Workshops & Speaking

Practical capability, taught by someone who still builds.

Keynotes, executive briefings and hands-on workshops that help leaders and engineering teams turn AI-assisted engineering and modern practices into capability they keep.

Dan Patrascu-Baba speaking on stage at DevTalks
What I speak and teach about

Topics, grounded in building, not theory

Every talk and workshop comes out of work I am actually doing: building a production platform and the engineering system around it.

AI-Assisted Engineering

What AI actually changes about how teams plan, build, review and ship, and the system that makes it compound.

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Software Architecture

The structural decisions, boundaries, patterns and trade-offs that determine how well a system holds together over time.

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Engineering Leadership

Treating technology decisions as business decisions, and building teams that scale without relying on heroics.

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Systems That Scale

Architecture, reliability and cost-to-serve: building software systems that hold up as they grow.

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How we can work together

Five ways to bring me in

From a keynote to a hands-on workshop, scaled to your event or your team.

Help your leadership team understand what AI means for your business.

Executive Briefings

AI is changing software engineering, product development and business operations at an unprecedented pace. These tailored executive sessions help leadership teams cut through the noise, understand the real opportunities and risks, and make better strategic decisions.

You walk away with A shared understanding of the AI landscape, practical next steps and greater confidence in the decisions ahead.

Build stronger engineering leaders for a changing industry.

Engineering Leadership Workshops

Engineering leadership is changing just as quickly as software development itself. These workshops focus on technical decision making, engineering culture, software architecture, AI adoption and leading engineering organizations through change.

You walk away with Engineering leaders with practical frameworks they can immediately apply to make better technical and organizational decisions.

Teach your engineering teams how to build software in the age of AI.

AI-Assisted Engineering Workshops

These hands-on workshops introduce the principles behind AI-Assisted Engineering, including engineering workflows, context engineering, governance, planning, architecture and engineering practices designed for AI-assisted software delivery.

You walk away with A shared engineering language, practical techniques and a team ready to adopt AI-assisted engineering with confidence.

Learn how to design reliable AI systems, not just AI demos.

AI Agent Engineering Workshops

Building production-grade AI systems requires much more than prompting an LLM. Through practical sessions, your engineering team will learn how to design workflows, orchestrate agents, evaluate outputs, introduce human approval points and build systems that can be trusted in production.

You walk away with An engineering team capable of designing, building and operating reliable AI agent systems.

Bring practical engineering insights to your audience.

Conference Keynotes

From engineering leadership to AI-assisted software engineering and multi-agent systems, my talks combine real-world experience, technical depth and practical lessons that audiences can immediately apply.

You walk away with An engaging keynote that challenges conventional thinking and leaves your audience with practical ideas they can take back to work the next day.

Have an event or a team in mind? Let's find the right format.

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On stage and in the room

200+ talks and workshops delivered

Conference speaker and workshop lead on engineering leadership, AI-assisted engineering and building systems that scale.

Dan Patrascu-Baba presenting to a conference audience at DevTalks
Dan Patrascu-Baba leading a workshop session
Dan Patrascu-Baba speaking on stage at DevTalks
Common questions

Before you reach out

Are your workshops in person?

Yes. The value of a workshop lives in the room: the discussion, the hands-on exercises and the conversations between them. That rarely carries over to a screen, so I run workshops in person rather than virtually.

Can you tailor a workshop to our team?

Yes. The most useful sessions start from your actual context: your stack, your constraints and where your team is on the AI-assisted engineering path.

What size of audience or team?

From a leadership team of a handful of people in an executive briefing to a full conference room for a keynote. Hands-on workshops work best with a focused group.

What do people walk away able to do?

The aim is capability, not just awareness: concrete practices and judgment your team can apply the week after, rather than a deck they file away.

Bring me in to speak or run a workshop.

Tell me about your event or your team, and what you want people to walk away able to do.