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10x Productivity for Developers to Architects Workshop

Maximize your impact through Communication, Emotional Intelligence, and Influence

Communication and Charisma are 70% of your office and social life success. Productivity is key to success in software architecture and development. We will be exploring different principles so you do not have to work 60 to 80 hours a week. We will discuss proven strategies to make you the most influential Developer and Architect with greater Empathy and Self Regulation. This talk is for you as you can now SLANT your way to being a leader. You will learn how to increase Emotional intelligence in just one month, which amounts to 85 to 95% of your success in the office. You will be able to self-regulate and increase awareness like a pro in just 10 minutes to avoid anger, disappointment, exhaustion, frustration, stress, Worry, Anxiety, and Confusion. You will master the SCAMPER technique to understand a problem and create new opportunities like Ray Cork and Steve Jobs.

These will be some of the questions and challenges we will address in this talk:

  • How to maximize impact by delivering excellent work by doing more in less time?

  • How to gain control of our life? - 24 hrs are with Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk.

  • How to communicate effectively with anyone in 15 minutes build trust

  • How to increase listening skills to understand other person’s perspective

  • How to lead teams by winning followers in the first meeting and build relationships and trust

  • How to visualize your perfect day so everything is done like magic using the Six Phase Meditation Technique?

  • How to set your values to improve in all areas of your life for Contribution, Health, Career, Relationship, and Wealth?

  • What daily questions to ask to get in a peak performance state throughout the day?

  • How to generate new ideas like a pro so that you can champion Million dollar products?
    What five choices to take to the path of extraordinary productivity?

  • How does more work with less time achievable by simple techniques of asking questions and delegation?

  • How will avoiding Not Important and Not Urgent tasks take to the next level?

  • What to focus on to the maximum productivity in the least amount of time, money, and resources?

  • What are 5 Ways To Experience Flow and Get Crazy Productive

  • How to manage attention by getting more done with a quick schedule system

  • How to shift to a new paradigm of the power of full engagement to measure the energy, not time

  • How to increase your frequency to vibrate at the frequency of your goals and remove terror barriers in one week?

  • How daily and weekly RULE YOUR TECHNOLOGY and don’t let it rule you

  • How to FUEL YOUR FIRE and don’t burn out

  • How to help management make a decision faster by employing the paradox of choice?

  • How to increase your writing skills like a pro where less is more

  • Are you multitasking? And nothing is getting done? Do you feel that there are many moving parts and nothing is getting accomplished? What can you do to make a difference in your organization? What techniques can you adopt to eliminate distractions?

This talk is ideal for the following roles:
Architects

Technical Leads

Programers

Integration Architects

Solution Architects

Senior Managers

Directors


About Rohit Bhardwaj

Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.

Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.

Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)

Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/ 

Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.

As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.

Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.

Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1

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