Speaking

Vinay has led digital transformation and emerging technology deployments at scale across mining, healthcare, utilities, and telecommunications—working with executive leadership and Boards at global Fortune 100 enterprises.

He speaks on what actually works when deploying AI, managing organizational change, and building technology initiatives that survive contact with operational reality.

Speaking Topics

• Digital Transformation in Traditional Industries

How to deploy emerging technologies in organizations with legacy systems, entrenched workflows, and operational constraints that kill half-baked implementations. Based on leading transformations across mining, healthcare, and utilities at global scale.

• Why AI Projects Fail (And How to Prevent It)

The six decisions that separate projects that deliver value from expensive zombies that consume resources without producing results. Drawn from leading AI deployments at Fortune 100 enterprises.

• Leading Change When Nobody Wants to Change

Managing organizational resistance, political dynamics, and stakeholder conflicts during large-scale technology rollouts. Practical approaches from deploying systems across continents and cultures.

• Building Technology That Works in Production

The gap between proof-of-concept and production deployment—and how to design for operational reality, not lab conditions. Based on scaling technology initiatives across North America, Asia, and South America.

• Resource Allocation: What to Kill to Fund What Matters

How executives make hard decisions about stopping projects, reallocating resources, and admitting when initiatives aren't working—before they become expensive failures.

• High-Stakes Technology Deployments

Leading implementations where failure has significant operational, financial, or safety consequences. Lessons from deploying mission-critical systems in 24/7 industrial operations.

Past Engagements

Mining Investment North America

Decarbonized Mines Summit Canada

Digitalization in Mining North America

Energy Transition and Emission Reduction

Mining 4.0 (Europe & North America)

Digitalization and AI in Mining

Mining Tech

Missouri University of Science and Technology

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