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MAIN SPEAKER · SESSION 02
Sir Next Layderos: from using AI to thinking better with it
A practical, strategy-driven approach to asking better questions, examining answers, and combining human insight with machine intelligence.
An AI tool can produce an answer in seconds. The more important question for Sir Next Layderos is what happens to our thinking along the way.
At LeadX Academy’s THINK BETTER WITH AI, he challenges participants to move beyond generating outputs and develop a more deliberate way of working with AI: define the problem, provide meaningful context, evaluate the response, and take responsibility for the decision.
Experience across marketing, media, and transformation
Sir Next is a marketing and digital transformation leader, strategist, educator, and professional speaker with extensive experience in media, marketing, technology, communications, and organizational leadership.
A Certified Professional Marketer–Asia (CPM-Asia), Certified Digital Marketing Professional (CDMP), and Certified Digital Transformation Professional (CDTP), he has spent more than a decade helping organizations, professionals, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders navigate a changing digital landscape.
As Founder of Sir Next: Tech + Consultancy, he advocates practical and responsible technology use to improve how people think, work, communicate, create, and make decisions.
Better questions are a starting point
His approach goes beyond learning which tool to open or which prompt to copy. It emphasizes the thinking that makes those tools useful: clarify the objective, understand the audience, identify constraints, and recognize what information is missing.
Participants will explore how stronger context and more thoughtful questions can improve the relevance of AI-generated responses—and why even a polished answer deserves scrutiny.
“AI should not replace the way we think. It should help us think better.”— Sir Next Layderos
AI as a thinking partner
Through practical examples, frameworks, and immediately usable prompts, Sir Next will explore applications in productivity, creativity, problem-solving, communication, strategy, and everyday decision-making.
The aim is to help participants use AI to explore possibilities, test assumptions, and organize ideas while continuing to exercise their own judgment. A response becomes valuable when the user can assess it, adapt it, and explain why it fits the situation.
This perspective makes the session relevant to professionals, entrepreneurs, leaders, educators, and students who want to work with AI with greater purpose and confidence.
Capability guided by values
Following Via Delos Reyes’s session on ethical and responsible AI use, Sir Next connects that foundation with practical application. Human judgment, values, and responsibility remain central as participants explore what they can do with the technology.
The event also connects learning with service through its support for EDUKAAGAPAY scholars. Participants are invited to build useful skills while contributing to an educational purpose beyond the room.
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November 6, 2026 · 6:00–8:00 PM
D’Cup Coffee Republic · Kapitolyo, Pasig City
Bring a friend or two for an evening of learning with a purpose.