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AI Keynote Speaker, Moderator and Event Host.
She speaks from inside the industry.
Ten years in data and AI. Nine years building the room where senior women in this field find each other. Kishawna does not give the overview talk. She gives the one your audience has been waiting for someone on the inside to say.
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About Woven & Our Founder
LED BY LIVED EXPERIENCE. BACKED BY INDUSTRY INSIGHT.
When I left corporate in 2021, I was the most senior data professional in my organization. I led teams, set data strategy and sat in the leadership meetings where those decisions were made.
I've been independent for five years, advising companies on AI strategy and product development across nonprofits, financial services, marketplaces, SaaS and service-based businesses. I also built Woven from a side hustle into a community of 7,000+ women in data and AI, and created Canada's first conference for women in data and AI.
I've been in the room as the internal leader, and now I'm the outside advisor leadership teams bring in.
I'm the former AI Innovator in Residence at Toronto Public Library, with a Master's in AI Management from Queen's University and over a decade in data strategy.
I founded Woven and created Canada's first conference for women in data and AI. My work has been featured in The Globe and Mail, Breakfast Television and CP24.
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Founder
Kishawna Peck
Signature talks
The teams building AI products are missing design inputs that compromise the products and generate costly downstream problems. This talk makes the technical and business case for inclusive design as a core competency, not a post-launch checklist. Suited for product leaders, engineering teams, and executives overseeing AI development.
Inclusive AI Product Development
Most organizations are not building AI strategy. They are performing it. This talk gives executives and senior leaders the framework to distinguish real capability from optics, ask better questions of their technical teams, and make decisions that do not leave them exposed.
AI Strategy or Theater: What Executives Need to Know
AI is reshaping every industry. The women who work in data and AI every day are watching it unfold from three distinct vantage points: as consumers of products largely built without them, as builders within organizations where their expertise often outpaces their authority, and as entrepreneurs using AI to build businesses and economic independence on their own terms.
This talk examines what is actually at stake for women across all three of those realities.
Women, Sovereignty, and the AI Economy
Kishawna Peck built Canada's first conference for women in data and AI without a playbook, without a network, and without permission. What she had was a decade of navigating spaces not built for her, and a sharp understanding of where the gaps were. That positioning turned out to be the strategy.
This talk is about what becomes possible when you stop treating your intersecting identities as complications and start treating them as competitive intelligence. For founders, executives, and builders who have always had to figure out the room before they could work in it.
Building at the Intersections and Leading in AI
Executive AI Strategy Sessions
Two working sessions that turn your business goals into an AI roadmap for 2027.
Competitors are shipping AI features, your team has ideas, and nobody has agreed what comes first. I start with your business goals and constraints, then work with your leadership team over two 3-hour sessions to decide where AI belongs in your roadmap and in what order.
What we work through
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Your business goals and constraints
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Where AI can move them forward, across product and feature releases and internal workflows
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What to prioritize and what to deprioritize
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Build or buy for your top priorities
What you leave with
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A year-at-a-glance covering AI product and feature releases and workflows, formatted for your existing roadmap
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A prioritized list with build or buy direction for each top priority
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A 90-day action plan with owners, milestones and first decisions, delivered within a week of the final session
I draft the year-at-a-glance between sessions, and we refine it together in session two.
Who it's for
Leadership teams that know they need an AI direction, whether the pressure comes from the board, competitors or a stalled pilot. This is a strategy engagement, so if you want someone to build the solution, it isn't the right fit.
Who's in the room
Your CEO or COO, plus the leaders of finance, HR, product, engineering, customer success and sales.
Built around what your audience needs.
Your board has asked for an AI strategy. Two half-day working sessions with your leadership team give you a clear direction before 2027 starts.
Your team completes a short intake first, so we begin with your real situation. Across the two sessions, we work through which AI opportunities are worth pursuing, what to fund and what to kill, whether to build or buy, what the budget needs to be, and the top risks, including harm to customers or employees and the reputational damage if something goes wrong.
Between sessions, I build a draft year-at-a-glance from what we covered, and we refine it together in the second session. It's formatted to drop straight into your existing roadmap. Within a week of the final session, you receive a 90-day action plan built from your inputs.
Many AI pilots stall before they reach production. The cost is wasted budget, lost time, and a new year that starts with the same open questions. These sessions are for leadership teams that want a plan before that happens.
I hold a Master's in AI Management from Queen's University, have spent a decade in data and AI, and have spent nine years building Woven, Canada's community for women in data and AI. I've also been the person leadership teams called in for strategy and data input.
45 to 60 minutes. Best for conference main stages and leadership summits.
30 to 45 minutes in conversation. Works best when your host has done the reading and comes ready to go deep.
Full-day or half-day event facilitation. Kishawna has hosted technical conferences and corporate leadership events.
Kishawna moderates with the same standards she holds keynote stages to. No softballs. Real conversation.
Half-day or full-day AI working sessions for leadership teams and technical teams. Custom content built for your context.
Tell Us About Your Event
Kishawna accepts a limited number of speaking engagements each year. Fill in the details below and we will follow up within five business days.
About Kishawna Peck
LED BY LIVED EXPERIENCE. BACKED BY INDUSTRY INSIGHT.
Kishawna Peck is the Founder and CEO of Woven, Canada's first and longest-running conference for women in data and AI. She has spent ten years in the field and nine years building the rooms that did not exist for women when she started.
She speaks on AI strategy, inclusive AI product development, and what it actually takes to build and lead in tech as a woman. Her insights have been featured in The Globe and Mail, Breakfast Television, and CP24. She has spoken at Collision, Ivey Business School, and events across Canada and the United States. She previously served as AI Innovator in Residence at Toronto Public Library and holds a Master's in AI Management from Queen's University.
Founder
Kishawna Peck