Keynotes & conference sessions
30–60 minutes for industry audiences — built on delivery numbers, not vendor slides.
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The operator's view on enterprise AI.
I speak to boards, executive teams and industry audiences about what enterprise AI looks like once the pilots end and the P&L begins — from someone still accountable for delivering it.
Formats
Pick the room, I'll match the format.
Panels & fireside chats
Moderated conversation on AI, governance and transformation — candid, on the record or off.
Closed-door board briefings
Confidential sessions for boards and executive committees — no vendors, no recording, direct questions.
Topics
Current talks.
Agentic AI as an operating discipline
Agents are entering the enterprise through every SaaS product you already own. How to govern centralised, embedded and hybrid agent models — with control gates that survive an audit.
From AI pilots to production P&L
Why 70–90% of enterprise AI pilots never reach production, and the organisational moves that get them out of pilot purgatory — drawn from building a prioritised portfolio of 286 use cases.
The CIO as board-level value driver
Making technology a driver of growth rather than a line of cost — what boards should demand from the CIO seat, and what CIOs should demand back.
Technology integration in M&A
In an M&A you integrate two cultures, not two tech stacks. Lessons from the technology side of merging businesses, where the org chart is the hard part.
AI for asset-heavy operations
Where predictive and agentic AI actually create value when the business runs on vehicles, plants and field crews — predictive maintenance, dispatch and dynamic pricing.
Building IT shared services at scale
The playbook behind 3× the services at 60% lower cost across a 400-company group — and the sequencing that keeps the politics from killing it.