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Conference talks & public workshops

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July 2, 2026 · AI Engineer World's Fair 2026

Lifestyles of the AI-Native: Stop Typing. Start Operating.

A hands-on workshop with Nick Nisi at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. One hour, one repo, four moves: voice coding, agentic loops and goals, verification gates, and scheduled tasks. Every attendee's check-in fed a live board showing the room's toil, the automations worth building, and the hours per week reclaimed — with an AI-Native score measured before and after. Conference organizer swyx told us our workshops are the gold standard for AI Engineer content.

Claude CodeVoice CodingAgentic LoopsVerification Gates

AI engineers and · Moscone West, San Francisco, CAT.01

Read the write-up Workshop repo — run it yourself The AI-Native glossary

T02 · PublicInteractive deck

May 20, 2026 · WorkOS Applied AI Showcase

Applied AI: Three Learnings from Shipping

Closing segment of the WorkOS Applied AI Showcase. After demos of our autonomous agent harness CLI, GTM intelligence platform, and the Horizon agentic coding platform, I shared three learnings from shipping internal AI tooling at WorkOS: interface beats stack (Bartleby vs Blog Bot, eighteen months apart, same idea, different door), complete the loop (capture → plan → execute → ship), and the imagination gap (re-ask the question every quarter).

Applied AIInternal ToolingBlog BotBartleby

AI engineers, engineering · WorkOS · Live broadcastT.02

Watch my segment (1:02:45)Watch the full showcase Read the write-up Deck source on GitHub

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April 2026 · AI Engineering London

Skills at Scale: Leveraging Skills Across Workflows, Agents, and Teams

An 80-minute workshop with Nick Nisi on how to best use Claude Code skills, leverage them across workflows and agent types, and share them with your team. Covered skill design patterns, cross-agent portability, team skill libraries, and practical hands-on exercises building production-grade skills.

Claude CodeSkillsAgent WorkflowsTeam Productivity

AI engineers and · London, UKT.03

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April 2026 · AI Engineering London

Untethered Productivity: Staying Healthy, Creative, and Shipping in the AI Coding Era

A talk about the balance between leveraging AI coding agents for massive productivity gains while maintaining your health, creativity, and sanity. Covers signal management, context switching, developer balance, and building sustainable workflows with tools like Claude Code.

AI Coding AgentsDeveloper WellnessClaude CodeProductivity

AI engineers and · London, UKT.04

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T05 · Public

April 2026 · AI Engineering London

Scaling Devtools Podcast with Jack Bridger

Live podcast recording with Jack Bridger of Scaling Devtools at the AI Engineering London conference floor. Discussed our workshop and talks, how we're leveraging AI coding agents at WorkOS, patterns we're seeing in agent adoption, and the future of developer tooling.

AI AgentsDeveloper ToolsClaude CodePodcast

Podcast listeners and · London, UKT.05

T06 · Public

February 26, 2026 · WorkOS x Anthropic

Claude Cowork Workshop with Anthropic

One-hour hands-on workshop I created and delivered at WorkOS, with Lydia from Anthropic's Claude Code team joining for Q&A. Demoed real-world Claude Code projects (Oura MCP, Handwave watchOS app, walking-and-talking development), then walked attendees through a complete GTM workflow: ICP identification, data scraping and enrichment, competitive analysis, battlecard creation, pain point messaging, cold email generation, blog content, and scheduled Cowork tasks for automated content production.

Claude CodeCoworkAI-Assisted DevelopmentICP Research

Engineers and technical · San Francisco, CAT.06

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2025 · DevSecCon 2025

Keynote Speaker: DevSecCon 2025

Delivered the keynote address at DevSecCon 2025 on modern AI and security.

DevSecOpsSecurityAI Engineering

Conference attendees · Conference KeynoteT.07

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T08 · Public

June 3, 2025 · AI Engineering World Fair

AI Pipelines and Agents in Pure TypeScript with Mastra.ai

We taught over 70 engineers over the course of a live 2 hour workshop how to build workflows to accomplish discrete tasks and how to grant access to those workflows to agents - which are the ideal human interface for accomplishing tasks with natural language.

AI PipelinesAgentsTypeScriptMastra.ai

70+ engineers · Workshop SessionT.08

T09 · Public

December 6, 2023 · Pinecone & Cohere Meetup at a16z

Navigating from Jupyter Notebooks to Production

I introduced the new Pinecone AWS Reference Architecture with Pulumi and explained infrastructure as code, using a mountaineering metaphor to compare getting from prototype to production.

Infrastructure as CodePineconeAWSPulumi

~125 attendees · Andreesen Horowitz, San Francisco, CAT.09

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Zack presenting "The agents aren't the bottleneck. We are." at AI Engineering London

Recording the Scaling Devtools podcast at AI Engineering London

Zack at the AI Engineer Europe 2026 podium

Zack teaching backtick evidence patterns at the Skills at Scale workshop

Audience at the AI Engineering London talk

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Corporate training & team development

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February 6, 2026 · WorkOS GTM Training

Voice-First Development & Claude Code Cowork Enablement

Demonstrated how to use WisprFlow to code with your voice and ran live demos of Claude Code and Cowork enablement for GTM teams. Co-presented with Nick Nisi.

WisprFlowVoice DevelopmentClaude CodeCowork

WorkOS GTM team · WorkOS Office, San Francisco, CAI.01

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October 23, 2025 · WorkOS Internal Training

Claude Skills as Self-Documenting Runbooks

In-person training on operationalizing Claude Skills as executable, version-controlled runbooks and shareable team workflows.

Claude SkillsRunbooksAI WorkflowsKnowledge Sharing

WorkOS team (internal) · WorkOS Office, San Francisco, CAI.02

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I03 · Internal

May 2025 · WorkOS Internal Training

AI Fundamentals for Engineering Teams

Comprehensive introduction to AI concepts, machine learning fundamentals, and practical applications for software engineering teams. Covered LLMs, vector databases, RAG, and hands-on implementation strategies.

Machine LearningLarge Language ModelsVector DatabasesRAG

Engineering Team (40 · In-personI.03

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May 2025 · WorkOS Internal Training

AI-Enabled Content Creation Workshop

Interactive workshop teaching content teams how to leverage AI tools for writing, editing, ideation, and content optimization. Practical hands-on session with real-world use cases and workflow optimization.

AI Writing ToolsContent StrategyWorkflow OptimizationPrompt Engineering

Marketing & Content · In-personI.04

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