Dubai doesn’t need another AI hype talk
Dubai hosts more AI stages than almost any city on earth: AI Week, the Dubai AI Festival, a constant stream of summits and corporate offsites. Which creates a very specific problem for whoever books the speakers. Audiences here have already heard the hype talk. They’ve seen the slide with the exponential curve. They know AI is big.
What lands in Dubai in 2026 is the opposite: someone who builds these systems for real businesses, standing on stage and showing exactly how it’s done. What worked, what broke, what it cost, and what your team could automate next quarter.
That is the talk Marrallisa Kreijkes gives — a public speaker on AI who spends the rest of her week building the systems she presents.
About Marrallisa
Marrallisa Kreijkes is the founder of Viralistic, a digital agency in Amsterdam working with clients in the Netherlands and the UAE, and an official n8n Ambassador, recognised by the leading open-source automation platform for her work building AI-driven workflow automation for businesses.
She is not a futurist reading research summaries. Her material comes from production systems: AI workflows that triage customer enquiries, draft quotes, guard brand reputation and run marketing operations. All built for real companies, with the guardrails, audit trails and failure stories included.
The short version for your event brochure
Marrallisa Kreijkes, founder of Viralistic (Amsterdam) and n8n Ambassador. Speaks on practical AI automation for business, AI-era visibility (AIO), and personal branding in a world where AI makes the first impression. Builds what she talks about.
Speaking topics
Every talk is adapted to the audience: founders hear economics, operators hear implementation, leadership teams hear governance. The core topics:
What actually happens when a business automates with AI: which processes pay back first, where AI belongs in a workflow (and where it doesn't), and live examples of production systems, guardrails and failures included.
Clients, investors and employers now meet you through AI before they meet you in person. How AI assistants summarise you today, and how to train your 'digital doorman' so it introduces you well.
Search is shifting from ten blue links to AI answers. What AI Optimization means in practice, why most brands are invisible to AI assistants, and the concrete engineering that fixes it.
From black box to glass box: how interpretability research and practical guardrails (approval flows, audit logs, secrets vaults) turn 'we hope the AI is right' into systems you can actually govern.
Formats
A stage talk built around your event's theme: concrete stories from production AI systems, tuned to your audience's level, with a takeaway they can act on Monday.
Hands-on sessions for teams: mapping your own processes for automation, live-building a workflow, or an AIO working session on your actual web presence.
A practitioner's voice between the futurists, grounding AI panels in what deployment actually looks like inside a business.
Sessions are delivered in English or Dutch. Based in Amsterdam, speaking in Dubai and across the UAE as well as throughout Europe. With client work already running in both markets, Gulf dates combine naturally.
Why book a practitioner instead of a professional speaker
Every example on stage exists in production. When someone in your audience asks 'but how?', the answer is specific — because she built it.
A female founder and hands-on automation engineer, a voice most AI line-ups in the region are actively looking for and rarely find.
Every session is rebuilt for the audience in front of it. A room of hoteliers hears hospitality automation; a room of founders hears unit economics.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a good public speaker on AI for a Dubai event?
Three things: real practitioner credibility (has this person actually deployed AI, or only read about it?), the range to adapt (a Dubai audience can span founders, government and enterprise leadership in one room), and stage energy that survives the slot after lunch. Ask any candidate speaker for a concrete system they built; the answer tells you everything.
What does the audience take away from a session?
Concrete, usable clarity: which processes in their own organisation are automation candidates, what a responsible AI rollout looks like (guardrails included), and, depending on the topic, how to become visible in AI-driven search. The goal is that attendees leave with a next step, not just a feeling.
Does Marrallisa speak at corporate events as well as conferences?
Yes: conferences, corporate offsites, leadership sessions and internal innovation days. The workshop format works especially well internally, because it runs on your organisation’s own processes rather than generic examples.
How far in advance should we book?
As early as your date is fixed. Dubai’s event season peaks between October and April; for keynotes in that window, several weeks’ notice minimum is sensible. Workshops need slightly more lead time than keynotes because they’re built on your organisation’s context.
What are the technical requirements?
Standard stage setup: screen or LED wall with HDMI/USB-C input, a lavalier or headset microphone, and reliable internet if a live workflow demonstration is part of the session. Everything else travels with her.
Book Marrallisa for your Dubai event
Tell us the date, the audience and the theme. You'll get a direct answer on availability and a session proposal tailored to your event — not a brochure.
