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The AI practitioner
for finance leaders.

Edward builds MCP servers that put AI agents inside Oracle EPM, runs his own day on ten-plus agents, and spent twenty-five years in the Office of the CFO before AI was a keynote topic. He's also, by most accounts, funny (the dry kind). Fifteen books, fifty-plus countries on all seven continents, and an overabundance of speaker awards to show the combination works.

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50+
Countries spoken in
7
Continents (yes, Antarctica)
300+
Keynotes and sessions
15
Books since 2007
8
Speaker awards

ODTUG Lifetime Achievement Award (2025, fewer than five people have ever received one)

Six Top Speaker awards. Two Best Overall Speaker awards. Across major industry conferences.

Essbase Speaker of the Year (Kscope18), plus the first perfect score ever on the Essbase certification exam.

Stages
  • Oracle OpenWorld
  • Oracle CloudWorld
  • Kscope / ODTUG
  • COLLABORATE
  • Caribbean AI Summit
  • Puerto Rico AI Community
  • FENG
  • PACE
  • Toronto EPM User Group
  • World Finance Forums

From the room

The tough rooms, on the record.

Oracle community leaders, a Fortune 500 finance executive, and the organizers who keep putting Edward on their stages (the kind of crowd that doesn't hand out compliments for fun).

Edward has a gift for turning complex technical concepts into stories people understand and remember. He teaches with humor, energy, and genuine expertise, making every room he speaks to smarter and more engaged by the end.
Elizabeth Ferrell Assistant Corporate Controller & Finance AI Leader, The Kroger Co. User Group President
If there was an award for winning the most speaker awards, Edward would win that too. He fills any room, he's funnier than a talk about financial software has any right to be, and I constantly hear attendees quoting him for the rest of the conference.
Monty Latiolais Director of Business Development, Talan Oracle Technologies Past User Group President
I've seen Edward fill rooms with finance and systems people and then leave them laughing about consolidation. As a thought leader, he knows the material cold and he's honestly funny with it, which is unsurprisingly rare in our world.
Fred Mamadjanov Cofounder, Canadian Oracle Technology User Group Oracle ACE Pro
Edward commands a stage like nobody else I've seen, and he's the only speaker I know who makes AI fun without dumbing it down.
José David Torres, Lcdo. Cofounder, Puerto Rico AI Community Attorney

The footage

See him on a real stage.

No sizzle-reel tricks, no stock crowd shots. Actual conference footage, the way an event planner would want to check it.

Masterclass: Ask Edward Roske about Strategic EPM Kscope22 main stage
ODTUG Lifetime Achievement Award Kscope25 (fewer than five people have ever received it)
AI in EPM: what gets automated first Toronto EPM User Group, 2026

Signature talks

Four talks. Zero recycled decks.

Edward rebuilds every talk for your audience after a working call with you. Identical talks for different rooms is how speakers end up on the "never again" list, and Edward would rather stay off it.

01
KeynoteFiresideMost booked

Your Day, Run by Ten Agents

Executives and leadership teams

Edward's life runs on ten or more AI agents at all times: calendar, inbox, research, writing, code, decisions. This talk walks through the actual stack, what each agent does, and how executives assemble the same force multiplier without an engineering degree. The website you booked him from is part of the talk (his agents redesign it every Saturday while he sleeps).

The room walks away with
  • A map of a working executive agent stack, tool by tool
  • Which of their own recurring tasks an agent should take first
  • A 90-day adoption path that survives contact with the IT department
02
KeynoteFiresideOffsite opener

Answers to the Questions You've Been Quietly Asking Yourself About AI

Senior leaders, cross-functional

Drawn from a hundred-plus episodes of Asking Good Questions and a portfolio of live AI deployments. Frameworks for the questions executives are already wrestling with privately, from "which vendor is lying to me" to "what happens to my team." Works as a keynote, a fireside chat, or the opening session of a multi-day offsite.

The room walks away with
  • A working answer to the AI question they brought into the room
  • A filter for separating deployed reality from vendor theater
  • The three decisions worth making this quarter (and the ones that can wait)
03
KeynoteWorkshop pairingFinance events

The Computer-First Finance Department

CFOs, finance and EPM leaders

Planning, consolidation, and reporting are shifting from human-first to computer-first, and Edward is one of the people shipping that shift: MCP servers that let AI agents read and write live Oracle EPM data. Twenty-five years in the Office of the CFO, translated into what finance automates first, what it should never automate, and why knowing when a number is wrong still beats producing it fast.

The room walks away with
  • The finance processes AI takes first, in order, with evidence
  • What a computer-first close actually looks like at companies doing it
  • The judgment calls that stay human (and how to staff for them)
04
KeynotePE annual meetingsBoard retreats

Building a Company in the Era of AI

Founders, operators, PE portfolios

Edward founded interRel at twenty-two, ran it for twenty-five years, and merged it into a billion-dollar firm. Now he's building AI companies while AI rewrites the business model underneath them. It's a talk for founders and operating partners on what changes when your product, your staffing plan, and your competition are all being re-priced by the same technology.

The room walks away with
  • Which parts of the operating playbook AI actually re-prices
  • How to evaluate AI claims inside a portfolio company in one meeting
  • The hiring and org-design moves that age well

Formats and fees

Every format has its fee, so you don't have to guess.

Published fees save both of us a discovery call about money. Terms: 50% deposit at signing, balance 30 days before the event. Domestic travel is a flat buyout (nobody enjoys receipts).

Keynote

From $15,000

Up to 90 minutes plus Q&A, customized to your audience after a working call. Fireside and panel formats included at the same fee.

Executive Workshop

From $20,000

The full-day "AI: Art of the Possible" working session. Your leadership team leaves with a ranked pilot list they can act on Monday.

See the workshop

Board Briefing

From $12,500

A private two-to-three hour AI oversight session for directors. What to ask management, what to greenlight, what to fear proportionately.

Virtual Keynote

From $7,500

Same talk, same customization, no airfare. Recording license and hybrid formats available.

Keynote plus workshop on the same trip bundles at $30,000. Exclusivity clauses, recording licenses, and hybrid formats are quoted per event.

What you get

Booking Edward books an event campaign.

The talk, customized

A working call with you before anything gets written. Tech check the day before, full rehearsal if you want one, Q&A or panel slot if it fits the format. Edward arrives early and stays for the hallway track.

A podcast appearance

An invited guest slot on Asking Good Questions, scheduled around your event. Your CEO, your keynote, or a key customer sits down with Edward for a conversation that lives on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube.

Thirty days of amplification

If your event is public: a month of LinkedIn and X posts to a built-in audience of CFOs, CIOs, and AI operators, plus a month of mentions on Edward's YouTube channel and its 200,000+ subscribers.

The live demo

This website rebuilds itself every Saturday.

Edward's AI agents redesign roske.ai every week: new theme, new imagery, new layout, researched, built, tested, and deployed while he sleeps. If someone's going to stand on your stage and talk about AI agents, he should probably be able to show you his. Edward's are running this website right now, which is either commitment or negligence, depending on the week's theme. It's the standing proof behind his most-booked talk, "Your Day, Run by Ten Agents."

For your committee

Everything a program chair needs, one page.

Bios in three lengths, downloadable headshots, a 75-word emcee intro, A/V needs, and the one-pager PDF. Built to be forwarded, since speaker decisions average two to five people (and at least one of them will only read the PDF).

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Check availability

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Selected history

A partial list.

The full one would need pagination.

2026

Caribbean AI Summit

Co-chair. October 9-10, 2026, Puerto Rico Convention Center. The largest AI conference Puerto Rico has ever seen.

2024-Present

Puerto Rico AI Community

President and regular presenter. 850+ executives across the meetup series. Bimonthly in San Juan.

2008-2025

Kscope (ODTUG)

Speaker since 2008. Conference Chair 2011-2012. Essbase Speaker of the Year 2018. Lifetime Achievement Award 2025.

2008-2023

Oracle International Speaking Tours

Touring 50+ countries across all 7 continents. Training, keynotes, and workshops.

2000s-2020s

Oracle OpenWorld / CloudWorld

Regular speaker. San Francisco, Las Vegas, and international editions.

2000s-2010s

COLLABORATE (IOUG/OAUG)

One of the original Oracle user group super-speakers. National and international events.

Good questions

What planners ask before booking.

What does it cost to book Edward for a keynote?

In-person keynotes start at $15,000. Full-day executive workshops start at $20,000, private board briefings at $12,500, and virtual keynotes at $7,500. Most engagements land between $15,000 and $25,000, which is also where most corporate keynote budgets land (not a coincidence). Terms are 50% deposit at signing, balance 30 days before the event.

How far in advance should we book?

Six to twelve months for a specific date, like most established speakers. Shorter windows sometimes work (Edward lives on planes anyway), so ask. January kickoffs book in the prior fall.

Does Edward travel? What about international events?

He has spoken in 50+ countries on all 7 continents, including Antarctica. Domestic travel is a flat buyout instead of itemized receipts, because nobody enjoys expense reports. International is quoted per event.

Will the talk be customized for our audience?

Always. Edward gets on a working call with you (and your program chair, if you have one) before writing a single slide. Finance conference, PE annual meeting, sales kickoff, and board retreat versions of the same talk are genuinely different talks.

What does Edward need on site?

A wireless lavalier or headset mic, HDMI or USB-C to your screens, and a confidence monitor if the room is large. He arrives early, does a tech check the day before when possible, and stays for the hallway conversations afterward. Full details are in the speaker kit.

Is Edward an AI futurist?

Short answer: no. He ships AI products (MCP servers for Oracle EPM, in production), runs his own life on ten-plus AI agents, and spent twenty-five years in the Office of the CFO before AI was a keynote topic. If you want predictions about 2035, he'll politely decline (he's busy shipping 2026).

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