Book Galina to Speak
AI Adoption, Change management, & Future of Work Keynote Speaker
Wall Street machine learning → 1 exit to $9B company → led enterprise go-to-market for an AI unicorn → now interviewing the operators deploying AI every day
Galina Fendikevich has spent her career sitting in the gap between the people building powerful technology and the people who have to buy, adopt, and live with it.
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2025 Momentum.io GTM AI Award winner
2026 Momentum.io Ones to Watch award winner
Host of the artificial reality podcast
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Most AI speakers explain the technology. Galina brings the market intelligence from the people actually deploying it.
For AI + Tech Events
AI Can Write Copy. Only Users Can Create Trust.
Why raw customer stories are becoming the most valuable marketing asset in the age of AI-generated content.
When everyone can generate infinite polished copy in seconds, most marketing starts to sound the same. The next advantage
will not come from who produces the most content, but from who captures the clearest truth from the market. Drawing on
Artificial Reality’s interviews with operators and business leaders, this talk shows how to find the messaging already sitting in
customer interviews, sales calls, reviews, and community conversations, and how to use AI to amplify real market intelligence
instead of replacing it.
WHAT AUDIENCES WILL LEARN
— Why AI-generated content is increasing the value of real customer stories, not reducing it.
— How raw user language becomes stronger positioning, copy, sales enablement, and thought leadership.
— Why customer interviews, sales calls, support tickets, reviews, and community conversations are a hidden marketing moat.
— How to use AI to organize and scale customer truth without stripping out the humanity that makes it persuasive.
— Why trust, specificity, and proof matter more as digital channels flood with synthetic content.
— A practical framework for turning user stories into campaigns, content, messaging, and media.
Ideal audience: GTM, marketers, founders, media and agency leaders, creator-economy builders, AI product teams, community leaders, MarTech
and AdTech companies, anyone responsible for turning attention into trust.
Signature keynote
How To Keep Up When Technology Rewrites The Rules
Drawing from Artificial Reality’s cross-industry interview research, this talk shows audiences what business leaders are learning the hard way about AI adoption. Galina brings real stories from operators deploying AI across industries and translates them into a practical playbook for any team trying to understand what to automate, what to protect, and how to help people keep up when technology rewrites the rules.
WHAT AUDIENCES WILL LEARN
— Why fear asks the wrong AI questions, and what to ask instead.
— How to spot where AI breaks inside real workflows.
— Why the people closest to the work should be treated as design partners, not end users.
— How to protect judgment, trust, care, creativity, and responsibility.
— How to measure AI pilots by behavior change, not just technical performance.
— A practical 5-step playbook for AI enablement.
Key takeaway: AI is not a replacement strategy. It is an enablement strategy.
Watch Galina’s Signature Talk at Supply Chain Conference 2026
Featured In
Galina is the host of Artificial Reality, a show documenting where AI is creating value, where adoption is breaking down, and what still needs to be built through conversations with non-tech industry operators, executives, and experts. The goal is simple: fix the feedback loop between the people building AI and the people using it.
End-to-end AI promises disappointed in 2025, prompting insurers to shift toward focused, modular deployment strategies.
Analyst Insight: The path to successful artificial intelligence adoption isn’t a technology sprint but a talent development marathon. While 82% of supply chain firms plan to adopt AI in five years, most fail to get results. The problem isn't technology; it’s enablement. AI is still a tool, not a full-stack replacement. To realize value, leaders must prioritize administrative automation for quick wins, and institutionalize a paired upskilling model that turns human expertise into a scaled advantage.
"The financing deal shows that both AI technology and AI adoption are still in their infancy, so it will take a lot more cash than the market expected to drive this technology forward," Galina Fendikevich
Background
2016 – 2018: Temin & Company / Sterlington
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Advised board-level clients on crisis communications and reputation strategy, while managing marketing for a legal deal-making practice. Early training in translating complexity into a clear story for the people who have to act on it.
2018 – 2020: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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Built and validated credit risk management systems for 15 FICC trading desks across 3 regions and 189 products. Traditional ML/AI in one of the highest-stakes environments there is.
2021 – 2022: Paxful, Lab49 & Niantic
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Product management across blockchain SaaS and fintech consulting. Then co-founded the SpotX Games team investigating blockchain, augmented reality, and mapping technology. Later acquired by Niantic (Pokémon Go creators, $9B company).
2023 – 2026: AI Advisory
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Advised Rap Snacks (Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross) on AI strategy and growth, and directed product launches at Mimio, an AI persona platform for creators.
2024 – 2026: Upstage AI — Head of U.S. GTM
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Built the full go-to-market engine from zero for Upstage AI ($250M+ raised, Korea's first generative AI unicorn). First 0–10 U.S. customers, design partners, and national field programming.
2026 – Present: Founder & Host, Artificial Reality
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Building the feedback loop between the people using AI and the people building it — on the podcast, on stage, and in the room. Every episode asks the same three questions: what's working, what's broken, what still needs to be built.
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Topics: AI adoption, future of work, translating deep tech for non-tech buyers
Keynotes, fireside chats, workshops, and panel moderation for conferences, corporate offsites, and executive briefings on AI adoption and future of work.
Based in New York, NY. Available for travel.
Every inquiry receives a response within 24 hours.