Speaking · keynote, fireside, panel or workshop · 15 to 90 minutes
Talks for the people who have to sign off on AI.
Boards, chief information and security officers, regulators, national AI programme offices, and the engineers who build what they sign off on. Every talk starts from a deployment that is running, names the practice I am against, and ends on a line you can take back to your own meeting. No product slides.
01Three talks
Boards, CIOs, regulators, governments
The Sovereignty Test: sovereign AI is a control question, not a location question
A bank stored every byte in Frankfurt and still failed. Sovereign AI is sold as a place; the deployments that work treat it as four questions of control: legal, operational, technical and strategic. The talk walks the test, scores two real national-scale deployments live, names sovereignty washing for what it is, and leaves the room with six statements and a number out of 30.
15-minute fireside · 25-minute keynote · 60-minute workshop with the self-assessment
Enterprise and partner audiences
Beyond the pilot: production AI in a regulated enterprise is an access problem, not a model problem
The GPUs are bought and the models are served, and very little is in production. The gap is not the model. It is access: to the data an agent is allowed to see and nothing else, to the person who owns the business problem, to a human who approves the step that matters, and to evidence a regulator can read. Field notes from telecommunications, banking and government.
20 to 40 minutes, or a panel
Developer and infrastructure stages
Reading our own lock file: what open source actually buys you in a sovereign stack
You cannot own a platform you cannot read. The builder's version of the argument: open weights, open orchestration and an open gateway as control properties rather than licensing preferences, with the lock file as the honest record of what you depend on and who can change it under you.
30 to 45 minutes, demo optional
02Stages
Fifteen stages since 2023, from Sydney to Taipei.
- HPE Discover More Hong KongRosewood Hong Kong, October 2026. Breakout with HPE and the luncheon fireside with NVIDIA.
- HPE Unleash AI Office HoursSeptember 2026. First partner invited to present to HPE's Private Cloud AI sellers worldwide.
- NVIDIA GTC TaipeiJune 2026. Stage Hall A: "Sovereign AI agents in production, on the full NVIDIA stack".
- Katonic, HPE and SUSE live sessionJuly 2026; and AI governance in assurance with Deloitte India, May 2026.
- Computer Society of India, Foundation DayMarch 2026. In conversation with Dr P. V. S. Rao, Padma Shri.
- HPE APAC Solutions Sales BootcampBangkok, February 2026. 250 of HPE's solution leaders, on agentic AI.
- World Safety Summit 2026Dubai, January 2026. Main-stage panel, hosted by Dubai Civil Defence.
- Pilipinas AI launchePLDT, Manila, September 2025. "Building the Philippines' Sovereign AI".
- Dubai AI Week 2025April 2025. Australia's role in global AI, with the Australian delegation.
- Indiaspora Global AI SummitDubai Future Foundation, March 2025.
- e& enterprise, Power of PartnersMarch 2025. Recorded with Ahmed Abdi Omer on generative AI in customer experience.
- Generative AI Factory webinarsWith HPE, NVIDIA and IDC, February and March 2025.
- Frost & Sullivan live discussionJune 2024.
- National AI Centre, AI at WorkSydney, May 2024. With the National AI Centre, GHD and SambaNova.
- AGSM at UNSW Business SchoolSydney, May 2023. Operationalising the business value of AI, with Dr Lamont Tang.
Also: Cisco Partner Summit 2026, Vancouver (featured on Cisco's AI ISV Showcase) · LEAP 2026, Riyadh · NVIDIA GTC 2026, San Jose · AI Action Summit, Paris, February 2025, invited by France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to represent Australia.
03Recordings
Left: hosted by Dr Lamont Tang, Director of Industry Projects, AGSM at UNSW Business School. Right: Yettel and Katonic, October 2026, a conversation with Saša Leković, Chief Technology and Information Officer of Yettel, filmed at Yettel's headquarters in Belgrade. 3 minutes 45, English captions, produced by Yettel.
- Power of Partners with Katonic, e& enterprise, March 2025, 10 minutes.
- Katonic AI x e& enterprise: Women in AI Hackathon, May 2025, 1 minute.
- Executive Corner: expert talk with Prem Naraindas, Kalkine Media, February 2021, 22 minutes.
- Sydney Start-Up Show, episode 13, AI Ventures, 2021, 37 minutes.
04For organisers
What you get
Bios at 50, 100 and 185 words. Headshots, portrait and square, at print resolution. Abstract, three takeaways and an audience line for each talk, adjusted to your track. A post about the event from my own account within 24 hours, and the clip once you release it. No product pitch, no competitor names, no customer that has not put its name on the record.
Topics
Sovereign AI and digital sovereignty. AI governance and regulation in banking, telecommunications and government. AI agents from pilot to production. AI infrastructure and GPU economics for nations and enterprises. Open source in regulated environments. AI energy per token, from the Lead Green index.