Speaking

▫ Where these sessions take place.

VILAS is invited to speak in rooms where people are already encountering AI in practice — and are ready to step back and examine what that actually means.

Speaking opportunities include:

Conferences and annual meetings
Professional associations and member organizations
Industry events and invited speaker series
Leadership forums and executive gatherings
Boards, councils, and private member groups

These are typically one-off keynote or featured sessions within a larger program. The role is not to introduce AI, but to help a room notice how it is already shaping decisions, assumptions, and habits of work.

That’s where the conversation tends to shift.

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╲ Keynote topics.

1

Working Alongside AI

A grounded orientation to what these systems are doing in everyday work, and how to develop better judgment when the tool sounds confident but isn’t “thinking.”

2

How Trust Forms

Most guidance says “don’t trust it blindly.” This talk shows how trust actually forms gradually—through small approvals, repeated patterns, and subtle delegation—and what to notice before it becomes habit.

3

The Output Is Not the Work

AI can produce words, plans, and summaries. This talk focuses on the human work that still matters: deciding what’s true enough, what’s appropriate, and what should be acted on.

4

Standards Before Scale

Organizations don’t stumble because they lack tools. They stumble because norms are implicit. This talk helps leaders name what “good” looks like—quality standards, boundaries, review habits—before usage spreads.

5

Fluency as an Organizational Capability

AI fluency isn’t an individual skill. It’s something groups build together: shared language, repeatable practices, and a culture that can evaluate outputs without confusion or overconfidence.

Each talk is adapted to the audience and context, but all are grounded in live experience working with leaders and teams as these dynamics unfold in real time.