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Give your audience a clearer view of what AI means for the business — and what leadership must do next.
Prof. Christian Farioli brings AI strategy, Digital Employees and human judgement into one practical conversation. For CEOs, leadership teams and event organisers in Dubai, the focus is on decisions that matter: where to start, what to delegate and who remains accountable.
Share your event date, audience and the conversation you want to start.
Keynote topics
Choose a starting point for your conference, CEO forum or leadership event. Each topic connects the possibilities of AI with the choices your audience faces.
Where should AI create value in your organisation?
A leadership perspective on choosing priorities, challenging assumptions and connecting AI initiatives to business objectives. Explore how to assess an opportunity before committing people, budget and trust.
Audience takeawayA clearer set of questions for prioritising AI opportunities and defining what a useful first step should achieve.
What changes when AI can act, not just answer?
Explore AI systems that carry out defined work across a process. The conversation covers roles, context, access and escalation — and how people can direct Digital Employees towards a business objective.
Audience takeawayA practical way to frame a potential Digital Employee role, with clear boundaries and a named human owner.
Which decisions must remain yours?
When AI recommends or acts, leaders still need to set direction, question the result and take responsibility. Explore the difference between delegating execution and giving up accountability.
Audience takeawayA shared language for deciding what AI may do, what requires approval and when a person must intervene.
Explore the thinking behind the third topic in Christian’s Forbes article on AI delegation and leadership (in Spanish).
For CEOs and leadership teams
An AI strategy speaker for your Dubai event should help the room move from interest to informed discussion. These sessions are designed to give leaders a way to evaluate AI together, across functions and levels of technical experience.
Identify the outcome worth pursuing before debating which tool to buy.
Discuss AI tools, agents and Digital Employees without requiring a technical background.
Consider data access, decision rights, human review and the limits of autonomy.
Recognise an opportunity to explore and the evidence needed to judge whether it is working.
Choose the right format
Start with the change you want in the room. A keynote creates a shared perspective; a workshop gives a smaller group space to apply it.
Keynote
A focused talk for a conference, summit, company gathering or leadership forum. Connect the event theme to AI strategy and the decisions ahead.
Workshop
A facilitated working session for a leadership team. Apply the ideas to a defined business challenge, AI opportunity or proposed Digital Employee role.
A keynote can lead into a workshop. We’ll agree the scope, duration and format around your event.
Discuss the best fitOn stage
See Christian on stage and with audiences in this short event montage.
Explore the event gallery for photographs of conference, training and speaking engagements, including the NASA conference and sessions in the UAE.
Explore past eventsClient and audience perspectives
Perspectives on Christian’s speaking, training and advisory work.
“His humble approach and very straightforward thinking are indeed very valuable to any organization. I can personally recommend Prof. Christian and his Team.”
Mirko AruGeneral Manager, Armani Hotel · Consulting testimonial“Prof. Christian Farioli was truly inspiring during his session in Abu Dhabi on fintech and digital payments.”
Eissa Al GhareebCentral Bank of UAE · Testimonial excerpt“Creative digital genius. Not the usual stuff you can read about, but serious marketing intelligence insights that translate into business wisdom.”
Michela SimoneEvents & Marketing Director, Vogue ArabiaThe perspective behind the talk
Christian’s work connects AI, business strategy and leadership. His Forbes author biography identifies him as CEO of ESD Dubai and an international educator, with speaking and training experience across organisations including Google, NASA, PwC and EY.
For your event, that background becomes a conversation about the choices facing your own audience — from an executive offsite to a conference programme.
Books & publications
A Tasty Combo for Insightful Managers
Artificial intelligence and strategic decision-making for managers.
Explore the booksPlanning your event
Yes. The focus is on strategy, priorities and leadership decisions. Technical ideas are explained through their business implications, so CEOs and cross-functional leadership teams can participate in the same conversation.
The event briefing is the place to agree the theme, audience profile, sector context and desired takeaway. Share the purpose of your conference or leadership gathering so we can discuss the most relevant topic and format.
Digital Employees are AI systems designed to carry out a defined role or workflow, using relevant context and tools within agreed limits. The keynote explores how to set objectives, assign a human owner and decide when the system must ask for help or approval.
Yes. Human judgement and accountability are central themes. The discussion examines which tasks can be delegated, which decisions need human approval and how leaders retain oversight when AI systems act.
Book a conversation to discuss your event. Bring the date, location, audience, preferred format and any recording requirements. Availability, scope and fees are agreed directly for the engagement.
Your next event in Dubai
Bring Prof. Christian Farioli to your next event and give your audience a new perspective on AI, business and what comes next.
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