Ezgi Turan, Founder and CEO of AI With Heart

Founder & CEO, AI With Heart

I build AI companies with a conscience.

Founder and CEO of AI With Heart, co-founder of Lumovra AI. 15 years driving growth for the world's most recognized companies across six continents. Now building the infrastructure that makes responsible AI possible.

Some of the brands I've built for

15+ years. 6 continents. 50+ brands.

Apple
Google
PayPal
eBay
American Express
skyscanner
ticketmaster
Expedia
Turkish Airlines
SAMSUNG
Ray-Ban
Unilever
BAYER
Nestlé
US OPEN
CHANEL
LIVE NATION
Coaching.com
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
THINKERS50
PRINCIPLES
Apple
Google
PayPal
eBay
American Express
skyscanner
ticketmaster
Expedia
Turkish Airlines
SAMSUNG
Ray-Ban
Unilever
BAYER
Nestlé
US OPEN
CHANEL
LIVE NATION
Coaching.com
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
THINKERS50
PRINCIPLES
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Years in marketing and growth
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Continents worked across
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Global brands served
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AI ventures founded

About

15 years building. Now building something that matters more.

I started my career in marketing and never looked back, because I fell in love with every company, every problem, every team trying to build something that mattered. I worked with Apple, Google, PayPal, Samsung, Expedia, Unilever, Ray-Ban, and dozens of other technology companies across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Asia-Pacific, and Australia. SaaS, fintech, luxury, telco, FMCG, airlines. Six continents, hundreds of millions in revenue, every market condition imaginable. I was obsessed with growth, with impact, with what becomes possible when the right strategy meets the right moment.

Then I met AI. And everything shifted. I started paying attention to something the industry was systematically, almost willfully, ignoring. AI was accelerating faster than any framework for governing it. The products being shipped had real consequences for real people, and almost no one building them had serious accountability structures in place. I've sat in enough rooms with C-suite leaders, board members, and executives from across the world to feel in my bones when an industry is speeding toward a reckoning. This one is. And it's coming fast.

So I stopped advising from the sidelines and started building from the inside. AI With Heart is the company I founded because I couldn't not. Lumovra is the first product. AI safety isn't a talking point for me. It isn't a trend or a compliance checkbox. It is where my heart lives. It is the reason I wake up fired up every single morning, the reason every hour of work feels like it counts.

I have strong opinions, relentless passion, and an unshakeable belief that the most important companies being built right now are the ones with the courage to ask harder questions than everyone else. I intend to be one of them.

Ventures

Two ventures. One conviction.

Company

AI With Heart logo

AI With Heart is a technology company built on a belief most people in the industry still treat as optional: that AI developed without ethical guardrails is a liability, not just a risk. We build products that make responsible AI the default. Not a feature. Not a policy document. The foundation.

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Product

Lumovra AI logo

Lumovra is the evidence layer that AI governance has been missing. It captures proof directly from engineering workflows and generates audit-ready documentation, so companies can demonstrate that their AI systems were built responsibly, not just assert it. Built for engineering leads and the CTOs who answer to enterprise buyers, regulators, and boards.

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Speaking

I talk about what most people in AI are still too comfortable to say out loud.

The AI industry is moving fast, celebrated for its speed, and almost completely ungoverned. Most conference talks are standing ovations for the acceleration. Mine ask what we are accelerating toward, and what it will cost us when we get there.

I speak from 15 years driving growth for some of the world's most recognized technology companies, and from the visceral, firsthand experience of building AI governance infrastructure from the ground up. I have sat with C-suite leaders, boards, and founders across six continents. I know what it looks like when an industry moves faster than its conscience. And I know what it takes to actually do something about it.

My talks are not comfortable. They are direct, evidence-based, and built for leaders who are done with the hype and ready to ask the questions that actually matter. If you want a keynote that fires people up and sends them home with something real to act on, let's talk.

  • AI safety as a business imperative, not a PR exercise
  • What responsible AI actually requires from the companies building it
  • The governance gap: why most AI products can't prove what they claim
  • Building with integrity without sacrificing speed
  • The future of AI compliance and what's coming for enterprise teams

Newsletter

I write when something needs to be said. Not on a schedule. Not for the algorithm.

Most newsletters tell you what already happened. Mine try to tell you what it means, where it's heading, and what nobody in the room is saying yet.

I write about AI governance, about what it actually takes to build with integrity, about the conversations happening behind closed doors in boardrooms and engineering teams that never make it onto the main stage. I write from the front lines of building Lumovra, from 15 years of watching industries transform, and from a deep, almost stubborn conviction that AI done right is one of the most important challenges of our time.

No recycled takes. No weekly filler. No content for content's sake. Just honest, direct thinking, when it's ready, for founders, executives, and technologists who are done with noise and ready for something worth their time.

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