Speaking and moderation
I speak and moderate on agentic AI, cloud, security, and agentic DevOps/SDLC. My sessions draw on what I build: pioneering AI production systems for startups, banks, and telecom operators, serving as secure blueprints; cloud migrations at datacenter scale; and security advisory that contributed to the EU’s DORA regulation.
As an 8x certified cloud security professional, I’ve spoken to 2000+ conference attendees and moderated 10+ roundtables for 100+ C-level executives. Recently, I’ve shifted my sessions toward live demos, labs, and interactive experiences — nothing explains an AI agent like watching it work.
Are you planning an event? Reach out — my contact information is on the home page.
Here are my engagements, along with the topics each one covered:
- Deploying enterprise AI in a regulated environmentJul 16
How to set up an enterprise AI gateway securely: solution options, security controls, SOC monitoring, and identity management (SSO).
talks & labs40+ leaders & architects2 daysTopics · 5
Led a two-day hands-on workshop in Norway for a Nordic telecom group: more than 40 people from four business units, from security architects and platform leads to procurement.
- Security on managed foundation models: data protection, private networking, auditing
- Mapping an internal security framework, control by control, onto cloud building blocks
- SOC monitoring: alerting on misuse without collecting the prompts themselves
- Cost governance, including how to enforce a spending ceiling that actually holds
- Enterprise single sign-on debugged live, until it worked
- Two days on agents and modern architectureMay 12
An architecture review of a live streaming platform, then agents in everyday engineering work.
talks & labs~60 engineers & leadersTopics · 4
Designed the agenda and co-delivered a two-day on-site workshop in Vilnius for around 60 engineers from a Nordic telecom operator’s media teams in Sweden and Lithuania.
- Architecture review of a live streaming platform
- Foundation models and agents in everyday engineering work
- Analytics and business intelligence for engineering teams
- A production agent the teams had built themselves, demonstrated end to end
- GameDayMay 7
A headline hands-on track at AWS's public Stockholm Summit, coaching teams through agent and MCP server quests with the clock running.
hands-on12 teams4K+ summit visitorsTopics · 3
Helped run the GameDay at AWS Summit Stockholm, one of the day’s featured hands-on experiences, where teams competed through quests on building agents and MCP servers.
- Coaching teams through agent and MCP server quests
- Debugging agent setups live, with the clock running
- Explaining agentic patterns to people meeting them for the first time
See the event page at aws.amazon.com
- Agentic AI in an enterprise developer forumFeb 9
Opened on the research showing developers can be slower with AI, then demonstrated an agent running against the team's own services.
talk40+ engineers2 sessionsTopics · 4
Invited twice into a Nordic telecom operator’s recurring internal AI forum, to more than 40 engineers each time, opening on the research showing developers can be slower with AI rather than faster.
- Where AI-assisted development actually breaks down
- Spec-driven development as an alternative to prompt-and-hope
- Live demo of an agent runtime, its memory, and its gateway to existing systems
- An agent running against the team’s own services, shown on the return visit
- SDLC in the Agentic EraJan 27
Why AI-assisted coding alone doesn't deliver agility, closing with software built live on stage by an agent.
talk40+ managers & leadersTopics · 4
Stage talk at a Nordic telecom group’s AI summit in Norway, to more than 40 technology managers and leaders from three business units, closing with software built live on stage by an agent.
- Why AI-assisted coding on its own doesn’t deliver the agility it promises
- A maturity model, from conversational assistants to hybrid human and agent teams
- Aligning development standards so agent output stays reviewable
- Measuring velocity instead of tokens or lines of code
- Cloud modernization immersion dayJan 21
Designed the agenda for all three sites and ran Vilnius myself, opening with the multi-account strategy session streamed live to every room.
talks & labs~60 developers & leadership3 sitesTopics · 4
Designed and led a single-day immersion for a Nordic telecom operator’s streaming teams, running at the same time in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Vilnius.
- Opening session on multi-account strategy, streamed live to all three sites
- Hands-on labs on container orchestration and application networking
- Specialists coordinated across sites so every room got the same experience
- Participants rated their own knowledge 1.7 out of 5 before, and 3.4 after
- Agentic AI at a global hackathonSep 1
A week of agentic AI sessions, with sandbox accounts and live adoption analytics running underneath.
talks & labs213 participantsAWS Cloud Operations blog AWS Skill Builder course
Topics · 4
Ran hands-on AWS workshops during a Nordic telecom group’s first global AI hackathon, alongside 23 expert-led sessions reaching 213 participants across the Nordics and Asia.
- Amazon Q Developer CLI, from assistant to agentic development
- Generative AI for telecom, with a live demo for enterprise architects
- Sandbox environments for every team, with guardrails and spending limits
- Real-time analytics so organizers could watch adoption as it happened
I later wrote the sandbox and analytics platform up for the AWS Cloud Operations blog , which AWS turned into a course on AWS Skill Builder .
- Integrating AI with existing systemsSep 4
Data, legacy systems and skills: the three things that decide whether AI integration lands.
roundtable14 leadersincl. C-levelTopics · 5
- Understanding the complexities of integrating AI with systems
- Understanding your data and how you will aggregate it for the transition to AI
- Identifying legacy systems that may or may not be AI compatible
- Getting the staff and skills right for transitioning, operating and maintaining AI systems
- Adapting the workforce and workflows for an AI world
- Generative AI in the EnterpriseJun 11
Where generative AI was actually landing in enterprises, past the content-generation demos.
roundtableleadersTopics · 5
- Exploring its significance and impact
- Enhancing creativity and content generation – realistic content creation and personalized marketing materials
- Natural Language Generation (NLG) for business communication – Automating written content and improving customer support
- AI-driven product and service innovation – Rapid prototyping and iterative design using Generative AI
- Personalization and Customer Experience – Hyper-personalization to improve brand loyalty and customer satisfaction
- Developing AI integration planMar 7
Which legacy systems can take AI at all, and what it asks of the people around them.
roundtable12 leadersincl. C-levelTopics · 5
- Understanding the complexities of integrating AI with current systems
- Understanding your data and how you will aggregate it for the transition to AI
- Identifying legacy systems that may or may not be AI-compatible
- Getting the staff and skills right for transitioning, operating, and maintaining AI systems
- Adapting the workforce and workflows for an AI-driven world
- The Future of Cloud Security: Safeguarding Language Models from ChatGPT and BeyondJun 8
What safeguarding language models will demand of cloud architecture.
talkTopics · 12
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Event information:
CLOUD TRANSFORMATION: THE CLOUD ARCHITECTURE SHOW
Over the past few years, there has been significant growth towards both Hybrid & Multi-Cloud strategies—with organizations realizing that when it comes to cloud, it is not an either/or approach. The trend towards a cloud-first policy & approach has solidified with organizations choosing cloud for new applications & services.
Cloud Transformation Summit will dive deep into how organizations are combining on-prem data centers with public cloud services to be more agile, move applications closer to the end user, create new business models, and deliver improved revenue for the business. We look forward to seeing you online.
Chief Executives, Vice Presidents, Directors, Heads, Leaders, and Managers, including or specializing in:
- CTO
- CIO
- Cloud Architecture
- Cloud & IT Infrastructure
- Cloud Engineering
- Cloud Operations
- Cloud Services
- Technology & Cloud
- Cloud & IT Transformation
- Digital Transformation
- Cloud Centre of Excellence
- Cloud Strategy
- Security in multi-cloud environmentApr 18
Least privilege and shared responsibility, when every cloud implements both differently.
roundtableleadersTopics · 5
- The challenges of delivering security in a multi cloud environment
- Gaining a consistent view and functionality across a multicloud environment with cloud specific, native security tools
- Addressing different shared responsibility models across your cloud estate
- Securing cloud agnostic applications in a multi cloud environment
- Implementing and automating least privilege in a multicloud environment
- Attacks on Language ModelsFeb 1
How language models get attacked, given weeks after ChatGPT launched and everyone wanted to build on one.
talk1000+ employeesTopics · 4
Internal talk reaching 1000+ attendees, held shortly after ChatGPT’s launch.
- Understanding generative AI and large language models
- Vulnerabilities, risks, and exploits against language models
- Mitigations and solutions to new, unexplored problems
- New way of working: traditional data science vs LLMs
- Cloud and DevOps cultureNov 16
Developer-centric culture and DevOps practice, and how each one depends on the other.
talk2000+ attendees - Leveraging cloud platforms for digital transformationSep 13
Building a migration cost-benefit case that survives contact with the existing data model.
roundtableleadersTopics · 6
- Assessing your current data model
- Total cost of ownership and functionality
- Finding the optimal balance between on-premise and cloud
- Developing a realistic cost-benefit analysis of moving to the cloud
- Understanding the challenge of delivering a cloud model that aligns with business objectives
- Recognizing cultural challenges in the migration to the cloud
- Cloud and DevOps cultureAug 25
What developer autonomy looks like at leading tech companies, and which parts a bank can borrow.
talk100+ engineersTopics · 3
Internal edition of my GraphQL Scale Conference talk, delivered in team and company-wide sessions to 100+ developers and engineers.
- Researching how leading banks and tech companies work
- Developer-centric culture, autonomy, and flattened decision-making
- DevOps practices as the foundation of cloud adoption
- It can be done: business-critical workloads on cloudJul 1
The bank's first business-critical workload on cloud, told as a case for the teams still waiting.
talk≈1000 attendeesTopics · 4
Internal success-story presentations reaching ≈1000 attendees, driving further cloud adoption.
- First business-critical application on cloud with 24/7 availability
- Auto-scaling on demand instead of paying for idle hardware
- DevOps and infrastructure as code with team autonomy
- Deployment time from weeks to minutes
- How cloud is driving smart manufacturing and the growth of IoT
How connected factory equipment was reshaping the IT estates behind it.
roundtable8 leadersincl. C-levelMulti-Cloud SecurityGetting one consistent view of security when every cloud brings its own native tooling.
roundtable12 leadersincl. C-levelTopics · 2
- The challenges of delivering security in a multi-cloud environment
- Gaining a consistent view and functionality across a multi-cloud environment
Transforming Business and Gaining and Edge with Cloud ComputingJun 1Weighing flexibility and scalability against the cost of leaving the data centre.
roundtable7 leadersincl. C-levelTopics · 4
- Finding the optimal balance between on-premise and the cloud
- Comparing the costs of cloud computing to your current data cost model
- Improving flexibility, scalability and accessibility with cloud
- Discussing how cloud computing can assist business continuity throughout political ambiguity
- Cloud Community RoundtablesMay 2
Collecting developer-experience pain points from cloud users across the bank, and turning them into proposals the platform team acted on.
roundtableengineers & architectsTopics · 4
Organized and moderated an internal roundtable series, gathering cloud champions across business units.
- Moderated discussions on developer experience and platform pain points
- Live surveys to collect and prioritize feedback
- 100% positive feedback from participants
- Grew into a cloud community spanning 7 business initiatives with 15 formalized improvement proposals
- Cloud for Business Transformation and Competitive Advantage
Where the line between on-premise and cloud should sit, and what moving it actually costs.
roundtableleadersTopics · 4
- Finding the optimal balance between on-premise and the cloud
- Comparing the costs of cloud computing to your current data cost model
- Improving flexibility, scalability and accessibility with cloud
- Discussing how cloud computing can assist business continuity throughout political ambiguity
Leveraging Scalable Cloud Platforms to Successfully Deliver TransformationApr 12Why cloud platform programmes stall on culture more often than on technology.
roundtableleadersTopics · 4
- Considering the impact of new technologies in digital transformation
- Discussing the challenges associated with delivering platforms that align with business objectives
- Cloud as a facilitator for transformation; Spotlight on flexibility, scalability & accessibility
- Reviewing the cultural and technical challenges associated with migrating to the Cloud
- Introducing DockerFeb 1
The case for containers in a regulated bank, made by demo rather than slides.
talk10+ managersincl. C-levelTopics · 3
The containerization sequel to Introducing DevOps: presentations to management and hands-on workshops for engineers across departments.
- The business case for containers: deployment time cut to minutes, shown live
- Running Docker in a regulated bank: security, networking, and orchestration
- Workshops closing the knowledge gap, from engineers to management
- Introducing DevOpsJul 1
What DevOps is and what it changes for a bank, made concrete for leadership and the first adopting teams.
talkmanagers & engineersTopics · 3
A run of sessions, not one sitting: training the bank’s management on what DevOps changes and why it pays, and introducing CI/CD and configuration as code to the innovation teams hands-on.
- The case for DevOps: faster delivery, closer collaboration between development and operations
- CI/CD and configuration as code as the first practices to adopt
- Showing over telling: practical demonstrations of the working pipeline