Speaking Engagements

The AI talk your audience will still be using on Monday.

Dorina Torje has spent 26 years building software for banks, pharma and European institutions. Now she stands in front of coaches, therapists, doctors, lawyers and founders and does one thing: takes a room from "AI isn't for me" to something that actually works for them. Before they leave.

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Based in Brussels. Speaks across Europe, in person and online.

Most AI talks either hype it up or scare people off.

Your audience has heard both. They've seen the list of 50 tools. They've heard that AI is coming for their job. They went home and did nothing.

Dorina's talks are different because she's written the code and she's lived the change. She knows what's real and what's a demo. And she knows how it feels to be the only one in the room who doesn't fit, because for most of her career she was the only woman in it.

So your audience doesn't get a tour of the latest tools. They get a plain-language way of thinking about AI, examples from their own profession, and one thing they can do tomorrow.

Math+Code+Human Resilience = AI Literacy

Math

Degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science. She can explain what's actually happening inside the tool, in words a non-technical room understands.

Code

26 years of hands-on IT work, from banking systems to logistics networks. No borrowed slides. No hype.

Human resilience

The skill nobody teaches: how to adapt and reinvent yourself when your work changes under your feet.

Signature talks

Every talk is adapted to your audience, with examples from their own jobs. These are the starting points.

Your quietest, most reliable employee

AI won't replace the coach, the therapist or the lawyer. It takes the admin nobody went into the job for, so they get back to the human part. Dorina shows exactly how, profession by profession.

Coach: session notes and follow-up emails done before the next client walks in.
Therapist: intake paperwork cut from an evening to a coffee break.
Lawyer: first drafts of standard letters in minutes, reviewed not rewritten.

Best for: Professional associations, networks of independents, chambers of commerce
Format: Keynote, 30 to 45 minutes
They leave with: A clear picture of where AI fits in their week, and where it doesn't

The human side of AI

The hard part of AI isn't the technology. It's the moment you realise the way you've always worked is changing. Drawing on her own story of reinventing herself across countries and careers, Dorina talks about staying adaptable without losing yourself.

Why fear of AI is really fear of being left out, and what to do with it.
How to learn a new tool when you're already exhausted.
What stays yours, no matter how good the machines get.

Best for: Women's and founders' networks, HR and wellbeing events, leadership offsites
Format: Keynote or fireside chat, 20 to 45 minutes
They leave with: Less anxiety, and a first step they actually want to take

Build it in the room

Not a demo. A working session. Everyone brings one real, annoying task from their week. By the end, it runs on AI, set up by them, on their own laptop.

No technical background needed. Really.
Small groups, hands-on, with Dorina walking the room.
The format behind her in-person AI Bootcamp near Brussels.

Best for: Conferences with breakout tracks, company away days, member events
Format: Workshop, 90 minutes to half a day
They leave with: One automation that works, and the confidence to build the next one

Ways to work together

Keynote

20 to 45 minutes

Interactive from the first minute. Expect a show of hands.

Workshop

90 min to half a day

Hands-on. Everyone leaves with something working.

Panel or fireside

30 to 60 minutes

The technical voice who still speaks human.

Round table

Evening format

Small, honest conversation over dinner, like her Brussels Sounding Board Dinners.

Portrait of Dorina Torje, founder of PartnerWithAI

About Dorina

Dorina Torje is the founder and CEO of PartnerWithAI, a Brussels-based company that helps independent professionals use AI without needing a technical background.

She holds degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and IT E-Commerce, and a master's in Computer Science. For 26 years she worked in IT, much of it as a freelance consultant for European institutions, pharmaceutical companies, logistics networks and banks. Often as the only woman in the room.

She built PartnerWithAI for everyone who has ever felt out of place around technology. She runs an in-person AI Bootcamp, the Sounding Board Dinners in Brussels, and writes the weekly LinkedIn newsletter "The Human Side of AI".

26 years in IT
MSc Computer Science
Founder, PartnerWithAI
Author, The Human Side of AI

Invite Dorina to your event

Tell us a little about your event and audience. You'll get a personal reply within 2 working days with availability and a proposal shaped around your room.

Dorina takes on a small number of speaking engagements each quarter, so it helps to reach out early.

Prefer email? dorina@partnerwithai.org

Questions organizers ask

Do you adapt the talk to our audience?

Always. Before the event there's a short call to learn who's in the room, so the examples come from their jobs, not a generic slide deck.

Does the audience need to be technical?

No. The talks are built for people who don't do tech. If someone in your audience is technical, they'll still learn something, but nobody gets left behind.

Do you travel? Can you speak online?

Yes to both. Dorina is based in Brussels and speaks across Europe. Online talks keep the interactive format.

What does it cost?

It depends on format, length and travel. Send a request and you'll get a clear proposal. Community and non-profit events are welcome to ask.