Events & speaking

The thesis, on stage.

Where the argument gets made in public: models are commodities, plumbing is the moat. Conference keynotes, broadcast, and the governance-first workshop series — booking now for 2026.

Schedule

Where to find the argument.

2026GTC · Spring
Keynote · infrastructure thesis
GTC 2026 — The Infrastructure Thesis

Why enterprise value is shifting entirely to the integration layer: GPT-class models go obsolete in six months; an audit trail, a kill switch and constrained identities do not. The case for governance as the only viable brake on test-time compute.

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Upcoming
2026Open · all year
Workshop series · Digital Dalí
The Governance-First Workshop Series

Four levels from a half-day AI Awareness session to a C-suite Board Briefing — no theory, you leave with concrete steps. Early-bird −20% to 30 April 2026.

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2026Broadcast
Television · Trends Z
Trends Z — "No theory. Three concrete steps."

On Belgium's business channel making the practitioner's case: AI without governance doesn't scale, and a half-day of clarity beats another year of pilots that never ship.

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Aired
2026On request
Private · boards & leadership
Board & Leadership Briefings

A half-day, on-site, for your board: strategy, risk, governance and a decision-ready proposal — mapped to the EU AI Act, SAMA and DORA. White-label available via Big-4 partners.

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GTC 2026 · the talk in five points

Models are commodities. Plumbing is the moat.

The infrastructure thesis, condensed — the five claims the keynote defends.

01 // the moat

Plumbing is the moat

Models become obsolete in six months. An audit trail, a kill switch and constrained agent identities do not. Enterprise value is shifting to the integration layer.

02 // compute

Test-time compute needs brakes

As inference shifts to test-time reasoning, the risk of unconstrained agent loops explodes. Hardware accelerates; governance is the only viable brake.

03 // regulation

The EU AI Act as a velocity enabler

Compliance isn't a roadblock if architected first. Frameworks mapped to SAMA, PDPL and the EU AI Act let you deploy while competitors sit in legal review.

04 // observability

Auditability over accuracy

When an agent makes a multi-million error at 3 AM, "99% accuracy" means nothing. You need a cryptographic, fully reversible reasoning trace.

05 // architecture

The human-in-the-loop token

High-stakes actions must mechanically pause. True autonomy is built on asynchronous human authorization gates, not unbridled execution.

→ // the system

The 6 Pipes

The five claims become one buildable system. See how the thesis is enforced in production.

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Booking · talk topics

What I come to say.

Keynotes and briefings tuned to the room — engineering, board, or investment. No deck theatre; the cases do the persuading.

For the board

Your AI pipeline has no kill switch

The governance gap behind the 70% pilot-death rate, the EU AI Act countdown, and the four non-negotiables that decide whether AI ships.

Keynote · 30–45 min · Q&A
For engineering

The Stack Bridge

Traditional AI vs the governed stack, layer by layer — identity, execution, observability, safety — with the ADR patterns and reference architecture.

Technical talk · 45 min
For investors

Is the moat real, or an API wrapper?

How to tell genuine infrastructure defensibility from a thin model wrapper when evaluating AI scale-ups — the due-diligence checklist.

Fireside · panel · DD session

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