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Speaking ยท Last updated June 2026

Talks & teaching

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  • AI-Native Product & Experience Design, AI Strategy, Intelligent Commerce, etc.Regular private presentations on this family of topics, delivered to leaders and/or boards across Visa's banking, retail, and tech clients.Visa client engagements
  • How agentic AI is transforming consultingA series of internal Visa talks across departments on how agents actually get used at work โ€” and what that does to the consulting role itself.Visa Consulting & Analytics, internal
  • Real Blockers to Agentic PaymentsSpecial guest speaker on current challenges in agentic payments based on observations from advising many of the world's largest enterprises across payment facilitation and commerce.Apify Agentic Payments Night
  • Understanding the jagged frontier of agentic intelligenceAn explanation of where agents are reliably strong, where they quietly fail, and how to responsibly navigate the boundary โ€” private sessions for credit union boards, presidents, and CUSOs.AACUL Winter Conference
  • Leveraging AI to Support Members & EmployeesPanel discussion on how credit unions and member-owned cooperatives should be preparing for and innovating with AI in operations and product or service offerings to improve both employee and member experience.NLCUP Conference
  • A non-technical technical talk on AIA progression from early statistics to SOTA AI methods explained without any math โ€” building useful intuition about what these systems can and cannot do and why, for PMs, designers, and researchers.Product & Experience Design (PxD), Visa internal
  • Building personal wealth with real estateRecurring guest lecture delivered at the undergraduate and graduate level on real-estate investing as an investment class โ€” the practical arc from finding one's first deal to owning and managing a small portfolio.UC Berkeley, guest lecture
  • What poker teaches us about investing and decisionmakingExpected value, implied odds, extracting, folding as a discipline, bankroll management โ€” the overlap between good poker and good decision making in investing and beyond.Berkeley Investment Group, guest lecture
  • Leadership CommunicationLed weekly hands-on workshops with MBAs linking leadership and communication skills as a part of core curriculum โ€” thinking fast under pressure, improv, executive presence with voice and body, and persuasive presentations (MBA200C).UC Berkeley Haas, teaching assistant
  • Audience-Focused CommunicationPresenting complex ideas to decision-makers โ€” structuring thoughts quickly and projecting a calm, compelling presence without notes or memorization (MBA291F).UC Berkeley Haas, teaching assistant