Speaking
Fraud fighters, compliance teams, and trust and safety professionals are my home crowd.
I teach investigators what AI-enabled crime actually looks like, live demos included. Audiences have ranged from IAFCI chapters and national fraud summits to TrustCon, Identity Week, and Google's Trust & Safety CX Summit. I've been speaking to rooms for a long time: before tech, I gave talks at trade shows, universities, and community groups for six years while running my own company.
Topics I speak on
- AI-generated social engineering and why the human firewall fails
- Deepfakes and synthetic media in financial crime, with live demos
- Synthetic identity fraud: detection, attribution, and investigation
- Agentic AI for investigators, with a human at the helm
- What detection can honestly claim, and what it can't
Speaking record
| When | Event | Session |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2026 | IAFCI International Training Conference, Grand Hyatt Nashville | "AI: both the cause and solution for all fraud fighters," 2:00pm |
| May 28–29, 2026 | IAFCI Cyber Fraud Summit, Willis Tower, Chicago | "Scripted to Deceive: AI-Generated Social Engineering and the Human Firewall" |
| Nov 4, 2025 | ICBA Fraud and Scams Task Force | Deepfakes session |
| Oct 15–17, 2025 | IAFCI Florida Chapter Conference, Cape Coral | "The Ghost in the Machine: Investigating Financial Crime in the Age of AI," with live deepfake-call demo |
| Aug 26–29, 2025 | NABCRMP Global Summit, New Orleans | Panel: "The Future is Now: Emerging GRC Technologies Transforming Compliance & Risk Management" |
| Jun 26, 2025 | IAFCI virtual presentation | Deepfakes session |
| Jun 18, 2025 | IAFCI × CrimeDex webinar | "Threats: Financial Crime & Deepfakes," with live deepfake demo |
| May 27, 2025 | IAFCI Banking Fraud Virtual Meeting | "Threats: Financial Crime & Deepfakes" |
| May 2, 2025 | IAFCI Cyber Fraud Summit, Charlotte | Deepfake course presentation |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 10th Annual TIAA Fraud Summit (with IAFCI), Charlotte | Organized and moderated "The 'So What' of AI" generative AI panel |
| 2024 | Google Trust & Safety CX Summit | Biometric trust and platform safety |
| Aug 2024 | IAFCI International Training Conference, Henderson NV | Synthetic identity fraud session |
| Jul 2024 | TrustCon, San Francisco | Deepfake detection and content authenticity |
| Apr 2024 | IAFCI Cyber Fraud Summit, Sarasota FL | Co-presented on identity fraud and synthetic media |
| Jan 2024 | NABCRMP Annual Summit & Awards, Atlanta | Presented on fraud and compliance technology |
| 2023 – 2024 | Association of Payment Professionals | Committee member and speaker on fraud and identity |
| 2023 | NEACH Fraud Training Week and Fraud Summit series | Evolving fraud techniques and detection strategies |
| 2022 | Identity Week | Identity verification and fraud prevention, representing Veriff |
I've also guested on podcasts including The Protectors and Digital Fortress. Episode links are on the writing page as they publish. I deliver training as well as talks: IAFCI lists me as a speaker and trainer, and several of the sessions above were multi-hour courses for working investigators.
I'm a member of the Trust & Safety Professional Association (TSPA) and the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI).
Before tech
From 2015 to 2021 I presented regularly at trade shows, conventions, universities, and garden clubs across the Pacific Northwest for Root Connection and One Green World, including four annual trade shows a year. That's where I learned to teach a room, which is most of what speaking is.
Booking
Email [email protected] with your event, dates, and audience. Copy-paste bios in three lengths are on the about page, and here's the speaker headshot (1200px square JPG).
