Three signature talks
Each one is built for a specific room. Who it's for, what they leave with, why me, and how it can be delivered — so an organizer can decide in two minutes.
Enterprise AI Transformation
Modernization doesn't fail at the tool layer. It stalls at governance.
Who it's for
CIOs, CDOs, VPs of IT and transformation, and their chiefs of staff — the people holding an AI mandate while a board asks about risk.
What they leave with
- The three places transformation actually breaks — none of them is the model.
- A governance architecture that speeds adoption instead of policing it: human-in-the-loop controls that scale.
- A 90-day readiness map they can run on Monday.
Why me
Two decades designing operating models at 140,000-employee scale, and currently preparing the enterprise for embodied AI — robots that self-correct, adapt and work from little instruction. The examples are mine, not case studies.
Formats
Keynote 45 min · Executive briefing 60–90 min · Half-day workshop · English or Spanish.
Human-Machine Trust
Trust in the loop: why AI adoption fails and what leaders can do about it
Who it's for
Responsible-AI and governance audiences, policy-adjacent rooms, and leadership teams in regulated industries.
What they leave with
- Trust as a system property you design, not a sentiment you survey.
- Where human-in-the-loop belongs — and where it is theater.
- The questions to ask a vendor before the pilot, not after.
Why me
The person who writes the governance also has to make the room adopt it. I've done both sides, at scale, in environments where transparency and accountability were conditions of operating.
Formats
Keynote · Panel or fireside · Technical talk (submitted in this form to the Agentic AI Summit at UC Berkeley, 2026) · English or Spanish.
Latino Leadership in Tech
The climb, the culture, the road: Latino leadership in tech
Who it's for
HACE, ALPFA, SHPE, SVLLS, Latino ERGs and Hispanic-serving institutions — bilingual rooms welcome.
What they leave with
- Sponsorship over mentorship — how to ask for it and how to give it.
- Navigating corporate culture bilingually without shrinking.
- The board path: what the Latino Board Leadership Academy taught me about getting into the room where decisions are made.
Why me
Twenty years inside a Fortune 100 as a Bay Area-born Mexican-American; dual US/MX citizen; conference sessions delivered in Spanish in Latin America.
Formats
ERG session 45 min · Panel · Fireside · Student keynote · English, Spanish or code-switching.
Also available
- The agentic enterprise: designing for AI that acts, not just answers. From query-response to delegation — how to hand tasks to AI agents without losing accountability. Talk, 30–45 min.
- Governing AI agents: accountability in systems that act without asking. Oversight frameworks that scale with autonomous AI without grinding innovation to a halt. Panel, 30 min.
- Soy el arquitecto: owning your seat at the AI table as a Latino professional. Part practitioner blueprint, part community call to action. Keynote, 45 min, bilingual.
