The talks
Find your room.
Grouped by who's listening. What an engineering leadership team needs is not what a room of builders needs — so I tailor every talk. Real systems, clear takeaways, and a few things people can use the next morning.
For engineering leaders & managers
Leading teams as agents change the work
Managers and directors figuring out what their team should actually do differently.
- Rethinking sprint and scrum for agent-assisted teams
- What to measure when your team ships with agents
- The human–agent workforce: roles, review, and trust
- Knowing when to push back — where AI isn't the answer
For enterprises adopting AI
Past the pilot, into production
Organizations moving from promising demo to something the business can depend on.
- What Fortune 500 AI adoption actually takes
- Beyond the demo: reliability, evaluation, and guardrails
- Where agentic AI pays off — and where it doesn't
- Multilingual and localization AI for global teams
For AI & platform engineers
Building systems that survive real traffic
Teams already building agentic systems and hitting the hard parts.
- Agentic system design: harness and loop engineering
- Guardrails that fail closed, not open
- Evaluating agents: what to measure before you ship
- Architectures that hold up under incident load
For engineers making the leap
Software engineer → AI engineer
Builders who want a real path across, not motivation.
- A practical roadmap into AI engineering
- Systems engineering over prompt engineering
- Cracking the agentic system design interview
For any room
The next era of AI, for the people in it
Mixed audiences — practical, human, and honest about the trade-offs.
- The human side of AI: navigating the future workforce
- What actually changes for the people doing the work
- Women and the AI workforce
For students & early career
Starting out as the ground shifts
University sessions and early-career audiences entering an AI-shaped job market.
- Building an engineering career while AI reshapes the job
- What senior engineers wish they'd learned earlier
- Chaos to clarity: working with AI tools you can trust
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These are starting points, not a fixed menu. We can run one as it is, remix it, or build something new for your audience together.
