Speaking.
I explain AI and software to the people who have to make decisions about it: executives, government delegations, founders and technical teams. I’ve run a software business on AI agents since 2021, so the talks are about what actually works, not what’s in the press release.
Talks
How to have AI run your life
Executives, risk and compliance, innovation teams
I use AI for everything, from support to my bank card, and I don’t trust it with any of it. The limits that sit outside the model, and the five controls a regulated company should copy.
Claude Code is not a coding tool, and other heresies
Founders, operators, engineering leads
Why a coding agent is really a general-purpose operator, and what it looks like to run support, ops and marketing through one.
Read: how I organize a dozen AI agents →How do language models know, remember and reason? They don’t.
Non-technical and mixed audiences
A plain-language model of what an LLM is doing, so people can tell what it will be good and bad at.
Slides and write-up →A $1.6M software business with no employees
Executives, business groups, delegations
How a one-person company runs on AI agents day to day, and which parts still need a human.
Read: how AI runs my business →Loop it till you make it
Entrepreneurs, marketers, product teams
Building an AI loop that scores its own work and rewrites its own prompt, and why working ads still didn’t sell the product.
Slides and write-up →
What organizers said
“We got great reviews from your last engagement with us!”
Silicon Valley Innovation Center, Corporate Innovation “All the participants had a great experience and learnt a lot about Silicon Valley on the tour. It was very informative.”
Silicon Valley Innovation Center, program team
Where I’ve spoken
- Nov 2026
Alex’s AI meetup at REALITY, Da Nang
“How do language models know, remember and reason? They don’t.” About 27 attendees, two and a half hours with Q&A.
Slides → - Oct 2026
AI meetup, Da Nang
“Who grades the AI?” A second AI grades the first one’s work until it passes.
Slides → - Aug 2026
- 2018
Silicon Valley Innovation Center, San Mateo
Briefed visiting delegations of central bankers and corporate executives from Egypt, Turkey, Switzerland, Hungary and Australia on how Silicon Valley works, and led their tours.
- 2018
Lecture for a law firm, via SVIC
“Silicon Valley Innovation Ecosystem: The Future of Business.”
Book a talk
Keynotes, workshops, executive briefings and delegation visits, in person or remote. Tell me who the audience is and I’ll suggest a talk.
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