Yes. Elliott Callender gives keynotes, live build sessions and workshops, and hosts stages, moderates panels and runs fireside chats. He speaks in plain English about AI, the people side of change and wellbeing at work. Tell us who is coming and what you want them to do next, and we will shape the session.
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"Because of my widely and wildly varied life across cultures, continents and careers, there are infinite topics I can cover and LOVE to explore. Here are a few pre-packaged sessions to get the creative juices flowing. Please feel free to request any other topic that suits your audience, and I'll happily craft a session around it."
Choose an area, read what each session explores, then use the table to see where it works, who it is for and the result it drives.
From chatbot to colleague
What AI can do for your work today, how to use it safely with your data and clients, and the habits that make it stick. Built for people who have mostly used ChatGPT on the web.
You leave with: Everyone leaves using AI for real work, with the confidence to keep going.
How people and AI agents work together, and what it costs
Live demos of AI agents doing real work, connected to your tools and data. Who manages them, which decisions stay human, what to build first and what agents cost to run.
You leave with: A clear first use for agents in your team and a sensible way to manage them.
The art of the possible now AI can do the work
When agents can build, research and run tasks for you, the limit becomes your ambition and your willingness to act. How individuals and teams think bigger and take ownership.
You leave with: People leave with a bigger goal and the first agent-powered step towards it.
Five moves to a business that runs on AI
The company brain, the AI operating system and the AI design system: how a whole business works with AI, in its systems, roles and culture.
You leave with: A clear picture of an AI-native business and the first moves to get there.
Where each session works, who it is for and the result it drives.
| Attribute | Session 1AI 101 | Session 2Digital Teammates | Session 3Ambition, Agency and Agents | Session 4Becoming AI-Native |
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| Setting | ||||
| Conference keynote | ||||
| Leadership offsite | - | - | ||
| Team day or workshop | - | |||
| Client event | - | - | ||
| Hackathon or demo day | - | - | ||
| Wellbeing week | - | - | - | - |
| Online or webinar | ||||
| Audience | ||||
| Young professionals | ||||
| Managers and team leads | ||||
| Executives | ||||
| C-suite and boards | ||||
| Founders and owners | ||||
| Outcome | ||||
| More revenue | - | |||
| Lower costs | - | - | ||
| Time saved | ||||
| Less risk | - | - | - | |
| Retention and performance | - | - | - | - |
From a team day for twenty people to a festival stage for thousands. Find the setting closest to yours.
Leadership teams, L&D and HR, offsites and company events
A keynote, a live build session or a hands-on workshop for your own people. Everyone leaves with something they can use at work the next day.
Conference and summit programmers, hackathon and demo day organisers, festival and community organisers
A keynote, or someone to host your stage, moderate a panel, run a fireside chat, or judge and facilitate your hackathon or demo day. Elliott keeps the conversation on what the audience came for and keeps it in plain English.
Banks, wealth managers, private equity firms, accountancy and law firms, software vendors, CEO peer groups
A session that gives your clients or members real value, at a client event, portfolio day, sponsored panel, lunch and learn or peer group meeting.
Professional bodies, associations, chambers of commerce and business schools
Practical sessions for members, students and alumni, from AI basics to how work is changing in their profession.
From young professionals in their first roles to C-suites and boards, across banking, payments, insurance, aviation, private equity, accountancy, education, technology and small businesses.
Elliott speaks without jargon and from his own experience, with real care for the people in the room. Use these to shape a session of your own: pick one, combine two, or ask for something in between.
Practical, hands-on and in plain English, for any industry.
What AI is, what it can do for your work today and how to start, without the jargon.
A hands-on session on the tools your organisation already has, so people use them well and safely.
How to find the work worth automating and build simple automations that save real hours.
What it looks like when people work alongside AI agents: who manages them, which decisions stay human and what agents really cost.
How a business captures what it knows so AI can use it, and how that becomes the way the company runs.
A repeatable way to design how a team or business works with AI, from first idea to everyday use.
Mapping the work, seeing where AI fits and deciding where your people move to next.
How to experiment with AI while keeping your data, clients and reputation protected.
What changes when a whole organisation works with AI, in its systems, roles and culture.
The people side of change, which is where most AI plans succeed or stall.
Why taste, judgement, curiosity and imagination matter more as AI takes on more of the work, and how to grow them.
Listening to understand, self-awareness, empathy and negotiation. One of the Creative Toolbox human upgrades.
Learn, unlearn, relearn. How to keep learning when the tools change every month.
How leaders bring their teams with them, make good calls about AI and stay credible while it changes.
Why rollouts stall at the people layer, and how leaders get teams using the tools they have already paid for.
Elliott sold everything, moved to a Thai island and rebuilt his working life. What that taught him about change, and why everyone now faces their own version.
Protecting your attention and your own thinking when content and AI output never stop.
Rest, health and different expectations of work. How teams make room for all of them and keep good people.
Energy, connection and performance, told from lived experience.
New models every week are wearing people out. When to step away, and how to get your own thinking back.
Close relationships are one of the strongest predictors of a long, healthy life. How to build them into a busy working life.
Adults are lonelier than ever. Why run clubs and shared activity are becoming the new social life.
Physical, personal and professional performance, and how each one feeds the others.
Burnout, recovery and building a working life on your own terms, from someone who has done it.
How to show up steady when everyone around you is running hot.
How a conversation at a Bangkok run club became AI Native Club, and why connection matters as much as skills.
Every format can be shaped for business or technical audiences, and each one leaves people with something they can use the next day.
A talk for conferences, summits, client events and company gatherings.
Laptops open. The room builds a working tool or workflow together before they leave.
Facilitated paired working sessions. People show each other how they really work with AI and learn from each other.
Hands-on sessions where teams apply AI to their own work, with Elliott in the room.
Runs a stage or a whole day: introductions, transitions and keeping energy and timing on track.
Judges, mentors and facilitates hackathons and demo days, with clear feedback that helps teams improve.
Moderates panels and fireside chats so the audience hears useful answers in plain English.
Every format works online or hybrid, with the remote audience planned in.
"Challenges you to actually consider and act on the things you think you know in an academic sense, but aren't taking seriously in reality."
Human of JP Morgan
J.P. Morgan
"Every second of this is valuable. I just went from start to finish building a project in about three hours."
Tom Veysey
Partner, Platinum Agency
"It gave us that mindset shift of there's so many things we can do that are accessible to people like us who are not technical."
Sheena & Jo
Co-Founders, Somnii
"Get someone like Elliott to work with you through the journey. In a couple of days, boom, you're set up and ready to explore what the future can look like."
Lisa JY Tan
Founder, Economics Design
"Having experienced a fair few (boring) corp training sessions, it was definitely one of the best."
Executive
Mastercard
"Thank you for bringing a different, original and most of all human perspective with your enriching presentation. It was a pleasure taking part in these activities."
Executive
Mastercard
"Elliott has this precious talent of minutiously getting it, despite the paradoxes and the mess."
Sahar Schwaninger
Leadership Transformation Executive & Team Coach, Human Harbours
From intimate boardrooms to 17,000-person tech festivals. Universities, corporates and global stages.
Stage Host & Fireside Chat
With Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder
Fireside Chat
TNW 2019, Amsterdam
500+ Attendees
Immersive theatrical experience
Keynote Speaker
Berlin
Innovation Week
Miami
Saïd Business School
MBAs & Alumni
Corporate Training
Hands-on, interactive sessions
Corporate Workshop
London
Conference Keynote
Standing room only
Elliott spent 18 years helping organisations like Mastercard and J.P. Morgan make new technology usable for their people. Then he sold his belongings, moved to a Thai island and spent eleven months fishing, gardening and resetting before rebuilding his working life on his own terms.
He came back calmer and clearer about what matters. That is why his talks hold the practical and the human together: how to use AI well, and how to stay yourself while your work changes around you.
He now runs Remote Humans and AI Native Club from London, and works with teams across banking, payments, insurance, aviation, private equity, accountancy, education, technology, agencies and small businesses.
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Elliott Callender is the founder of Remote Humans, which helps leaders and teams use AI in their real work, and of AI Native Club, a London community for people working with AI. He has spent 18 years making technology usable for organisations including Mastercard, J.P. Morgan, Air France KLM, Beazley, Microsoft and Minerva University, and has spoken at The Next Web and Oxford Saïd Business School. He speaks in plain English about AI, the people using it and how to stay well while work changes.
Elliott Callender is the founder of Remote Humans, which helps leaders and teams use AI in their real work, and of AI Native Club, a London community for people working with AI. He has spent 18 years making technology usable for organisations including Mastercard, J.P. Morgan, Air France KLM, Beazley, Microsoft and Minerva University, and has spoken at The Next Web and Oxford Saïd Business School. He speaks in plain English about AI, the people using it and how to stay well while work changes. After years of corporate work, Elliott sold his belongings and moved to a Thai island, where he spent eleven months fishing, gardening and resetting before rebuilding his working life on his own terms. That experience shapes how he talks about change: AI is asking whole industries to reinvent how they work, and the people side of that matters as much as the tools. On stage he is warm, practical and interactive. Audiences use the tools, build something and leave with a clear next step.
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