Speaking, panels, and workshops on AI for real businesses.

Conference talks and workshops for operator and engineering audiences, built around production work rather than a market forecast. The through-line is always the same: demos are easy, week three is hard, and the difference is almost entirely evaluation and escalation design.

Talks currently on offer

• Why your AI pilot passed the demo and failed in week three.
• Evaluation harnesses for conversational agents, with live failures.
• The real unit economics of a voice agent, line by line.
• Ops leverage for small businesses: what to automate and what never to.

Format and what is needed

Thirty to forty-five minutes plus questions, or a half-day workshop where the room builds and breaks an eval suite against a real agent. Workshops need laptops and about ten participants to work properly. Slides are shared afterwards with the sources intact rather than a stripped PDF.

Booking

Travel is covered for events outside the US Southeast; fees are waived for community and trade-association events where the audience is operators rather than vendors. Email directly with date, audience, and room size — a decision usually comes back the same week.