Jeff Smith
Employers on the program
- 2026Oracle1 talk
- 2026Neoteny AI1 talk
- 2025–2026New Zealand Couriers2 talks
- 2020World Fuel Services1 talk
- 2019Meta3 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits
- QCon
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
- AWS re:Invent
- STAC Summit
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2026 | CDAIO New Zealand 2026 | CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits | speaker | Untitled as New Zealand Couriers | |
| Oct 12, 2026 | AI Engineer New York 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Your Agent Wants Your Data: Securing MCP Database Access from the Ground Up as Oracle AI agents are getting database access faster than most teams are getting comfortable with it. MCP makes it trivially easy to hand an agent a live connection to…Show lessAI agents are getting database access faster than most teams are getting comfortable with it. MCP makes it trivially easy to hand an agent a live connection to your data - but that access needs to respect least privilege and your existing corporate identity and roles, not a parallel permission model invented just for AI. | |
| Mar 16, 2026 | QCon London 2026 | QCon | speaker | Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence as Neoteny AI Coding models are helping software developers move faster than ever, but weirdly, the models themselves are not keeping up. They are trained on months-old…Show lessCoding models are helping software developers move faster than ever, but weirdly, the models themselves are not keeping up. They are trained on months-old snapshots of open source code. They have never seen your internal codebase, let alone the code you wrote yesterday. | |
| Nov 3, 2025 | CDAO New Zealand 2025 | CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits | speaker | Untitled as New Zealand Couriers | |
| Nov 30, 2020 | AWS re:Invent 2020 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | People: Skills, culture, change, and leadership as World Fuel Services In this session, learn strategies that have helped enterprises succeed in their migration and modernization journeys. Your organizational culture will impact…Show lessIn this session, learn strategies that have helped enterprises succeed in their migration and modernization journeys. Your organizational culture will impact your journey to the cloud. | SlidesVideo |
| Oct 17, 2019 | STAC Summit New York, Fall 2019 | STAC Summit | speaker | Deep Learning at Scale with PyTorch as Facebook AI As financial firms start to use Deep Learning (DL), many of them run into the challenge of deploying DL models at scale. PyTorch, an open source machine…Show lessAs financial firms start to use Deep Learning (DL), many of them run into the challenge of deploying DL models at scale. PyTorch, an open source machine learning platform, is designed to support rapid development and seamless, reliable deployment of models at scale. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 | QCon New York 2019 | QCon | speaker | From Research to Production With PyTorch as Facebook AI | |
| Jun 24, 2019 | QCon New York 2019 | QCon | panelist | Panel: ML for Developers/SWEs as Facebook AI |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Parkinson | 2 | — | 2026 |
| David Thomas | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Fiona Thomson | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Graeme Jackson | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Mike Congdon | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Mike Parsons | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Mira Bradshaw | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Peter Gavin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Sarah Cawsey | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Sean Narayan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Xanthe Sulzberger | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Colm MacCárthaigh | 2 | — | 2020 |
| Elizabeth Moon | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ashi Krishnan | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Brad Miro | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.