Speaking

Talks at conferences, corporate events, and meetups.

Topics I Speak About
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AI-Augmented Delivery & Platform: Operating models for AI-powered organizations
Platform Engineering: Developer experience and self-service at scale
AI-Augmented DevOps: From experimentation to real business impact
Enterprise Architecture: Bridging strategy and execution
DevSecOps: Security built into the delivery system

Talks

Beyond the Hype: Understanding and Applying AI in Innovation

17 Jun 2026

Cutting through the AI noise to explore practical, grounded ways to leverage AI for innovation, from understanding how AI works to building AI-augmented enterprises.

AI Innovation AI-Augmented Enterprise Digital Transformation Platform Thinking

Welcome to the Age of AI Idiots!

18 May 2026

Where ChatGPT cowboys ride the hype, we need a clear look at AI. It is a pattern recognition machine, has no brain, and does not replace humans. Why we should start thinking in feedback loops.

AI AI-Augmented Thinking Hype Innovation

Europe Only Survives AI If We Act, You Too

18 May 2026

AI does not decide Europe's future. Human decisions do. Which skills to build, how to choose AI tools, and how to reduce dependencies.

AI Digital Sovereignty Europe Transformation

2046: Do We Control Machines or Do They Control Us?

18 May 2026

Imagine it is 2046. Your most important conversation is not with a human. What remains of autonomy, responsibility, and purpose? Three scenarios.

AI Future Ethics Society

AI Has No Brain. Engineers Do.

22 Apr 2026

AI is everywhere, between hype, hope, and knee-jerk reactions. But engineering is more than output: responsibility, systems thinking, and decision quality matter.

AI Engineering Systems Thinking Responsibility

The AI-Native Bank: Why AI's Future Is Organisational

31 Mar 2026

How to build adaptive, AI-native organisations where people, technology, data, and AI models work together efficiently. A keynote on AI-native banking.

AI-Native AI Banking Agentic AI Transformation

AI in Facility Management: From Trend to Real Value

23 Oct 2025

What AI really is, how it can concretely support facility management, and where the opportunities, limits, and risks lie.

AI Facility Management Digital Transformation

Developer Experience and Platform Engineering

17 Jul 2025

How Platform Engineering acts as the cornerstone for addressing today's challenges, providing scalability and flexibility to adapt swiftly, innovate faster, and bridge the skills gap.

Platform Engineering Developer Experience DevOps Automation

AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering

17 Jul 2025

Explore the fusion of AI with DevOps and platform engineering to automate workflows, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation. Learn about cutting-edge tools, practices, and future trends.

AI DevOps Platform Engineering Automation

AI-Augmented Delivery: Building AI-Powered Organizations

3 Jun 2025

How to build an AI-augmented organization that leverages AI for continuous adaptation and competitive advantage.

AI-Augmented Enterprise AI Digital Transformation

Monday Morning: Idea. Monday Afternoon: Prototype. Become a Builder!

1 Jun 2025

Bring an idea. We'll turn it into a digital product live: sharpen the problem, formulate requirements, build a prototype. AI is your co-builder, not your oracle.

AI Prototyping Workshop Innovation

Continuous Security with DevSecOps: How Platform Engineering Transforms Modern Application Security

19 Feb 2025

How combining DevSecOps principles with Platform Engineering addresses the challenges of ensuring continuous security in a fast-paced, agile environment.

DevSecOps Platform Engineering Security DevOps

Continuously Deliver Value While Reducing Cost

21 Jan 2025

How to reduce cost not by slowing down delivery, but by improving effectiveness and efficiency at the same time through product thinking, value stream mapping, and targeted AI.

Value Streams Product Thinking DevOps AI

Harnessing the Power of Enterprise Architecture and AI for Strategic Advantage

20 Oct 2024

Explore the intersection of Enterprise Architecture and AI, focusing on how organizations can implement and benefit from robust platform strategies.

Enterprise Architecture AI Platform Engineering Strategy

MLOps: From ML Prototypes to Production Through Platform-Based Operationalization

22 Jul 2024

How MLOps helps organizations move machine learning from isolated prototypes into reliable production systems through a strong platform foundation.

MLOps Machine Learning Platform Engineering AI

The Digital Factory

5 Aug 2023

We are entering the age of the industrialization of software development. The Digital Factory together with Platform Engineering will help industrialize digital product development across teams.

DevOps Platform Engineering Digital Factory Scaling

GitHub Copilot Hackathon: How AI-Powered Coding Changes Software Development

20 Jun 2023

How GitHub Copilot is reshaping software development by introducing AI-assisted coding into everyday engineering work.

AI GitHub Copilot Developer Experience Productivity

DevOps: Thinking in Systems & Value Streams

6 Mar 2023

In today's world, everybody wants to do DevOps. But why? What problems are we trying to solve? Together, we will take a step back and look at how you can architect for continuous delivery.

DevOps Systems Thinking Value Streams Continuous Delivery

DevOps: How Companies Continuously Deliver Value

27 Oct 2022

DevOps is far more than automation or tooling: it is the interplay of people, processes, and technology to develop products faster, more reliably, and more customer-focused.

DevOps Continuous Delivery Value Streams Product Thinking

How Zühlke Implemented Lean Portfolio Management with Kanban and OKRs

29 Nov 2021

How to translate strategy into execution in a transparent, lean, and scalable way using Lean Portfolio Management, portfolio kanban, and OKRs.

Lean Portfolio Management Kanban OKRs SAFe Agile

Participatory Budgeting: Funding in the 21st Century

29 Jun 2021

A collaborative approach to distributing innovation and development budgets faster, more transparently, and more effectively along value streams and strategic priorities.

Agile Budgeting Value Streams Innovation

What is the Business Case for DevOps?

31 Jan 2019

When you want to introduce DevOps you need to convince decision-makers it is worth investing. I will show you how to make the business case and the return on investment of DevOps.

DevOps Business Case ROI Transformation

Experience Report: How to Introduce DevOps in a Large Enterprise?

31 Jan 2019

How we changed the CI pipeline, architecture, scaled from 1 to 7 teams, automated deployment and testing, improved operations, added security scanning, and changed the culture.

DevOps Enterprise Transformation Experience Report