Speaking
Walk one use case yourself, end to end.
That is the exercise I ask every IT leader to do. My talks are about what you find when you do it, and how to remove the waits one at a time.
Invite me to speakTalks
Lead Time to Learning
How to measure the days between an approved idea and a live user, and remove them one at a time.
CIOs and IT leadership teams
Pay when it works
Buying enterprise AI on signed acceptance criteria instead of slideware, and what changes when the vendor carries the risk.
Executives and procurement
Which tasks AI changes first
Reading your own workforce through task-level exposure data from JobRoute.
HR, workforce and public sector leaders
Building with AI as a student founder
A working session on going from an idea to a first customer with AI tools. First taught as the TiE Dallas TYE 2026 masterclass.
High school and college entrepreneurs
Where I have spoken
Conferences, masterclasses and community sessions, newest first.
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TYE Dallas Masterclass: Startup Toolkit and Introduction to AI Apps and Cloud
TiE Dallas, TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) 2026 cohort. In person at Caddo, Dallas.
A hands-on session for high school founders heading into the TYE Dallas regional finals: building websites and prototypes with AI tools, AI-assisted pitch decks, scalable apps, cloud platforms and APIs, and using AI for research and day-to-day operations. Students left with a startup toolkit they could use the same week.
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ESPC18, the European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference
ESPC. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Spoke at ESPC18, where more than 2,300 SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure professionals gathered in Copenhagen, and was interviewed for the official ESPC18 highlights video as CEO of QueryNow.
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Intra.NET Reloaded Berlin 2017
Intra.NET Reloaded, the intranet and digital workplace conference. Berlin, Germany.
Spoke at the Berlin edition of Intra.NET Reloaded, the European conference for intranet, internal communications and digital workplace teams.
Formats
In person in Texas and Europe, or remote anywhere.
- Keynote
- 25 to 40 minutes, one idea, slides optional.
- Workshop
- The ninety-minute mapping workshop from the book, run on one of your real pilots.
- Panel or fireside
- Enterprise AI delivery, IT operating models, the workforce question.
- Podcast
- Long-form conversations on building companies across Germany and the US.
For organizers
Mahesh Tatiparthy is the founder and CEO of QueryNow, an enterprise AI implementation firm he founded in Germany in 2014, and the co-founder and CEO of JobRoute.ai. He is the author of The Seven Frictions: Why IT Slows Innovation in the AI Era, and How to Fix It (2026).
Or write to mahesh@querynow.com with the date, audience and format.