Book Jos Dirkx for your event
Jos Dirkx is a global speaker, artist, singer, writer and strategist working at the intersection of AI, identity, education and human meaning. Having lived in fifteen countries and traveled to more than 100, she brings a uniquely global perspective shaped by experiences ranging from Fortune 500 boardrooms and government ministries to UN field offices and communities often overlooked by the wider world.
Across these environments, Jos has discovered a consistent truth: beneath technology, status and geography, people continue to search for kindness, purpose, connection and meaning. This perspective sets her apart in conversations about artificial intelligence, allowing her to explore not only what technology can do, but how we can use it without losing the qualities that make us human.
Jos delivers more than 50 keynotes each year, speaking to audiences from Sydney to Stockholm to Silicon Valley. She has delivered keynotes for organizations including Google, HSBC, Workday, IHG and Oxford University, and her thought leadership has appeared in CNBC, Entrepreneur, Mail & Guardian and peer-reviewed academic journals.
Peter Diamandis, founder of XPRIZE, describes her approach simply: “Jos's work bridges your inner genius with the outside world.”
AI strategy that moves into practice
As Founder of Beenova AI, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Jos works directly with executive teams, governments and institutions to turn AI ambition into practical systems and strategies. Her focus is helping organizations determine what to adopt, what to avoid and how to move forward as technological change accelerates.
Her AI Policy Framework and Maturity Index provide leaders with a structured approach to AI adoption and have informed direct advisory and ministry work across countries including Malaysia, Brazil, India, Sweden, Finland and the UK.
Her work has achieved significant reach and recognition:
- AI Policy Framework and Maturity Index shaping education for more than 350 million students through direct advisory and ministry work
- Learning systems reaching approximately 85,000 learners worldwide
- Frameworks referenced by education ministries across six countries
- Founder of Beenova AI, recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
- Recipient of a Dutch Government AI Grant for education innovation
- Author of four books
For leaders facing an overwhelming number of possibilities around AI, Jos brings the conversation back to sequence, judgment and purpose. Where can AI genuinely improve performance? What should organizations leave alone? And where does human judgment remain essential? Her keynotes give audiences practical frameworks for approaching these decisions with greater clarity.
Human performance in an AI era
Technology may be central to Jos's work, but it is never the destination. Her deeper focus is on what happens to human capability as machines become increasingly powerful.
Her expertise spans Human Performance in an AI Era, Storytelling & Stagecraft, and AI Strategy & Policy. Through these areas, she explores how organizations can embrace new technologies while strengthening creativity, judgment, communication and connection.
Rather than positioning humans and AI as opposing forces, Jos challenges audiences to think more deliberately about what each does best. Her keynotes combine strategic insight with storytelling, giving people practical tools while encouraging them to question assumptions about technology, performance and their own role in a rapidly changing world.
From the boardroom to the recording studio
By day, Jos is a globally booked voice on AI. By night, she works in a recording studio above her living room on her debut album. To Jos, these are not separate worlds, but two expressions of the same pursuit: finding a voice while everything else changes.
That idea is also moving onto the theatrical stage through Refrigerator Stories: A Search for Home, a solo show with music previewing in Montréal, Toronto, New York, Amsterdam and Dubai in 2026. The project has inspired a keynote of the same name, exploring what the best people inside an organization never say out loud and what it can cost when their voices remain unheard.
Her work as an artist gives Jos a distinctive presence as a speaker. Storytelling is not simply added to technical content; it is how she makes complex ideas understandable, memorable and emotionally relevant. Her Keynotes in Concert format extends this approach by combining keynote content with live piano to create an experience centered on creativity, identity, change and human connection.
Why book speaker Jos Dirkx?
Book Jos Dirkx when your audience needs to move beyond the question of what AI can do and start thinking about what it should do, where it creates genuine value and how people can thrive alongside it.
Drawing on practical experience with businesses, governments and education systems around the world, Jos translates complex technological change into clear, relevant ideas audiences can apply. At the same time, her perspective as an artist, singer and writer brings an unusually human dimension to the AI conversation.
Available for keynotes, workshops and Keynotes in Concert performances, Jos helps audiences approach an exponential era with greater clarity, creativity and confidence while keeping human judgment, meaning and connection firmly at the center.
