Speaking

Speaking

Talks that argue, not survey.


Deepak Waghmare speaking on a Dell Technologies panel alongside IDC, Deloitte and Intel

I speak to boards, C-suites and senior practitioners across Asia Pacific — keynotes, panels and closed-door executive sessions. I do not give market-overview talks. Every session takes a position and defends it.

Topics

Why AI pilots succeed and never ship

The three traps — Pilot, Technology-First and Solo — and why the same wall appears in manufacturing, healthcare, banking and retail from different directions. Best for enterprise audiences somewhere between their third pilot and their first production deployment.

What the board finds out too late

Organisational resilience as a structural property rather than a control framework, built from cases where the gap became public. For boards, audit and risk committees.

Sovereignty is a workload decision

Why treating data sovereignty as a single global answer is the expensive mistake, and what changes when it is decided per workload. For regulated industries and public sector audiences.

Correlation is cheap. Causation is leadership.

On technology leadership itself: judgement that cannot be delegated to a dashboard, and the invisible work that creates most of the value. For leadership programmes and senior technology audiences.

Recent

GTACS 2026 — ISACA Singapore Chapter’s annual event, From Cyber Risk to Enterprise Resilience. Dell Technologies World. Panels and executive sessions across the region, and ongoing work with TiE Singapore. Coverage and interviews are collected on the Press page.


Speaking enquiries

Tell me the audience, the room and what you want them arguing about afterwards.