Topics I speak on
Sessions are built around the audience rather than a fixed deck
Product thinking and applied AI
How organisations decide what to build
How large organisations decide what to build, how those decisions go wrong, and what honest product discovery looks like. Includes where generative AI genuinely changes how work gets done and where it does not, drawn from building AI-enabled products rather than from theory.
Building ventures from research
From laboratory to market
What happens between a promising piece of work and a business that survives contact with customers. Drawn from my own route out of a biotechnology research project and years spent building ventures since. Previously delivered as an invited lecture on entrepreneurship, start-ups and bio-entrepreneurship.
Digital transformation that lands
Why most programmes disappoint
Transformation programmes rarely fail on technology. They fail on scope, sequencing, ownership and the gap between what was approved and what was understood. On enterprise platform selection, process digitisation and running programmes that finish, drawn from work with government-backed and enterprise clients across the Gulf.
Innovation inside institutions
Working with the grain
Innovation in universities, hospitals and public bodies looks nothing like innovation in a startup, and pretending otherwise is why so much of it fails. On governance, incentives and finding the work that will actually survive.
Recent and previous
Enquiries
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My associations
Some of the institutions and businesses I have worked with so far.
