Miral Kotb is a Creative Director, technologist, CEO, and keynote speaker whose message inspires audiences to unlock creativity, embrace resilience, and lead with compassionate innovation. Organizations invite her to open or anchor events because she creates a shared moment of possibility — one that reframes creativity and technology as tools for human connection, purpose, and real-world impact.
As the visionary founder of the performance company iLuminate, Miral’s work has been seen on Broadway, the Las Vegas Strip, national tours, and global television shows such as Dancing with the Stars, The Voice, The American Music Awards, and the MTV VMAs. She directed and produced the Las Vegas production named “Best New Show in Vegas” in 2022 and earned critical acclaim on Broadway, including praise from The New York Times.
Before her creative career, Miral was a lead developer at Bloomberg LP, where she led teams with an artistic view of coding and collaboration. Her unique perspective — including insights as a female technologist, early AI student, and lifelong neurodivergent creator — offers audiences empowered approaches to innovation, inclusion, leadership, and joyful productivity.
A two-time cancer survivor, Miral speaks with authenticity about resilience, purpose, and building environments where kindness and curiosity fuel success. Her keynote experience includes presentations at Google’s Made with Code, Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, TEDxBroadway, the American Cancer Society, and many more.
Miral’s core message: use creativity and technology to amplify human potential, not to silence it.
Why Book Miral
- A rare blend of engineer, artist, and CEO.
- Teaches teams to use technology to amplify—never silence—the human creative voice.
- Delivers emotionally resonant, actionable talks rooted in lived experience.
- Expert in leadership, creativity, resilience, and innovation.
