SPEAKING
Thirty years of making new technology operational.
I started in a research lab that built the CAVE and helped invent what we now call the cloud, founded and sold a virtual reality company whose clients included NASA and Boeing, and I most recently ran an enterprise AI program inside a CIO organization. That arc is the talk: how genuinely new technology stops being a demo and starts being infrastructure, and why most organizations get the sequence backwards.
Topics
The connective tissue: why AI pilots don’t become programs
The specific organizational failure between a working demo and a governed production system — and the operating model that closes it. For executive and program audiences.
Governing what you don’t fully understand
Trust tiers, agent guardrails, and release standards for AI systems: how to let teams move fast without discovering your exposure in a postmortem.
From the CAVE to the cloud
What thirty years of immersive computing, grid computing, and enterprise delivery teach about which new technologies actually stick — and what that predicts for this one.