Costa Michailidis Speaker Biography
TEDx Organizer, Innovator, ChatGPT Expert, and Co-Founder of Innovation Bound
In these disruptive times, Costa’s fluency in creative thinking and adaptive execution make him indispensable to innovation projects.
Innovation Expert
In 2010, Costa co-founded Innovation Bound to cultivate creativity and innovation across sectors, and to solve new and meaningful problems in the world. He has organized innovation tournaments inside of Fortune 500s, guided NASA’s astrobiology roadmap creation, worked on life science education reform, and contributed to many other projects in science and business.
TEDx Speaker
Costa made his first appearance at TEDx at the United Nations in New York in 2013, and continues to speak at conferences and companies on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, in order to nurture the type of courage and curiosity that accelerate innovation and drive progress.
Career
Costa has been finding ways to challenge himself and learn ever since he discarded the instructions of his first Lego set and put his imagination to the test. He has been a construction worker, building playgrounds and homes one brick at a time, as well as a web developer, an athlete, a coach, a writer, a professional storyteller (yes, that’s a real job), and a local president with an international NGO. Costa’s ability to innovate is predicated on his love for connecting with people and the joy he takes in building a deep understanding of a challenge within the context of a unique local reality.
Costa grew up in the world of competitive gymnastics. To this day, he still chalks up to swing high bar on Wednesday nights. If you spend enough time with him, you’re sure to catch a glimpse of him flying through the air or standing on his hands.
Costa Michailidis Speaking Topics
Using ChatGPT for Massive Business Growth
Small Business Owners rely on the success of their small businesses to feed their families, support their employees and communities, and for their own personal significance. They must keep their businesses growing in order to meet their needs… And now, they have to do this in the era of A.I. This keynote + workshop will give business owners exactly what they need to capitalize on ChatGPT and make massive gains for their small business. For example, our customers have achieved up to 90% reductions in customer service costs and 2,000% boosts in marketing content creation. Learning Objectives: 1. Get your very own Custom ChatGPT Tool in the first 10 minutes! 2. See how businesses are reducing customer service costs by 90% and boosting marketing by 2,000%. 3. Understand “AI Hallucinations,” the ChatGPT death spiral, and other common risks to avoid. 4. (workshop) Learn basic and advanced prompting techniques for modest, reliable productivity gains. 5. (workshop) Learn how to build Custom ChatGPT Tools and make massive gains (1,000%, 2,000%, etc).
Boundless Imagination
How to cultivate creativity, the driving force behind every innovation. This talk is about tapping into the power of imagination and creative thinking to solve complex problems at our jobs and in our lives.
Adventures in Innovation
"Innovation is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration." Let's talk about the 99% perspiration! Roll those sleeves up! This talk is about what no one talks about, the actual work of innovation, what is it innovators DO after they think up great ideas?
Falling in Love
The secret to success in entrepreneurship and life. This talk is a bit of a personal one for me. The greatest lesson I've learn in entrepreneurship is that success, and not just from a monetary prospective, is about falling in love with adding value to your clients.
Born to Innovate
How to find your courage, nurture your curiosity, and become a better innovator. This interactive keynote is about the attitude that the greatest innovators take when tackling challenges, and how we can all tap into that attitude.
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Costa and his team helped us use ChatGPT to reduce our customer service costs by over 90%, more than double our marketing content production, and build a new AI-powered prototype. It’s the creative thinking! He thinks about ways to use AI that are truly original, crafty, and ultimately enormously valuable without getting stuck in the complex technicals.
- John Bielinski Jr. MS | Small Business Owner
This ChatGPT training covered many aspects of AI in a very useful workshop format. Innovation Bound's team of engaging specialists covered a wide range of topics and saved hours and hours of time to learn about ChatGPT. I appreciated seeing examples of business solutions and the technical overview of how to build those solutions. This is one of the more valuable workshops I have attended this year.
- Gary Bond | Executive Leadership Coach
Innovation Bound guided us along a series of ChatGPT workshops in bite-sized lessons through a comprehensive curriculum. They emphasized the importance of responsible and mindful usage of this new tech while giving us the tools and guidance to be creative and innovative. Thank you for an incredible month of learnings!
- Mel Piasecki | Senior Manager at Amgen
As a team with mixed tech savvy, we found Innovation Bound's ChatGPT Training enormously valuable. Their ChatGPT Primer helped get everyone up to speed with how to use the tool in their day-to-day, and helped us understand the possibilities beyond. We will certainly look to them again in the future.
- Steven Elkington | Aberdeen Inc.
