2026-2027 KEYNOTES WORLDWIDE
Bringing rigour, warmth and a long-term view to the rooms where AI strategy is decided.
AI ethicist, futurist, designer & keynote speaker.
Organisations face unprecedented opportunities and challenges in a world reshaped by AI. The path forward calls for leading with grace — treating disruption as a catalyst for sustainable innovation and business resilience. Through keynotes, workshops and consultancy via the GRACE framework, Lisanne helps leaders navigate that terrain with rigour and direction.
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In her
own words.
“AI is shaping the decisions that shape us. It demands not just intelligence, but direction. Not just efficiency, but responsibility. Not just prediction, but human agency.”Learn more about Lisanne →
Speaking.
Unravelling AI’s complexity, unlocking practical strategies.
[ Talks, by subject ]
- 01Keynote · Workshop
Agentic AI & the future of work
Autonomy, augmentation, and the new architecture of labour.
- 02Keynote · Workshop
AI & the future of innovation
From extraction to regeneration — design briefs for the next decade.
- 03Keynote · Workshop
AI ethics & leadership
Discernment as a leadership competence.
- 04Keynote · Workshop
AI in 2026 & beyond
Reading the signals: where the field is actually going.
- 05Keynote · Workshop
AI & superintelligence
Holding the long view without losing the present.
[ Across industries ]
- +Food & agriculture
- +Education
- +Health & wellbeing
- +Energy & climate resilience
- +Architecture & design
- +Storytelling & new media
- +Travel & leisure
- +Finance
- +Fashion
[ GRACE — generativity · resonance · agency · connectedness · embodiment ]
a framework for human–AI alignment at scale
Gracious AI
Strategic advisory
through Gracious AI.
Lisanne is the founder of Gracious AI — an ethical AI research, strategy and governance lab in Amsterdam. Through the GRACE framework, she helps leaders, companies and institutions choose and create an ethical AI strategy and infrastructure that aligns with human wellbeing, social resilience, and ecological regeneration.
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[ Services ]
AI Strategy & Governance
Designing ethical AI infrastructure and governance frameworks aligned with organisational values and long-term resilience.
GRACE Diagnostics
Assessing AI maturity, risk exposure, and alignment through the five pillars of the GRACE framework.
Future Foresight
Scenario planning and futures thinking workshops that help leadership teams anticipate disruption and design possibilist strategies.
Leadership & Ethics Training
In-house programmes on AI ethics, discernment, and responsible innovation for boards, executives, and design teams.
THANKS so much, Lisanne, for the outstanding moderation at DPG’s headquarters last Thursday.
We have received beautiful feedback from our 400+ guests about her contribution.
Few thinkers move as fluently between philosophical depth, stage charm and practical foresight as Lisanne does.
“We live in a perfect storm — environmental collapse, deepening inequality, conflict, and despair. Yet beneath it, something else pulses: the possibility of radically gracious futures. AI is not our savior. It is a mirror, a partner, and a force multiplier. The question is not whether AI will shape your organisation — it already is. The question is whether you will shape it back with wisdom, rigour, and grace. Through keynotes, workshops and strategic advisory, I help leaders turn that question into strategy, culture, and action.”
Three
tenets.
Agency over automation
Humans stay the creative decision-makers; AI augments human intelligence, never replaces it.
Ethics by design
Science-backed ethics as a strategic and design discipline, not a compliance checklist — paired with the courage to imagine better futures.
The long view
Decade-scale strategy, designed for resilience — not the next quarter.
Resources
& news.
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Quiet dispatches on AI & the future.
Occasional essays — no banners, no growth hacks. For organisers and leaders thinking past the next quarter.
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Designing conditions
for grace to emerge.
Lisanne Buik works at the intersection of AI ethics, futures thinking and design. She is the founder of Gracious AI, a consultancy that helps leaders, companies and institutions choose and create an ethical AI strategy and infrastructure that aligns with human and ecological values.
Her PhD research in AI ethics and design at Sapienza Università di Roma underwrites a practice that is rigorous without being cold, and possibilist without being utopian. Over the past 10 years, she has delivered keynotes for Philips Design, Microsoft, KPMG, Van Gogh Museum, the Government of Luxembourg, TEDx and many others.
— PORTFOLIO · UPON REQUEST
A portfolio of writing, research and design is available upon request.