Speaking, advisory, board service

Get the AI
conversation out
of the hype.

I have spent two decades on the inside of organizations making these decisions with real money attached. What audiences and boards get from me is the version without the vendor pitch.

Wes Cronkite speaking at a podium
Wes Cronkite on stage at VIVE Tech Talks

VIVE Tech Talks

Topics

What I talk about.

01

AI in healthcare

Where AI is genuinely useful in care delivery and revenue cycle, where it is still oversold, and how rural and community providers avoid being left on the wrong side of it.

02

AI for leadership teams

A working session that gets executives to a shared, honest view of what AI can do for their organization this year, and what it cannot.

03

Innovation inside large enterprises

What it actually takes to stand up an innovation function that survives budget season, based on building them at BrightSpring and TruBridge.

04

Grassroots innovation

How good ideas move up from the front line instead of down from a strategy deck, and what leadership has to change to let that happen.

05

The power of a data lakehouse

Why the architecture decision underneath your analytics determines how far AI can take you, explained without the vendor pitch.

06

Automation and the revenue cycle

Lessons from building robotic process automation departments from scratch, including what automation is genuinely good at and what it quietly breaks.

Formats

How it works.

01

Advisory

Working sessions and defined engagements on AI adoption, data strategy, automation, and technology modernization. Clear deliverables and a defined end date, not an open retainer that drifts.

  • AI readiness
  • Data and analytics
  • Automation
  • Modernization
02

Board service

NACD Directorship Certified, currently Board Chair at Innovation Portal. Available for public company, private, startup, and public service boards that need a director who can read a technology roadmap and ask the right questions about it.

  • Public and private boards
  • Technology oversight
  • AI governance
03

Speaking

Keynotes, panels, and leadership workshops. I have spoken at industry conferences including VIVE and to executive teams that need the AI conversation translated out of the hype and into decisions they can actually make.

  • Keynote
  • Panel
  • Executive workshop

Selected stages

Rooms I’ve
been in.

  • VIVE Tech Talks Technology and data driven decision making
  • RAMP, MIT Venture Mentoring Service Founder mentoring program
  • Healthcare IT Today On camera interview series
  • Innovation Portal Founder and investor community, Mobile
Wes Cronkite interviewed by Healthcare IT Today

On camera

Comfortable in the chair.

Interviews, podcasts, and panel moderation included. I have done these on conference floors, in studios, and over video, and I can hold a technical conversation without losing a non-technical audience.

Booking a stage or
filling a board seat?

Send the date, the audience, and what you need them to walk out believing. I will tell you straight whether I am the right person for it.

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