Iliana Oris Valiente
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Book Rebecca Bultsma, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Speaker
About This Speaker
Rebecca Bultsma is an AI speaker, ethicist, and responsible AI strategist who helps professionals understand and adopt new technology responsibly. She draws on 20 years of strategic communications experience and active AI ethics research at the University of Edinburgh. This combination gives her keynotes both credibility and accessibility.
Rebecca commands stages across North America, speaking to a range of professional audiences — from frontline employees to C-suite executives. She translates complex AI concepts into practical knowledge that audiences can immediately apply, inspiring confidence and empowering decisive action. Her client work spans educational institutions and executive teams across Canada and the United States.
Her keynotes address the real questions organizations face around AI: what it actually changes about work, how to move from anxiety to advantage, and how leaders can make sound decisions before all the answers are clear. She also takes a sector-specific approach, cutting through hype to show where AI is genuinely reshaping industries. Throughout, she treats ethics not as a compliance exercise but as a practical framework for the decisions professionals are already making.
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The Future of Work Is Here: What Every Professional Needs to Know About AI 
A grounded read on what AI actually changes about your work, and what it doesn't. Built for audiences who are tired of both the utopian pitch and the doom spiral, and who want to leave with something they can actually do on Monday.
Audience Takeaways
• A clear-eyed read on what AI actually changes about your job, and what it doesn't
• The difference between AI that is revolutionary, evolutionary, and just noise
• Moves you can make by Monday that start building AI fluency without burning out
• Shared language to bring back to your team so everyone is talking about this the same way
Audience Takeaways
• A clear-eyed read on what AI actually changes about your job, and what it doesn't
• The difference between AI that is revolutionary, evolutionary, and just noise
• Moves you can make by Monday that start building AI fluency without burning out
• Shared language to bring back to your team so everyone is talking about this the same way
From AI Anxiety to AI Advantage: Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
For rooms where the anxiety is louder than the excitement. Validates why the worry is legitimate, then walks through how to turn that worry into a deliberate starting point. Heavy on permission, light on pressure.
Audience Takeaways
• Why the anxiety is legitimate, and why it is also not the whole story
• A simple frame for separating AI hype from AI you can actually use
• The "paper cut" tasks AI can take off your plate right now so the tool earns its keep
• Permission to move at your own pace, and a starting point you can actually take
Audience Takeaways
• Why the anxiety is legitimate, and why it is also not the whole story
• A simple frame for separating AI hype from AI you can actually use
• The "paper cut" tasks AI can take off your plate right now so the tool earns its keep
• Permission to move at your own pace, and a starting point you can actually take
The Human Edge: Why Ethics Matter More Than Ever in an AI-Driven World
Ethics is not a compliance activity. This talk is about the decisions your people are already making with AI, the ones without clean answers, and how to build an organization where those decisions get made well.
Audience Takeaways
• The ethical risks your organization is already carrying, whether you have named them or not
• A decision-making frame for the AI questions that don't have clean answers yet
• How to build a culture where people flag issues early instead of waiting for them to blow up
• What "responsible AI" looks like past the policy document
Audience Takeaways
• The ethical risks your organization is already carrying, whether you have named them or not
• A decision-making frame for the AI questions that don't have clean answers yet
• How to build a culture where people flag issues early instead of waiting for them to blow up
• What "responsible AI" looks like past the policy document
The Real AI Revolution Transforming Your Industry
Sector-specific. Cuts through the noise to show where AI is genuinely reshaping your field, where it is over-hyped, and where your peers are quietly winning or quietly struggling. Most research-heavy of the five.
Audience Takeaways
• A grounded picture of where AI is actually reshaping your sector, not where the headlines say it is
• Ways AI can actually help you, and where to watch your step
• Case studies from organizations doing this well, and from the ones who learned the hard way
• The three or four moves your industry cannot afford to skip this year
• A realistic read on your own AI readiness, and which gap to close first
Audience Takeaways
• A grounded picture of where AI is actually reshaping your sector, not where the headlines say it is
• Ways AI can actually help you, and where to watch your step
• Case studies from organizations doing this well, and from the ones who learned the hard way
• The three or four moves your industry cannot afford to skip this year
• A realistic read on your own AI readiness, and which gap to close first
Leading Through Disruption: How to Navigate AI Without Losing Your Values
A leadership keynote for people who have to make decisions before the answers are clear. About holding your line when the pressure is to move faster than you are comfortable with, and staying human while the work underneath you keeps shifting.
Audience Takeaways
• A leadership frame for decisions you have to make before the answers are clear
• How to hold your values when the pressure is to move faster than you want to
• The difference between leading through change and getting dragged through it
• Practices that keep you and your team human while the work underneath you keeps shifting
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