Talks · Keynotes · Podcasts · 2018–present

Saying it out loud.

Conference talks, keynotes, and podcast appearances by Alan Nichol, Founder & CTO of Rasa — mostly about AI agents, agentic architectures in production, and why enterprise software is more interesting than it looks.

13 talks 15 podcasts 9 conferences Available for 2026
01 2024 3 talks
Oct 2024KeynoteSummit
CALM Summit '24 keynote

Rasa's own one-day summit in New York City, October 30, 2024. Focused on scaling conversational AI in enterprise — keynotes, masterclasses, panels on LLMs plus deterministic business logic.

Dec 2024Tutorial90 min
PyData Global 2024 — hands-on CALM tutorial

A hands-on tutorial on building conversational AI systems using CALM and Rasa — bringing LLMs together with deterministic business logic without losing control.

2024Demo
Rasa CALM: conversational AI with LLMs

Walkthrough of CALM — using LLMs to drive conversational flows while keeping business logic deterministic and auditable.

02 2023 3 talks
Oct 2023MasterclassWorkshop
Beyond intents: harnessing the potential of language models

Chatbot Summit London, October 11–12, 2023. Day-one masterclass on moving past intent classification and leveraging LLMs in production conversational systems.

Oct 2023Keynote
Optimizing customer interactions at scale

Chatbot Summit London, day-two keynote — discussing customer-interaction optimization with one of the world's largest telcos.

Jul 2023Webinar60 min
LLM security in the enterprise

Co-presented with David Haber (CEO, Lakera) and Jamie MacDonald (Head of Security, Rasa) — what changes when you put LLMs into production at a regulated enterprise, and how to think about prompt-injection and exfiltration risk.

03 2022 1 talk
2022Talk
Conversation-driven development

Reinforce AI Conference. Why building conversational software is a design problem more than an ML problem — and how to iterate on real user conversations instead of synthetic benchmarks.

04 2021 2 talks
2021Keynote
Conversation-driven development at scale

L3-AI keynote on scaling conversation-driven development across enterprise deployments.

2021Keynote
Rasa Summit 2021 — welcome keynote

Welcome keynote at the Rasa Summit 2021, on conversational AI teams and moving fast at scale.

05 2020 1 talk
2020Keynote
Perspective on the 5 levels of conversational AI

A framework for thinking about chatbot maturity — from scripted responses to fully contextual assistants — and where most production systems actually live.

06 2019 1 talk
Oct 2019Keynote
Rasa Developer Summit — opening

Opening keynote at the inaugural Rasa Developer Summit, laying out where open-source conversational AI was heading.

07 2018 2 talks
May 2018Talk40 min
Building conversational AI in-house in the Fortune 500

O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, New York 2018 — case study on how a large enterprise built a customer-acquisition assistant with Rasa NLU and Rasa Core.

Oct 2018Talk40 min
Deprecating the state machine: building conversational AI with the Rasa stack

O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, London 2018 — early case for moving from rigid state machines to ML-driven dialogue, using minimal training data plus interactive learning.

08 Podcasts & interviews 15 episodes
May 2026 The chatbot evolution My Data Guest · with Alessandro Romano · Ep 15 Podcast Dec 2025 Inside Rasa: navigating the future of conversational AI Bluejay · Skywatch Podcast Jan 2025 AI Unicorns: Rasa races to make it in the conversational AI market Sramana Mitra · 1Mby1M Profile Jan 2025 How Rasa is revolutionising conversational AI VUX World Podcast Jan 2025 From NLP to LLMs: the quest for a reliable chatbot a16z Podcast · with Martin Casado Podcast Dec 2024 50M+ Downloads Unlocked: tips to building impactful voice AI Analytics Vidhya · Leading with Data Podcast Jun 2024 Beyond Supervised Learning: the rise of in-context learning with LLMs Vanishing Gradients · Ep 28 Podcast Oct 2022 How a large financial institution went from zero to hero with CDD VUX World · case-study webinar Webinar Mar 2022 So you have a chatbot, now what? VUX World Live Podcast Aug 2020 Best practices for building conversational AI applications The Data Exchange · with Ben Lorica Podcast Sep 2018 Using machine learning to improve dialog flow in conversational applications O'Reilly Data Show · with Ben Lorica Podcast 2020 On GPT-3, a world without intents, and Rasa The Conversation Design Podcast Podcast Jul 2020 Alan Nichol, CTO and Co-founder of Rasa Voicebot Podcast · Ep 157 Podcast 2020 Open Source NLU Voice Tech Podcast · Ep 073 Podcast Jul 2018 Chatbots, conversational software, and data science DataFramed · with Hugo Bowne-Anderson · Ep 31 Podcast

Speak at your thing?

I'm selectively available in 2026 for keynotes, workshops, and occasional podcast episodes. Probably a yes if you're a conference about practical ML, an engineering org running an internal event, or a podcast with a guest list I admire.

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