Micah Berkley
Miami, FLhello@micahberkley.com
Speaking

Talks for the people who sign the checks.

Most AI talks are built for people who already get AI. Mine are built for owners and operators who know it is happening and quietly know they are behind. Plain English. Real numbers from systems I run. Your audience leaves with something they can use on Monday.

The talks

Three talks. Every one backed by a build.

Talk 01

The five numbers that survive a board meeting

Measuring AI ROI for owners who sign the checks
  • Why dashboards full of prompts, tokens and adoption rates tell a board nothing, and what to show instead.
  • The five numbers: one north-star KPI, cost per handled task, hours returned, payback month, and error rate.
  • The week-one baseline and the 90-day kill rule that make every later claim defensible.
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Talk 02

What 50,000 AI phone calls taught me

Voice AI that converts, from someone who runs it
  • The three gates every AI call has to clear: get answered, get trusted, get filed.
  • The failure modes that only show up at volume, and the fallbacks that keep a call moving.
  • The checklist I run on every vendor demo before anyone signs a contract.
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Talk 03

AI meets Main Street

The $0 brand stack and the Miami playbook
  • The free generative image stack and the 90-minute weekly routine behind a 25% profit lift at a Wynwood restaurant.
  • Measure orders, not likes: two numbers a busy owner can track on paper.
  • Why Miami wins on application, not research, and why the door to AI has to be free.
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Formats

Pick the room.

Keynote

One talk, one room, receipts on screen. Built for owners and operators, not for engineers.

Workshop

Hands-on, laptops open. Your team works on your real problems, not toy examples.

Panel

The operator on the panel who has actually shipped the thing everyone else is predicting.

Fireside

A conversation with your host. Straight answers to the questions your audience is embarrassed to ask.

Why this stage

I teach what I ship.

  • Miami stages. I hold rooms across Miami, talking to owners about AI that pays for itself this quarter.
  • Free AI for Overtown teens. I teach teens in Overtown to earn with a laptop and free AI tools. Read the story.
  • GP Tuesdays. Free weekly AI training for Miami entrepreneurs who never got an invite.
  • Front page, Miami Herald.
  • Black Enterprise Top 10 Under 35 in Tech.
  • Adobe AI Change Maker.
  • Where I built: Ex-Google Cloud Architect and SRE, machine learning at BMW of North America, big-data marketing science at Fashion Nova. Brown CS.
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