Speaking — ReadyForAI.ie

Put someone on stage who has actually read the Act.

Most AI sessions are either a vendor pitch or a scare story. Mine are neither. I speak on what the EU AI Act actually requires, what boards should be asking, and what AI genuinely does at work — in plain language, with the slides you'd want your team to keep.

The details organisers ask for first.

Ready-to-run talks

Each one pitched at a specific room — not a general AI overview.

20–90 min

Flexible slot length

Conference keynote through to a closed board session.

IE · UK · EU

Where I travel

Dublin and Belfast at no travel cost. Elsewhere at cost.

Four talks. Pick the room.

Each one maps to a real problem someone in the audience is already carrying. Titles and framing can be tuned to your theme — the substance stays.

01Enforcement Started. Now What?

EU AI Act

The AI Act's main obligations are now live and enforceable. This session cuts through two years of noise into what your organisation is actually on the hook for, and what an inspector would ask for first.

What changed — and what has been true since February 2025
Risk tiers — where your systems most likely sit, with examples
The literacy duty — what counts as evidence you trained people
First 90 days — the order to do things in if you've not started

Conferences, industry bodies, professional institutes 30–45 min

02The Questions Your Board Should Be Asking

AI for Boards

Directors don't need to understand transformers. They need to know which questions surface a problem before it becomes an incident — and what a good answer from management sounds like.

Where liability lands — and where it doesn't
Ten questions to put to your executive team this quarter
Reading the answers — spotting confidence dressed as control
Minuting it — what the board record should show

Board away-days, INED networks, governance institutes 45–90 min

03Certifiable: What ISO 42001 Actually Asks Of You

ISO 42001

An honest walk through the AI management system standard — what certification involves, what it costs you in effort, and the cases where it's genuinely worth it versus the cases where it's a badge.

The shape of the standard — in one slide, not forty
What auditors look for — and the gaps they find every time
Overlap with the AI Act — work you only need to do once
Worth it or not — a straight answer by organisation type

Risk, audit, quality and compliance audiences 30–45 min

04What AI Actually Does At Work

Use Claude

A live, unrehearsed working session rather than a slide deck. Real tasks, done in front of the room, including the bits that don't work. People leave able to try something on Monday.

Built live — a real task from your sector, start to finish
Where it fails — shown honestly, not edited out
Safe by default — what never goes into the box
Monday morning — one thing each person can go and do

Internal all-hands, lunch & learns, staff away-days 45–60 min

A talk that goes on the file.

Booking me for your own people is a different purchase to booking me for a conference, and it's worth knowing why.

Your staff session leaves a record behind

The AI Act expects organisations to make sure the people using AI systems have a sufficient level of AI literacy. Whatever else you do about that, you will at some point be asked to show what you did and when.

Every internal session comes with the things that make it evidence rather than a memory: a dated agenda, an attendance list, the slides as delivered, and a one-page summary of what was covered and who it was pitched at — yours to keep and file.

A single session is not a compliance programme, and nothing here is legal advice. It is one dated, attributable piece of a record you need to be building anyway. If you want the fuller version, that's a workshop.

Four ways to use the slot.

20–45 min

Conference keynote

Main-stage or track session, tuned to your event theme. Slides supplied ahead of time for your programme and AV team.

30–60 min

Panel or fireside

As a panellist, or chairing. Happy to take the awkward questions — a panel where everyone agrees isn't worth the room's time.

45–60 min

Internal all-hands

For your own staff, on site or online. Comes with the attendance and content record described above.

60–90 min

Board briefing

Closed session for a board or committee. No slides if you'd rather — often better as a structured conversation.

Where I've spoken.

Jun 2026

Claude Community Belfast

Ormeau Labs, Belfast

One of four short talks from practitioners building with Claude Code, followed by a hands-on workshop and networking. A room of mixed experience, no prior knowledge assumed — the format this page's Use Claude talk grew out of.

Jun 2025

VibeCode Fest

Zurich, Switzerland

Alongside speaking, I run the ReadyForAI events calendar — Claude Code meetups, AI Act sessions and community nights across Dublin, Belfast and London. If you're programming an event in Ireland, that's usually where I've already met your audience.

What you get when you book the date.

Promo pack, early

Title, abstract, speaker bio in short and long form, and a high-resolution headshot — sent within two days of confirming, so your marketing isn't waiting on me.

A briefing call

Twenty minutes to learn who's actually in the room, what they already know, and what your event is trying to achieve. The talk gets cut to fit that.

Slides ahead of time

Delivered to your AV team before the day, in whatever format they want. No last-minute laptop swap at the lectern.

A follow-up your audience keeps

A one-page summary and the free readiness check link for anyone who wants to go further — sent to you to distribute, in your name.

Put someone on stage who has actually read the Act.

The details organisers ask for first.

Four talks. Pick the room.