Leadership Story Telling and Presenting-up
Architects and Leaders need to influence senior leadership to sell an idea, tell a story, a significant ask. Unfortunately, senior leaders do not have time for traditional presentations, which conclude at the end. This workshop will explore various ways to prepare for senior leadership.
Through case studies, we will explore a top-down methodology to prepare ourselves for the meeting. Do you need to present at the Architecture Review Board (ARB)?
Starting with the bottom line helps us cut to the chase on what is the ask? Why are you asking, what are the alternatives, what are the recommendations?
This talk would be helpful for anyone who needs to present at the architecture review board and C-Level executives.
Steve Job has said, “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
This talk would be helpful for anyone who needs to present at the architecture review board and C-Level executives.
In this talk, participants will develop practical skills, tools, and frameworks to help prepare excellent presentations for management.
We will go over the following:
Presentations
Tools
Action feeds
Case Studies
This talk is ideal for the following roles:
Architects
Technical Leads
Programers
Integration Architects
Solution Architects
Managers
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