Speakers - Liberating Talent

Discovering the Future Through Epic Talks

Meet our speakers and explore their pioneer insights

Encourage your Company with Epic Speakers

Our speakers are doers, pioneers that have learned and developed the skills we all need to craft our future.

If you are a professional or a leader facing the challenge of preparing for your future, we dare you to discover some of the frontier competencies and careers.

Our speakers offer inspiring stories and valuable insights to provoke collective reflection at the board level. They have the power to inspire and align leaders and teams. Whether at corporate events or team-buildings they make all the difference.

Our AI Specialist

Fighting Parrotism

Paqui Lizana

“A world where we are not creating the future, but scaling copies of the past.”

Agentic Workfare

Vasco Pedro

“We are entering the dark age of AI: the future belongs to small teams of humans with agentic armies”

Deliberate Friction

Tiago Godinho

“In the era of AI, friction and intention need to be deliberate”

The AI Trap

⁠João Rocha e Melo

“The AI Trap happens because people don’t ask for value, they ask for relief from friction”

Governing What Learns

⁠Rui Gomes

“Don’t ask what tools you’re using, ask what in your organisation is still not learning.”

The Power of Automation

Gonçalo Videira

“AI relives pain and delivers time”

HUMAN ENABLEMENT

Marta Palmeiro

“The tech stack will soon become the reason why you stay or leave a company”

AI DO-IT-YOURSELF

Ricardo Ramos

“The real power of AI is not creating content, it’s reacting to the world in real time.”

AGENCY OVER SKILLS

⁠Bernardo Caldas

“We need to structure our companies, teams and careers around agency, not just competencies.”

AI Transformation

Tiago Forjaz

“The hard part about AI is not the technology, it’s the systemic transformation it requires.”

AI as Magnifier

Nuno Saraiva

“The marginal gains of using AI abundantly greatly surpass using it just a lot.”

Our Expertise Speakers

Womanship

Hélène Guillaume

“Breaking News: Women are not men.”

Meraki

Daniela Marzavan

“Meraki is putting a little bit of yourself in everything you do.”

Prideful Identity

Diogo Vieira da Silva

“Personal identity should be a human right for anyone to use, in life and at work”

Problemizing

Marta Baptista

“Sometimes finding the right problem is the best solution.”

Human Connection

Jennifer K. Hill

“We live in a crisis of loneliness, we need to rekindle human connection.”

Empathy

Mónica Costeira

“Listen with an open heart.”

Dreaming

Catarina Mendanha

“My dreams are bigger than my fears.”

Cyborging

Bernardo Caldas

“Everyone thinks we’re centaurs, but we need to be cyborgs.”

Commanding

Bob Williams

“Commanding will unleash the potential of your teams with three little words.”

Brave Collaboration

Joana Andrade

“Every day, I put my life in the hands of my team.”

Liberating Talent

Tiago Forjaz

“Liberate your talent and your team, through responsibility and trust.”

Allophilia

Mónica Lucena

“We have to learn to look at differences differently.”

Self-Awareness

José Pedro Cobra

“There’s no better place to design the future than within each one of us.”

Improvise

João Peral

“Improvisation unleashes the potential of creativity and collaboration.”

Impacting

Duarte Fonseca

“Companies should address social problems through business.”

Mental Health

Marta Rebelo

“Without mental health, the future won’t have companies.”

Inclusion & Diversity

Pedro do Carmo Costa

“Inclusion isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s good for business.”

Our Career Speakers

Cyber

Ricardo Negrão

“We need to learn to identify the business assets to protect.”

Data & AI

Bernardo Caldas

“No one has the authority to determine what the future with AI will be, only you.”

Luxury

Elói Gonçalves Pardal

“Luxury can be diverse, and it can be Portuguese.”

Cities e Mobility

Tiago Farias

“Only an integrated approach can build cities of the future”

Sustainability

Luís Rochartre

“We need to accelerate to regenerate our business models”

Would you like to receive our Epic Speaker Book?

Featuring all of our Epic Speakers, including their bios, spotify intros and short video promos.