IWONA FLUDA

Founder · AI Strategist · Interdisciplinary Artist · Speaker

Europe-based and available globally, Iwona Fluda is a founder, AI strategist, interdisciplinary artist, speaker, and community builder working at the intersection of creativity, artificial intelligence, leadership, ethics, digital marketing, space, and cross-sector innovation. Her work spans international initiative design, executive education, public speaking, cultural innovation, and high-impact ecosystems.

A cross-disciplinary profile combining entrepreneurship, cultural innovation, artistic practice, AI strategy, public dialogue, and discoverability built for both search engines and generative AI systems.
Base Europe · available globally
Current executive education Oxford Executive Diploma in Artificial Intelligence for Business · University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
Professional experience

Entrepreneurship, strategy, platform building, digital growth, and international project leadership.

A professional path spanning venture building, international initiative design, strategic advisory, digital marketing, journalism, communications, platform creation, brand visibility, and cross-sector execution.

11/2017 – now

Founder

Ministry of Creativity LLC
  • Conceptualized, launched, and led high-profile international initiatives including Moonshot: Sending Wishes to the Moon, Sunrise Venture Summit (Fiji, 2023), Co-creating the Future (Davos, 2024), Future of Humanity (Davos, 2025), and Future of Humanity Experience (Basel, 2025).
  • Co-organized the United Nations Conference on Social Innovations (UNOG, 2018).
  • Managed cross-functional teams, global partnerships, and execution with measurable stakeholder and media engagement.
  • Strategic advisory for startups, established businesses, NGOs, and creative ventures in innovation, leadership for growth, transformation, and fundraising.
  • Built and executed end-to-end digital marketing ecosystems, translating positioning, messaging architecture, and go-to-market strategy into websites, landing pages, copy systems, SEO, GEO, newsletters, thought leadership, editorial systems, social media, and cross-platform campaigns that turned ideas into visibility, audience growth, engagement, and business traction.
  • Authored and produced strategic content connecting creativity, innovation, technology, business ethics, discoverability, and brand authority.
11/2017 – 11/2025

Founder / Platform Lead

Creative Switzerland
  • Founded and scaled a platform to digitize and promote cultural and creative heritage.
  • Connected 100+ creative workshop providers to a global audience.
  • Designed and delivered business innovation bootcamps, entrepreneurship courses, and ideation workshops including Online Creativity Bootcamp and Creative Masterminds.
  • Developed and managed creative industry campaigns such as Send Your Art to the Moon – A Celestial Canvas.
01/2021 – 12/2023

Founder / Operator

Organic Cosmetics
  • Established an e-commerce shop offering organic, vegan cosmetics with a mission to help end menstrual poverty.
  • Supported 700+ women in Zimbabwe with essential products and education programs.
  • Partnered with Arbeitsintegration Winterthur to raise awareness of slow cosmetics and champion sustainability.
05/2016 – 12/2016

Business Trainee, Publications Department

German Industry and Commerce Ltd. — Hong Kong SAR
  • Developed the online engagement plan for the 15th Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business with 1,000+ participants.
  • Authored economic and business articles and coordinated the bi-monthly editorial calendar.
03/2015 – 03/2016

Journalist, Social Media Manager

Swiss Peace Council — Zurich (Swiss Government Scholarship)
  • Created social media strategies, conducted expert interviews, and published articles on peace and conflict topics.
  • Organized four high-profile events involving the Swiss Government, NGOs, and academic institutions in Bern, Basel, St. Gallen, and Zurich.
Education

Academic foundations.

2026 – 2027

Oxford Executive Diploma in Artificial Intelligence for Business

University of Oxford, Saïd Business School — United Kingdom
10/2011 – 07/2014

Master of Arts — Applied Human Geography

University of Trier — Germany · Tourism Development & Destination Management
10/2009 – 11/2011

Master of Arts — German Philology, Education

University of Silesia — Katowice, Poland
2010 – 2011

Erasmus Exchange

University of Trier — Germany
10/2006 – 07/2009

Bachelor of Science — Applied Geography

Jagiellonian University — Cracow, Poland · Geography, Tourism
10/2006 – 06/2009

Bachelor of Arts — German as a Foreign Language, Education

University of Rzeszow — Poland
Fellowships & professional programs

Selective learning environments, fellowships, and leadership development programs.

2026 – 2027

Mountaintop Social Impact Executive Fellowship with two-week residential Leadership Institute

Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University — Cambridge, MA, United States
2023

The Break Fellowship 2023

EU-funded — female entrepreneurs · Barcelona, Spain · 1 of 300 from 4,200+ applicants
2021

Creating Innovative Ideas

University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
2021

An Introduction to Creativity Theory

University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
2021

EMERGE: Lead with Courage

THNK School of Creative Leadership — Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2020

Creative Business Academy Africa & Europe

Creative Business Network — Denmark
2019

MIT Bootcamp on Venture Scaling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA, United States · 1 of 50 from 1,000+ applicants
2018/2019

Creative Committed Business Program

Creative Hub — Bern–Zurich, Switzerland
2018

Leading from the Emerging Future (u.lab / MITx)

MIT — United States
2005

Young Enterprise International

University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
Mentorship & leadership

Mentoring, education, and community contribution.

2025

Chapter President — Switzerland

Multiplanetary Society
2025

Mentor

Judge Business School — University of Cambridge
2021 – 2022

Ambassador

Capacity
2018

Mentor

Singa Factory, Womenplusplus
2016 – 2017

Mentor

Startup Weekends; Inter Cultural Education — Hong Kong
2017 – 2025

Educator & Mentor

Teaching creativity & creative skills
Awards & recognitions

Recognition across AI, creativity, innovation, leadership, and social impact.

2025

Most Inspirational Women of Web3 and AI 2024

MIT Solve Champion

Member, Human Space Program / Overview Round Table

2024

Finalist, Canvas of the Future — AI art competition, AI for Good Summit

Voice of a New Era of Leaders: Creative Visionary

Earlier

Fellow, Royal Society of Arts — 2022

Creative Switzerland — Finalist, European Youth Award (Connecting Cultures) — 2019

Creative Switzerland — the Best Creative Destination — 2018

National Scholarship, University of Trier — 2012

Artistic engagements

Creative practice across exhibitions, commissioned work, AI collaboration, and visual worlds.

2026

Creative Bites: When the Forest Speaks

Collection created for Climate ScaleUp in Davos during World Economic Forum Week 2026, in collaboration with Creative Women Platform.
  • Themes include interconnectedness, listening, roots and memory, mycelium networks, water as language, and regeneration.
  • Designed for exhibition, storytelling formats, and community experiences across climate and culture contexts.
2025

Symphony of the Forest

Featured on limited-edition packaging for Agroverse caramelized cacao beans from the Amazon rainforest by TrueSight DAO.
2024

Exhibitions and Event Showings

Showcased digital artworks at AI Day 2024 and What’s Next Forum 2024 — Switzerland.
2024 – 2025

Future of Humanity Visuals

Visual identities and artworks created for dialogues on technology, ethics, and culture across Davos and Basel programs, supporting panels, talks, and community experiences.
2023 – now

Creative Bites: Generative Digital Art (Human × AI Collaboration)

Creative Bites — limited editions, live visuals, installations, licensing, commissions
  • Creates narrative, portrait-like abstractions and experiential visuals exploring technology, imagination, and human values.
  • Delivers commissioned artworks for collectors, brands, events, and editorial contexts, including limited editions with certificates and print guidance.
  • Facilitates workshops and talks on promptcraft, curation, ethics by design, and creative AI practice.
2022 – now

Celestial Canvas: Moonshot

Cosmic landscapes and hopeful futurism inspired by Moonshot and the broader exploration of imagination, dreams, and space.
Languages

Multilingual fluency across professional and international contexts.

Polish

C2

English

C2

German

C2

Selected public speaking engagements

Talks, keynotes, workshops, panels, and public dialogue across AI, creativity, leadership, and transformation.

Talk

When the Forest Speaks

House of Pioneers — Davos, Switzerland — 2026
Podcast

Creativity, Ethics, and AI

The In-Between Trust & Tech Podcast — 2026
Talk

AI & Ethics: Empowering Creative Entrepreneurs for Responsible Innovation

Creative Skills Week — Prague, Czechia — 2025
Workshops

Future of Humanity: Redefining Boundaries Through Art, Technology, and Dialogue

Basel, Switzerland — 2025
Workshop

Future of Humanity: Redefining Boundaries Through Art, Technology, and Dialogue

Davos, Switzerland — 2025
Talk

AI Meets Ethics — Shaping the Future of Storytelling

Switzerland — 2025
Talk

Moonshot

The Design Across Borders: United in Creativity Conference — Mexico — 2024
Workshop

AI x Experience Design

What’s Next Forum — Zurich, Switzerland — 2024
Panel + Workshop

Co-creating the Future

Davos, Switzerland — 2024
Panel

Big Questions: Creative Industries

unDavos Summit — Davos, Switzerland — 2024
Speech

Be the Creative Experiment You Want to See in the World

Ignite Talks — Davos, Switzerland — 2024
Panel

Beyond Binary: Women's Influence in the AI Renaissance

Women in Web3 Summit — Davos, Switzerland — 2024
Keynote

To Be or Not to Be. Mastering the Age of AI with Creativity

Leadership Summit — Portugal — 2023
Panel

How AI and ChatGPT Are Changing Travel — What That Means for Creators

Wanderful — 2023
Speech

How to Master the Age of AI with Creativity

AI Assemblage and Microsoft Speakers Club: AI & Azure — 2023
Panel

Art, Architecture, Creativity — How the World Should Be

unDavos Summit — Davos, Switzerland — 2023
Workshops

Transformative Leadership — How to Unleash Your Creative Potential

Zurich, Switzerland — 2021/2022
Panel

Has the Pandemic Killed Creativity?

the Lan Space during the World Economic Forum — Davos, Switzerland — 2022
Speech

Pioneering Creativity and Innovation

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa — UN Namibia, Namibia — 2022
Speech

Creativity and Innovation in Tourism

Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Summit — Namibia — 2022
Speech

Using Creativity to Ensure a Sustainable World

Sustainable Futures Conference — 2022
Workshop

Creativity Is Everything — Online for Female Entrepreneurs in Creative Industries in Guatemala

Online — 2021
Talk

Developing New Products and Services

Africa Tourism Leadership Forum — Rwanda — 2020
Workshop

Social Entrepreneurship for XXI Century Challenges

Social Innovations in Focus Conference — United Nations Office, Geneva — 2018
Talk

Education? — Presenting Challenges for Future Education. How Is AI Shaping the Future of Our Education?

Switzerland — 2018
Talk

Big Data and Its Influence on Tourism and Customer Behaviour

Women in Digital — Zurich, Switzerland — 2017
Speeches

The Power of Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation; The Power of Intercultural Communication

International Forum Volunteer of Russia — 2017
Speech

The Powers of Education: Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Intercultural Communication, Volunteerism and Social Transformation

Education in Focus Conference — United Nations Office, Geneva — 2017
Talks

Creative Tourism and Food Tourism as Future Trends: Opportunities and Challenges

Jagiellonian University — Krakow, Poland — 2017
Speech

Volunteerism as an Alternative to (Intercultural) Conflict

VIIth International Conference Volunteerism — United Nations Office, Geneva — 2015
Selected academic engagements

Academic contributions across possibility studies, creativity, education, and AI.

Presentation

Moonshot Celebration: Sending Wishes to the Moon — Reimagining Possibilities beyond Earth

4th Virtual Conference of the Possibility Studies Network — 2025
Presentation

Creative & Design Thinking and Doing in Business

Sydney Business School — University of Wollongong — 2024
Workshop

Co-creating the Future

Bath Spa University — UK — 2024
Presentation

Digital Business Creation

University of Liechtenstein — Liechtenstein — 2022
Presentation + Art

Past + present = possibilities

Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries — Bath Spa University, UK — 2024
Workshop

Co-creating the Future: A Journey of Imagination and Experimentation

4th International Possibility Studies Conference — Cambridge University, UK — 2024
Presentation

Be the Creative Experiment You Want to See in the World

Symposium: Possibilities of Arts and Culture in Education — Cambridge University, UK — 2024
Presentation

Creativity and Innovation in Education in the Age of AI

MICConference on Creative Cross-pollinations — Marconi Institute for Creativity, Italy — 2023
Presentation

To Be or Not to Be: The Role of Creativity in an Ever-changing World

Creative Pedagogies for the Planet — Bath Spa University, UK — 2023
Webinars

Creativity Is Everything — 2 Series

Jagiellonian University — Cracow, Poland — 2020/2021
Publications

Reports, essays, articles, and contributions across creativity, AI, ethics, and the future of humanity.

Book Chapter

Activate Your Life, Vol. 4 — chapter: Creative Bites: The Dance of Ideas, Sky, and Trust

Sky — 2023
Article

Emerging Skills: Digital Innovations in Lifelong Learning: A Global Perspective

RSA, Center for Inclusive Growth, Bayes Impact
Article

Re-imagining the Way We Travel

Forbes DACH, No. 6-20 — 2020
Article

Redefining Digital Marketing with Human-Centered Design

Zurich, Switzerland — 2019
Article

Gen Z — How the Creators of Big Data Challenge the Travel Industry

Tourism Trends Review Turismo '18, IPDT Instituto de Turismo — Porto, Portugal — 2018
Article

Rapidly Booming Market for Chinese Outbound Tourism: An Opportunity for Europe — Not to be Missed!

Tourism Trends Review Turismo '17, IPDT Instituto de Turismo — Porto, Portugal — 2017
Article

World Tourism Growth: Challenges for Destinations

Tourism Trends Review Turismo '16, IPDT Instituto de Turismo — Porto, Portugal — 2016
Article

Creative Tourism — A New Phenomenon? Between Creativity and Culture?

Tourism Trends Review Turismo '15, IPDT Instituto de Turismo — Porto, Portugal — 2015
Iwona Fluda — Curriculum Vitae

Moonshot Celebration
Oxford, United Kingdom

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