# Speaking > Talks at conferences, corporate events, and meetups. Source: https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/ ## Topics I Speak About - **AI Operating Models:** How an organisation has to change before AI delivers measurable value, the core of The Cybernetic Enterprise - **Humans and AI:** Thinking, judgment and skills when machines take over more of the work - **AI-Augmented Engineering:** Software delivery with agents, and the platform underneath - **AI Governance:** Who owns the AI bill, who checks the agents and what they can see before they act - **AI and Society:** Europe's digital sovereignty and the question of who stays in control - **Enterprise Architecture:** Lean architecture work that connects strategy and execution in the age of AI ## In this section (27) - [Who Is Afraid of AI? Living and Working Well with AI](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/who-is-afraid-of-ai/), 2026-10-08: Will AI kill us all, and will it take our jobs? A talk that takes both fears apart, shows where the real change is happening and ends with a call to act: don't freeze, move. - [AI-Augmented Thinking: The Real Challenge Isn't AI. It's Us.](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/ai-augmented-thinking/), 2026-09-22: Agentic AI can now take over a surprising amount of work on its own. The bottleneck is no longer the machine. It is who still answers for the result, and that is a leadership task nobody can delegate. - [Beyond the Hype: Understanding and Applying AI in Innovation](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/beyond-the-hype-understanding-and-applying-ai-in-innovation/), 2026-06-17: 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. - [Welcome to the Age of AI Idiots!](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/willkommen-im-zeitalter-der-ki-idioten/), 2026-05-18: 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. - [Europe Only Survives AI If We Act, You Too](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/europa-ueberlebt-ki-nur-wenn-wir-handeln/), 2026-05-18: AI does not decide Europe's future. Human decisions do. Which skills to build, how to choose AI tools, and how to reduce dependencies. - [2046: Do We Control Machines or Do They Control Us?](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/2046-steuern-wir-maschinen-oder-steuern-sie-uns/), 2026-05-18: Imagine it is 2046. Your most important conversation is not with a human. What remains of autonomy, responsibility, and purpose? Three scenarios. - [AI Has No Brain. Engineers Do.](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/ki-hat-kein-gehirn-ingenieurinnen-schon/), 2026-04-22: AI is everywhere, between hype, hope, and knee-jerk reactions. But engineering is more than output: responsibility, systems thinking, and decision quality matter. - [The AI-Native Bank: Why AI's Future Is Organisational](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/the-ai-native-bank/), 2026-03-31: How to build adaptive, AI-native organisations where people, technology, data, and AI models work together efficiently. A keynote on AI-native banking. - [AI in Facility Management: From Trend to Real Value](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/ki-im-facility-management/), 2025-10-23: What AI really is, how it can concretely support facility management, and where the opportunities, limits, and risks lie. - [Developer Experience and Platform Engineering](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/developer-experience-and-platform-engineering/), 2025-07-17: 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. - [AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/ai-augmented-devops-with-platform-engineering/), 2025-07-17: 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-Augmented Delivery: Building AI-Powered Organizations](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/ai-augmented-delivery/), 2025-06-03: How to build an AI-augmented organization that leverages AI for continuous adaptation and competitive advantage. - [Monday Morning: Idea. Monday Afternoon: Prototype. Become a Builder!](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/monday-morning-idea-monday-afternoon-prototype/), 2025-06-01: 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. - [Continuous Security with DevSecOps: How Platform Engineering Transforms Modern Application Security](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/continuous-security-with-devsecops/), 2025-02-19: How combining DevSecOps principles with Platform Engineering addresses the challenges of ensuring continuous security in a fast-paced, agile environment. - [Continuously Deliver Value While Reducing Cost](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/continuously-deliver-value-while-reducing-cost/), 2025-01-21: 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. - [Harnessing the Power of Enterprise Architecture and AI for Strategic Advantage](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/harnessing-enterprise-architecture-and-ai/), 2024-10-20: Explore the intersection of Enterprise Architecture and AI, focusing on how organizations can implement and benefit from robust platform strategies. - [MLOps: From ML Prototypes to Production Through Platform-Based Operationalization](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/mlops-from-prototypes-to-production/), 2024-07-22: How MLOps helps organizations move machine learning from isolated prototypes into reliable production systems through a strong platform foundation. - [The Digital Factory](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/the-digital-factory/), 2023-08-05: 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. - [GitHub Copilot Hackathon: How AI-Powered Coding Changes Software Development](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/github-copilot-hackathon/), 2023-06-20: How GitHub Copilot is reshaping software development by introducing AI-assisted coding into everyday engineering work. - [DevOps: Thinking in Systems & Value Streams](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/devops-thinking-in-systems-and-value-streams/), 2023-03-06: 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: How Companies Continuously Deliver Value](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/devops-wie-unternehmen-kontinuierlich-wert-liefern/), 2022-10-27: 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. - [How Zühlke Implemented Lean Portfolio Management with Kanban and OKRs](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/lean-portfolio-management-with-kanban-and-okrs/), 2021-11-29: How to translate strategy into execution in a transparent, lean, and scalable way using Lean Portfolio Management, portfolio kanban, and OKRs. - [Participatory Budgeting: Funding in the 21st Century](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/participatory-budgeting/), 2021-06-29: A collaborative approach to distributing innovation and development budgets faster, more transparently, and more effectively along value streams and strategic priorities. - [What is the Business Case for DevOps?](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/what-is-the-business-case-for-devops/), 2019-01-31: 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. - [Experience Report: How to Introduce DevOps in a Large Enterprise?](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/experience-report-devops-in-large-enterprise/), 2019-01-31: 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. - [How to Survive Game of Thrones: What Westeros Teaches Us About Conflict, Violence, and Personal Resilience](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/how-to-survive-game-of-thrones/), 2018-09-05: Using the world of Westeros as a mirror for real human dynamics: conflict types, escalation, de-escalation strategies, and personal resilience. - [Personal Kanban: Visualize Your Work, Limit Your WIP, Transform Your Life](https://romanoroth.com/en/speaking/personal-kanban/), 2014-09-12: A lightweight, visual workflow management method to become more productive, efficient, and effective, one sticky note at a time.