Kris Kashtanova

Kris is an AI educator, consultant, activist, speaker and filmmaker. She has a background in software development (MS in Computer Science) and ten years of working in the industry as a backend developer, BA in journalism (specializing in human rights and art), commercial photography, art, and activism. Kris has worked in several startups as head of AI and AI consultant. She freelanced with brands to help them implement AI into their workflow. Kris has built a large community around generative AI on X/former Twitter (over 100k followers) and has been a guest teacher at Columbia University, Austrian Academy of Sciences and CreativeMornings. Her work on AI was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, the Guardian, and others. Her photography (non-AI) was published by the New York Post, the Telegraph, the Times & Sunday Times, The Sun, Metro and the British Parliament.

At the moment Kris works at Adobe as Senior Creative Evangelist Artificial Intelligence since July 2023. In her role she speaks at conferences, creates educational workshops, consults on AI training and an AI expert who evangelises internally and externally.

She’s been speaking at Columbia University, Austrian Academy of Sciences, CreativeMornings, Adobe MAX, Montreal HUB on creativity, ethics and copyright of AI.

Creator of “Zarya of the Dawn” and holder of two AI assisted copyrights.

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