Kimberly Carson helps organizations harness AI to unlock creativity, amplify diverse voices, and design futures that serve all of humanity.
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Colleagues call her the nerd whisperer. Kim has a rare ability to interpret between scientists, engineers, and everyday users—translating complexity without dilution.
Charles Lindsay, Founder
SETI Artist in Residence Program
A visionary futurist and CEO of Kim’s AI Imaginarium, Kimberly Carson helps organizations harness AI to ignite creativity, amplify diverse voices, and design ethical, future-ready strategies. Blending ancestral wisdom, technology, and innovation, she delivers transformative keynotes that inspire leaders to reimagine what’s possible. From unlocking hidden creative potential to shaping inclusive futures, her work equips teams to thrive in the age of AI while making a lasting, human-centered impact.
Keynote Speaker Kimberly Carson is a visionary futurist, CEO of Kim’s AI Imaginarium, and a global thought leader on the intersection of artificial intelligence, creativity, and cultural inclusion. Known for her ability to merge technology with human imagination, she designs frameworks, tools, and experiences that help organizations unlock innovation, amplify diverse voices, and build ethical, future-ready strategies.
Her work focuses on harnessing AI not just as a technological tool, but as a catalyst for creative problem-solving and organizational transformation. By blending ancestral wisdom, ethical AI principles, and storytelling, she equips leaders and teams with actionable insights to navigate disruption while staying deeply human-centered.
Formerly the founding CEO of Parallax Futures, she led groundbreaking initiatives in future design and cultural foresight. Today, she develops pioneering software that amplifies ancestral storytelling and is authoring the forthcoming book Inspired by Intelligence. Her mission is to bring historically excluded voices into the AI conversation, ensuring the futures we build are inclusive and liberatory.
When you book Kimberly Carson for your event, you bring your audience a transformative experience that inspires fresh thinking, fuels innovation, and equips teams to thrive in the age of AI. Her keynotes leave organizations not only motivated but empowered with the tools and mindset to imagine—and create—their best possible future.
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Colleagues call her the nerd whisperer. Kim has a rare ability to interpret between scientists, engineers, and everyday users—translating complexity without dilution.
Charles Lindsay, Founder SETI Artist in Residence Program
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Kim's passion for storytelling, combined with thoughtfulness and empathy, draws you in and captivates. Her well-crated presentations leave a lasting impact that inspires reflection and ongoing discussion.
Brad Bolno, Senior Leader Cisco IT
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Kim really knows how to inspire and connect with people. Her insights on leadership and innovation are eye-opening. What's great about Kim is how genuine she is. She doesn't just talk at you; she talks with you,, making every session feel like a real conversation.
David Brennan, CEO & Co-Founder Arkeo AI
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To say that Kim "spoke" & it was "excellent" at my 2025 Female Healthcare Executive Summit does not come close to describing her session. Kim, an AI subject matter expert, read the room, meeting everyone wherever they were on the AI-comfort-level path to move them forward while also enlightening them to the enduring impact ethically implemented AI can have on the care of our patients. Discussions on FemTech, a near-future "crises of purpose," and the need for our voices to get in the AI game to make it better permeate still with my clients 3 months post-event.
Nicole Swick, Founder/Owner BTA Consulting LLC
Keynote by Kimberly Carson:
Kim introduces a transformative paradigm for working with AI—approaching it not as programmers, but as imaginative conjurers. Through poetic, soulful inquiry, she reveals how leaders and innovators can unlock deeper, more ethical insights from machine learning systems. This keynote challenges conventional “prompt engineering” by replacing technical rigidity with curiosity, metaphor, and artistry, enabling richer human–machine collaboration.
Audience takeaways:
Learn creative prompting techniques to generate more meaningful, human-centered AI outputs.
Understand how poetic inquiry enhances ethical AI interactions.
Gain frameworks to bridge art, intuition, and technology for better decision-making.
Keynote by Kimberly Carson:
The future belongs to innovators who can merge technological fluency with cross-disciplinary creativity—Conceptual Technologists. Drawing from her leadership at Parallax Futures, Kim shares how these hybrid thinkers are transforming leadership, education, and ethics. She offers strategies for cultivating this skill set in organizations to meet the demands of an increasingly complex world.
Audience takeaways:
Identify the traits and skills that define a Conceptual Technologist.
Learn how to cultivate creative–technical synergy in teams.
Apply cross-disciplinary approaches to drive ethical and innovative solutions.
Keynote by Kimberly Carson:
In today’s tech industry, imagination is often overshadowed by optimization. Kim reveals how historical visionaries like Einstein and Picasso harnessed imagination to revolutionize their fields—and why this mindset is essential to AI innovation. Through systems theory and speculative design, she shows how to close the “imagination gap” to create more inspiring, human-centered technologies.
Audience takeaways:
Recognize the role of imagination as a strategic advantage in AI innovation.
Gain tools to foster creative thinking within technology-focused teams.
Learn how to integrate speculative design to expand innovation horizons.
Keynote by Kimberly Carson:
Based on her groundbreaking speculative futures project Operation Harmonic Return, Kim explores how AI, art, and storytelling can converge to address community trauma and promote collective liberation. She demonstrates how technology can be designed not just for efficiency, but for empathy, healing, and systemic transformation.
Audience takeaways:
Understand the potential of AI as a tool for social repair and community building.
Learn storytelling techniques to design more compassionate technologies.
Explore frameworks for aligning innovation with social and cultural healing.
Keynote by Kimberly Carson:
In this soulful and thought-provoking keynote, Kim weaves storytelling, systems thinking, and spiritual insight to help audiences rediscover meaning in a world shaped by algorithms. She challenges organizations to move beyond transactional uses of technology and embrace a future where AI supports human flourishing.
Audience takeaways:
Discover practices to maintain purpose and meaning in tech-driven environments.
Apply systems thinking to create sustainable, human-centered innovation.
Learn how to align AI initiatives with values, ethics, and long-term vision.
