Technology & AI Speaking & Panels

Speaking, Panels & Conference Presence

CTO/CTAIO practitioner available for keynotes, panel discussions, and conference participation.

  • SVP Engineering, Adidas (Fortune 500)
  • Former CIO, Sweetgreen
  • Led organizations of 1,000+ engineers
  • Available worldwide
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Based in Los Angeles · Available Worldwide

Thomas Prommer holding microphone - Technology & AI Keynote Speaker

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Investment & Logistics

We work with events at all investment levels and can discuss creative arrangements.

No travel or accommodation is ever booked without prior written authorization from the event organizer.

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Speaking & Panel Topics

Each session is customized for your audience. These are starting frameworks, not rigid scripts.

The AI-Augmented Organization

How AI transforms operations, not just products. Practical frameworks for embedding AI across engineering, product, and business teams.

C-Suite & VP Engineering

Engineering at Scale

Building and leading 1000+ engineer organizations. Organizational design, platform engineering, and developer experience at Fortune 500 scale.

Engineering Leaders

From CTO to CTAIO

The evolution of technology leadership in the AI era. Why every CTO must become a Chief Technology & AI Officer.

Technology Executives

Digital Transformation Beyond the Buzzword

Practical frameworks that deliver. Lessons from leading transformation at Adidas, Sweetgreen, and Fortune 500 clients.

Business & Technology Leaders

The Hybrid Athlete Mindset

Peak performance in tech leadership. How the discipline of Ironman training and marathon running translates to building resilient teams.

All Audiences

Responsible AI in Practice

Ethics, governance, and real-world implementation. Moving beyond AI principles to actionable governance frameworks.

Boards & Risk Leaders
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Why Engage Thomas

Practitioner, Not Just Presenter

Has actually been a CTO at Fortune 500 scale. Led 1,000+ engineers at Adidas. Built technology organizations from scratch at Sweetgreen. The insights come from doing the work.

Current with 2026 AI Landscape

Active daily in AI tooling, LLM architecture, and engineering productivity. Not speaking from 5-year-old experience — sharing what's working right now.

Customized, Not Canned

Every keynote tailored to your audience and industry. Pre-event research, audience analysis, and custom examples ensure the talk resonates with your specific attendees.

Executive Credibility

Peers respect the Fortune 500 background. Board members, CTOs, and engineering leaders in your audience will engage with someone who's walked their path.

Thought Leadership, Press & Credentials

SVP Platform & Engineering Adidas 1,000+ engineers, Fortune 500
Chief Information Officer Sweetgreen Built technology org from ground up
VP Engineering & President, Platform Strategy Huge Inc. (IPG) Global technology leadership

Advisory Board & Strategic Advisor

Advisory Board Member

Salesforce

Enterprise CRM & Platform Strategy

Advisory Board Member

Adobe

Experience Cloud & Digital Experience

Advisory Board Member

Acquia

Open Source CMS & Digital Transformation

Advisory Board Member

Sitecore

Enterprise Content & Personalization

Technology Advisor

McKinsey & Company

Technology Due Diligence

Technology Advisor

Bain Capital

Investment Technology Assessments

500+ Expert Consultations
Top 1% Expert Network Rating
7 Expert Networks

Active on Tegus/AlphaSense, Third Bridge, Guidepoint, Arbolus, Capvision, Coleman Research, Office Hours

Clients include top-tier hedge funds, PE firms, and management consultancies including McKinsey, Bain Capital, and Berenberg.

Press, Publications & Podcasts

Featured

Sweetgreen Taps Tech Veteran for New CIO Role

Nation's Restaurant News

 Featured

Huge Bolsters Global Executive Team With New Technology Leads

Adweek

 Interview

How B2Bs Can Dive Into Digital Commerce, but Stay Human

eMarketer

 Contributed

How AI Will Transform Every Job in Media

Digiday

 Podcast

Thomas Prommer on AI & Digital Transformation

YouTube

Education

Computer Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Executive Education

MIT, Harvard, Wharton

Explore 290+ Technology Expertise Areas
357 of 357 technologies
Expert Hands-on leadership experience. Led teams, made buying decisions, or built production systems. Deep Significant professional experience. Evaluated, integrated, or managed in enterprise context.

LLM & Generative AI

OpenAI / ChatGPT Enterprise Anthropic / Claude Google Gemini Meta Llama Mistral Hugging Face

AI Coding Editors & Agents

Claude Code Cursor GitHub Copilot Windsurf Cline Devin Codeium RooCode Kilo Code OpenHands OpenCode Aider Continue OpenAI Codex CLI Amazon Q

AI Productivity & Enterprise AI

ChatGPT Enterprise Writer Glean UnifyApps Distyl AI Moveworks Aisera Jasper

AI Frameworks & Orchestration

LangChain LlamaIndex CrewAI Model Context Protocol

AI Agent Platforms

OpenAI Frontier Microsoft Agent 365 Microsoft Copilot Studio Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Google Vertex AI Agent Builder

ML Infrastructure

TensorFlow PyTorch AWS SageMaker Google Vertex AI MLflow Weights & Biases

Voice AI & Real-Time AI

LiveKit Twilio Daily.co ElevenLabs Cartesia PolyAI Parloa Vapi Retell AI Bland AI Wispr Flow Otter.ai Siri (Apple)

Vector & Semantic Search

Pinecone Weaviate Qdrant Turbopuffer Elasticsearch AWS OpenSearch Azure AI Search GCP Vertex AI Vector Search Algolia

AI Video & World Generation

Google Genie Roblox Cube ByteDance Seedance Decart Oasis World Labs Marble HeyGen Runway OpenAI Sora

Monitoring & APM

Datadog New Relic Grafana Prometheus Dynatrace Splunk Dash0

Network Observability

ThousandEyes LogicMonitor Kentik

Incident Management

PagerDuty Opsgenie Statuspage FireHydrant

Logging & Tracing

ELK Stack Sumo Logic OpenTelemetry Sentry LogRocket

Cloud Platforms

AWS Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure Cloudflare Vercel Netlify Heroku Railway Fly.io

Edge Computing

Cloudflare Workers AWS Lambda@Edge Equinix NVIDIA Edge Intel Edge

Containers & Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes Terraform Helm Pulumi AWS ECS / Fargate Red Hat OpenShift VMware Tanzu Spectro Cloud

CI/CD & DevOps

GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins CircleCI ArgoCD JFrog Artifactory

CDN & Delivery

Cloudflare CDN AWS CloudFront Akamai Fastly

Network Architecture & DDI

Infoblox BlueCat Cisco EfficientIP Amazon Route 53 SolarWinds Palo Alto Networks

Identity & Access Management

Okta Auth0 Azure AD / Entra ID AWS IAM Oasis Security

SIEM & Security Platforms

Palo Alto Networks CrowdStrike Akamai Security Snyk Wiz

GRC & Audit Automation

SOC 2 GDPR PCI DSS ISO 27001 Vanta Drata

Fraud Prevention

Forter Riskified Sift

Enterprise AI Agents & Copilots

Salesforce Agentforce Microsoft 365 Copilot SAP Joule ServiceNow AI Agents Google Gemini for Workspace Oracle AI Agents Atlassian Rovo IBM watsonx Adobe AI Foundry

CRM & Sales

Salesforce HubSpot Microsoft Dynamics Pipedrive

ERP & Operations

SAP Oracle NetSuite Workday ServiceNow

ITSM & Service Management

ServiceNow ITSM Atlassian (Jira Service Management) Freshservice BMC Helix

Commerce & Retail

Shopify Plus commercetools Magento / Adobe Commerce Salesforce Commerce Cloud BigCommerce Stripe Adyen Square POS

Collaboration & Productivity

Slack Atlassian (Jira / Confluence) Microsoft 365 Google Workspace Notion Monday.com Miro

Fintech & Payments

Stripe PayPal Adyen Airwallex Plaid Square

Marketing Automation

Adobe Marketing Cloud Salesforce Marketing Cloud HubSpot Marketing Hub Marketo Braze Klaviyo Iterable

Analytics & Measurement

Google Analytics 4 Adobe Analytics Mixpanel Amplitude Heap Segment Google Tag Manager

Personalization & Testing

Adobe Target Optimizely VWO LaunchDarkly PostHog Dynamic Yield

SEO & Content

Google Search Console Ahrefs Semrush Screaming Frog DataForSEO Clearscope

Customer Data Platforms

Segment Salesforce CDP mParticle Tealium Treasure Data

Contact Center & CX

Zendesk Intercom Five9 Genesys

Enterprise CMS / DXP

Adobe Experience Manager Sitecore Acquia / Drupal WordPress VIP Optimizely CMS

Headless & Composable

Contentful Sanity Strapi Storyblok Hygraph (GraphCMS)

DAM & Media

Cloudinary Adobe DAM Bynder

Databases

PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Amazon DynamoDB Cassandra ClickHouse MySQL / MariaDB SQLite

Data Warehouses & Lakes

Snowflake Google BigQuery AWS Redshift Databricks dbt

Data Streaming & Integration

Apache Kafka Confluent AWS Kinesis Fivetran Airbyte

BI & Visualization

Tableau Looker Power BI Metabase

Languages

TypeScript JavaScript Python Java Go Rust PHP C#

Frontend & UI

React Next.js Astro Vue.js Angular Storybook Tailwind CSS Web Components / Lit

Backend & APIs

Node.js GraphQL REST APIs Fastify Express Django Spring Boot Hasura PostGraphile Apollo GraphOS AWS AppSync

Testing & Quality

Playwright Cypress Jest Vitest SonarQube

Workflow Orchestration

Temporal Apache Airflow Prefect n8n Zapier

RPA & Self-Learning Automation

UiPath Automation Anywhere ServiceNow Automation

Workload Automation

Rundeck Ansible AWS Step Functions

Agencies & Consultancies

Huge (IPG) Fantasy Work & Co Accenture Interactive Deloitte Digital McKinsey Digital Sapient

Technology Partners & Alliances

Google Cloud Partner AWS Partner Network Adobe Solution Partner Acquia Partner Sitecore Partner Salesforce Partner

Advisory & Expert Networks

Bain Capital Tegus / AlphaSense Office Hours Capvision Arbolus GLG Toptal

Project & Agile Management

Jira Linear Trello Asana Shortcut Monday.com GitHub Issues / Projects

Methodologies & Frameworks

SAFe (Scaled Agile) Scrum / Kanban Team Topologies DORA Metrics OKRs Shape Up

Talent & Culture

Greenhouse Lever Lattice Culture Amp

Talent Marketplace & EOR

Lifted (Upwork) Field Nation Remote Deel Oyster Rippling Multiplier Justworks

Design & Design Ops

Figma Design Systems Storybook Zeroheight

What Leaders Say

“It's impossible to convey the value that Thomas brings to any situation in one short review. He is an entire project team wrapped into one man. He has the patience of a department lead, the strategic vision of a business executive, the impeccable knowledge of a technology VP and yet is still very approachable at every level.”

Diane Capoyianes

Head of Operations, Apple

“Thomas is one of the most exceptional technologists and leaders I've worked with. He was always a trusted partner when attempting to determine the right solution. Thomas always works at full scale — he has all of the details at his grasp along with highly strategic thinking.”

Shane Abrahamovich

Managing Director LA, Work & Co

“Thomas is an exceptional talent that combines in-depth technical knowledge with business savvy and strong client-facing abilities. He has huge respect from his team and always leads by example.”

Bryan Pedersen

Chief Innovation Officer, MSLGROUP

“Thomas is a born leader. I always admired his leadership and ability to work well under pressure. Thomas is a talented and well rounded developer, with intricate knowledge of the systems he works with.”

Karl Stanton

Director of Engineering, Google

Frequently Asked Questions

What topics does Thomas Prommer speak about?

Thomas speaks on AI-augmented organizations, engineering at scale, the CTO-to-CTAIO evolution, digital transformation, responsible AI, and the hybrid athlete mindset for peak performance. All topics draw from hands-on Fortune 500 executive experience at Adidas, Sweetgreen, and other global brands.

Can you customize your session for our audience and industry?

Every session is tailored to the audience. Thomas works with organizers before the event to understand audience challenges, industry context, and desired outcomes. The result is a session that resonates directly with attendees rather than a generic talk.

What are your travel and accommodation requirements?

For international engagements, Thomas requests business class flights, 4 or 5-star hotel accommodation, and airport transport. For domestic engagements, requirements are flexible. All logistics details are discussed during the booking process.

How far in advance should we book?

Ideally 2–3 months in advance, though shorter timelines can sometimes be accommodated depending on schedule availability. Submit a request with your preferred date and we'll confirm availability within 1–4 business days.

Do you participate in virtual or hybrid events?

Yes. Thomas participates in events in-person, virtually, and in hybrid formats. Virtual sessions are delivered with professional AV setup and include interactive elements like live Q&A and polls.

What is the difference between a CTO speaker and a professional speaker?

A professional speaker presents polished talks on topics they've researched. Thomas is an active technology executive who has actually led 1000+ engineers at Fortune 500 scale. His contributions come from lived experience — the insights are current, practical, and carry the credibility of someone who's done the work.

Do you offer workshops in addition to speaking?

Yes. In addition to keynotes and panels (45–60 minutes), Thomas offers half-day and full-day workshops on AI strategy, engineering organization design, and technology leadership. Workshops include interactive exercises, frameworks, and action plans.

How do I request Thomas Prommer for an event?

Use the Request Availability form on this page to share your event details — whether it's a keynote, panel, workshop, or general conference attendance. The team responds within 1–4 business days with availability and next steps.

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