Own the Answer: Staying Visible and Valuable When AI Speaks for You
“Own the Answer: Staying Visible and Valuable When AI Speaks for You” is highly relevant for today’s founders and leaders. As AI increasingly determines who gets seen, trusted and chosen, visibility is no longer something you earn but something you engineer.
In this session, Tilo shares practical frameworks and battle-tested strategies drawn from his work with leading global companies. He explores how storytelling must evolve when AI intermediates the sales journey and how leaders can stay competitive in this shift.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Build narratives that AI can understand and amplify
• Position themselves effectively in the age of generative search
• Stay discoverable as the rules of visibility continue to evolve
Tilo Bonow is the Founder and CEO of PIABO Communications, a strategic growth partner to some of the world’s most innovative companies across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Headquartered in Berlin with a growing APAC presence in Singapore, PIABO helps ambitious tech entrepreneurs transform breakthrough ideas into global brands and guides them from vision to category leadership.
The firm’s expertise spans the full spectrum of strategic communications including media relations, narrative development, personal branding, content marketing, digital strategy, influencer engagement and AI visibility. Every collaboration is grounded in data-driven insights, ensuring that storytelling and visibility strategies are aligned with real market dynamics and deliver measurable impact.
Tilo and his team have supported global innovators such as Google, Stripe, GitHub, Shopify and OpenAI as well as leading investors like Sequoia Capital and Balderton Capital. His work sits at the intersection of storytelling, leadership visibility and a deep understanding of international tech ecosystems.
Beyond his advisory work, Tilo is a keynote speaker at major global innovation platforms including Web Summit, DLD and Mobile World Congress. He regularly shares insights on brand building, strategic positioning and the growing importance of narrative in an AI-driven world. He is also actively involved in the startup ecosystem as a mentor to founders and leadership teams and through his family office he is an LP in more than 50 VC funds globally, giving him a unique perspective on emerging technologies and founder journeys.
He also curates the “Beyond Horizons” CXO dinner series, an invite-only forum that brings together founders, investors and senior executives for candid conversations and meaningful collaboration across global innovation hubs.
Tilo’s philosophy is simple: transformational companies deserve transformational visibility. He helps founders, executives and investors stand out, scale up and shape the conversation in their industries, a perspective he further explores in his bestselling book, Light Your Fire.