Why this talk

Most AI talks skip the part that actually matters.

Plenty of speakers will tell you AI is coming. Few will tell you what's sitting between your organization and being ready for it: undocumented systems, technical debt nobody scoped, and the internal politics that kill more transformation projects than any technology ever did.

This talk is built from the inside of that work — multi-million row data pipelines, legacy systems quietly running critical operations, and what it took to move them forward without breaking what already worked.

What audiences walk away with
Talk formats

Three ways to bring this to your event.

30–45 MIN

Keynote

A narrative-driven session on the realities of legacy-to-AI-ready transformation — built for leadership audiences who need the "why" before the "how."

HALF-DAY / FULL-DAY

Workshop

A working session for data and IT teams ready to start mapping their own environment, with practical frameworks they can apply immediately.

CONVERSATIONAL

Panel / Fireside

Conversational format for conferences and industry events — happy to go deep on technical debt, AI readiness, or the politics of internal buy-in.

Who this is for

Leaders who own the data, and the decisions about it.

Data and technology leadership audiences — CIOs, CTOs, heads of data, and the teams reporting to them — especially in industries like financial services, investment management, and fund accounting, where data accuracy isn't optional and legacy systems run deep.

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