Keynotes & Workshops

Ideas That Move
Organisations Forward.

Keynotes, campus sessions, and community talks. CTO forums, India GCC offsites, college TPO/Dean programs, and meetup organizers: send date, city or virtual, audience, and duration. First ten minutes: the architecture claim. Rest of the hour: how teams ship it.

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Vatsal Shah speaking at a technology conference
Signature Topics

Keynotes Tailored to Your Audience

KEYNOTE / WORKSHOP

The Agentic Enterprise: Building AI Systems That Act

Where an agent is allowed to act, and where a person still signs. One orchestration path from supervisor to worker to tool to review, plus the checks before that agent touches a live system.

  • Name the job the agent owns, and the job it must not own
  • Walk one path: supervisor, worker, tool, human review
  • Leave with a governance checklist for the first live workflow
CxO, VP Engineering, Digital Leaders
45–90 min
KEYNOTE

Generative AI in the Enterprise: From Pilot to Production

A demo and a production path are different systems. This session covers evaluation, fallback, and the human override, then what to staff after the pilot.

  • Separate the demo path from the path that pages on-call
  • Set evaluation, fallback, and a named human override
  • List the roles the first production slice actually needs
Technical Leaders, Engineering Org
45–60 min
WORKSHOP

AI Transformation Playbook: Strategy for Non-Technical Executives

A working session for budget, vendor choice, build versus buy, and risk. The room leaves with decisions, not a slide of vendor claims.

  • Put budget, vendor, build-versus-buy, and risk on one page
  • Read an ROI model as a planning tool, not a forecast
  • Write the decisions the room will own after the session
C-Suite, Board Members, Business Leaders
2–4 hours
PANEL / TALK

Engineering Culture at Scale: Teams That Ship With AI

What changes in hiring, review, and accountability when assistants draft the first pass. A working agreement the team can adopt the same week.

  • What stays human in hiring, review, and incident ownership
  • How leads keep accountability when the first draft is faster
  • A one-page working agreement the team can try next sprint
Engineering Leaders, HR, Culture Leads
30–60 min
What to Expect

Every Session Is Custom-Built.

You send date, city or virtual, audience, and duration

A short research call locks the room, the objective, and what the hour must change

The deck uses your industry context. The first ten minutes state the architecture claim

The rest of the session is how a team ships that claim, with live Q&A built in

After the session: slides, a reading list, and the frameworks named in the room

Same shape for a CTO forum, an India GCC offsite, a campus TPO or Dean session, a panel, or a meetup

Book a Speaking Engagement

Send four facts. Reply typically within 24 hours.

  • Date and time zone
  • City, or virtual
  • Who is in the room
  • Duration: 30–60 min, 45–90 min, or 2–4 hours
Submit speaking or campus request

Available for in-person events worldwide and virtual conferences.

Speaking and workshops: FAQ

Booking, topics and formats for keynotes, workshops and campus sessions.

Virtual and in person
How do I book Vatsal Shah for a keynote or workshop?

Send the date, city or virtual format, audience and duration through https://shahvatsal.com/contact. A reply typically comes within 24 hours, and a short research call precedes the deck. Formats include CTO forums, India GCC offsites, campus TPO and Dean sessions, internal engineering workshops and meetup talks.

What speaking topics does Vatsal Shah cover?

Agentic systems that act, generative AI from pilot to production, an executive workshop on budget and risk, and engineering culture when assistants draft the first pass. Sessions run from a 30-minute panel to a 4-hour workshop.

Is Vatsal Shah available for virtual keynotes?

Yes. In-person and virtual sessions are both available. State the format with the date so the session shape matches the room. Live Q&A is part of every session.

Do you speak to students and campuses?

Yes. Campus TPO and Dean sessions are one of the standard formats listed on this page. Choose the Session, campus or community talk focus on the contact form and describe the audience and the outcome you want.

What do organizers need to prepare?

The audience profile, the outcome you want from the session, the time slot, and any compliance or recording rules. With those, the first ten minutes state the architecture claim and the rest of the hour shows how a team ships it.

Is there a fee for speaking?

Fees depend on format, travel, duration and preparation. Send the details through the contact form and the reply will cover terms before anything is confirmed.

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