2013
Civic testimony · I Have a Dream Foundation Dream-Maker Luncheon
Dreamer testimony
I described the instability I grew up with, the coordinators who kept showing up, and the internship that became my first IT job.
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Technical rooms · civic rooms
Explain the system without hiding the hard parts.
I speak about distributed systems, AI infrastructure, work, power, and the human consequences of automation. The audience should not need a decoder ring, but the details still have to be right.
“The audience should not need a decoder ring. The details still have to be right.”
Talks and interviews
Selected appearances
Apr 2018
Conference session · ISC West
Access Control and Video in the Cloud
Patrick Barry and I explained how access control and video systems were moving into the cloud. This was a conference session, not a keynote.
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Nov 2021
Technical session · Microsoft Azure IaaS Day
Azure Storage solutions: App development and Kubernetes workloads
I gave a practical explanation of Azure storage for modern applications and stateful Kubernetes workloads.
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Sep 2024
Technical conference talk · SNIA Storage Developer Conference
Supercharging OpenAI Training with Microsoft’s Azure Blob Storage
Jegan Devaraju and I explained the storage data path behind large-scale model training, including Scaled Accounts and Blobfuse.
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Apr 2025
Recorded video deposition · United States District Court
Cloud-industry testimony in FTC v. Meta
I explained how public cloud changed startup infrastructure economics. The recording was played in court, and the FTC later cited it in proposed findings.
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Recorded testimony
Dec 2025
Public keynote · Longmont Museum
The Coming AI Revolution: From Arithmetic to Abundance
I used data and familiar examples to explain AI’s exponential curve, then asked what abundance, governance, and a crisis of purpose could mean for Longmont.
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Feb 2026
Technical conference talk · VAST Forward
Building A Suite of Cloud Data Services for AI Training and Inference
I walked through eight stages of the AI pipeline and explained why persistent agents need a durable, governed data layer.
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2026
Analyst-media interview · theCUBE
Cloud Operating Model and its impact on data and AI strategies
We discussed inference, persistent agents, identity, and why data should not be trapped by the location of the infrastructure.
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Jun 2026
Civic talk · Longmont Area Democrats
AI Comes Home: Work, Power, and Democracy in the Age of Applied AI
I brought the AI discussion into a civic room: useful adoption, worker protection, human responsibility, and who receives the productivity gains.
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Jul 2026
Civic talk · Longmont Rotary
What’s Changing in AI
I connected AI infrastructure and energy to human judgment, Verdify, and the practical work of preserving local history.
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Programs without a surviving recording
A few older appearances have only the event listing left.
I keep these separate because I have not found a recording, recap, or photograph from the event.
Jun 2017 · GlobalMindED
Artificial Intelligence: Amplifying Our Cognitive, Physical and Perceptive Abilities
The official program lists me for the panel. I have not found a recording or recap from the event.