[🌷Human Tech Week Flourishing Track]: Relational Innovation Workshop

​The Relational Lens for Human+AI Builders

​A 1-hour embodied session for founders, investors, and builders designing the co-evolution layer between human and machine.

​Human+Tech Week names the question of our era: how do humans and AI co-evolve toward flourishing? Most of the answers being built right now come from the neck up — architectures, governance frameworks, optimization targets. But the builders shaping this layer are starting to notice something: you cannot design for human flourishing using only the tools that produced our current crisis of meaning. The instrument you build with shapes what you can build.

​This session offers a different starting point — one that's been mostly missing from the AI conversation: the body as a sensemaking technology, and relationship as an innovation medium.

​In one hour, we'll move through a guided experience that introduces innovation as a relational practice — between you and your own intelligence, your collaborators, your users, and the living systems your work touches. Through light somatic practice, paired inquiry, and a sensemaking frame, you'll get a felt sense of what it means to build from attunement, not just acceleration.

​You'll leave with:

• ​A direct, embodied experience of "relational innovation" — not just the concept

• ​A new lens for evaluating your venture, thesis, or role in the AI buildout

• ​A small set of practices you can carry into your next product review, investment memo, or team conversation

​This is for you if you're building or backing AI systems and you sense that "human flourishing as the optimization target" requires more than better metrics — it requires builders who can feel what flourishing actually is.

​No prior somatic experience required. Come as you are. Wear something you can move in.

About Host

​Dima Lyan is a systems-oriented product leader and venture builder working at the intersection of human development, emerging technology, and collective flourishing. With a background spanning AI innovation, product strategy, entrepreneurship, and systems thinking, he has led the creation of products and platforms across organizations including Meta, Amazon, and mission-driven startups. His work focuses on translating complex technologies into human-centered experiences that deepen connection, learning, wellbeing, and meaningful participation in an increasingly digital world.

Through Aliveness Ventures, he helps founders and organizations build regenerative technologies and ecosystems that contribute to both human and planetary flourishing, grounded in systems thinking shaped in part through research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mingzhu Heseri is an inter-disciplinary innovator turned systems designer with background in human-centered design, biology, economics, human computer interaction, and education. She aims to liberate humans' creative potential by supporting our species to enter into more harmonious relationships with our Selves, Each Other, Nature, and the Cosmos/ the Sacred.

She founded the Conscious Tech Collective and the Flourishing Systems Foundation to build community with innovators on the same path and to help shift our innovation infrastructure and culture from one of extraction towards one where capital and technology truly supports ALL Life, regeneratively.