11 June 2026
Speaker at the Agentforce World Tour
Salesforce, Milan, Trailblazer Forest
Salesforce invited me to bring my experience on stage at the Italian World Tour, in the Trailblazer Forest area.
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On stage
I talk about AI to the people who have to use it, not to the people selling it.
I give talks, webinars and podcast interviews on artificial intelligence, automation and what happens to the craft of building software once AI gets into it. What I describe I use on client projects the next day: no demos that only work on stage. Everything an organiser needs is below, without having to email me for it.
Next talk
3 and 4 October 2026
The code that changes you. How AI transforms the people who build it.
DevFest Modena 2026, Italy
with Isabella Flecchia, work psychologist and founder of ImpulsoFuturo
How AI changes the code gets talked about endlessly. How it changes the person writing it, almost never. That is where the real shift happens: in how decisions get made, in what counts as work done, in the relationship people have with their own craft.
A two-voice talk, one technical and one from work psychology, on what actually happens to people inside teams that adopted AI for real. What they gain and what they lose, said without softening it.
Where I have been
The regular ones
Innovazione sotto processo
A recurring podcast where innovation is put on trial and has to defend itself.
Paura dell’AI
A webinar series for people who fear AI more than they know it, which is most people.
Sixty-three articles, in Italian and English
The Solutions Hub is where I write at length: method, mistakes made, things that worked.
Business Partner 24ORE 2026
A collaboration with Il Sole 24 Ore on innovation and digital transformation in Italian business.
Formats
Four of them, depending on how much time you have and who is in the room.
- Talks and keynotes
- Twenty to forty-five minutes, for conferences and company events. With an argument, not a tour of tools.
- Webinars
- Online, with the real questions at the end. It is the format where AI can be shown working rather than described.
- Podcasts and interviews
- A long conversation, where you can stay on an uncomfortable question instead of escaping to the next one.
- Workshops
- Half a day hands on keyboard, for teams that need to leave the room having built something.
What I talk about
If what you need is not on the list but close to it, ask me.
- Applied AI: where it genuinely pays off and where it is just fashion
- AI agents and process automation, including what breaks
- How the craft of writing software is changing
- AI and CRM: where AI lands on a commercial process
- Adopting AI in a company with no IT department
- Enterprise architecture: deciding before spending
Ready-to-use bios
Three lengths, already written in the third person. Take the one you need.
One line
Gaetano Castaldo is an engineer, Fractional CTO and founder of Castaldo Solutions.
Short
Gaetano Castaldo is an engineer and the founder of Castaldo Solutions. After fifteen years in the trade, eleven of them in international consulting as solution architect, project manager and enterprise architect, he now brings AI and automation to companies without an IT department. He holds eight active Salesforce certifications and the TOGAF 10 certification.
Long
Gaetano Castaldo is an engineer, Fractional CTO and founder of Castaldo Solutions. He started out writing automation software for industrial plants near Salerno, two of which he installed offshore, and spent eleven years in the global consulting firms in Milan as a developer, technical leader, solution architect, project manager and enterprise architect, leading teams of up to twelve people on international programmes. Since 2024 he has run his own firm, working alongside company leadership to turn technology into decisions that can be measured. He holds eight active Salesforce certifications, the TOGAF 10 certification and the Italian chartered engineer qualification. His stated goal is to build an AI centre of excellence in the province of Salerno, where he started.
Running an event?
Tell me who is in the room, how much time I get and what you want them to leave with. I will handle the rest.