Speaking
Talks that leave a room thinking differently
I speak to executives and engineering teams about leadership, the AI-native enterprise, and the future of the craft. Every session is tailored to your audience, never off-the-shelf.
Speaker bio
Bharat Sharma is a senior engineering leader and author of AI Is the Easy Part, with experience building and scaling engineering organizations across eCommerce, travel, and SaaS at companies including Booking Holdings, Myntra, and RedMart. He speaks with the credibility of someone who has done the work, repeatedly and at scale, and the clarity of someone who has had to explain it to boards and engineers alike.
His talks are practical, grounded, and free of hype, equally at home opening a conference or working through hard problems with a leadership team.
Topics
Keynotes
30–45 minutes
Workshops
Half / full day
Panels
Moderated or guest
Remote
Virtual-ready
Talk catalog
Signature talks
Each can be delivered as a keynote or expanded into a workshop, and adapted to your theme.
When Code Becomes Cheap, Judgment Becomes the Craft
As AI takes over more of the coding, an engineer's value moves from producing code to judging it: knowing what to question, what to trust, and when a plausible answer is quietly wrong. This talk is about the people problem underneath that shift, how the everyday work that used to turn juniors into seniors is disappearing, and what deliberately replaces it. Leaders leave with a concrete way to rethink apprenticeship and how they evaluate early-career engineers.
Best for: VPs of Engineering, engineering directors, and heads of platform
AI Is the Easy Part
Individual engineers are measurably faster with AI, yet most organizations cannot point to a matching change in what they ship. The model was the easy part; the operating model is the hard one. This talk is about that gap: why individual productivity does not become organizational value on its own, and the specific changes to how teams are structured, measured, and led that decide whether it ever does.
Best for: Executives, CTOs, and the boards they answer to
Are You Measuring AI-Era Engineering With Pre-AI Metrics?
When a feature branch costs seconds to generate, counting commits, pull requests, and lines of code measures almost nothing. This talk covers why the activity metrics most boards still see have become actively misleading, where the real work moves once code is cheap, and the small set of outcome and rework signals engineering leaders should track instead.
Best for: Engineering leaders, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering
For organizers
Frequently asked
Engineering leadership, the AI-native enterprise, engineering productivity and excellence, platform and quality engineering, and the future of software engineering. I tailor each talk to your audience rather than reusing a fixed deck.