Paden Gayle
Conferences · Internal teams

Speaking

I talk about the part of enterprise software that happens after the signature — what deployment actually costs, why it fails, and what the engineers closest to the customer learn that never makes it back to the product.

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What I talk about

  • The forward deployed engineer

    What the role is, why every AI company is suddenly hiring for it, and what changes when you put engineers inside the customer instead of behind the product.

  • Applied AI in the enterprise

    Why the model is not the deployment. What actually stands between a working demo and production inside a large organisation.

  • What a deployment really costs

    The discovery, integration and political work nobody budgets for — useful for teams standing up a deployment function for the first time.

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Formats

Conference keynotes and track talks, internal sessions for engineering or go-to-market teams, workshops for groups standing up an FDE practice, and podcasts.

Happy to tailor to the audience — the material is the same whether the room is engineers or the executives paying for the deployment, but the framing is not.

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Get in touch

Tell me the audience, the date, and what you want them to leave with. That is genuinely all I need to say yes or no quickly.