Speaking

Keynotes, conference talks, executive briefings, workshops, panels and podcasts. Every topic below is something I have built, run or taught, not a survey of the field.

Topics

Agentic-first architecture

What changes in an enterprise architecture when agents are first-class actors: reference architecture, protocol layers such as MCP and A2A, data strategy as agent strategy, model selection as an architectural decision, and the governance language that determines how precise your human oversight can be.

For: Enterprise and solution architects · CTOs and heads of engineering · Platform vendors and their partners

Formats: Keynote · Conference talk · Executive briefing · Podcast

Running an AI-led SDLC and AI-led DevSecOps

How a delivery team actually runs with agentic coding tools: the rules, hooks, commands and purpose-built agents, the review gates and evidence trail an enterprise will accept, and what changes for architects, testers and security. Drawn from building agentic tooling used on programmes valued at over $10M.

For: Delivery leaders · Engineering managers · Architecture guilds · Security and quality functions

Formats: Conference talk · Half-day workshop · Internal town hall

From monolith to MACH, and what comes after

Composable and MACH estates in practice: platform selection, DXP, CMS and MarTech consolidation, the migrations that go wrong, and how to design an estate that can absorb agents without another rewrite.

For: Digital and marketing technology leaders · Architects · Platform and integrator partners

Formats: Conference talk · Vendor and partner events · Executive briefing

Building architecture teams that run without you

Establishing delivery centres in Mexico, Costa Rica and India and handing each to local leadership; developing successor architects; the faculty practice that produced two architecture-school awards; and why capability transfer is the deliverable, not the afterthought.

For: Practice and delivery leaders · Founders and CEOs · Capacity-building and donor programmes

Formats: Keynote · Leadership offsite · Panel

Digital public goods and civic technology in West Africa

Lessons from the Sierra Leone Learning Passport, the open election data platform adopted by the Independent Media Commission, election-violence monitoring for IFES in the Maldives and Senegal, and low-power ICT laboratories for schools: designing for low bandwidth, institutional continuity and local ownership.

For: Donors and development agencies · Governments and regulators · Universities · Civic-tech communities

Formats: Keynote · Panel · Workshop

Teaching as the core skill of a technologist

Twenty-five years of paid teaching, from secondary-school mathematics to enterprise architects: why the ability to teach is what makes architecture, delivery and leadership transferable, and how to build it into a team.

For: Universities and bootcamps · Engineering leadership · Early-career programmes

Formats: Keynote · Commencement and convocation · Podcast

Past engagements

EngagementHostWhenFormat
Faculty, Accenture architecture schools
Recognised with the FY23 Bronze and FY25 Gold Faculty Awards for teaching the highest number of sessions across the schools; a six-day virtual cohort in March 2025.
Technology Architecture Fundamentals, Modern Architecture Patterns School, Advanced Architecture School, Enterprise Technology Architecture Schoolc. 2022 – 2025Teaching
Facilitator, Reinvention with Agentic AI programme
Facilitated sessions in the agentic AI programme; Bronze Faculty tier.
Accenture2025Teaching
Six digital experience platforms compared
Platform overviews, use cases and differentiators across six digital experience platforms.
Emerging-alliances learning session, 80+ attendeesc. 2022 – 2025Talk
Adjunct Professor, Web Development with Content Management SystemsPace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems2014 – 2020Teaching
The Sierra Leone–Gullah Connection
Documentary of the study tour that brought Gullah descendants, performers, historians and preservationists from North America to Sierra Leone.
Documentary, Fambul Tik2019Media
Gullah Roots
Featured participant.
South Carolina ETVMedia

Teaching engagements are listed because they are the largest part of the speaking record. Faculty sessions at Accenture's architecture schools are internal programmes; the awards they produced are on the credentials page.

Fee band

On request. Fees depend on format, preparation, travel and whether the host is a commercial, academic or public-interest organisation. Public-interest and academic hosts in Sierra Leone are considered on a reduced or pro bono basis.

Booking

The form composes an email to tamba@tambalamin.me in your own mail client. Nothing is stored on this site. Based GMT, aligned to UK and EU working hours; available in North America and West Africa by arrangement.

Questions people ask

What teaching credentials sit behind the training?

Tamba Lamin was twice recognised by Accenture Architecture Leadership for teaching the highest number of sessions across its architecture schools, with the FY23 Bronze and FY25 Gold Faculty Awards, and holds the Bronze Faculty tier of the Reinvention with Agentic AI programme. He was an adjunct professor at Pace University from 2014 to 2020 and has taught continuously since secondary school in Sierra Leone.

What does Tamba Lamin speak about?

Agentic-first architecture, running an AI-led SDLC and DevSecOps, composable and MACH estates and what comes after them, building architecture teams that run without their founder, digital public goods and civic technology in West Africa, and teaching as the core skill of a technologist. Formats range from keynotes and executive briefings to workshops and podcasts; fees are quoted on request.

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