Talks and events · Zentrik

Jorge Alcantara

Upcoming talks and workshops, past appearances, and recordings on AI and product work.

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Upcoming

  1. ProductTank Málaga

    Event details to follow

    Málaga

  2. ProductTank Madrid

    Shakers · Event details to follow

    Madrid

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A full ProductTank session on AI-assisted product building, published by Mind the Product.

Talks

What Jorge speaks about

Each one works as a standalone session. Tell us the event theme and who is in the room, and Jorge adjusts the examples and the depth.

01
Signature talk

Correct Code, Wrong Product

A coding agent can produce clean code that passes every test and still violate the customer requirement behind the work. The talk walks through the decision record that keeps that requirement attached: the source evidence, the named owner, and the constraints the agent has to respect.

Product, engineering, and developer-tool audiences working with coding agents.

  • Spot the point where technically correct work loses the customer requirement.
  • Build a decision record with source evidence, an owner, and explicit constraints.
  • Give agents enough context to build without giving them the product decision.
Length
20–45 minutes plus Q&A
Formats
Conference talk · keynote · technical session
02
Conference talk

Build the Harness That Outlives the Agent

Jorge shows how Zentrik divides work between people and agents, then builds a harness that the whole team can improve as models and tools change. The point is to go beyond faster coding and keep the work connected to what customers need.

Product, design, engineering, and marketing teams working with agents.

Length
20–30 minutes plus discussion
Formats
Conference talk · workshop · discussion
03
Executive session

10% vs 10x: Are You Saving Time or Building a Stronger Team?

Most AI programs promise to save time. Time savings stop at 100%; a company’s capacity to create value has no equivalent ceiling. This session separates cheaper old workflows from product systems that learn, decide, and deliver better with every cycle.

Executives and product leaders deciding how AI should change the operating model.

  • Distinguish task automation from a stronger product operating system.
  • Find the review gates where human judgment changes the outcome, and drop the ones that only add delay.
  • Measure whether AI improves the next decision, not only the time spent on this task.
Length
30–60 minutes
Formats
Keynote · executive session · workshop

Formats

How the sessions run

Typical lengths. Jorge fits the session to the slot you have.

Keynotes and conference talks

Typically 30–45 minutes plus Q&A

One argument, worked examples from real product decisions, and a method the audience can take back to its own backlog.

Interactive workshops

Typically 60–120 minutes

A guided working session where participants move from an idea or customer signal to a focused brief, prototype, and learning plan.

Fireside chats, panels, and podcasts

Typically 30–60 minutes

Unscripted questions about building with coding agents, how the product role is changing, and what teams are finding out in practice.

Executive and team sessions

Designed around the decision at hand

A private session for one company, working through how product, design, and engineering divide the decisions once agents do more of the building.

What organizers can expect

  • A preparation call about your audience, the event goal, and what should change after the session.
  • Examples chosen for your audience, and no sales pitch from the stage.
  • Material drawn from shipped product work, including the parts that did not work.
  • Agreement on timing, travel, recording rights, and promotion before you announce.

Fees and logistics

Fees depend on format, preparation, travel, and recording rights. Include a range in your inquiry and we reply with fit and availability.

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Prefer a plain email? jorge@zentrik.ai

Jorge Alcantara

Jorge Alcantara

Co-founder & CEO, Zentrik

Jorge Alcantara is a professor of generative AI and co-founder and CEO of Zentrik. He has spent more than a decade putting language technology into real products. His work asks a practical question: when AI can build in minutes, how do teams make sure they are solving the right problem?