iShruti
iShruti
Engineers and researchers who teach what they've actually built. Real prices upfront, shortlist in 24 hours.
The best AI education doesn't come from watching someone else's slides — it comes from people who have built things, broken things, learned from the failures, and can translate that experience into understanding your audience can actually use. We curate educators with deep hands-on expertise and a gift for making it accessible.
Our AI educators are not academics reading from a syllabus. They are practitioners — engineers who have shipped AI products, data scientists who have deployed machine learning in production, researchers who have published influential work — who have also developed exceptional teaching and communication skills.
We serve L&D leaders building AI literacy programs, technical conferences that want practitioner depth, executive education programs, corporate universities, and events that need speakers who can do more than inspire — they can actually change how their audiences understand and work with AI, starting the next morning.
Someone who built it, then taught it.
Not a syllabus-reader. These speakers shipped AI products and published real work — and can make it make sense to any room, priced upfront, shortlisted in 24 hours.
AI literacy is becoming a professional baseline. Education compounds — every employee who truly gets AI makes better calls with it.
Most “AI 101” keynotes leave a vague impression. The best leave mental models audiences use the next morning.
Making LLMs genuinely understandable without dumbing them down is rare — we sought those people out.
Someone who has fine-tuned a model or debugged real bias speaks with specificity observers can't fake.
AI demystified: what it actually is, how it works, what it actually can't do
Large language models from the inside: how GPT and Claude actually work
Building AI products that users trust: a practitioner's guide
Machine learning in production: what the textbooks don't tell you
Prompt engineering for professionals: getting real value from AI tools right now
AI literacy for executives: the 20% of understanding that produces 80% of the value
Data quality and AI: why garbage in, garbage out matters more than ever
From data to decisions: practical machine learning for business leaders
The AI product development lifecycle: how teams actually build AI systems
Evaluating AI vendors and tools: a practitioner's guide to avoiding hype
AI agents 101: what autonomy really means for your team
Teaching your org to verify: quality control for AI-generated work
Need a different angle? Every talk is customized to your audience.
Hire a speakerIn-person, on your main stage.
Remote keynote or fireside.
Multi-voice sessions.
One price, our 17.5% printed inside it. Travel at cost, capped. No surprise line-items — ask any bureau to show you theirs. Keynote + half-day workshop is the classic AI-literacy format — ask us.
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Five questions every organizer asks — tap one.
It depends entirely on your audience. For a general employee all-hands, aim for conceptual fluency — audiences should leave understanding what AI is, how it works at a high level, and how it will affect their work. For a technical team, go deeper into implementation, architecture, and evaluation. For C-suite, focus on strategic implications and decision-making frameworks. The best AI educators can calibrate for any level.
Academic researchers often bring cutting-edge research depth but may struggle to connect it to practical business relevance. Industry practitioners bring operational credibility and immediate applicability but may not cover the research frontier. For most corporate audiences, the industry practitioner with research literacy is the highest-value profile. We look for speakers who have worked in both worlds.
Yes — and for AI literacy programs, the keynote-plus-workshop format is often the most effective structure. A 60-minute keynote sets the foundation; a half-day or full-day workshop builds practical skills. Many of our AI educator speakers specifically prefer this extended format because it allows for meaningful learning rather than just exposure.
Prompt engineering and AI tools for knowledge workers is the highest-demand topic for 2026 — it's immediately actionable for every knowledge worker. Followed closely by AI literacy for managers (how to oversee AI-generated work), and AI governance and responsible use (how to set organizational AI policies). We can match speakers with specific topic expertise.
Look for three things: specific systems they've built (not just consulted on), publications or open-source contributions in the field, and the specificity of their language when talking about technical concepts. Practitioners use precise language and can get specific about implementation details. Non-practitioners tend to stay abstract.
Rather we just figure it out for you?
Get a shortlist$10K–$30K for most events; virtual from $2,500. The price you see is the whole price — our 17.5% is printed inside it.
We individually check identity, real work, and stage skill. Every speaker. No exceptions.
Yes — prompt engineering and AI tools literacy workshops are among the most in-demand formats for 2026. We have practitioners who can deliver half-day or full-day workshops on effective AI tool use for professional contexts.
Yes — this is a specific capability we screen for. Making technical concepts accessible to a humanities-trained senior leader, a frontline worker, or a clinician with no technical background is rare and valuable.
Yes — several of our practitioner speakers address AI tool selection, vendor evaluation, build-vs.-buy decisions, and integration architecture from a business-leader perspective. Highly valued by technology and operations leadership.
For genuine understanding rather than exposure, 75–90 minutes is the sweet spot. Under 45 minutes only scratches the surface; over 90, attention drops. For deeper education, pair a 60-minute keynote with a workshop.