Keynotes, hands-on workshops, and corporate training across AI engineering, agent-assisted development, RAG, and developer tools. Fourteen years in production.
I'm also a Hone instructor, regularly designing and delivering courses and interactive workshops on AI enablement, organizational adoption, and balancing productivity with rest.
New York to London to San Francisco. Conference stages, full workshops, team training, and the conversations after.
37 photographs · 2023–2026AI Engineer · October 2026
Live coding, verification loops, and a room full of engineers building along with Nick Nisi and me.
AI Engineer Europe · April 2026
Skills at Scale. Untethered Productivity. A workshop, a talk, and a podcast from the conference floor.
Conference talks & full workshops
See how I explain the ideas, work through the code, and take questions from the room.
Conference talk · 25 min · AI Engineer
Attention, voice workflows, and sustainable productivity with coding agents.
AI Engineering London · April 2026
From the AI Engineer stage
Conversations, workshops & keynotes
AI Engineer World’s Fair · 2025–2026
From TypeScript agents to AI-native workflows. Hands-on sessions and conversations with the people shipping them.
Pinecone × Cohere · December 2023
Taking AI applications from Jupyter notebooks to production. Architecture, infrastructure, and questions from the room.
WorkOS · Training & enablement
Teaching the fundamentals, running live demos, and helping teams put AI to work.
Zachary Proser
Fourteen years building production software. Conference talks, hands-on workshops, and practical training for your team.
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AI engineering. Agent workflows. Developer tools. A keynote to set the direction or a workshop to put it into practice.
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An introductory Hone masterclass on giving an AI teammate an ongoing responsibility. A fictional project provides practice defining the work, inspecting source evidence as decisions and dates change, and redirecting the teammate while keeping human judgment in the loop.
A public Hone masterclass built around Untethered Productivity: staying healthy, creative, and shipping with AI agents. The course covers attention overload, voice-first workflows, clear goals, and verification loops, with practical methods to apply to your own work.
A hands-on Hone workshop on preparing your day with AI, from a phone or computer. We connected approved email and calendar context, defined a useful morning briefing, checked the sources, and turned the method into a reusable skill and scheduled routine. A fictional project gave everyone a way to practice.
A hands-on workshop with Nick Nisi at AI Engineer New York on building verification loops that let coding agents check their own work. We covered giving agents goals they can check, closing the feedback loop with CLI health checks and browser snapshots, making every part of an app feedback-loopable, and pairing deterministic checks with LLM judges and eval baselines, so each failure feeds the agent's next fix. Built around a live demo app, Midnight Snack Club, with a repo to follow along.
An AMA-style Hone masterclass on working with AI while protecting your attention and health. We explored voice-first work, autonomous loops, goals, verification, and ways to direct agents from away from the desk, then discussed participants’ questions and practical workflows.
A hands-on workshop with Nick Nisi at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. One hour, one repo, four moves: voice coding, agentic loops and goals, verification gates, and scheduled tasks. Every attendee's check-in fed a live board showing the room's toil, the automations worth building, and the hours per week reclaimed — with an AI-Native score measured before and after. Conference organizer swyx told us our workshops are the gold standard for AI Engineer content.
Closing segment of the WorkOS Applied AI Showcase. After demos of our autonomous agent harness CLI, GTM intelligence platform, and the Horizon agentic coding platform, I shared three learnings from shipping internal AI tooling at WorkOS: interface beats stack (Bartleby vs Blog Bot, eighteen months apart, same idea, different door), complete the loop (capture → plan → execute → ship), and the imagination gap (re-ask the question every quarter).
An 80-minute workshop with Nick Nisi on how to best use Claude Code skills, leverage them across workflows and agent types, and share them with your team. Covered skill design patterns, cross-agent portability, team skill libraries, and practical hands-on exercises building production-grade skills.
A talk about the balance between leveraging AI coding agents for massive productivity gains while maintaining your health, creativity, and sanity. Covers signal management, context switching, developer balance, and building sustainable workflows with tools like Claude Code.
Live podcast recording with Jack Bridger of Scaling Devtools at the AI Engineering London conference floor. Discussed our workshop and talks, how we're leveraging AI coding agents at WorkOS, patterns we're seeing in agent adoption, and the future of developer tooling.
One-hour hands-on workshop I created and delivered at WorkOS, with Lydia from Anthropic's Claude Code team joining for Q&A. Demoed real-world Claude Code projects (Oura MCP, Handwave watchOS app, walking-and-talking development), then walked attendees through a complete GTM workflow: ICP identification, data scraping and enrichment, competitive analysis, battlecard creation, pain point messaging, cold email generation, blog content, and scheduled Cowork tasks for automated content production.
We taught over 70 engineers over the course of a live 2 hour workshop how to build workflows to accomplish discrete tasks and how to grant access to those workflows to agents - which are the ideal human interface for accomplishing tasks with natural language.
Delivered the keynote address at DevSecCon 2025 on modern AI and security.
I introduced the new Pinecone AWS Reference Architecture with Pulumi and explained infrastructure as code, using a mountaineering metaphor to compare getting from prototype to production.
A Hone engineering masterclass on building confidence with coding agents while keeping your understanding and judgment. Delivered as Engineering with Agents in a Regulated World, this session covered approval boundaries, review practices, verification, and small architectures that reduce the work of checking AI output.
A Hone masterclass and interactive workflow clinic centered on attention, health, and useful delegation. A fictional project connected voice input, source context, checked reports, goals, and scheduled work. The second half focused on participants’ workflows and questions.
Demonstrated how to use WisprFlow to code with your voice and ran live demos of Claude Code and Cowork enablement for GTM teams. Co-presented with Nick Nisi.
In-person training on operationalizing Claude Skills as executable, version-controlled runbooks and shareable team workflows.
Comprehensive introduction to AI concepts, machine learning fundamentals, and practical applications for software engineering teams. Covered LLMs, vector databases, RAG, and hands-on implementation strategies.
Interactive workshop teaching content teams how to leverage AI tools for writing, editing, ideation, and content optimization. Practical hands-on session with real-world use cases and workflow optimization.