Talks & Events
Keynotes. Workshops. Rooms with no chairs.
On-site or remote · India, EU, GCC, UK, SEA. One hour, a half-day, or a two-day intensive. Content tailored to the room — I read your last three board decks before I step on stage.
- Keynote 45 min · fireside 30 · workshop 90.
- Custom on the brief · industry overlay built in.
- Recording encouraged · clean cut shared.
- Pro-bono posture for govt + edu with reach >500.
“I walked into a room of 45+ project managers. No slides. No deck. No script.”
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From the roomsI've been in — and the feeds that came out of them.
Live shorts. LinkedIn originals. Unedited.
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PMI Gujarat · Keynote · Dec 2024
I had the incredible opportunity to be part of the PMI Gujarat Chapter — NEXTGEN Project Management, elevating our world through emerging technologies.
Live · this quarter
48,000+
LinkedIn impressions
- Field notes11
- Industries20
- Years shipping15+
Karnavati · AI Conclave 2025
Unlocking the Power of AI: it's all about the right prompt. At Karnavati University, I had the privilege of sharing a key insight…
Rajkot · Keynote · 2025
What happens when AI meets India's social and rural future? You get a room full of students, academics, and leaders in Rajkot asking the questions that actually matter.
PM Forum · Off-script · 2025
I walked into a room of 45+ project managers. No slides. No deck. No script.
- PMI Gujarat
- Karnavati University
- Atmiya AI Summit
- HP WeRise · Ahmedabad
- Project Managers' Forum
- NIFT Gandhinagar
- MeitY · Digital India
- UIT Karnavati
- Ahmedabad founder circle
- PMI Gujarat
- Karnavati University
- Atmiya AI Summit
- HP WeRise · Ahmedabad
- Project Managers' Forum
- NIFT Gandhinagar
- MeitY · Digital India
- UIT Karnavati
- Ahmedabad founder circle
Talks · topics I come back to
Four core arguments, customised on the brief.
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Responsible GenAI for boards
What the EU AI Act, India DPDP and GCC PDPL actually mean for your next twelve months — in plain English.
02
From proof-of-concept to production
Why 80% of GenAI pilots die at pilot. The three disciplines that make the other 20% ship.
03
Building the modern AI-native engineering org
BMAD, pair-coding with Claude, role redesigns, and the metrics that tell you it's working.
04
Agentic systems without the theatre
Long-horizon orchestration with guardrails, replay and human-in-the-loop — for teams that will ship, not present.
Full topic library with abstracts and format variants on /press.
Stage time · recent
Past venues — recordings on request.
A speaker reel is in build. Until it ships, here’s the recent stage list — message me for raw recordings, audience-size breakdowns, or organiser references.
HP WeRise
Atmiya RCAI
Karnavati U.
PMI Gujarat
Keynote
Packed room
2026
Keynote
Vibe Coding: Show & Tell
PMI Gujarat Chapter · PM Forum
2026
Keynote
Responsible Generative AI
NIFT Gandhinagar
2025
Panel
AI for Product Leadership
Atmiya AI Summit
2025
Workshop
Applied GenAI for Enterprise
HP WeRise Ahmedabad
Campus residency · separate page
For universities + IIT / IIM campuses.
Two-day campus visits get their own dedicated page — student keynote, capstone advisory, faculty session on AI in the curriculum, and the pro-bono posture for govt + education with audience >500.
FAQ
Frequently asked.
What's a standard keynote length, and what other formats do you do?
Forty-five minutes is the default keynote — long enough for one strong argument with three concrete examples, short enough to leave a Q&A window. Thirty-minute fireside, sixty-minute boardroom briefing, and ninety-minute workshop are the other shapes. Tell me your slot and I'll tell you which version maps cleanest.Will you customise for our industry or company?
Yes — that's the default. The five core talks (see /press) get an industry overlay built in the two weeks before your event. Send the brief and I'll send back a one-pager with the framing, opening hook, and three audience-specific takeaways before we sign anything.How early should we book?
Six to twelve weeks for a keynote in India. Twelve to twenty weeks for international travel (visa headroom). Tighter is possible — message me with the date and I'll tell you immediately whether the calendar holds.Travel + stay — your end or ours?
Yours. Standard package: economy travel from Vadodara / Mumbai / Ahmedabad, single-room stay night-of, ground transport at venue. International (EU / GCC / UK / SEA) requires business-class long-haul — quoted per request.Recording — yours, mine, or both?
Encouraged — please share a clean cut with me. Internal use, conference highlights reel, social clips, and on-demand replay are all yours by default. Re-licensing for paid programmes (paywalled academies, etc.) is a separate conversation.What about non-profit, government, or educational events?
Discounted, pro-rated, or pro-bono depending on audience reach and mission. Government convocations, university keynotes, and not-for-profit summits with audience >500 are typically pro-bono in India. Travel + stay still requested for on-site.Campus residency — what does the two-day university version include?
Campus visits get their own dedicated page — /events/campus. Standard residency is one student keynote, one closed-door faculty session on AI in the curriculum, and a capstone-team advisory hour. UGC / AICTE alignment notes available on request.Where should I look first — here or your press kit?
If you’re booking the event, this page. If you need bios, headshots, abstracts and an A/V rider to forward to a programme committee, the dedicated press / speaker kit page is built for that.
Voices from the rooms
48,000+ impressions · 11 notes · 9 venues
PMI Gujarat · Keynote · Dec 2024 Karnavati · AI Conclave 2025 Rajkot · Keynote · 2025 PM Forum · Off-script · 2025
Rate card · corporate talks
Private. Sent once.
I don’t publish formal fees because every format changes them — room size, prep required, travel, exclusivity. Tell me the shape of the engagement and I’ll send a one-pager the same day.
Indicative range
- — Hour-long keynote
- — Half-day workshop
- — Two-day intensive · bespoke
- — Campus residency · pro-bono for govt / education with reach >500
- — GST + travel additional where applicable
What happens after you submit
- 01
Within 1 business day
I reply with three candidate dates, the right format, and any clarifying questions about the brief.
- 02
Within 3 business days
Custom one-pager: rate, travel package, exclusivity window, and the agenda framing for your audience.
- 03
Two weeks before the date
Final deck framing locked. A/V rider sent to your venue. Pre-event call with the host or programme chair.
“I walked into a room of 45+ project managers. No slides. No deck. No script.”
“AI won't satisfactorily replace you. But someone using AI well, might.”
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Ship-Day · Bangalore
In-person · limited to 40 builders.
A full-day co-build: bring a product, leave with a shipped MVP. Partners include founders, VCs and platform leads. Lunch and espresso included.
Physical · one-day
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Fractional CAIO Summit
Invite-only · CXO format.
Closed-door sessions on governance, cost, and multi-BU AI orchestration with heads of transformation from pharma, banking and manufacturing.
Hybrid
03
Voice Night
Live demos · Nordics & India.
A working evening on production voice agents. Bring a call you've been unable to automate. We take it live on stage.
Digital · quarterly
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AI Book Club
Monthly · members only.
One paper, one chapter, one demo each month. Small group, real discussion, no panels. Signed copies of The Retrieval Problem on publication.
Digital · recurring
Physical events · coming soon
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