Give your team a shared language, a practical method, and hands-on experience with the exact questions you are facing.
Built around your audience, tools, goals, and level of experience.
CUSTOM WORKSHOPS · SPEAKING · ADVISORY
Help your team make better decisions with AI.
Bring Carla in to turn a fast-moving technology conversation into practical judgment, a shared quality bar, and work your team can use.
Email Carla about your eventCHOOSE THE RIGHT KIND OF ENGAGEMENT
Not an off-the-shelf AI talk.
Every engagement connects emerging tools to the people, products, and decisions in the room.
Bring clarity, candor, and deep children’s-media experience to a conference, leadership gathering, or company event.
Available as keynotes, talks, panels, executive briefings, and facilitated conversations.
Pressure-test an AI product, creative workflow, content strategy, or quality standard before it reaches children and families.
Focused consulting for product, creative, learning, innovation, and leadership teams.
WHAT YOUR TEAM LEAVES WITH
Insight that changes the work on Monday.
01A shared quality bar
Make “good” concrete enough for creative, product, learning, safety, and leadership teams to discuss together.
02A usable methodMove from broad AI possibility to a workflow, framework, or set of decisions your team can apply.
03Clear next stepsKnow what to try, what to question, what must remain human, and what is not worth making.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Start with the question your audience needs to answer.
Carla can build a keynote, workshop, facilitated conversation, or advisory session around one topic or connect several into a custom program.
AI Animation and Video Storytelling
Move from script to screen with stronger stories, consistent characters, intentional shots, sound, and editing.
Responsible AI Use and Governance
Create practical principles for transparency, privacy, human review, quality, and responsible experimentation.
Game Design, Play, and Interactive Storytelling
Use the craft of game design to build experiences that invite curiosity, agency, and meaningful participation.
AI in the Classroom
Help educators and learners use AI critically, creatively, safely, and with a clear learning purpose.
Designing Products for Kids and Families
Connect emerging technology to developmental fit, trust, accessibility, and the realities of family life.
Creative Teams and AI Workflows
Build a shared production process that helps people experiment without sacrificing taste, rigor, or authorship.
Digital Media Literacy
Give audiences a practical way to question what they see, understand how AI media is made, and make informed choices.
A Session Built Around Your Organization
Combine topics or start with the challenge your audience is facing. Carla will shape the format and examples around your goals.
FROM THE ROOM
People leave engaged, informed, and ready to use what they learned.
“This was one of my top talks of the conference, if not my very top talk. Carla was an engaging and deeply knowledgeable speaker.”
“Carla consistently nails this roundtable. The kids games community needs somewhere to rally and Carla has proven she can bring us all together.”
“Watching the thought process of creating a video and the steps used to create a video.”
TELL CARLA WHAT YOU ARE PLANNING
Let’s make the session your team actually needs.
Share your audience, format, timing, and the problem you want the room to leave better equipped to solve.
Email Carla at carla@hippopolka.comOpens your email app with a short event brief ready to complete.