Speaking on Romano Roth

Beyond the Hype: Understanding and Applying AI in Innovation

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Artificial Intelligence has moved from research labs into boardrooms, but too often it is surrounded by hype, inflated promises, and misguided investments. Many organizations rush to “do something with AI” without considering trust, data confidentiality, or the actual problems they are trying to solve.

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

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine it is 2046. And your most important conversation is not with a human. What remains of autonomy, responsibility, and purpose? A look into the AI future, in three scenarios.

Europe Only Survives AI If We Act, You Too

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Artificial Intelligence does not decide Europe’s future. Human decisions do. In this talk, I show what you can do differently starting tomorrow: which skills to build, how to choose AI tools, and how to reduce dependencies. No moral finger-wagging, just straight talk.

Welcome to the Age of AI Idiots!

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Where ChatGPT cowboys ride the hype, we need a clear look at AI:

It is a pattern recognition machine.
It has no brain. We still need to use our own.
It does not replace humans, it complements them.

Why we should start thinking in feedback loops.

AI Has No Brain. Engineers Do.

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

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In this talk, Romano Roth, Chief AI Officer at Zühlke, shows where AI already delivers reliable value in engineering today, where it fails, and what new skills and ways of working are emerging. With concrete examples from everyday practice.

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

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How to build adaptive, AI-native organizations where people, technology, data, and AI models work together efficiently.

$30 to 40 billion invested in generative AI globally. 95% of companies see no impact on their P&L. Only 5% create real value. Companies spend 93% on technology and only 7% on people. What is missing is not the next tool. What is missing is the ability to steer and adapt.

AI in Facility Management: From Trend to Real Value

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Artificial Intelligence is on everyone’s lips. But between media hype and concrete value for facility management, there is often a gap.

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In this talk, Romano Roth first explains what AI really is and how it works, giving participants a clear foundation to properly assess the technology.

AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Explore the fusion of AI with DevOps and platform engineering to automate workflows, enhance efficiency, and drive innovation.

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The convergence of AI, DevOps, and Platform Engineering is reshaping how we build and operate software. AI is no longer just a feature we ship, it is becoming part of how we ship. From intelligent CI/CD pipelines to AI-assisted incident response, the developer experience is changing fundamentally.

Developer Experience and Platform Engineering

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, businesses are constantly confronted with changing customer needs, increased competition, and a significant shortage of skilled workers. Agility and speed are no longer optional, they are critical to survival.

AI-Augmented Delivery: Building AI-Powered Organizations

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The most successful companies of the next decade will not just use AI. They will be organized around it. The AI-augmented enterprise is an operating model where human expertise and AI capabilities form a continuous feedback loop, enabling organizations to sense, decide, and act faster than ever before.

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

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Many teams have ideas, but they lose time between gut feelings, vague requirements, and lengthy alignment meetings. In this workshop, I demonstrate live how we use Artificial Intelligence to drastically shorten the path from idea to prototype.

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

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Security is no longer an afterthought in modern software development. It must be integrated seamlessly into every stage of the development lifecycle. This talk delves into the transformative power of combining DevSecOps principles with Platform Engineering to address the challenges of ensuring continuous security in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Continuously Deliver Value While Reducing Cost

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Many software organizations spend too much effort building and maintaining features that create little real value. This talk shows how to reduce cost not by slowing down delivery, but by improving effectiveness and efficiency at the same time.

Harnessing the Power of Enterprise Architecture and AI for Strategic Advantage

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprises must strategically leverage advanced technologies to stay competitive and drive innovation.

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This presentation explores the intersection of Enterprise Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, focusing on how organizations can implement and benefit from robust platform strategies.

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

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Many organizations build machine learning prototypes that never make it into production. MLOps provides the practices, culture, and architecture to bridge this gap.

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This presentation outlines how MLOps helps organizations move machine learning from isolated prototypes into reliable production systems. It frames MLOps as more than a technical setup: a mindset, culture, and set of practices that unify development and operations across the full ML lifecycle, including experimentation, training, deployment, serving, monitoring, and retraining.

The Digital Factory

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Many companies are suffering from a lack of alignment between business and IT, silo thinking, and inefficiencies in product development, while time to market is becoming increasingly important.

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These companies try to adopt DevOps in their organizations, but unfortunately, sometimes the DevOps approach is misunderstood, wrongly implemented, and it does not scale as expected.

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

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

GitHub Copilot is reshaping software development by introducing AI-assisted coding into everyday engineering work. But what does this mean in practice?

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This presentation explains what GitHub Copilot is, how it works in practice, and how it supports developers through context-aware code suggestions, faster problem-solving, and reduced effort for repetitive tasks.

DevOps: Thinking in Systems & Value Streams

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In today’s world, everybody wants to do DevOps. But why? What problems are we trying to solve?

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Together, we will take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Instead of jumping straight into tools and practices, we examine the systems and value streams that underpin modern software delivery.

DevOps: How Companies Continuously Deliver Value

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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This talk shows why companies must shift from project-oriented thinking to product-centric working, how a Continuous Delivery Pipeline works as the backbone of modern product development, and why quality, testing, and operability must be considered from the start.

How Zühlke Implemented Lean Portfolio Management with Kanban and OKRs

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How can strategy be translated into execution in a transparent, lean, and scalable way?

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In this session, we share how Zühlke introduced Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) based on SAFe and adapted it to the organizational context. We show how we built an MVP for LPM by combining a portfolio kanban, transparent epic and roadmap management, and group-wide OKRs to improve strategic alignment and decision-making.

Participatory Budgeting: Funding in the 21st Century

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How can innovation and development budgets be distributed faster, more transparently, and more effectively? Participatory Budgeting offers a collaborative approach to steering investments not project-by-project, but along value streams and strategic priorities.

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

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Introducing DevOps in a large enterprise is difficult. But wait, why do we want to introduce DevOps in the first place? Good question.

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In this talk, I answer the question and show you what happens when you introduce DevOps, and what does not happen.

What is the Business Case for DevOps?

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone wants to do DevOps. But only a few understand what DevOps is and what it does with your company.

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When you want to introduce DevOps in a company you need to convince decision-makers that it is worth investing money, time, and resources into the DevOps transformation. They will ask you about the business case and the return on investment of DevOps.

How to Survive Game of Thrones: What Westeros Teaches Us About Conflict, Violence, and Personal Resilience

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Game of Thrones is more than epic fantasy. The series shows in exaggerated form how violence, power, revenge, and ideologies drive conflict.

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In this talk, Romano Roth uses the world of Westeros as a mirror for real human dynamics: from the “five demons” of violence to the “four angels” like empathy, self-control, morality, and reason. Building on this, central conflict types, escalation levels, and de-escalation strategies are presented, complemented by personal survival strategies like meditation and regeneration.

Personal Kanban: Visualize Your Work, Limit Your WIP, Transform Your Life

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In a world overflowing with tasks, to-do lists, and competing priorities, staying productive and focused has never been more challenging. Personal Kanban is a lightweight, visual workflow management method rooted in the Toyota Production System and adapted for individual use by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry.

Speaking on Romano Roth

Beyond the Hype: Understanding and Applying AI in Innovation

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

Europe Only Survives AI If We Act, You Too

Welcome to the Age of AI Idiots!

AI Has No Brain. Engineers Do.

What This Talk Covers #

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

AI in Facility Management: From Trend to Real Value

What This Talk Covers #

AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering

What This Talk Covers #

Developer Experience and Platform Engineering

AI-Augmented Delivery: Building AI-Powered Organizations

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

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

Continuously Deliver Value While Reducing Cost

Harnessing the Power of Enterprise Architecture and AI for Strategic Advantage

Enterprise Architecture Meets AI #

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

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The Digital Factory

The Problem #

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

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DevOps: Thinking in Systems & Value Streams

Taking a Step Back #

DevOps: How Companies Continuously Deliver Value

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How Zühlke Implemented Lean Portfolio Management with Kanban and OKRs

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Participatory Budgeting: Funding in the 21st Century

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

The Full Story #

What is the Business Case for DevOps?

The Challenge #

How to Survive Game of Thrones: What Westeros Teaches Us About Conflict, Violence, and Personal Resilience

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Personal Kanban: Visualize Your Work, Limit Your WIP, Transform Your Life

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Enterprise Architecture Meets AI
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