Logo
Lydia Kostopoulos, PhD Headshot
Report a problem with this profile
[email protected]

Lydia Kostopoulos, PhD          

Systems Thinking & Emerging Tech Strategist; Artificial Intelligence & ESG Thought Leader

Globally recognized Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos' rare international expertise at the intersection of emerging technology, security and macro trends has been sought by the United Nations, US Special Operations, multi-national companies, tech companies, design agencies, academia such as MIT and Oxford Business School, and foreign governments around the world. She helps her clients understand what the fourth industrial revolution means for their value proposition, create innovation road maps and partner strategies to maintain competitiveness and expand their brand's market reach. This includes coaching her clients on how to posture their organization to maintain relevance through rapid technological change. She is the founder of the boutique consultancy Abundance Studio.

Speech Topics

Human Imagination & Business Competitiveness: When technology can do anything, Imagination will be Everything

Artificial intelligence is increasingly changing value propositions, replacing tasks and in many cases even jobs. As companies pivot to posture for growth, competitiveness and market relevance, the key differentiator will be the imagination capability and capacity of their organization’s talent pool.

Attendee Results:

  • Understand how imagination has given companies a competitive market and financial edge.
  • Learn from companies who failed to imagine and how it resulted in their companies closing or losing their positioning.
  • Explore the new edge in business competitive – Imagination and discover ways to apply it in your organization and leadership style

Digital Twins: Are you Digital Twin Ready? Why Digital Twins are Quietly the Next Big Thing.

Moving business operations from paper to digital created tremendous amount of efficiency and allowed business to create new value and new sources of revenue. Today we are at another revolutionary moment, going from managing our digital value chains across many platforms while failing to gain the full picture and capture the true data value of an organization, to having a digital twin which digitally captures every part of an organization from physical hardware, to assets, to digital processes to human resources. The reason a digital twin is quietly the next big thing is because it consolidates organizational data in away that leaders can better track inefficiencies, understand and optimize workflows and increase productivity.

Attendee Results:

  • Understand what a digital twin is and why it is the next big thing.
  • Learn about the technological convergencies that power digital twins (data, sensors, connected networks etc).
  • Hear case studies of how digital twins are already changing industries today.
  • Understand what is needed to be digital twin ready ahead of its implementation.

Branded AI Assistants: How & Why AI Assistants are a Key Component of a Brand's Portfolio

Generative AI has taken the world by storm and companies while organizations are looking to see how they can add AI conversational assistants to their value chain, few appreciate the role of branded AI assistants and how it is a critical component of a brands portfolio. The opportunity to create branded AI assistants creates limitless possibilities for how brands expand their reach in an environment saturated with ads and notifications.

Attendee Results:

  • Understand the value proposition of branded AI assistants and the value they bring.
  • Learn how branded AI assistants to reinforce a brand’s authority and promote lead generation.
  • Explore how branded AI assistants can extend a brands personality.
  • Learn how to leverage branded AI assistants for events.

The Environmental Social & Governance Elements of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence bringing tremendous value across industry value chains, however as organizations incorporate them into their organizations and digital transformation plans it is important to understand the environmental, social and governance implications. These are particularly important for ESG reporting and organizational sustainability efforts.

Attendee Results:

  • Understand the implications of artificial intelligence on energy and water resources.
  • Case study examples of organizations who are consciously, proactively and intentionally implementing AI in an ESG friendly manner.
  • Gain perspectives for how organizations can ethically manage technological unemployment due to AI and retain needed talent.
  • Case study examples of how organizations did good and made money by considering AI ESG elements.
  • Learn about the social impacts biased algorithms can have both on society and on markets.
  • Tools to proactively and purposefully incorporate AI related ESG elements into an organization's business and sustainability strategy.

Related Speakers View all

More like Lydia