Speaking · Workshops · Keynotes
Venture into the abyss... together.
Opening Plenary at the AIA Leadership Summit in 2023. Three consecutive AIA National Conference on Architecture presentations (2024, 2025, 2026). Chair of the 2024 AIA Board of Directors AI Advisory Panel. MIT xPro Certification with eight Exemplary Citations (including a Capstone on Strategic Planning for Nonprofits in the Age of AI Disruption).
June 2025 launch of Luna Lake, a fully agentic consultancy testing the limits of automation.
People find our agentic team experiences fascinating and love adding to the ecosystem of similar stories. My research, the Weight of Water: AI-Powered Solutions for Architectural Vulnerability in Marginalized Regions, has a lengthy AIA provenance record.
There is so much to say...
TEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS SPEAKING at AIA NATIONAL CONVENINGS
BEGINNING WITH MY CACE CANDIDACY SPEECH IN 2017
plus dozens of NATIONAL, STATE & LOCAL small group presentations
I first delivered commentary on AI's radical disruption from the Opening Plenary stage at the AIA Leadership Summit in February 2023.
Some thought I was the radical one. Some still do.
Let's keep educating anyway. AI isn't going away. It's both awful and awe-inspiring. YOU make it awe-inspiring. YOU with your human brain and agency.
You'll either drive it or weather it...
Vroom vroom.
- Fourth-year presenter on AI at national professional conferences.
- Ten consecutive years speaking at the American Institute of Architects National convenings.
- Eight exemplary citations from MIT xPRO AI certificate programs.
- Over thirty years of marketing expertise and entrepreneurism.
- Hundreds of consultations, individuals to corporations.
NICE TO MEET YOU!
I'm Amber Lombardo.
2023
AIA NATIONAL
Leadership Summit
Opening Plenary:
A Conversation with AIA Leadership
Strategic Council
Equity Working Group
CACE NATIONAL
Annual Meeting
Keynote:
Determined: The Power of Storytelling for Climate Action
Council of Architectural Component Executives (CACE)
2023 Board President
Talks at:
AIA Leadership Summit
CACE Annual Meeting Retreat
AIA'23 CACE Meeting
AIA Governance Week
2024
AIA NATIONAL
Conf. on Architecture
Determined: The Power of Storytelling for Climate Action
AIA NATIONAL
Board of Directors
AI Advisory Panel Chair
Strategic Council Liaison (AI)
2024 AIA/AI
Annual Report (Co-Author)
Leadership Summit
AI/AIA :: Survive or Thrive
AIA BIRMINGHAM
Annual State Conference
AI/AIA : Leveraging Design Tech Responsibly
AIA MEMPHIS
Membership Luncheon
AI/AIA :: Survive or Thrive
CiV : the Center for Architecture + Design
Summer Scholars
AI-Powered Architectural Camp
2025
AIA NATIONAL
Conf. on Architecture
AI: Architecture’s Climate Resilience Future: A 20-Year Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
AIA VIRGINIA
ArchitectureX East
AI + the Future of Practice
AIA SAN ANTONIO
Firm Leaders' Breakfast
AI in Architecture
LAKE | FLATO ARCHITECTS
Sustainability Champions
The Weight of Water: Architectural Vulnerability in the Mississippi Gulf Coast
URSYS (Urban-Rural Sustainability Systems Research Network)
Fall Symposium
The Weight of Water: AI-Powered Solutions for Architectural Vulnerability in Flood-Prone Regions
2026
MIT xPro
Eight Exemplary Citations:
AIA Framework for Design Excellence AR Digital Twin and
Capstone Project: Fazio, the AIA Supermind AI Mentor
AIA NATIONAL
Conf. on Architecture
Technology in Architectural Practice Symposium
Practical AI for Every Architect: Business Management
LUNA LAKE
AI as Accelerant
A one-day workshop-intensive plus year-long support cohort, MIT-informed curriculum. Walk in stuck, walk out with your first AI agent, the right organizational model, and a 90-day strategy for rapid deployment