Technical rooms · civic rooms
I speak about storage, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, work, power, and automation. The audience should leave knowing what the system does, where it can fail, and which decisions remain human.
In technical rooms, I start with the data path and failure mode. In civic rooms, I start with what the system changes for people. Both need enough mechanism to support a real decision.
Talks and interviews
Civic testimony · I Have a Dream Foundation Dream-Maker Luncheon
I described the instability I grew up with, the coordinators who kept showing up, and the internship that became my first IT job.
Conference session · ISC West
Patrick Barry and I explained how access control and video systems were moving into the cloud. This was a conference session, not a keynote.
Technical session · Microsoft Azure IaaS Day
I gave a practical explanation of Azure storage for modern applications and stateful Kubernetes workloads.
Technical conference talk · SNIA Storage Developer Conference
Jegan Devaraju and I explained the storage data path behind large-scale model training, including Scaled Accounts and Blobfuse.
Recorded video deposition · United States District Court
I explained how public cloud changed startup infrastructure economics. The recording was played in court, and the FTC later cited it in proposed findings.
Technical interview · Shared Everything podcast
We discussed the storage path behind AI workloads, the move from Azure Blob to VAST Data, and what changes when training and inference become persistent data systems.
Public keynote · Longmont Museum
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.
Technical conference talk · VAST Forward
I walked through eight stages of the AI pipeline and explained why persistent agents need a durable, governed data layer.
Analyst-media interview · theCUBE
We discussed inference, persistent agents, identity, and why data should not be trapped by the location of the infrastructure.
Civic talk · Longmont Area Democrats
I brought the AI discussion into a civic room: useful adoption, worker protection, human responsibility, and who receives the productivity gains.
Civic talk · Longmont Rotary
I connected AI infrastructure and energy to human judgment, Verdify, and the practical work of preserving local history.
Programs without confirmed delivery
I keep them separate because I have not found a recording, recap, photograph, or another public record that confirms the session occurred as listed.
Jun 2017 · GlobalMindED
The official program lists me for the panel. I have not found a recording or recap from the event.
Mar 2026 · NVIDIA GTC
Microsoft’s official GTC program listed this session. I have not found a recording or other public record that confirms delivery, so I do not count it as a delivered talk.