Talks & workshops

Ideas from
the work itself.

I share what I’m learning at the intersection of AI, product, and design. Practical lessons from designing the experience, leading the team, and engineering the system.

Questions I keep coming back to.

Four starting points for a talk, shaped around your audience and event.

  1. 01

    When the machine drafts first, what should humans still own?

    AI makes output cheap. Taste, evidence, and accountability become the scarce layer. A field report on how product, design, and engineering work changes when the first draft is no longer human.

  2. 02

    Prompt prototyping: design before the interface exists.

    A practical method for testing intent, behavior, and edge cases before polishing screens. Developed through AI product work and shared with the design community at Silicon Valley AI Nights.

  3. 03

    The model is rented. The experience is yours.

    The durable product is the system around the model: context, tools, permissions, feedback, verification, and interface. What teams should design when intelligence becomes a commodity.

  4. 04

    The three surfaces of an agentic product.

    Application, machine, and organization: the three levels builders must connect as agents move from a feature into real work. Based on the Builder’s Guide to Agentic Applications.

Jerel with the Builder’s Guide to Agentic Applications

The Builder’s Guide to Agentic Applications.

I wrote this practical guide to the three surfaces builders need to connect when creating, scaling, and operating intelligent agents.

  • Application agents and the experience people use.
  • Machine-level agents and the systems that support them.
  • Organizational agents and how teams work with them.

Those same questions run through my talks: where to put the boundaries, how to earn trust, and what it takes to move a prototype into everyday work.

See the work behind the ideas

A format for your room.

From a focused keynote to a day spent building together.

Keynote or conference talk

One sharp thesis, grounded in shipped systems and practical decisions, shaped around the event’s central question.

Fireside or panel

A candid conversation about what is changing, what remains unresolved, and what builders should do differently now.

Prompt prototyping workshop

A hands-on session where teams turn AI product ideas into testable conversations, behaviors, boundaries, and interface decisions.

Out in the world.

23 talks, workshops, and panels with developer communities, teams, and universities.

Building with Agent Development Kit

Building with Agent Development Kit

AIPC · Build with AI by Google

AI for Business Masterclass

AI for Business Masterclass

Executive AI enablement

State of the Nation in AI

State of the Nation in AI

Panelist

Innovating with Generative AI

Innovating with Generative AI

Cebu Technological University · 2024

Generative AI Agents with Gemini

Generative AI Agents with Gemini

GDG Bogor · Indonesia

Mastering ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering

Mastering ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering

Hands-on workshop

Intro to GenAI Agents with Gemini

Intro to GenAI Agents with Gemini

Google I/O Extended Cebu · 2024

Agent Development Kit 101

Agent Development Kit 101

Technical workshop

VibeCore

VibeCore

Google Mountain View

GDG DevFest Cebu 2023

GDG DevFest Cebu 2023

Google Developer Groups

Prompt Prototyping for AI Products

Prompt Prototyping for AI Products

Silicon Valley AI Nights · Frontier Tower

Cutting-Edge Tools and Emerging Careers in AI

Cutting-Edge Tools and Emerging Careers in AI

AI careers talk

Google DevFest Davao 2023

Google DevFest Davao 2023

Google Developer Groups

Build with AI: Gemini for Developers

Build with AI: Gemini for Developers

Build with AI

Agentic Design Patterns

Agentic Design Patterns

PizzaPy: LLMs

PersonaGPT

PersonaGPT

Applied AI product demo

Google DevFest Butuan 2023

Google DevFest Butuan 2023

Google Developer Groups

Product Leadership

Product Leadership

Leadership talk

Practical LLMOps and Prompt Engineering

Practical LLMOps and Prompt Engineering

Technical workshop

Generative AI Design Patterns

Generative AI Design Patterns

The Frame · 2024

AI Ethics in Education

AI Ethics in Education

Education talk

Be an AI Advocate

Be an AI Advocate

AI Pilipinas Cebu

Generative AI Process Automation with Gemini

Generative AI Process Automation with Gemini

GDG DevFest Cebu · 2024

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