I retired myself from public speaking in 2024. In this post I explained why: mainly because I grew tired of repeating the same mantras without revisiting my beliefs. In the past two years I received lots of invitations to participate in events as a speaker and rejected most of them, keeping only those for students.
At the end of 2025, I started feeling like public speaking again. I know there are plenty of people talking about AI and data. Unfortunately, most of them are really focused on new LLMs, libraries, and tools. I think I still have lots to say about the application of these technologies within companies and society, the practical, messy realities that don’t make it into keynote presentations.
In 2024, I grew tired of myself and repeating the same mantras. My message probably hasn’t changed much, but I’ve been writing quite a lot in the past years. I think I’ve polished my old ideas and created a few new ones that I want to share. I’ve been exploring how we need to learn to read the maps AI gives us, how context matters more than the latest model, and how embracing incompetence is essential when navigating this changing landscape.
The difference now? I’m not just repeating what worked before. I’ve spent time thinking, writing, reading and connecting ideas. Writing and reading books, provides me the kind of pace I need to deep dive in complex topics and turbulent times. I’m ready to speak from a place of renewed curiosity rather than autopilot.
So if you think I can contribute to an event, drop me a line.