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Ivan Schneider
Inventor | Author | Speaker
Each one’s a live show — I build with the exact tools on stage.
One person and the right tools can now build what used to take a team. The interesting question is what that capacity gets pointed at — and the answer these talks argue for is the work nobody could previously afford to have built: an association with no budget, a small newsroom, anyone told the only options were an enterprise contract or going without. Software that costs almost nothing to run, owned by the people who use it.
PuPPy · AI Tinkerers · NSA Northwest
What happens when the thing you do for a living becomes free? A storytelling keynote about how one person writing about disruptive technology handled its arrival in his own career.
Spark Live · April 2026
I wrote about personal financial bots in 2000, a decade before robo-advisors; the AML technology crisis in May 2001, four months before 9/11 made it urgent; and the COBOL shortage in 2005, fifteen years before the pandemic proved it. That was the beat then, and it’s rhyming now with AI. Twenty years following fintech teaches you how to spot and anticipate trends — and I have a few thoughts about where things are heading next.
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Two decades explaining the technology that runs financial services — reporting it at Bank Systems & Technology, then telling the customer stories at TCS BaNCS. Now building with AI.
Working software I’ve built with AI — and demo live, on stage.
tables like water. From natural language into working databases — no expertise required.
it will have been done. Conversational task management — AI builds your projects, tasks, views, and kanban.
send your agent. A searchable library of 230+ software research surveys — memory vs. library, with citations.
Business has atomized — you’re running a whole company by yourself, expected to be a specialist in a dozen fields at once. I’m not B2B; I’m A2A — atom to atom. One session gets you a decision: a written recommendation for your actual stack, backed by a researched software library. A full workup, not a hunch.
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The true stories of Captain Leon H. Schneider — the Great Depression, torpedoed twice in WWII (he wrote one sinking up for LIFE, 1942), two decades as a ship’s officer. Featured in Real Simple.
Where’s the talking dog in Don Quixote? Harvard ALM thesis, published in the peer-reviewed journal Humanities.
An inventor, author, and technologist who builds AI-powered systems that actually remember things. An NSA Northwest Board member and 2024 Got Power Award winner for storytelling, he helps people and organizations move beyond AI as a chat window and build systems that run their business.
BS, Carnegie Mellon · MBA, Vanderbilt · ALM, Harvard Extension School
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