# Speaking (/speaking)

## Upcoming

No upcoming events at the moment. Check back soon or reach out if you'd like me to speak at your event!

## Past Engagements

### [The AI Summit New York 2025](https://newyork.theaisummit.com)

- Date: December 10-11, 2025
- Type: Panelist Speaker
- Panel: Panel: AI That Delivers: Cross-Industry Lessons from Real-World Impact

First official public speaking panel completed successfully at The AI Summit NYC 2025 (5,000+ attendees, 350+ speakers). Panel discussion featuring C-level to engineering perspectives on enterprise AI implementation strategies, covering technical excellence, adoption challenges, evaluation frameworks, and real-world production AI lessons.

Panelists: Anne-Claire Baschet, Chief Data & AI Officer (Mirakl); Seetaram Rayarao, VP, Senior Lead Engineer (JP Morgan Chase); Jens Trotzky, Head of Artificial Intelligence Technologies (SAP)

Moderator: Kshitij (KK) Kumar, Chief AI Officer and CEO (Data-Hat AI)

### Key Takeaways

- AI hype settling toward solving real user problems
- Technical excellence + adoption strategy = success
- Five pillars: evaluation, observability, guardrails, context engineering, ROI management
- Great AI disappears into workflow
- Trends: agentic commerce, GEO, AI cybersecurity, evaluation tooling

### Links

- Speaker profile: https://newyork.theaisummit.com/speakers/vivek-vellaiyappan-surulimuthu
- Panel details: https://newyork.theaisummit.com/2025-agenda/panel-ai-delivers-cross-industry-lessons-real-world-impact
- LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vivekvellaiyappans_aisummitnyc-ai-machinelearning-activity-7405092078352896000-IXQd

### [MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025](https://mlopsworld.com)

- Type: Attendee

Attended premier conference on MLOps and Generative AI, engaging with industry leaders and exploring cutting-edge approaches to AI operations and deployment at scale. Topics included production-ready agent systems, evaluation frameworks, observability strategies, and practical approaches to RAG, synthetic data, and context engineering.

### Links

- View post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vivekvellaiyappans_mlopsworld-genaisummit-aiagents-activity-7382512745159634944-aKv1

## Available For Speaking

I'm available for conference panels, keynotes, and workshops on:

- Enterprise AI implementation strategies
- AI Agents & RAG systems in production
- Developer Experience & Platform Engineering
- Open source development & community building
- Testing frameworks & quality engineering