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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.

Where I have been

4 October 2026

The code that changes you. How AI transforms the people who build it.

DevFest Modena 2026, Fondazione San Carlo, Italy

with Isabella Flecchia, CEO of ImpulsoFuturo

A two-voice talk on AI seen by the people who build it: why the brain does not scale like a server, what happens to a developer’s identity when AI writes the code, and where seniors will come from if the questions go to Claude. With nine questions left in the room instead of answers.

How it went, with the video

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.

The regular ones

Innovazione Sotto Processo

The technology and law podcast I founded with Armando De Lucia, a lawyer specialised in IT law: one technology at a time on trial, prosecution, defence and a practical verdict. First season on the way, in Italian.

Paura dell’AI

A webinar series for people who fear AI more than they know it, which is most people.

More than eighty articles, in Italian and English

The Solutions Hub is where I write at length: method, mistakes made, things that worked.

Bylines in trade publications

Contributions published by independent editorial teams, in Italian.

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. With lawyer Armando De Lucia he founded Innovazione Sotto Processo, an Italian technology and law podcast that puts one technology at a time on trial. 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.

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