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.
Saying it out loud.
Conference talks, keynotes, and the occasional podcast episode 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.
Scaling agentic architectures in regulated industries.
A keynote on how organizations in highly regulated sectors can implement agentic AI architectures while maintaining compliance, control, and security — from the practitioner's perspective of shipping conversational AI into banks, telcos, and government for a decade.
A hands-on tutorial on building conversational AI systems using CALM and Rasa — bringing LLMs together with deterministic business logic without losing control.
Walkthrough of CALM — using LLMs to drive conversational flows while keeping business logic deterministic and auditable.
Chatbot Summit London, October 11–12, 2023. Day-one masterclass on moving past intent classification and leveraging LLMs in production conversational systems.
Chatbot Summit London, day-two keynote — discussing customer-interaction optimization with one of the world's largest telcos.
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.
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.
A framework for thinking about chatbot maturity — from scripted responses to fully contextual assistants — and where most production systems actually live.
Opening keynote at the inaugural Rasa Developer Summit, laying out where open-source conversational AI was heading.
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.
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.
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.