Kris is an AI educator, consultant, activist, and speaker. She has a background in software development (MS in Computer Science) and ten years of working in the industry as a backend developer, BA in journalism (specializing in human rights and art), commercial photography, art, and activism. Kris has worked in several startups as head of AI and AI consultant. She freelanced with brands to help them implement AI into their workflow. Kris has built a large community around generative AI on Twitter and has been a guest teacher at Columbia University, Austrian Academy of Sciences and CreativeMornings. Her work on AI was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, the Guardian, and others. Her photography (non-AI) was published by the New York Post, the Telegraph, the Times & Sunday Times, The Sun, and Metro.

At the moment Kris works at Adobe as Senior Creative Evangelist Artificial Intelligence since July 2023. In her role she created educational workshops, is a public speaker and an AI expert who evangelises internally and externally.

She’s been speaking publicly at Columbia University and Austrian Academy of Sciences on creativity, ethics and copyright of AI.

Creator of “Zarya of the Dawn”