Speaking
Conversations worth having.
I speak at conferences, industry forums and business gatherings about the things I have spent decades thinking about, and I prefer honest discussion to polished keynote theatre.
Speaking
Conversations I care about.
These are the subjects I can talk about from experience rather than theory. If one of them is useful for your event, podcast or roundtable, I am happy to have the conversation.
The future of SMEs
What changes for small and mid-sized businesses over the next decade, and what has to be built for them rather than around them.
How AI can democratise business capability
Why the most important effect of AI for smaller companies is access rather than automation, and what that looks like in practice.
Building trust in global B2B commerce
Why discovery alone is not enough, and how business identity and credibility decide who actually gets to trade across borders.
What 25+ years with SMEs taught me
The patterns that repeat across industries and markets, and the gap between a capable business and a growing one.
Building technology for businesses outside Silicon Valley
What product thinking looks like when your users run factories, workshops and trading firms rather than software teams.
From small-town India to global entrepreneurship
Starting outside a technology ecosystem, and why where someone begins does not have to decide where they finish.
Building product companies around real business problems
How to stay anchored to a problem worth solving when there is constant pressure to chase whatever is currently fashionable.
Leadership, systems and scaling
Why strong systems create freedom rather than bureaucracy, and how companies grow larger than their founders.
Most often in the Gulf and India, and online elsewhere.
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