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
Your executives were told to "use AI" and handed a chatbot, which is a bit like being told to get in shape and handed one dumbbell. Edward's own life runs on 10+ 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
Most senior leaders have AI questions they won't ask in a meeting, mostly because everyone else in the meeting seems to know the answer already (they don't). This talk answers them, drawn from a hundred-plus episodes of Asking Good Questions and a portfolio of live AI deployments, 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 KeynotePE annual meetingsBoard retreats
Building a Company in the Era of AI
Founders, operators, PE portfolios
A 3-year plan written today sits on top of a business model AI keeps rewriting, and most of the advice portfolio companies get on it comes from people selling AI (Edward builds some of it himself, so bring your skepticism). He founded interRel at 22, ran it for 25 years, and merged it with Keste to help found Argano, a billion-dollar firm, and these days he's building AI companies and redoing his own plans right alongside the people in the room. 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
04 KeynoteWorkshop pairingFinance events
The Computer-First Finance Department
For finance rooms: CFOs, finance and EPM leaders
Finance teams keep hearing that AI will close the books by itself next quarter, and also that it can't be trusted anywhere near a ledger, sometimes in the same week. 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)