Speaking · 2026
I don't give tech talks. I give CFOs and CIOs a shared language.
Three signature talks for the boardrooms, FinOps summits, and executive offsites where business and technology need to leave with the same vocabulary on AI cost, governance, and the efficiency era.
Three Talks · Three Audiences
Lead with the talk.
Each runs 25 to 60 minutes. Customized for your audience, industry, and outcomes. All three available as fireside or panel format.
Flagship Keynote
The Efficiency Era.
For two decades, every technology problem had the same answer: throw more at it. More servers. More cloud. More headcount. That era is over, and agentic AI is the accelerant that ends it for good. This keynote lays out what the efficiency era actually demands of boards, executive teams, and the technical leaders sitting between them.
Best for:
CIO/CDO summits
Board offsites
General business leadership
Technology · Data · Marketing
Context Engineering Is the New FinOps.
FinOps was the discipline of the cloud era. Context engineering is the discipline of the AI era, the practice of governing what your agents see, what they touch, what they spend, and how that compounds across a 15-year application lifecycle. This talk lays out the new mandate for the leaders building it.
Best for:
Technology & data leaders
Marketing operations
FinOps Foundation events
Investor · CFO · Board
What Your AI Projects Actually Cost.
Best for:
Investor events
CFO & board forums
Executive offsites
Audience Fit
Rooms that need a shared language between business and technology.
Boardrooms
FinOps Summits
Keynotes for FinOps Foundation events and industry conferences
Executive Offsites
Leadership team retreats on tech strategy and the efficiency era
Investor Forums
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