Speaking

Making AI make sense from the stage

Louis brings two decades of hands-on AI product experience to every talk — from building IBM Watson Trend to founding TeleTrex. No hype, no hand-waving. Just clear, practical insight on where AI is going and how to use it now.

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Louis Roehrs

Software Engineer & AI Innovation Catalyst
Founder, TeleTrex · Mountain View, CA

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IBM

Think Conference

20+

Years in tech

Issued patents

Past engagements

On the record

A practitioner's perspective on AI — delivered at some of the industry's most important stages.

IBM Think Conference

AI-Powered Search: How Cognitive AI Transforms Enterprise Knowledge Discovery

Keynote

Multiple sessions at IBM's flagship annual conference exploring how AI moves search beyond keyword matching — understanding intent, ranking by relevance, and surfacing knowledge that traditional search buries. Delivered to technical architects, enterprise decision-makers, and practitioners building on IBM's AI platform.

IBM Think AI / Enterprise Search Technical & business audiences

Digital Analytics Association · 2016

IBM Watson Trend — Technology of the Year

Award recognition

IBM Watson Trend, built by Louis's incubator team at IBM, received the DAA Excellence Award for Technology of the Year — recognized alongside Adobe and other top-tier innovators for its application of NLP and machine learning to consumer trend forecasting.

Digital Analytics Association AI / Consumer Intelligence Industry award gala

Topics

What Louis speaks about

Each talk is tailored to the audience — technical depth for engineering teams, strategic clarity for business leaders.

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AI-Powered Search

How cognitive AI transforms information retrieval — from keyword matching to intent understanding, relevance ranking, and enterprise knowledge discovery. The talk that anchored multiple IBM Think sessions.

Keynote45–60 minTechnical or business

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Human–AI Collaboration

AI doesn't replace your best people — it amplifies them. Drawing on lessons from Watson and TeleTrex, this talk explores what real human–AI partnership looks like at the product and organizational level.

Keynote / Panel30–60 minLeadership audiences

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Scaling Businesses with Practical AI

Most businesses don't need a team of ML engineers — they need leverage. This talk covers the real-world playbook for deploying AI that reduces cost, accelerates response, and doesn't require a PhD to maintain.

Keynote / Workshop45–90 minSMB and enterprise

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Lessons from Building Watson

A candid account of what it takes to build award-winning AI products inside a large enterprise — what worked, what failed, and what startup founders and product teams can learn from the Watson era.

Fireside chat30–45 minProduct / founders

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GPU Computing for the Modern Web

The browser is a supercomputer most developers ignore. This technical talk explores WebGL, GPU-driven visualization, and what becomes possible when you move computation off the CPU — with live demos.

Technical keynote45 minEngineering audiences

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Cutting Through the AI Hype

A grounded, pragmatic guide to evaluating AI claims, choosing vendors wisely, and building internal AI capability that lasts — designed for executives and leaders navigating a noisy market.

Executive briefing30–45 minC-suite / board

Book Louis for your next event

Available for conferences, corporate keynotes, panels, fireside chats, and private executive briefings. Louis tailors every session to the audience — no recycled slide decks. Start with a 30-minute intro call to discuss your event, audience, and goals.

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