Alex Issakova is a leading ethical AI advisor who has spent 15 years at the intersection of artificial intelligence and business in the Silicon Valley. Throughout her career, she has built commercial organisations around AI products, led strategic operations for high-growth technology companies, and served as the translator between the teams building AI and the clients and organisations trying to use it. As a speaker, she combines technological expertise with real-world commercial experience and offers clear perspectives on AI and where it still falls short.
Alex holds an Executive MBA from Warwick Business School, with a dissertation focused on the ethical implementation of AI for non-technical leaders. Her most recent corporate role was Chief of Staff at Liftoff, an AI-powered mobile marketing platform, where she oversaw a global commercial organisation across US and EMEA markets through a period of rapid growth. Having worked inside a company developing AI, and leading the teams selling it, explaining it, and making it deliver value for clients, she brings a practical perspective to audiences.
Alex is also the founder of Huckr AI, a GenAI training and enablement consultancy building AI literacy across non-technical teams and leadership functions. Huckr AI works with a variety of organisations to achieve sales, marketing and customer success and provides leadership teams with the skills and frameworks needed to use AI effectively.
In addition, Alex publishes two popular newsletters. 'The Roadmap' delivers practical AI insights for leaders while 'The Long Signal' covers AI governance and geopolitics for those tracking the bigger forces shaping the technology's future. Together, they reach a combined readership of 35,000. Alex has also built a following of 32,000 on LinkedIn, where she is known for cutting through noise with perspectives that are both technically credible and genuinely accessible.
Alex Issakova's wealth of knowledge and hands-on AI experience makes her a phenomenal voice for AI-centred summits, workshops and conferences. Having held senior roles in the AI sector and published widely read AI literature, her insights connect with a diverse range of audiences and address the unique role of AI in modern-day business. To hire her for your next event, contact Champions Speakers today!
Alex Issakova's official speaker topics are listed below:
The Future of Work Is Already Here — And Most Teams Aren't Ready
The conversation about AI and the future of work tends to live in the abstract: automation curves, workforce displacement data, predictions about which jobs will survive. Alex brings it back to earth. Drawing on her experience training commercial teams across sectors, she explores what work is actually changing right now, what skills travel across the AI transition, and what organisations need to do to make sure their people are equipped rather than left behind.
The AI Gender Gap Nobody Is Talking About
Research consistently shows women are adopting AI tools more slowly and with less confidence than male counterparts, not because of capability, but because of access, culture, and how AI has been positioned and built. Alex unpacks what is driving this gap, what it means for businesses that do not address it, and what a more inclusive AI adoption strategy actually looks like in practice. A session that challenges assumptions, shifts narratives, and sends people back to their organisations with a concrete agenda.
AI Literacy for Leaders: What You Actually Need to Know
You do not need to learn to code. You do not need to understand transformer architecture. But if you are leading a team, there is a baseline of AI understanding that has quietly become non-negotiable, and most leaders do not yet have it. Alex defines what genuine AI literacy looks like for non-technical leaders, why it matters for credibility, team performance, and commercial outcomes, and how to build it in a way that sticks.
Making AI Work for Non-Technical Teams
Most AI tools are built by technical people, for technical people, and then handed to sales managers, customer success leads, and commercial teams with minimal context and a steep learning curve. Alex has spent years solving this exact problem. This session gives teams a practical, honest framework for identifying where AI genuinely helps, what good implementation looks like, and how to avoid the common failure modes that make AI feel like another initiative that did not land.
Making AI Governance Simple
Regulation is coming, and it is more specific than most organisations realise. Alex decodes AI governance frameworks including the EU AI Act and its AI literacy obligations in plain language, what it means for organisations operating in the EU, what compliance actually requires from non-technical teams, and why AI governance is increasingly a commercial risk issue, not just a legal one.
The Global AI Race: Power, Geography, and What It Means for Business
The development of AI is not evenly distributed. It is concentrated in a small number of countries, companies, and cultural worldviews, and that concentration has consequences for the technology's biases, applications, and governance. Alex brings the geopolitical dimension of AI to business audiences, not as abstract foreign policy, but as a frame for understanding the tools, risks, and opportunities your organisation is navigating right now.
- 2026 - Founder of Huckr AI (GenAI training and enablement consultancy)
- 2025 - Fractional Chief of Staff of The Portfolio Collective
- 2025 – Founder of The Career Creator
- 2025 - Completed Ethics of AI at the London School of Economics
- 2025 - Chief of Staff, Liftoff (AI-powered mobile marketing, Series B to IPO, US & EMEA)
- 2022 - Completed MBA at Warwick Business School
- 2022 - Head of Customer Success EMEA at Liftoff Mobile
- 2020 - Team Lead, Customer Success EMEA at Liftoff Mobile
- 2017 - Senior Customer Success Manager at Liftoff Mobile
- 2015 - Director, Account Management EMEA at Fiksu
- 2013 - Client Performance Manager, EMEA & APAC at Fiksu
- Executive MBA, Warwick Business School (Dissertation: Ethical AI Implementation for Non-Technical Leaders)
- 32,000 LinkedIn followers
- Publisher of 'The Roadmap' and 'The Long Signal' newsletters, which have a combined readership of 35,000
- Spent 15 years in Silicon Valley working with AI in commercial roles
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