human Potential in an AI Heavy World

    • Using AI in the 21st century
    • The secret to a consistently great team
    • Applying AI and human skills for performance and efficiency

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