Technology Keynote Speaker on Agentic AI for CTOs, CIOs, and Engineering Leaders

Agentic AI keynotes for technology conferences, CIO summits, and engineering organizations — from a Fortune 100 practitioner, not a futurist

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"Alex's workshop on agentic AI shifted our entire C-suite's perspective on what's possible. We've already implemented three of his recommendations."

- Rachel Okonkwo, VP of Strategy, Fortune 500 Technology Company

Choosing a Speaker

Researcher, futurist, or {operator} — who should you book?

The researcher

Explains how the models work

Fascinating for a technical audience — but your examiners don't grade you on transformer architecture.

The futurist

Paints 2035

Inspiring for an evening — and useless for the budget decision your board makes next quarter.

The operator · Alex

Shows your leaders what to do in Q3

Inside real procurement, risk, and compliance constraints — because he has shipped transformation inside the rules.

ALEX, BY THE NUMBERS

310+
Keynotes
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Countries
$1.1B
Portfolio
98%
Recommend
582+
Verified Reviews

{Agentic AI} Moves the Bottleneck From Writing Code to Governing It

Ninety percent of software professionals already work with AI. Agents are a different order of change: software that plans, acts, and hands off work across your toolchain while a human reviews outcomes instead of keystrokes. The scarce skill shifts from producing code to specifying it, reviewing it, and standing behind it.

Alex Goryachev shows CTOs, CIOs, and engineering leaders what that does to team topology, platform strategy, and the operating model — smaller teams covering more surface area, a new definition of what senior means, and roadmaps measured in weeks. He ran that kind of transition inside a global engineering organization. He did not model it from the outside.

Just few ways AI is disrupting Technology and IT:

90%

Nine in ten software development professionals now use AI at work, spending a median of about two hours a day with it.

DORA State of AI-assisted Software Development Report, 2025

40%+

More than 40% of agentic AI projects are forecast to be canceled by the end of 2027, driven by unclear business value and inadequate risk controls.

Gartner, 2025

50%

By 2028, half of all enterprise cybersecurity incident response effort will focus on incidents involving custom-built AI-driven applications.

Gartner, 2026

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Ways to {work with Alex:}

Every event is different, so every conversation starts the same way — tell us about yours, and we'll recommend the right format. Fees run five figures depending on format — virtual sessions often under $10,000. Exact quote within one business day.

Keynote

An opening or closing keynote for your leadership or clinical conference

Workshop

A half-day working session with your health system or care-team leadership

Executive Session

A closed-door session calibrated for your board or executive committee

Virtual Broadcast

The same session, delivered remotely, often under $10,000

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The Audience Has {Spoken}.

Real feedback collected directly from attendees after every event — unfiltered, unedited, and independently verified.

98%

Attendees Find the Talk Valuable

97%

Would See Alex Speak Again

582+

Verified Audience Responses

98%

Average Score Across Recent Events
Relevant
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Engaging
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Inspiring
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Actionable
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Interactive
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{Agentic AI Architecture}, Security, and Governance That Survives Production

Giving software the ability to act raises engineering questions with real blast radius: identity and least-privilege access for non-human actors, evaluation and observability, cost control, and a threat model where agents are both your newest defense and your newest attack surface. Programs stall here, not at the demo.

Alex turns those questions into a build-versus-buy agenda, a credible path from pilot to production, and guardrails engineers will actually adopt. His view is shaped by shaping ISO standards on innovation and advising the California State University system on AI and AI governance across 22 campuses, 460,000 students, and a $17M ChatGPT Edu deployment.

Where agentic AI changes how technology organizations ship and operate:

WorkflowAgent actionHuman checkpointWhat changes
Code generation and testingWrites code, generates tests, and fixes failing builds across the pipelineEngineer reviews every pull request and owns the mergeThe bottleneck moves from producing software to specifying and reviewing it
Incident triage and responseCorrelates alerts, drafts runbook actions, and opens tickets with full contextOn-call engineer approves every remediationMean time to resolution drops; 3 a.m. pages arrive pre-investigated
IT service deskResolves tier-1 requests — access, provisioning, resets — end to endIT owns exceptions, approvals, and the audit logAround-the-clock service without around-the-clock staffing
Documentation and knowledgeKeeps docs and runbooks current from code changes and resolved ticketsTech leads approve before publicationDocumentation stops rotting the day it's written
Security operationsEnriches alerts, assembles investigation context, and drafts response stepsSOC analyst owns every containment decisionAnalysts work real signals instead of alert noise

That table is the org chart rewriting itself — where agents pick up the work and where engineers keep the merge button. Here is what technology and IT leaders take back to their teams.

What Technology and IT Audiences Leave With

  • A team-topology and operating-model map for engineering orgs with agent leverage — including what "senior talent" now means
  • An architecture and governance agenda for the agentic stack: identity and least-privilege access for agents, observability, evaluation, and cost control
  • A security model that treats agentic AI as both defense and attack surface
  • A build-versus-buy framework and a path from pilots to production
  • Guardrails engineers will actually adopt — because they were designed with engineers in mind
  • A realistic read on incident response and service-desk economics once agents absorb tier-1 work
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What does a technology keynote speaker on AI cover?

Alex Goryachev's technology keynotes cover agentic AI across the software lifecycle — agents that code, test, triage, and operate — plus team topology, platform strategy, security for agentic systems, and the governance needed to move from pilots to production.

Why book Alex Goryachev for a technology or IT conference?

As former Managing Director of Innovation Strategy and Head of Global Innovation Centers at Cisco, Alex ran a $1.1B portfolio that generated $400M+ in revenue and built innovation centers across 14 countries. He has spoken for technology audiences at Cisco, Dell, and IBM, is the WSJ-bestselling author of Fearless Innovation, a Forbes contributor with 212 published works, and a LinkedIn Top AI Voice, with 310+ keynotes and a 98% would-recommend rating.

What is agentic AI for engineering organizations?

Agentic AI means systems that plan and complete multi-step technical work — writing and testing code, triaging incidents, running IT workflows — under human direction. It moves the engineering bottleneck from producing software to specifying, reviewing, and governing it.

Does Alex Goryachev cover security and governance for AI agents?

Yes. His keynote addresses identity and least-privilege access for agents, observability and evaluation, cost control, and treating agentic AI as both a defensive capability and an attack surface — with guardrails engineering teams will actually adopt.

How do I book Alex Goryachev for a tech event?

Contact the booking team at alexgoryachev.com to check availability. Alex delivers keynotes, workshops, and executive sessions for engineering organizations, IT leadership summits, and technology conferences — in person or virtual.

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Alex Goryachev: AI keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal-bestselling author, and former Cisco innovation executive. Keynotes, workshops, and AI advisory for enterprises, universities, and associations worldwide.