EK Eric Kornacki

Speaking

50+ keynotes, lectures, and testimony

From the TEDx stage to Congressional hearings to university lecture halls — stories about building, told by someone who did the building.

TEDxMileHigh · 2015 · 25,000+ views

How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live

What happens when a community owns its own economy — told through a decade of building Re:Vision in southwest Denver, and the case for nurturing residents as the catalysts of their own neighborhood's change.

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Current talks

Building AI-native product organizations

How a bootstrapped team rewired itself around agentic development — what changed in roles, review, and quality, and what only looked like it changed.

Marketplaces in regulated industries

Two-sided dynamics, trust, and unit economics when every transaction touches healthcare compliance across multiple states.

Building under constraint

Scaling a platform seven-fold against VC-backed incumbents with no outside capital — what constraint teaches about prioritization.

Place-based economies & community ownership

The TEDx thesis, ten years on: what actually happens when neighborhoods own the economy around them.

TEDxMileHigh · U.S. Congressional testimony · University of Denver · CU Denver & Boulder · Sturm College of Law · National industry conferences

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