Head of Innovation, Trinzo  ·  AI Strategy & People Development

Conor
Flynn

I am interested in what happens when people discover they can do more than they thought. In organisations, in technology, in sport. The conditions that make that possible turn out to be surprisingly similar in each.

Irish mountain lake landscape
"I have always been more interested in what is different than in what is familiar. That started in America after college, ran through Fiji, New Zealand and Australia, and ended up, somehow, in China."

Conor Flynn

Technology is the easy part.
People are the interesting part.

China was never the plan, but nine years in Nanjing changed how I think about most things. I built two companies there, learned Mandarin, and watched how differently people in different cultures approach the same problem.

The last twenty-five years have mostly been spent on one question, in language schools, technology start-ups, and AI programmes for large regulated companies: how do you help people do more than they thought they could? The technology changes. The question does not.

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Ideas, written
down.

Essay  ·  LinkedIn

The Flywheel and the Frenzy: A Practitioner's Map of Where AI Actually Is

Fifteen years in machine learning before anyone called it AI. What I have seen working, what I have seen failing, and why the gap between the two matters more than almost anyone is currently willing to admit.

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Short Read  ·  Substack

Is AI Electricity or Cryptocurrency? Honestly, I'm Not Sure Yet.

We are at the beginning of the end of the first cycle. The correction is not the end of the story. It is the part that comes before the real work begins.

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Whitepaper  ·  Trinzo

The Flywheel and the Frenzy: Navigating the AI Turning Point

A structured analysis of where AI sits in its development arc, what the coming market correction means for organisations, and how to build genuine readiness before the economics change.

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All writing on Substack →
Cyclist on mountain road
Rock climbing outdoors
Open water swimming in mountain lake

On stages,
and screens.

Keynotes, panels, and webinar series on AI adoption, regulated industries, and building organisations that actually change.

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2026 Irish Medtech QA/RA Forum Kilkenny
2025 IRDG Amplify Dublin
2025 AI Without the Chaos 5-part webinar series
2015 AI in EdTech World Summit Barcelona  ·  Keynote

Now

What I am working on,
as of June 2026

Building Trinzo's AI regulatory practice. Writing the next piece in the LinkedIn series. Training for a 70.3 triathlon in Swansea in July, and the World Championship Triathlon in September. Reading Liu Cixin. Thinking about what the second wave of AI adoption in healthcare actually looks like. And why it will look nothing like the first.

Get in touch.
I'd be glad to hear from you.

If something here resonated, or you are working on something that feels relevant, I am happy to have the conversation.

conorflynn@xuflynn.com