# Speaking

I speak about the operating choices behind AI-native engineering, agentic commerce and platform modernization—grounded in systems and organizations I have built.

## Practical ideas, tested in operating businesses

My talks are built from work done in production: redesigning an engineering organization around governed agents, modernizing an eleven-year e-commerce platform without downtime, and building the product, data and operational capabilities behind multi-market businesses.

The aim is to give an executive or technical audience a useful decision framework—not a tour of fashionable tools. I am most interested in the choices, controls and organizational changes that determine whether ambitious technology creates durable value.

## Topics I speak about

### AI-native engineering organizations

How specifications, dependency graphs, agent orchestration, review capacity and human accountability change when agents do meaningful production work.

### Agentic commerce

Moving conversational AI from product discovery into trusted service, transaction and operational journeys across complex marketplaces.

### Platform modernization

Replacing legacy systems without stopping the business, and treating migration sequencing, observability and ownership as operating decisions.

### Product and engineering as one system

Creating one roadmap, explicit trade-offs and shared accountability across product, engineering, design, data and information security.

## Conference talks, keynotes and panels

- **Oct 21, 2026** — [Middle East Product Conference](https://www.productconference.net/), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Speaker (Upcoming) Taking AI products from prototype to production across large-scale e-commerce, with architecture, governance and adoption designed together.
- **Sep 30, 2026** — [AWS Summit Dubai](https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/dubai/agenda/), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Speaker (Upcoming)
- **Aug 27, 2026** — [TiE Dubai](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tie-dubai_tiedubai-aiforfounders-aiassistants-activity-7498054578983260161-2YDn), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Speaker
- **2026** — Grafana & Friends, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Speaker
- **2025** — Step Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Speaker
- **2024** — [Software Engineering Management Group](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ciprianspiridon_uae-softwareengineering-management-activity-7119905966602530816-U-x-), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Keynote speaker Building healthy relationships between engineering and product through one roadmap, shared priorities and explicit trade-offs.
- **2024** — [Product ME](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7195702191628701697/), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Speaker
- **Apr 23, 2024** — [GISEC Global](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ciprianspiridon_gisecglobal-criticalinfra-cybersecurity-activity-7188759110790627328-TbBL), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Roundtable member Shared critical-infrastructure best practices for supply-chain risk management in a security-leadership roundtable on the opening day of GISEC Global.
- **2024** — Dubai SEM, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Speaker
- **2023** — [Product X Tech by ProductTank](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/producttank-dubai_product-x-tech-thu-feb-23-2023-600-pm-activity-7033323537591328769-zANN), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Keynote speaker Aligning product and engineering around the same vision, with communication, mutual support and the human relationship behind the operating model.
- **2022** — Dubops by Halian, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Keynote speaker
- **2021** — Plato Elevate Summer Summit, San Francisco, United States. Speaker & live mentor

## Looking for an operator’s perspective?

I welcome selected conference, panel and executive-roundtable invitations in the United States, the Middle East and Europe.

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