Speaking
Keynotes, workshops, lectures, panels. For bookings: hello@lutzfinger.com.
No public sessions on the calendar right now.
Past sessions
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Human First, AI Second, with Maureen Heymans
Lutz Finger with Maureen Heymans (VP of Engineering for Learning at Google) on evolving the classroom rather than automating it: putting human creativity first and AI second, the durable skills the AI era rewards, and why current assessment systems block progress.
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Building Enterprise-Ready AI Agents, From Prototypes to Production
Production-grade agent architecture with Claude Code and LangGraph state machines. Enterprise design principles, OWASP LLM Top 10, RAG patterns, and a hands-on blueprint exercise for deployable agentic systems.
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Hands-On AI Agents: Vibe-Code AI Workflows and Agent Skills for Personal Productivity
Vibe-code your own personal agent. What works, what doesn't, what's safe. Language models, agentic system design, planning, tool use, and hands-on automation of real workflows with Claude. No code required.
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ESADE × Berkeley SCET, Lutz Finger
Guest session for ESADE Executive cohort hosted at Berkeley SCET: applied AI strategy.
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Rethinking the AGI Race, with Benjamin Goertzel
Lutz Finger and Benjamin Goertzel on AGI claims vs the science: world models, symbolic reasoning, and evolutionary learning vs the scaling-only thesis.
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Tomorrow's Medicine, with Cyriac Roeding
Lutz Finger and Cyriac Roeding on BioAI: physical breakthroughs (cancer and autoimmune treatments) emerging from AI applied to biology and the path from research to funded companies.
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AI on the Front Lines, with Alexander Fink
Lutz Finger with Alexander Fink on the new AI operating model for warfare: speed, accountability, and human judgment when autonomous systems shape battlefield decisions.
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The Hidden Patterns, with Ben Orthlieb
Ben Orthlieb (Blue Moon) with Lutz Finger on patterns from 6000 startup pitches: radically lean teams, SMB software opportunities, and overlooked compliance plays in AI-driven startups.
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AI Needs Power, the Grid Needs AI, with Josh Wong
Lutz Finger with Josh Wong on the AI/energy collision: electricity demand may double by 2040 and AI can unlock grid capacity as experienced operators retire.
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Marketing to Humans Changed, with Alex Dees
Lutz Finger with Alex Dees (Meridian) on how AI assistants and browser agents reshape the buyer journey, and how brands stay visible when AI systems recommend on a buyer's behalf.
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VC-Bootcamp at Stanford GSB
Multi-panel day at Stanford GSB: "From Gut Feel to Infrastructure: How AI Is Rewriting Venture Decision-Making" and "AI Tools in VC Operations: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly".
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Humans in an Agentic Economy, with Emaad Manzoor
Lutz Finger and Cornell marketing professor Emaad Manzoor on the agentic economy: AIs that negotiate, bid, and transact, and how reputation, permissions, and embeddings reshape human identity.
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AI as an Operating Model, Cornell EMBA evening with Vishal Gaur
Cornell EMBA / alumni evening with Dean Vishal Gaur. Hot takes: layoffs as enablement vs replacement, agency as the new moat, workflow design beats prompt wizardry, AI ethics as operating discipline.
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Reshaping Investing With AI, with Lila Tretikov
Lutz Finger with Lila Tretikov (Partner & Head of AI Strategy, NEA) on how venture firms use AI across sourcing, diligence, portfolio construction, and founder support, and how the risk/return landscape is shifting.
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The Future of AI, with Richard Socher
Lutz Finger and Richard Socher on the rise of Reward Engineers, small teams achieving massive scale, and Socher's claim that AI will do for biology what calculus did for physics.
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The Best Time to Be an MBA / Consultant, INSEAD Faculty Lounge
Faculty Lounge seminar at INSEAD: AI's reshaping of MBA-relevant skills and why dynamic workflows are becoming the new corporate moat.
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Berkeley Emerging Tech Management, Lutz Finger session
Guest session in Berkeley SCET's Emerging Technology Management program: applied AI and what's actually shipping.
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After the Gold Rush, with Kurt Wagner
Kurt Wagner (Bloomberg, "Battle for the Bird") and Lutz Finger on where AI is creating real value. Where workflows, AI, and human expertise intersect, and why Lutz sold his own AI startup as part of that shift.
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Disrupting Traditional Banking, with Colin Walsh
Lutz Finger with Colin Walsh (Varo Bank) on how AI is rewiring banking. Modernizing financial services and why successful implementation matters more than the tech itself.
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AI in the EU, with Lucilla Sioli
Lucilla Sioli (European Commission) with Lutz Finger on Europe's AI Continent Action Plan: AI factories, data spaces, talent, and the EU's strategy to become the AI Continent.
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The Future of AI, with Martín Casado
Lutz Finger with Martín Casado (a16z) on what actually works in AI vs the hype: agents vs copilots, model constraints, and the open-source competitive landscape.
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AI, Innovation, and Risk, with Aneesh Chopra
Aneesh Chopra (former US CTO) with Lutz Finger moderating. AI's impact on citizens, enterprises, and government, plus the policy needed to keep U.S. AI leadership.
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AI in E-Commerce
How to prioritize AI for the enterprise layer. Lutz's framework for personalization in eCommerce with case studies from media, healthcare, and retail.
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AI, Clones, Deep Fakes, and Neural Networks
Lutz Finger on neural networks, AI clones, and deepfakes: how brain-inspired models learn patterns from data, how they're trained and optimized, and how to deploy AI responsibly.