In this interactive session, Mia Jafari invites you to explore how might we build with AI in ways that support human and ecological flourishing?
Drawing from her new book Collaborating with Life, Mia shares how innovation begins as an inner journey and why the choices founders make today about AI, values, and relationships will define our collective future. Through personal stories, practical examples, and real founder scenarios, participants will discover how conscious AI integration can become a competitive advantage, not a compromise.
The session opens with an interactive exploration of founders’ fears, curiosities, and excitements about AI, then introduces the seven life-centered principles that guide conscious innovation: Presence, Essence, Creativity, Love, Trust, Nature, and Wisdom. Participants will leave with actionable tools to embed ethics from Day 1 and align growth with their deepest values.
Three Key Takeaways:
- A practical framework for conscious AI integration that helps you make intentional technology decisions aligned with your values
- Seven life-centered principles to guide innovation from the inside out.
- How to co-create the conditions in which AI is built for ecological and human flourishing.
About Mia Jafari
Mia Jafari is a speaker, moderator, and innovation strategist specializing in entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and AI-driven business transformation. With over 14 years of experience as an innovation catalyst and ecosystem builder, she transforms organizations through human-centric design and multi-stakeholder collaboration.
As founder of Fluid Labs, Mia creates pop-up innovation labs that help organizations achieve breakthrough results in addressing environmental, social, and business challenges. She has worked with leading organizations including The Emirates Group, GE, Accenture, Dubai Tourism, Emirates Foundation, and Microsoft to design and manage innovation and startup programs from ideation to scale.
In Collaborating with Life: Re-awakening Human Innovation in the Age of AI, Mia explores how we can shape our relationship with AI to support human and ecological flourishing through seven principles drawn from conversations with Indigenous elders, tech pioneers, and innovators across continents.