Sofiko Bigvava
Education Systems Architect.
I am the CEO of Experimentorium, an interactive science museum in Tbilisi. I am the founder of Girls Who Change the World, an international education movement for girls aged 10–14. I am the author of The Human Intelligence Method, a manifesto and practical framework for educators in the age of AI.
Across all three, I do one thing: I build the systems modern educational and cultural institutions need in order to become coherent — from how they think about themselves, to how they look, to how they run.
For nearly a decade, leading a science museum in a small country meant building many of the things a larger institution would hire a full team to build.
Each of these belonged to a different discipline, and none of them came with a manual for an institution of our size, in our context, with our resources.
I learned to build them not as a designer, not as a marketer, and not as an operations consultant — but as someone responsible for the whole institution.
Over the last two years, AI became a working partner in that process. It did not replace the work of thinking. It expanded what one person could build, connect, test, and carry.
That is where my work comes from: real institutional responsibility, shaped by AI, but grounded in human judgment.
I believe many modern educational and cultural institutions are under-built.
Not because they lack ambition.
Not because the people inside them lack capability.
But because the tools for building them coherently, end to end, with a small team, were not truly available until very recently.
They are available now.
My work is to help institutions use them — without losing what made them worth building in the first place.
I work with museums, schools, and mission-driven organizations on three intertwined questions.
How an institution thinks: its positioning, language, educational logic, and internal structure.
How an institution appears: its identity, website, public voice, and presence in the world.
How an institution works: its operations, workflows, communication systems, and AI-supported infrastructure — so a small team can carry the weight of a much larger one.
I take on a small number of collaborations each year.
I am based in Tbilisi, Georgia, and work in English, Georgian, and Russian.
My work is international in direction, but rooted in the reality of building from places that are often overlooked — smaller markets, smaller teams, and institutions with serious missions but limited infrastructure.
That is the kind of work I understand best.
If you are leading or building such an institution,
the conversation is usually worth having.