SPEAKING
I keynote on identity, AI, and what it costs to be the only one in the room. No slideware, no vendor pitch, no forty minutes of setup before the point. You get the point, and you get it in a form your audience can actually use.
WHAT I SPEAK ON
AI agents are already inside enterprise environments, acting with permissions nobody granted them and nobody can see. This is the talk about what breaks next and who's accountable when it does.
FOR Security leadership, identity practitioners, technical audiences.
The jump from individual contributor to leader is the biggest one most people make, and almost nobody is prepared for it. This is the talk about what actually changes, why servant leadership is harder than it sounds, and how to learn it in public without breaking the team you just inherited.
FOR Emerging leaders, new managers, engineering and security orgs, leadership development programming.
What it costs to be the only person who looks like you at the table, and what changes when you stop treating that as something to survive quietly.
FOR Leadership audiences, ERGs, culture programming, all-hands.
I gave autonomous agents credentials and put them to work in my own company. Some of it worked. Some of it broke in ways I didn't expect, and a few of those breaks are the ones every organization is about to hit. This is what I learned about the work that changes, the work that disappears, and who gets left holding the bill.
FOR Executive audiences, boards, industry keynotes, anyone past the demo stage.
I don't have a stock keynote.
I build the talk for the room. Tell me who's in it and what you need them to walk out believing, and that's what I'll write. Bring me a theme above and it'll show up in a shape your audience recognizes.
WATCH
FORMATS
30 to 45 minutes. Opening or closing. Built for the whole room, not just the practitioners.
You bring the questions. I'll go wherever they lead, including the uncomfortable parts.
Half or full day. Smaller group, hands on the actual problem.
I'll moderate or sit on it. Either way nobody's reading talking points.
WHAT YOU GET
BOOK DAVID
The audience, the date, and what you need them to walk out believing. I'll tell you straight whether I'm the right person for it.