Speaking 2026

IAKA 2026 — Namur, Belgium

Opening keynote at IAKA, the Walloon trade show for AI and digital tools in business, at the Business Village d'Ecolys. Most enterprise AI projects stop after the demo: the POC is built to succeed and never meets real users, customers or IT constraints. The talk replaces it with an MVP in production on a narrow scope, measured from day one, around the 2026 theme: choose, orchestrate, transform.

SaaS & AI Kitchen (OMR Reviews & Carlsquare) — Berlin, Germany

Panelist at SaaS & AI Kitchen, a curated SaaS and AI learning format for founders and investors by OMR Reviews and Carlsquare. Moderated by Mark Miller (Carlsquare), with Deepa Gautam-Nigge (SAP), Franz Faerber (Lensing.ai), and Kerstin Stier (engomo), the panel explores how Big SaaS and AI-first companies compete and collaborate, and how each can build a sustainable business.

Stanford Faculty Club — Palo Alto, CA

Featured speaker at the AI Assurance & Governance Summit 2026, hosted by TrustModel.ai. A single-track, invited-audience day bringing together frontier labs, venture capital, regulated industry, academia, and insurers around how AI systems are evaluated, governed, and assured. Talk title to be announced.

Bizzmine Digital Summit 2026 — Online

AI keynote at the Bizzmine Digital Summit 2026, a live-streamed event hosted by Fortino Capital portfolio company Bizzmine for CXOs, Quality and EHS leaders, on orchestrating the future of QHSE management.

Sommet de la Transformation Agentique (Ofelia) — Paris, France

Plenary talk on AI ROI at the first Sommet de la Transformation Agentique, hosted by Fortino Capital portfolio company Ofelia at La Galerie Bourbon. An invitation-only morning for 40 executives, held under Chatham House Rule, on moving AI from a cost line to a revenue line.

Efficy — Paris, France

Speaking at the Efficy CRM Day in Paris, an event run by Fortino Capital portfolio company Efficy.

We Love SaaS AI Leadership Day 2026 — Amsterdam, Netherlands

Presentation on how AI is changing the way software teams build products. Part of a practical afternoon for SaaS founders and CxOs focused on the real impact of AI on product strategy and engineering workflows.