Speaking
Talks, guest lectures, and training engagements delivered for universities, governments, councils, and organisations — built on live AI delivery work rather than commentary.
Rushi Vyas is an AI keynote speaker based in Sydney, speaking across Australia and Asia-Pacific. Recent engagements include a City of Sydney welcome keynote on AI and entrepreneurship for close to 1,000 international students, a UNSW Sydney guest keynote on the future of analytics in the AI era, an AI and the future of work session for the University of Sydney Careers Centre, and corporate AI training for organisations such as Rheem Australia. Talks focus on AI adoption, AI fluency and literacy, agentic AI, and the judgement leaders need now.
Talk topics
Each talk is tailored to the audience, sector, and AI maturity in the room. These are the starting points.
The flagship talk, delivered at UNSW Sydney: six questions that decide which organisations turn AI activity into advantage — from the AI-ready data gap to operational governance and human agency.
Why most organisations will look successful on activity metrics long before they create durable value — and the workflow redesign, governance, and measurement habits that close the gap.
The difference between understanding AI and working well with it, how to sequence literacy and fluency across an organisation, and what capability programs get wrong.
A grounded look at agentic AI: replacement logic versus redesign logic, why measurement discipline lags deployment ambition, and how leaders keep people at the centre.
A practical filter for AI investments, drawn from live delivery across government, higher education, and brands — what to fund, what to skip, and how to tell early.
A current, hype-free briefing for executive audiences: capability, limits, governance, and the two or three decisions most leadership teams actually need to make next.
Past engagements
Public engagements referenced across this site. Detailed session material stays with the host organisations.
UNSW Sydney · Sydney · April 2026
Guest keynote for the INFS5700 cohort on how AI is reshaping analytics work: adoption versus advantage, the AI-ready data gap, operational governance, and agentic AI discipline.
City of Sydney · Sydney · 2026
Keynote at the City of Sydney's international student welcome, speaking to close to 1,000 newly arrived students about where AI is heading and how to build something of their own in Australia.
University of Sydney Careers Centre · Sydney · 2026
Careers session on how AI is reshaping graduate pathways and the practical AI skills students can build while they study.
UNSW AGSM · Sydney · 2026
Leadership workshop on practical AI judgement for executives — capability, governance, and the decisions that separate useful AI from expensive theatre.
Rheem Australia · Sydney · 2026
Corporate AI training engagement building practical assistant and workflow skills for a national manufacturing brand.
The University of Sydney · Sydney · 2025
AI upskilling sessions for leadership and management teams, focused on everyday capability rather than tool tourism.
City of Sydney · Sydney · 2025
Free AI-assisted marketing sessions helping Sydney small-business owners use generative AI confidently and responsibly.
UNSW Sydney · Sydney · 2022–2024
Digital transformation lecturing and the revamp of UNSW's AI fluency teaching, including role-specific AI upskilling that reached 400+ finance staff.
Event AI delivery
Separate from speaking — event assistants and audience-engagement AI delivered for conferences and summits.
UNSW Sydney
Flagship AI symposium assistant: 92% engagement and 1,000+ questions answered live for 550 attendees.
UNSW Sydney
A tailored AI-powered event assistant for the UNSW Cyber Security Summit (May 2026).
UNSW Founders · TechNet Australia
Flagship conference AI and audience-engagement technology for accelerator and industry events.
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