Ashish Bhatia
Speaking

Talks I've given.

I speak occasionally about audio, recommendations, and product craft. Email me if you'd like one for your event.

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Panel: Build vs. Buy vs. Embed — How CPOs Are Making AI Investment Decisions

CPO Summit Boston · Boston

Every CPO is facing the same pressure: move fast on AI without backing the wrong horse. This panel brings together product leaders who've been through the decision-making process — building proprietary models, buying third-party tooling, or embedding AI into existing workflows — and interrogates what they got right, what they'd do differently, and how they're thinking about the next wave of decisions.

Aug 20, 2026, 9:45–10:30 AM

Claude Code for Product Managers

ProdCon 2026 (Amazon) · Seattle
Sep 23, 2026

AI-Powered Product Management: Best Practices for Requirements Gathering

GAI World 2026 · Hynes Convention Center · Boston
Sep 28–30, 2026

Past talks.

From Prompts to Systems: What 6 Months of Running OpenClaw Agents Taught Me

Personal AI Agents LIVE (ODSC AI) · Live Online

Insights from six months running OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI system used continuously rather than as a prototype: the orchestration layer matters more than the model, memory and evolving instructions compound capability and alignment, and sustained real-world use reveals reliability issues that demos conceal. On the shift from AI as tools you use to systems that work for you.

Jul 2026

From Prompts to Systems: What 2 Months of Running OpenClaw Agents Taught Me

ODSC East 2026 · Boston

Three learnings from two months running OpenClaw agents in production: the orchestration layer matters more than the model, memory and instructions compound system value, and long-term operation reveals what demos conceal. Includes live demos, where it still breaks, and what the agentic shift means for enterprises.

May 2026

AWAAI Learn & Lead with Ashish Bhatia

AWAAI (Asian Women in AI) · Live Online

A conversation on career growth, leadership, and building AI products — from citizen-developer tools at Microsoft to conversational discovery at Audible.

2026

Understanding Agent Failure Modes: Lessons from Real-World AI Systems

GenAI World 2025 · Boston

A look at how AI agents actually break in production — and what that reveals about building systems people can trust, drawn from real-world deployment rather than demos.

2025

Building safe AI tools at scale

Coforge TechCon · New York
2025

The Prompt Builder story

Power Platform Conference · Las Vegas
2024

AI Community Conference

Boston & NYC · Multiple
2024 — 2025

XPIA Measurement for LLMs

Microsoft MLADS (internal) · Redmond
2024

Unlocking LLMs for No-Code Developers

Microsoft MLADS (internal) · Redmond
2023

Applied ML in industry

ODSC · Boston
2021