ESPC26
Conference Sessions
AI Strategy, Ethics, and Governance
The Last Consultant Standing - Staying Relevant When AI Can And Will Do Your Job
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SPEAKERS
Jussi Roine
MVP
Not Bad Security
ABOUT THE SESSION
Let’s be honest: the work that built our careers is disappearing. AI writes code, configures tenants, drafts architectures, answers support tickets, and summarizes meetings. If your value proposition is “I know how to do a thing,” you have a problem – because the thing is getting automated faster than any of us expected.
This keynote is for every IT professional, consultant, and developer who’s looked at the pace of change in the last two years and quietly wondered: what’s left for me?
The answer isn’t to outrun the machine. It’s to become the person the machine can’t replace. Drawing on over thirty years in the Microsoft ecosystem – from hands-on engineering to building a consultancy, running a community, and advising organizations navigating the AI shift – this talk lays out an honest, a bit brutal, and practical framework for relevance in the age of agentic AI.
We’ll explore how the value chain in technology work is being compressed, why the middle layer of “implementation expertise” is the most exposed, and where the new high ground actually is: in judgment, context, trust, deep experience and the ability to frame the right problem before anyone starts building the solution.
This isn’t a motivational speech about embracing change. It’s a clear-eyed look at what’s already happened, what’s coming next, and the specific moves you can make – in how you position yourself, how you learn, how you build relationships, and how you think about your own career as a product – to make sure you’re not just surviving but thriving. The people who will matter most in the next decade aren’t the ones who can prompt the AI. They’re the ones the customer calls when the stakes are too high to get it wrong.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Jussi Roine
MVP
Not Bad Security
