Why good technology fails
The engineering can work while the program, company, or institution around it quietly makes adoption impossible.
Speaking
Complex ideas should change what an audience can see.
I speak about why good technology stalls, how systems drift, and what leaders can do to move an idea from demonstration to use.
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Engineering the future
You cannot predict the future. You can design a program that forces the most important uncertainties to reveal themselves.
The valley of death
It is not just a funding gap. It appears when incentives, authority, evidence, ownership, and timing fail to line up.
AI at the edge
Moving intelligence into distributed physical systems changes the architecture, the risk, and who gets to make the decision.
Featured appearance
TEDxBoston: Innovating Defense and Security in the Age of AI
A public conversation about why invention is not enough, and what it takes to get new capability into the hands of people who can use it.
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What audiences leave with
No slogans. The audience should leave with something they can use.
01A way to tell a technology problem from a systems problem.
02Questions that expose weak assumptions, broken incentives, and fake theories of adoption.
03A clearer view of what must happen next, who has to act, and what evidence they will need.
Speaking inquiries
Tell me what the room is wrestling with.
Send the audience, format, topic, and what success looks like. I will tell you whether I am the right fit.