Book someone who's had to live with the decision.
I don't tour the tools. I talk about how a business decides what AI is worth building, what it should leave alone, and why so much of it changes nothing. No hype, no doom, no slide of robot hands. Perth-based, speaking Australia-wide.
- PropTech Hub WA
- Insurance Advisernet
- One Brand
- Developmental Safety at Work
“Genuinely practical and immediately useful. It cut through the noise and showed real, actionable ways to integrate AI into everyday work.”
I speak about the decisions, not the tools.
No hype, no doom, no jargon, and no tour of this month's software. These are the arguments I make most often, and each one is shaped to your room before I set foot in it.
The bottleneck moved.
AI made building cheap, so the hard question climbed the chain: how do we build it, then what should we build, then should we build it at all. The scarce skill isn't building any more. It's choosing. I show a room where the real work went.
The company doesn't loop. Its systems do.
You're being sold a company rebuilt as self-improving AI loops with the humans at the edge. The loop is real, and it has its place. But every working example lives where the world answers in seconds and the score is honest. Most of your business isn't that. Here's where the loop can't go, and who holds the lock.
Choose the design. Then the tool.
The beginner move is tool-first: let's build an agent, let's do a ChatGPT thing. That's grabbing the vehicle before you know the destination. Problem, then map, then design, then tool. The tool is the last decision, not the first, and the cheapest answer is often no new build at all.
Systems earn autonomy. People grant adoption.
Most AI rollouts don't fail on the technology. They fail because nobody earned the adoption. The people side is the twin of the build side, and it runs on four things every person is owed at work: what to do, how they're going, how to improve, and what impact they're having.
However your programme needs it.
A board of insurance brokers and a floor of operations staff need very different things from the same hour. Tell me who's in the room and what you want them thinking on the drive home.
- 01Keynote
30 to 60 minutes, main stage
Conferences, industry events, and annual kick-offs. A room-wide reset on what AI actually changes about the work, and what it doesn't.
- 02In-house briefing
Your leadership team, one hour
For boards and exec teams who need to make real decisions about AI and are tired of being sold to. Direct, specific, and safe to disagree in.
- 03Panel and Q&A
Moderated, or on the panel
I'm comfortable being asked the hard question, and comfortable asking it. Happy to MC an AI track if that's what the programme needs.
- 04Hands-on session
Half day, laptops open
When a talk isn't enough and the room needs to build something. We take one real problem and run it end to end, from the problem to a working system.
Rooms I've been in.
“Genuinely practical and immediately useful. It cut through the noise and showed real, actionable ways to integrate AI into everyday work.”
“A rare ability to translate technical complexity into practical applications that genuinely improve business performance.”
“An in-depth look at business systems that work to contain yet fully utilise AI. I went straight home and started implementing some of the things I learned. Matiu's session was awesome.”
What's the room?
Tell me who's in the audience, when it is, and what you want them thinking on the drive home. I'll come back to you, and I'll say honestly if I'm not the right fit for the programme.