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The Founder of Ontology of Value,® Dr. Natalia Bielczyk, is also a public speaker. She gives career talks for PhDs on the following topics:
- The future of work in times of AI,
- The game of self-navigation in the job market for knowledge workers,
- The landscape of career tracks for PhD and Master’s graduates,
- Business development for PhDs.
It is possible to book career talks for PhDs both online or on-site in the US, Poland, or the Netherlands. The terms and pricing depend on multiple factors, including:
- The talk volume and topic,
- The group size,
- The time zone,
- The event objectives (commercial or charity).
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Talks, workshops, panels, and research contributions across the world
Global Public Engagements
2026
AI4Execs, WZUW, Warsaw
“Implementing AI in Organizations II Execution, Diagnostics & Decision Systems,”
April 24th 2026
CPS Series, University of Groningen
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
April 1st 2026
AI4Execs, WZUW, Warsaw
“Implementing Artificial Intelligence and Change Management,”
March 20th 2026
online
Fourth edition of the Ontology of Value® Certification Day,
February 27th 2026
Warsaw
Third edition of the Ontology of Value® Certification Day,
January 30th 2026
San Francisco
Second edition of the Ontology of Value® Certification Day,
January 23rd 2026
LongHouse SF
Co-organizer of the Future of Work Mixer + Open Demos #4: WorkTech, Agentic AI & Robotics,
January 15th 2026
SF HealthTech Summit, San Francisco
Panel moderation “The Future of Work for Healthcare Workers,”
January 14th 2026
2025
Warsaw
Co-organizer of the second edition of Hyper Pitch Night,
December 4th 2025
Warsaw
Inaugural Ontology of Value® Certification Day,
November 14th 2025
Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam Rotterdam (ONWAR), Annual meeting, Zeist
Blitz workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
October 31st 2025
Human Tech Summit, SWPS, Warsaw
Panel moderation “Can AI Understand What It Says? Meaning, Knowledge, and Machine Awareness,”
November 21st 2025
The Faculty of Mathematics, University of Warsaw
Seminar “How university graduates can (and should!) discover their competitive advantage and consciously build market value in their professional careers,”
November 14th 2025
Minna Gallery
Co-organizer of the Future of Work Social Mixer & Open Demos: WorkTech, Agentic AI & Robotics,
October 26th 2025
MOSaiC Alpha launch event, SF Tech Week, San Francisco
Panel discussion “Hyper-personalized Education.”
October 8th 2025
NASA AMES Center, Mountain View
Mentorship of participating teams, 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge,
October 4th-5th 2025
Workflow 2025, Cavatina Hall, Bielsko-Biała
Workshop “How can young people consciously build their market value by discovering their competitive advantage in the job market,”
September 24th 2025
Minna Gallery
Co-organizer of the Future of Work Pitch Night #2: WorkTech, Agentic AI & Robotics,
August 15th 2025
Create the Future Summit, San Francisco
Panel “Building Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs: Skills, Systems, and Strategic Thinking for Startup Success,”
August 14th 2025
GenAI Week, Santa Clara
Panel moderation “AI Agents & Autonomy in Practice,”
July 17th 2025
GenAI Week, Santa Clara
Panel moderation “The Big Brain Theory: Scaling Agentic AI,”
July 14th 2025
Disrupting the Disruptors: Masters of Bootstrap. San Francisco
Lecture “My Story of Bootstrapping.”
July 11th 2025
Career Transition Conference: Design Your Future Career With AI + Web3, San Francisco
Blitz workshop “What do you truly value in work? On the Ontology of Value.”
July 9th 2025
Women in Tech Summit, Warsaw
Blitz talk “AI Took My Job — But Gave Me a Paycheck? On the Post-Labor Economics.”
June 5th 2026
Warsaw
Co-organizer of the first edition of Hyper Pitch Night,
June 4th 2025
AI4Execs, WZUW, Warsaw
Lecture “Unlocking the Future of Work: Redefining Success in the Age of AI. Part 2.”
June 6th 2025
TEDx Milpitas
Talk “Knowledge Is Power: How To Stay Free in the Age of AI.”
May 18th 2025
JLL Spaces
Co-organizer of the Future of Work Pitch Night: Agentic AI & HR Tech,
April 25th 2025
Venture Cafe Warsaw
Workshop “Universal Basic Income: The End of Work or a New Beginning?”
April 17th 2025
Dom Kultury Kolorowa, Ursus, Warsaw
Workshop “The Future of Work: What is Success in the Age of AI,”
April 16th 2025
AI4Execs, WZUW, Warsaw
Lecture “Unlocking the Future of Work: Redefining Success in the Age of AI. Part 1.”
April 11th 2025
Dharamshala, India
Workshop “The Landscape of Career Tracks for Knowledge Workers,”
March 9th 2025
Venture Cafe Warsaw, Warsaw
Workshop “Unlocking the Future of Work: Redefining Success in the Age of AI,”
January 16th 2025
2024
AI x The Future of Work event, Digital Garage, San Francisco
Workshop “How To Develop Your Potential & Achieve Professional Excellence in the Age of AI,”
December 13th 2024
Tech MeetING #11, ING Bank
Workshop “Jak w czasach AI rozwinąć swój potencjał i osiągnąć doskonałość zawodową,” (in Polish)
December 10th 2024
San Francisco State University
Workshop “How To Develop Your Potential & Achieve Professional Excellence in the Age of AI,”
November 4th 2024
AI x The Future of Work Event, General Lithium HQ
Workshop “How To Develop Your Potential & Achieve Professional Excellence in the Age of AI,”
November 1st 2024
Hacker Dojo, Mountain View
Workshop “How to Develop Your Potential and Achieve Professional Excellence in the Age of AI,”
October 26th 2024
NASA Space Apps Challenge, Hacker Dojo, Mountain View
Talk “Job Market in Tech AD 2024: Facts, Myths, and Useful Hacks,”
October 5th 2024
Venture Cafe Warsaw, Warsaw
Workshop “Jak Wytyczać Sobie Nowe Horyzonty na Rynku Pracy AD 2024: Nawigacja na Złożonym Rynku Pracy w Czasach AI,”
September 5th 2024
The Future of Work event, San Francisco
Talk “How AI Resembles Human Brain and How It Shapes the Global Labor Market,”
June 25th 2024
AI Ethics and Applications Club, Acalanes High School, Lafayette, CA
Seminar “A Glimpse Into the Future: How AI Shapes the Economy and How To Reach Professional Excellence in the AI Era,”
April 25th 2024
CPS Series, University of Groningen
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
April 19th 2024
Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Pedagogicznych, Warsaw
Series of lectures “Ontology of Value: About the Individual Profile of Motivation and Value Creation and How to Use This Profile to Achieve Rapid Personal Development,”
April 13th 2024
SGGW Job Fairs, SGGW, Warsaw
Talk “Safety or Freedom? How To Create Value as a Professional and Choose an Optimal Career Track,”
March 20th 2024
Brainhack Warsaw 2024
The author and Team Leader of the project “Large Language Models vs Human Cerebral Cortex: Similarities, Differences, and their Consequences”
March 15th-17th 2024
Masovian AI Fest
Co-organizer of the first edition of Masovian AI Fest entitled “Commercialising Innovation in Business & Academia“: a conference dedicated to finding synergies between the business and academic worlds around AI in Poland,
February 29th 2024
University of Warsaw
Talk “How To Self-Navigate as a Professional? The Laws of Gravity in the Job Market,”
March 13th 2024
CPS Series, Groningen University
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
January 25th 2024
2023
G.E.N.E. Centre, University of Paris-Saclay
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
December 18th 2023
HackerDojo, Mountain View
Panelist at the discussion panel ” The Great Job Market AI-vasion: Are You Ready”
November 20th 2023
CELO HQ, San Francisco
Talk “Perspectives on the Future of the Job Market in Times of AI” at the AGI BUZZ Conference 2023,
November 18th 2023
Innovation Algebra online meeting
Talk “Are we Doomed? AI and Your Job”
October 27th 2023
Silkroad Innovation Hub, Palo Alto
Talk “How Will AI Influence the Job Market?” at the “RAD Talks #1“
October 5th 2023
Science: Polish Perspectives Meetup by the Polonium Foundation, Paris
Panelist at the discussion panel “Female Gaze: Careers in Science and Entrepreneurship”
June 18th-19th 2023
NoiseBridge Hackerspace
Workshop “From Layoff to Liftoff: Boost Your Career in Tech,”
May 12th 2023
Silicon Valley International Women Day #DareToBe, Google Developer Groups Silicon Valley
Talk “Self-navigating as a Woman in Tech in Times of AI: Navigating Career Challenges and Opportunities,”
April 28th 2023
CPS Series, University of Groningen
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
April 21st 2023
Konsortium UNIVERSEH Seminar, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow
Talk “Ontology of Value®: A New Framework To Discover Your Natural Way of Creating Value as a Professional,”
April 17th 2023
Pacific Hackers Association Meetup, Hacker Dojo, Mountain View
Blitz-workshop “Safety or Freedom? Career Building for Software Developers,”
March 25th 2023
Hacker Dojo, Mountain View
Lightning Talk “Hacks from a Bootstrapping Entrepreneur,”
February 24th 2023
2022
G.E.N.E. Centre, University of Paris-Saclay
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
December 7th 2022
Academic Innovation Incubator, Jagiellonian University
Team Building Workshop For Startupers,
October 22nd 2022
Brainhack Kraków
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
October 21st 2022
Hacker Dojo
Workshop “Career Development Workshop by Ontology of Value (Full Day),”
September 17th 2022
Hacker Dojo
Workshop “Team-Building Workshop For Startups,”
September 10th 2022
Princeton University
Blitz-workshop “Effective Self-Management for Early Career Researchers in the Natural and Life Sciences,”
June 29th 2022
KU Leuven University
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks, part 2,”
May 10th 2022
KU Leuven University
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks, part 2,”
May 10th 2022
CPS Series, Groningen University
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
April 22nd 2022
Innovation for Health Conference, Utrecht
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Career Tracks In the Today’s Job Market,”
April 21st 2022
KU Leuven University
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks, part 1,”
March 28th 2022
Rookie Meeting, University of Twente
Presentation “On My Own Transition From Academia To Industry”,
February 9th 2022
2021
G.E.N.E. Centre, University of Paris-Saclay
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
December 8th 2021
University of Cologne
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
September 10th 2021
OHBM Australia
“Career Pathways In Academia and Industry” Panel,
July 20th 2021
PhD Day, University of Groningen
Blitz-workshop “The Ontology of Value®: How To Discover Your Natural Way Of Building Value in the Job Market,”
June 4th 2021
CPS Series, University of Groningen
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
February 19th 2021
PhD Activating Career Event (PhACE), Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Q&A, the Teaching and Entrepreneurship panel,
February 8th-9th 2021
LOT Winter School, Radboud University
Talk “Common questions on making a career switch,”
January 21st 2021
2020
EUR G.E.N.E. Center, University of Paris
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
December 17th 2020 (ed. #2)
EUR G.E.N.E. Center, University of Paris
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
December 10th 2020 (ed. #1)
Bioroom Science Communications Event
Talk “Reflections after 14 years of blogging,”
November 20th 2020, recording available HERE
CPS Series, University of Groningen
Talk “Common questions on making a career switch,”
October 9th 2020
Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting
Talk “On the similarities and differences between research and entrepreneurship,”
July 31st 2020, recording available HERE
Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
July 10th 2020, recording available HERE
Tech Tuesday Meetup, Utrecht
Lecture “PhD students on the Job market”,
March 10th 2020
Crossroads event, Radboud University
Keynote lecture “What to choose: PhD or industry?”,
March 9th 2020
MR Open Benelux Event, Radboud University
Blitz-workshop “Where to Go Next? The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
January 23rd 2020
2019
Avengers for Better Science Retreat, Leiden
Workshop “Transferable skills & moving outside academia,”
October 31st 2019
Avengers for Better Science Retreat, Leiden
Workshop “Self-management & Mentoring,”
October 30th 2019
eLife Ambassadors Community
Workshop “Principles of self-management in science,”
November 22nd 2019
Brainhack Zurich
Blitz workshop “Where to go Next? The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,”
October 4th 2019
Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Rome
Talk “Looking for Jobs Outside of Academia,”
June 13th 2019
Medical Genetics Center (MGC) workshop, Maastricht
Blitz workshop “Self-management for Early-career Researchers,”
June 7th 2019
ICT Open, Hilversum
Blitz workshop “Self-management for Early-career Researchers,”
March 19th 2019
AoN Brainhack Warsaw, The Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Talk “Open Mentoring,”
March 2nd 2019
Hill Seminar, The Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
Talk “Effective Self-Management for Early Career Researchers in the Natural Sciences,”
March 1st 2019
Seminar of Applied Mathematics, The Faculty of Mathematics, University of Warsaw
Talk “On the open project entitled ‘Effective Self-Management for Early Career Researchers in the Natural Sciences’”,
February 28th 2019
MR Open Benelux Event, Leiden University
Talk “On Mentoring in academia and Stichting Solaris,”
January 16th 2019
2018
Postdoc NL Seminar, Utrecht
Talk “On the genesis of Stichting Solaris,”
November 23rd 2018
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