Speaking & Keynotes
Equipping teams to navigate complex data systems and the frontiers of agentic AI.
" I speak at the intersection of technical depth and human impact. My talks are designed for audiences who want to move past 'AI magic' and understand the difficult, brilliant reality of building systems that work. "
Featured Upcoming Talk
From Chat-with-PDF to Quiz-Master: Live-Grading RAG with LLM-as-Judge in Python
Upcoming talk at the PyData London conference.
Core Keynote Themes
Beyond the Hype: Scaling Generative AI in Regulated Industries
How to build Agentic AI systems that are compliant, robust, and cost-effective.
High-Energy Data Structures: Lessons from the Stars
What astrophysics can teach us about building resilient, observable data systems at enterprise scale.
The Ethics of Observation: A Decade of Social Good
Hard-won lessons from 10 years of volunteering with DataKind UK.
The MLOps Manifesto: Bridging the POC-to-Production Gap
Why most AI projects fail and how to build the infrastructure to make them succeed.
Recent Speaking Events
Bridging the Gap: Building Robust, Tool-Integrated LLM Applications with the Model Context Protocol
A hands-on technical workshop exploring the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client-server architecture, detailing how to build intelligent modular AI systems using standard Python toolchains.
Building a Real-World Adverse Media Pipeline
An overview of practical lessons learned transitioning from LLM proof-of-concept stages to delivering a production-grade, responsibly managed multi-stage financial crime entity extraction pipeline processing over a million news articles a day.
Dr Adam Hill (Speaker Slot)
Presentation covering practical data science with the third sector on behalf of DataKind UK.
Mastering Data Flow: Empower Your Projects with Prefect’s Pipeline Magic
European iteration of the technical tutorial delivering a foundational look at orchestrating resilient workflows, handling automated task retries, and deploying persistent local MLOps dashboards.
Mastering Data Flow: Empower Your Projects with Prefect’s Pipeline Magic
A technical tutorial demonstrating data pipeline orchestration using Prefect. Covers migrating standard scripts to decorated sub-flows, setting up external cloud storage queues, and standardising telemetry logging boilerplate.
Panel: Beyond the University
A plenary panel exploring research software engineering (RSE) career trajectories, compensation comparisons, technical track progression, and platform constraints outside typical academic university groups.
Research, Software Engineering & Data Science for Social Good with DataKind
A case study analysis highlighting the building of machine learning capacity in the third sector. Breaks down a low-cost serverless dependency risk model designed for a regional UK food bank.
Building a data science solution for an NGO when you don’t know what infrastructure it will run on: a case study predicting tutor supply and demand mismatch
The Brilliant Club supports less advantaged students to access and succeed in the UK’s most competitive universities. They do this by mobilising the PhD community to support students in schools via their courses and tutoring programme. A challenge they face is being able to anticipate the tutor supply they need to meet the increasing demands of their programmes as they expand nationally. A team of six DataKind UK volunteers worked with The Brilliant Club to develop a way to forecast and visualise the mismatch between tutor supply and demand across the UK. This is a talk about how we collaboratively explored their data and built a valuable, new tool for them and, crucially, how we did so in a flexible, scalable way that provides them with immediate value but also will fit into their future use of digital and cloud-based tools.
Technology and Data First Webinar
An executive panel discussion focusing on the strategic alignment, systemic barriers, psychological safety, and organizational transformation necessary when deploying new technologies like artificial intelligence for business and society.
The Companies We Keep: In search of “shady” corporate activity
A research lecture showing how a volunteer team mapped out the UK Companies House beneficial ownership registry using open-source neo4j graph structures to flag cyclical loops, fake shell addresses, and corporate corruption.
Searching for Shady Patterns: Shining a light on UK corporate ownership
Early data engineering presentation mapping 4.6 million public UK business entries into a graph database to identify system leaks, data validation flaws, and illegal circular control frameworks.
Interested in having Adam speak at your event?
Available for custom keynotes, hands-on workshops, and plenary panel sessions on AI governance, engineering reliability, and open-source data orchestration.
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