Where AI projects really stall
Why a prototype can look successful while the production path is still undefined.
Production AI Keynote Speaker
The AI demo is easy. Production is hard.
Luca Berton helps technology leaders understand what actually breaks between an impressive AI prototype and a system the enterprise can trust, operate and scale.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Red Hat Summit 2026 Docker Captain 40,000+ students 8 technical books
Luca Berton
The Production AI Expert
Amsterdam · Available worldwide
Signature keynote
The AI Demo Is Easy. Production Is Hard.
The board sees a breakthrough demo. The platform team sees identity, reliability, GPUs, observability, cost, security, governance and a hundred unanswered operational questions.
This keynote gives leaders a memorable mental model for the prototype-to-production gap and shows why AI strategy is now inseparable from platform engineering, operating discipline and governance.
Audience
CIOs, CTOs, engineering leaders, platform teams, AI leaders and technical decision-makers.
Format
20–45 minute keynote, executive session, conference talk or tailored enterprise presentation.
What audiences leave with
A practical model, not AI theater.
The Production AI Framework
Prototype → Platform → Production → Proof: a shared language for technical and executive teams.
The hidden operating layer
Reliability, security, observability, cost and governance — the work the demo does not show.
What leaders should do next
Concrete questions to ask before scaling AI investment, teams and infrastructure.
Additional keynote directions
The Platform Team Is the AI Strategy
AI increases the speed of experimentation — and the need for stronger platforms. A talk about golden paths, agentic development, governance and why platform engineering becomes more important in an AI-first organization, not less.
The Economics of Production AI
GPUs, inference, utilization, latency and architecture decisions become business decisions. A practical executive talk on making AI infrastructure economically sustainable at scale.
Why Luca
Technical enough for engineers. Clear enough for executives.
Luca brings 15+ years of enterprise infrastructure experience, a former Red Hat engineering background, eight published technical books, teaching experience with 40,000+ students, and stage experience at KubeCon and Red Hat Summit.
The result is a talk grounded in systems that have to work — translated into a story leaders can act on.
Best fit
- AI & technology conferences
- CIO / CTO leadership events
- Enterprise innovation summits
- Cloud-native & platform engineering events
- Executive offsites and customer events
Proof from the stage
Production AI, in front of real technical audiences.
Luca brings the engineering reality behind enterprise AI to conferences, leadership events and technical communities — translating production systems into stories leaders and builders can act on.
30+
Conferences
15+
Presentations
10+
Countries
KubeCon + Red Hat Summit
Flagship stages
Bring Production AI to your stage