Speaking
For conference organisers, executive teams, universities and communities who want a speaker who has built, run or taught the thing he is talking about. Keynotes, conference talks, executive briefings, live build-and-deploy workshops, panels and podcasts.
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.
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.
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.
Building architecture teams that run without you
Establishing delivery centres in Mexico, Costa Rica and India and handing each to local leadership; why every Accenture programme was a teaching engagement (build the bench, staff it, certify it, hand it over, repeat, until it reached 1,500+); developing successor architects; the faculty practice that produced two architecture-school awards; and why capability transfer is the deliverable, not the afterthought.
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.
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.
Past engagements
| Engagement | Host | When | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| UN Summit of the Future, Action Days Panellist on "Reimagining the Future: Cultivating Global Opportunities for Youth Through Innovation and Impact", panel discussion one: "Startup Continent: How Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Will Reshape the Future of African (and Global) Youth". The Action Days preceded the adoption of the Pact for the Future (A/RES/79/1), the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations. Commitments made: closing digital divides, connecting people, schools and hospitals to the Internet, and advancing AI governance through interoperable frameworks, AI capacity-building and global policy dialogue. | United Nations Headquarters, New York; invited by the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations | 20–21 September 2024 | Panel |
| African Diaspora and Development Day (AD3) 2025 Featured speaker at AFFORD's flagship annual event, themed "The Transformational Power of the African Diaspora", alongside diaspora changemakers from across the continent and the diaspora. | African Foundation for Development (AFFORD UK), 30th anniversary | 2025 | Talk |
| Build and Deploy a Live AI-Powered Web App Designed and hosted a hands-on workshop taking participants from concept to a shipped production application in one session: built "Salone Explorer", an AI-powered Sierra Leone tour guide, live on stage and deployed it to the public web, demonstrating an end-to-end prompt-to-production workflow (Claude Code, GitHub, Vercel) in a real IDE. Covered agentic AI versus chatbots in practice and the AI-led software development lifecycle. Demo codebase public on GitHub. | Sierra Leoneans in Technology (SLinT), live virtual workshop | June 2026 | Workshop |
| SLinT Tech Expo 2025 Panellist on two sessions: "AI for Africa: Pioneering Sustainable Development and Safeguarding Human Rights" and "Harnessing Global Innovation for Africa's Future". | Sierra Leoneans in Technology, University of Maryland, College Park | May 2025 | Panel |
| SLinT Tech Expo 2024 Featured speaker on generative AI and its applications for Africa's digital economy; recorded and available on YouTube. | Sierra Leoneans in Technology | 2024 | Talk |
| Faculty, Accenture architecture schools Recognised with the FY23 Bronze and FY25 Gold Faculty Awards for teaching the highest number of sessions across the schools: 35+ sessions averaging 215 attendees, plus the Analysts School (eight seven-day courses, average class 95) and the Experience Hire School (three five-day courses, average class 65) at the St. Charles campus and the Manhattan office. 55+ teaching engagements and 8,000+ students and practitioners across all programmes. | Technology Architecture Fundamentals, Modern Architecture Patterns School, Advanced Architecture School, Enterprise Technology Architecture School | 2020 – 2026 | Teaching |
| Facilitator, Reinvention with Agentic AI programme Facilitated sessions in the agentic AI programme; Bronze Faculty tier. | Accenture | 2025 | Teaching |
| Emerging DXP Platforms learning series Designed and delivered a global learning series on emerging digital experience platforms for client-facing teams: platform overviews, use cases and differentiators across six platforms, equipping sellers to identify, position and win DXP transformation opportunities. Sessions of 80+ attendees. | Accenture, global; sales account leads and sellers | 2020 – 2026 | Teaching |
| Adjunct Professor, Web Development with Content Management Systems | Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems | 2014 – 2020 | Teaching |
| African Experts Show with Vickie Remoe Episode 2: the internet of things and its benefits, internet shutdowns in Africa, and proposed Sierra Leone cybercrime legislation. | African Experts Podcast, syndicated on SwitSalone | August 2021 | Podcast |
| CMS-Connected interview at Acquia Engage 2020 Interviewed as Accenture's Drupal practice lead on digital experiences and enterprise Drupal practice; available on YouTube via CMS-Connected. | CMS-Connected, Acquia Engage (virtual) | October 2020 | Media |
| International Open Data Conference (IODC 2018) Presented Sierra Leone's open election data work (SLOEDP / electiondata.io) at the leading international open data conference, themed "The Future is Open", before governments, civil society organisations and technologists. | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 27–28 September 2018 | Talk |
| #MakeSierraLeoneFamous Showcase, fireside chat Featured as a diaspora investor and entrepreneur at the inaugural showcase: a fireside chat on doing business in Sierra Leone, profiled as CEO of TpISENT and founder of TpESTATE. | VRC Marketing, Silver Spring, Maryland | 19 March 2022 | Fireside chat |
| 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 Tik | 2019 | Media |
| Gullah Roots Featured participant. | South Carolina ETV | Media |
Teaching engagements are included because they are the largest part of the record; 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
Tell me about the event and you will have a reply within a day. Based GMT, aligned to UK and EU working hours; available in North America and West Africa by arrangement.
The form opens an email to tamba@tambalamin.me in your own mail client.
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. Across Accenture's Architecture, Analysts and Experience Hire schools he delivered 55+ teaching engagements reaching 8,000+ students and practitioners. He was an adjunct professor at Pace University from 2014 to 2020, co-authored research articles there, 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. Past appearances include the UN Summit of the Future Action Days at UN Headquarters (2024, invited by the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone), AFFORD's African Diaspora and Development Day (2025), the International Open Data Conference (2018) and the SLinT Tech Expo. Formats range from keynotes and executive briefings to live build-and-deploy workshops and podcasts; fees are quoted on request.