Applied AI · Talks, workshops & podcasts
Help people decide what to try, what to question, and how to judge the result with a speaker who works on AI products and agents every day.
Scott Falconer · Author of Managing AI
Senior Product Director at Acquia
Acquia Engage London · 30-second excerpt
AI has changed the economics of everything
From the Acquia Engage London keynote
Choose the conversation
Three starting points, with the examples and technical depth shaped around the people in the room.
Leadership & adoption
For leaders and managers
Your team has tried AI. How do you decide where it belongs?
A practical framework for choosing work worth improving, defining what to measure before calling it a success, and keeping human judgment and review clear when AI enters the workflow.
Talk + Q&A · Leadership working session
Organizational knowledge
For business, product, and technology teams
AI can answer a question. Does it understand your organization?
How to map the institutional context a real workflow needs, why ownership and permissions shape useful answers, and where to start improving the knowledge your systems rely on.
Talk + Q&A · Cross-functional working session
Advanced applied AI
For product leaders, engineers, and practitioners
What changes when AI can take action on your behalf?
How to define an agent’s scope and responsibilities, where to put permission boundaries and human checkpoints, and how to frame a bounded experiment your team can evaluate.
Technical talk + Q&A · Product or engineering session
For podcast hosts & interviewers
Scott is open to podcast interviews on applied AI, agents, and the human decisions around them. Bring the questions your listeners are asking.
Invite Scott on your podcastWhy permissions, structured context, and human checkpoints matter more than raw model output once AI can act.
How software teams, agencies, and open source communities adapt when building and generating get dramatically cheaper.
Choosing worthwhile tasks, defining what good looks like, and knowing when a promising pilot needs to change course.
Speaker bio
Scott leads Applied AI, Agent Success, and Drupal product direction at Acquia and is the author of Managing AI. His work focuses on AI products, structured context, and the governance needed for people and agents to work together reliably.
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