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Talks on building and teaching with AI

I use the engineering behind Fluent, Mirror and Phrase Passport to explain the decisions a demo doesn’t show.

For developer conferences, company events and leadership teams.

Collage of Ali Mustufa Shaikh leading workshops, speaking to conference audiences, mentoring at Agentic AI Day and travelling between events.

Talk topics

We can choose the examples and technical depth for your audience.

Beyond Vibe Coding: Engineering Judgment Still Matters

I take one coding task through requirements, AI-assisted implementation, review and tests, showing where a generated answer needs checking and how the engineer decides whether to ship it.

Audience
Developers, engineering leaders, and technical events
Duration
30–45 minutes

Building Useful AI: Lessons from Real Projects

I use Fluent’s live translation, Mirror’s facial exercises and Passport’s travel guides to explain where processing happens, what the app saves, and which decisions change when people use it.

Audience
Developer conferences and mixed innovation audiences
Duration
30–40 minutes

AI at Work: Better Decisions Before Bigger Bets

Assess an AI use case beyond its demo: what it can do, what remains unclear, and whether a first experiment is worth running. I explain how to examine those questions before committing to the pilot.

Audience
Executives, nontechnical leaders, and company-wide audiences
Duration
30–45 minutes plus questions
Twelve-second speaking & community montage

Watch a talk

My earlier TEDxSPIT talk is a full-length recording on crowdsourcing data for machine learning. The montage shows short clips from speaking and community events.

Ali Mustufa Shaikh speaking on stage beside the TEDxSPIT letters.

Crowd-sourcing Data for Machine Learning

TEDxSPIT · An earlier full-length talk about machine-learning participation, drawn from my Google Crowdsource community appointment.

Watch on TED

Speaking and teaching experience

At Postman and Pieces, I taught workshops, spoke at conferences and helped organise events.

Senior Developer Advocate · Dec 2020–Oct 2024

My work at Postman included enterprise workshops across the US and a workshop demonstration at POST/CON 2024 in San Francisco.

Pieces

Senior Developer Advocate · Oct 2024–Aug 2026

At Pieces, I delivered AI sessions for developers. My work also covered onboarding, technical content and product feedback.

Pieces AI Summit

Co-organiser & panel host · At Pieces

I co-led the summit and hosted its live panel, with work on event production and technical delivery.

Ali Mustufa Shaikh leading an API workshop at POST/CON 2024 in San Francisco, with workshop attendees pictured below.

Workshop demonstration at POST/CON 2024

Workshop in San Francisco · POST/CON 2024, during my time at Postman.

Invite me to speak

Tell me who’s coming, what they’re interested in, and the date and location. We’ll agree the theme, technical depth, Q&A, and any recording plans.

I’m available for conferences and company events across the United States and worldwide. I speak in person and virtually, with sessions scheduled around your audience’s time zone.

For a short-notice event, ask me about availability.