The future doesn't need followers. It needs builders.
Keynotes on AI meets longevity, and the future of human work.
The world is accelerating. Careers are fragmenting. AI is reshaping what human contribution even means. And humans live longer than any career model and society was built for. Most speakers tell you we need to adapt. ianka fleerackers asks a different question: how do you navigate — and still compound — when the maps no longer match the territory?
Author of nine books. One of the first digital publishers. Citizen developer. Founder of four imprints. Three decades at the intersection of humanities, tech, and business — in a combination that still has no name.
When ianka speaks, she doesn't present ideas. She repositions how you think about them.
Needed: Real Humans
Not for their output. For their restlessness.
This keynote makes the case for disagreement, curiosity, and serendipity as the most human skills left — and shows how to use AI to sharpen them rather than surrender them.
Book this keynote →You Only Live Once.
And it's longer than you think.
You will live longer than any career was designed to last. And the world will change faster than any plan can follow. Most people feel this. Few know what to build instead. The Long Game gives individuals and companies the framework to start — and confronts us with the question we rarely ask: are you consuming life, or building it?
Book this keynote →The Coherent Life — In Double Flux
YOLO was the wrong answer to the right question.
You do only live once — but it's longer than any generation before you, and AI is about to give you more time than you know what to do with. This keynote asks the question most people keep postponing: who are you when the role, the title, and the daily grind no longer organise your identity for you?
Book this keynote →Keynotes in English and Dutch.
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Available for conferences, leadership summits, and organisational events. Based in Belgium. Speaking in Europe and the US.
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