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Speaker reel🎤 Signature keynote · 45–60 minutes
Where Did the Work Go?
Send your audience home with a real ROI — not a prediction. What AI actually costs, where the work really goes, and which projects they should turn down.
1,775Professionals trained for the FBI’s InfraGard
718Organizations represented
17Sessions run as Training Moderator, 2016–2019
Since 2000On the radio, live, every week
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Four decades across banking, aerospace, telecom, media, and government — including broadband LAN design for the US Navy.
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The keynote · 45–60 minutes
AI should earn its place.
For three years your members have been told AI removes work. The research says so. The business case on their desk says so.
Craig leads with that research — cited, in his first five minutes. But every one of those studies measured the same thing: the task that got faster. None followed the work that showed up somewhere else, in a different department, on a different budget line, weeks later.
Then he opens his own books and becomes the cautionary tale.
Craig’s own AI pipeline · cost per analysis cut 11×
1,279Queued for human review
1,228Never opened — 96%
He didn’t remove the work. He moved it, and then he lost sight of it — for months.
What happens in the room
They vote. He reveals. They vote again.
They vote
Three AI proposals, written for your industry. Members vote on their own devices: approve, reject, need more information.
He reveals
Where the work would actually land — seven destinations, each in a different department from the one that bought the AI.
They vote again
The numbers rarely hold. The results are yours to keep.
AI made the analysis nearly free. It did not make the people who act on it free. Some of these projects your members should turn down — and almost nobody on a stage will say that.
The transformation
What your audience can do on Monday that they couldn’t on Friday.
They walk in believing
They walk out able to
“AI removes work.”
Name the seven places it moves to instead.
A business case with one column filled in.
Price the three columns no vendor fills in.
“IT is handling the AI.”
Say whose name is on the output when it is confidently wrong.
Three proposals that all look good.
Say which one to turn down — and why.
The instrument that does it: The AI Work Map — seven places displaced work hides, absorbed silently, department by department, with no cost ever filed.
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Rework
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Data and security review
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Policy and governance
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Training
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Monitoring and drift
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Vendor management
→ What is the net?
The real bill
What AI costs in verification, security, oversight, and liability — the column no vendor fills in, priced by someone who sells it for a living.
The accountability question
What to delegate, what to augment, what stays human — and whose name is on it when the system is confidently wrong.
A working file
Every attendee leaves with the map and the scorecard as a working file, not a PDF of the slides — ready to run against the proposal already on their desk.
Executives, boards, and owners. Not a technical audience.
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He is not reporting on this. He is inside it.
He runs the AI, and he pays for it
A production pipeline on his own money. His own invoice on screen — and his own missed review queue in it.
His engineering has been cross-examined
Baker Botts retained him for AT&T: a system he built was identified as prior art, he testified to it, and the asserted patents were invalidated.
He has done live for 26 years
Weekly radio since 2000. No notes, no script. Q&A isn’t the risky part of his session — it’s the strong part.
Working with Craig
What you get, and what it costs.
Included
- As many planning calls as your committee wants
- The three AI proposals rewritten for your industry, in your members’ own language
- Optional promotional video and social copy
- On site the full day — meet-and-greets, VIP reception, photos
- The live vote on your members’ own devices, results yours to keep
- The Work Map and scorecard for every attendee, as a working file
- Post-event debrief call with the committee
Format
45–60 minute keynote
Room needs
Slides, a screen, a way to vote
Keynote
From$50,000
Plus a $2,000 flat travel fee covering all travel within the continental US. Craig travels from New Hampshire.
Add-on workshops · $15,000 each
The AI Work Map — teams bring a real proposal from their own desk, trace it across the seven hiding places, and price it.
What to Turn Down — teams build the case against three live initiatives and practice saying no to one that doesn’t survive the arithmetic.
Disclosure
Craig owns a cybersecurity company that sells some of the oversight work this talk says goes uncounted. He says so on stage, in the first five minutes, and no part of the session is a product pitch — but you should know the interest exists before you book, not after.
“10 of 10 rating… outstanding.”
“Very good presentation. I listen to a lot, and this was one of the best.”
“Very practical information, with lots of references for follow-up.”
From the FBI InfraGard Private Sector Partnership program Craig ran as Training Moderator, 2016–2019 — 1,775 attendees across 17 sessions.
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