Who I’ve delivered talks for
Portfolio
What you’ll get from me
Core values that drive my connection with your audience and shape my service as a speaker.
Making The Boring Interesting
Things are only boring until you understand them. I am committed to sharing my insights and help you find meaning and excitement.
Boundless
Energy
Energy
Putting 110% in everything I do - because our energy changes our state and is the life force of how we show up in the world.
Challenging Status Quo
When everyone zigs, you zag. Because new solutions cannot be created using old ideas and practices.
Radical
Honesty
Honesty
Life is too short to be anything other than yourself.
Being direct is both my strength and my weakness.
Creating Clarity In Complexity
If you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it enough. I challenge myself to live by this motto.
What I talk about
Fearless Leadership
My team say that I eat responsibility for breakfast. What is there to be fearful of? One day we won't be here, this is liberating and I act accordingly.
Creating Something from Nothing
Creativity is very vulnerable. It requires us to give a part of ourselves and to defend that creation to ourselves internally and to others. There is a process to it and I share my insights and learnings about this.
Selling the Impossible
It's only impossible until it's done, as one of my clients told me. All selling is change. Convincing buyers to take a journey with you, to bridge that change, is what I do every day.
Being a (Female) Founder
Founders are irrationally optimistic opportunists who bend reality to their will. I happen to be female and have to do this in parallel to growing my family and raising five children and despite my industry being heavily male dominated.
Web 3 / Blockchain
Expert buzzword busting for Web 3, Blockchain, Smart contracts and Decentralized technologies.
I authored multiple patents in the space and love this topic.
Data Security / Privacy / GDPR
Cyber security is no good if you've already been breached. Data privacy is the same. I work with national regulators to improve GDPR compliance for our client airlines and governments.
Why me
Irra Ariella Khi is CEO of Zamna, an award-winning Venture Backed software company working with airlines & governments to validate passenger passports and health status via GDPR-compliant patented software.
Zamna, headquartered in London, England, is a member of LORCA - The London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement as well as a longstanding Strategic Partner to IBMATA (International Border Management And Technologies Association) and the current holder for IATA’s one ID innovation award. Clients include British Airways owner International Airlines Group. Zamna also works with ICAO on international aviation standards globally, and ICO on data protection and enhancing GDPR in the UK through the use of blockchain and novel cryptography at the core of zamna's multi-patented technology.
Prior to founding Zamna, Irra co-founded three other companies across multiple verticals. She speaks 9 languages, has 5 children and has received many awards for her work with Zamna including as UK BAA ‘Best investment in disruptive tech’ +’ Best investment in Female Founder’, Founders Forum and AccelerateHER ‘Rising Star’; Pitch@Palace Winner on 'Big data, intelligence and the future of security' and being in named in Management Today’s, ‘35 Women Under 35’.
Most recently, Irra has been invited to focus her efforts as the CEO of Sunflower - a new organisation dedicated to helping information flow in and out of Ukraine and organising logistics and supplies into the war zone. By accident rather than design, Irra is able to be quite useful to the effort. She was born in Lviv and grew up there until she was 9, which enabled her to have a deep local family network and speak all 3 local languages.
Select speaking engagements
2024
Jun
Ukraine Tech Summit - Addressing global tech leaders and investors in UK parliament.
2024
Mar
Breega - Pairing Olympic athletes with tech founders to talk about resilience and strength
2024
Feb
Nexxworks - Talking to the next generation of tech founders about how process informs innovation
2023
Jul
Nexworks Tour - Sharing my journey as CEO of Zamna and Sunflower - Fundraising, Failing, and Rising.
2023
Jun
Europas' Robust Founders Talk: Riding the Highs and Lows of Startup life, Sales, Team Building, Mental Health, and juggling Work and Family
2023
Mar
"Inspirational Speaker of the month" for Shaftesbury School speaking to 400+ students
2023
Jan
Sky Innovation; Myth busting - covering decentralised technologies, DAOs, smart contracts and distributed ledgers, to inspire concrete adoption into existing processes
2022
Nov
EQL:HER - Hiring from a Warzone: Supporting Ukrainian Women in Tech (Organised and Moderated by Irra for 250+ refugees)
2022
Oct
AACO 55th AGM - Keynote on Digital Identity and the future of aviation addressing 500+ airline executives in Abu Dhabi
2022
Jul
Keynote speech in UK Business Angels Association Awards to 200+ High-Net-Worth Investors on Sunflower Relief Hamartian aid model and leading as CEO of a Tech start-up and a non-profit organisation
2022
Jun
Keynote + Workshop to explain principles of Web 3 and how Coca-Cola can apply them in their own business
2022
Jun
London Tech Week - Keynote on Selling the Impossible - how to sell something that didn't exist before you, and to deliver outcomes of 'faster better cheaper' to clients
2021
Oct
Keynote on biographic and biometric data - Highlights from project work with Emirates and GDRFA UAE Borders
2020
Jan
WIRED - Keynote on Cyber Security and Good Data Protection principles, to supercharge anyone's understanding like a Chief Information Officer
2020
Jan
Money 2020 - Keynote on decentralised technologies and how they shape finances and accountability of the future
2019
Nov
Global High-Net Worth Conference at Jungfrau Interlaken Hotel (Keynote speaker for 3 years in a row)
2019
Mar
Winning speech for Zamna for Royal Award at Pitch@Palace 9.0 in Buckingham Palace
2018
May
Female Innovation Forum- Creating Something From Nothing - how to take both the leap of faith and tangible action required to deliver innovation - because an idea without a plan is just a dream
Get in touch with me directly
" Irra gave an incredible talk to 5,000... as a speaker, Irra has an infectious energy that invites you in. Her story is compelling and unique.I have never seen people so engaged, they were literally sitting on the edge of their seats…I watched the young people left standing a little taller than when they walked in. Thank you Irra, you rock! " - Alex More | TEDx Organiser