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Keynotes & Corporate Talks

IT as a strategic advantage
— live on your stage

Board-level talks that turn technology from a cost center into a growth engine. No buzzwords. Data-driven.

20+ years in technology Author, Routledge 2025 The Hack Summit Warsaw IT Days Flowtopia Live TechStrong TV digitalcxo.com
Send a 3-minute brief → Proposal within 48 business hours
Flagship talks

Four talks, one language: value

Every topic comes in a conference and a corporate variant. Examples are tailored to your industry and audience.

01

From Cost Center to Growth Engine

Conference variant

An F1 Helmet on a Bus Driver — Why Your IT Modernization Isn't Working

What your audience takes away

A shared value language for the board and IT, plus three transformation levers they can pull on Monday morning.

Best for

Executive boards, C-level offsites, business & technology conferences

keynote · corporate talk + Q&A · half-day workshop extension
02

Your Roadmap Is a Wish List

Corporate variant

Hypothesis → Experiment → Evidence → Decision

What your audience takes away

A decision cycle for uncertainty — how to place small, measurable bets and retire the bad ones without political drama.

Best for

Leadership teams, strategy & PMO functions, tech conferences

keynote · corporate talk + Q&A · half-day workshop extension
03

AI Won't Replace Your Organization. Chaos Will

by the author of a chapter in „AI and Resilient Organizations", Routledge 2025
Corporate variant

Resilient Organizations in the AI Era — Industry 5.0, Human-Centered

What your audience takes away

An AI-readiness frame for the whole organization and the risks vendor demos never show — including data sovereignty.

Best for

Boards planning AI adoption, industry conferences, leadership summits

keynote · corporate talk + Q&A · half-day workshop extension
04

Digital Sovereignty: How We Missed This Risk?

as delivered live at The Hack Summit 2025
Corporate variant

No Longer a Hostage — Vendor Lock-in, Optionality and Exit Strategies

What your audience takes away

A Digital Sovereignty Score for their own organization and a way to build optionality and exit strategies into vendor contracts.

Best for

Boards and CIO/CTO audiences, risk & compliance events, industry conferences

keynote · corporate talk + Q&A · half-day workshop extension
Watch before you book

How I show up on stage

Three recordings — a live conference talk, an interview, and a technical session.

Digital Sovereignty — The Hack Summit
Digital Sovereignty — how we missed this risk?
The Hack Summit · live
 Value Stream Mapping as the Swiss Knife for Business
Value Stream Mapping as the Swiss Knife for Business
TechStrong TV · interview with Alan Shimel
 Legacy Enterprise to Cloud Native Architecture
Legacy Enterprise → Cloud Native Architecture
Conference talk
About the speaker

Marcin Karkocha

Marcin Karkocha

Chief Technology Strategist. For over 20 years he has worked at every level of technology: from writing code, through architecture, to advising boards and CIOs of some of the largest companies in Europe and Asia. He helps turn IT from a cost center into a growth engine — no buzzwords, data-driven.

Founder of Caterpillar Garden (strategic advisory) and LearnSynth (training for technology leaders). Author of a chapter on digital sovereignty in „AI and Resilient Organizations" (Routledge, 2025).

On stage, he talks about technology in the language boards actually understand: value and finance.

How it works

From brief to stage in four steps

1
3-minute brief

Event date, audience profile, topic, budget range.

2
Proposal within 48 business hours

Topic fit, format, and a concrete quote.

3
Alignment call

Customization of examples to your industry and audience.

4
The talk

Plus follow-up materials for attendees.

Fees start at 12 000 PLN net (keynote) — every quote is individual, it depends on format, customization scope and travel.
Practical details

No surprises

Languages

Polish & English

Delivery

On-site (based in Tricity, travelling across Poland and Europe) · online · hybrid

Recording

Allowed by prior agreement

Tech rider

Own clicker & adapters; standard needs — projector/LED, wireless mic, HDMI

Planning an event for May–June or October–November?

Speaker calendars fill up months ahead — send your brief today.

Send a 3-minute brief → Message on LinkedIn