Talks & workshops

5 stages, one year.

My first international talk was in London in January 2025.
Four more stages followed before the year was out.

Speaking around the globe was on my bucket list.

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Ashish on the NDC London stage, speaking about authorization beneath a large screen, with the audience in the foreground. — My first international talk. NDC London, QEII Centre, Westminster, Jan 2025.

Featured departure / My first international stage

Fine-Grained Authorization for Modern Applications

A talk about the authorization demos I’d been building.

London

QEII Centre, Westminster
Jan 2025 · NDC London

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All 12 talks, including 7 recordings

Ashish Jha / Speaking archive

Departures

2019–2025

12 talks · 6 cities · 7 recordings

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Speaking archive, newest first. 12 talks: 7 in person and 5 remote. 7 published recordings. Expand a session title to read its story.
Date	Destination	Conference / Session	Format / Video
Nov2025	Seoul	Open Source Summit Korea (Linux Foundation) Your AI Agents Are Overprivileged: The Case for Fine-Grained Authorization Third continent of the year.	On stageNo recording linked
Sep2025	CopenhagenØksnehallen	NDC Copenhagen Your AI Agents Are Overprivileged: The Case for Fine-Grained Authorization Sixty minutes, room 2, on the same argument I had opened the year with in London.	On stage Watch
Aug2025	HyderabadHyderabad International Convention Centre	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India (CNCF) Fine-Grained Authorization: The Missing Piece in Agentic AI Security My first KubeCon, and a full auditorium, which I had not expected.	On stage Watch
Jun2025	RemoteOnline session	Charity Digital / Reimagining Service Delivery Securing beneficiaries in an insecure world with Okta An Auth0 demo on securing access to digital services for charities. I presented as a featured speaker from Okta.	On air Watch
Feb2025	San Francisco	Civo Navigate North America Redefining Access Control: A Paradigm Shift from RBAC to ReBAC with OpenFGA The week after London. I liked it too much to wait for a second invitation.	On stageNo recording linked
Jan2025	LondonQEII Centre, Westminster	NDC London Fine-Grained Authorization for Modern Applications My first international talk: Thursday morning, room 5. Afterwards, I spent three weeks travelling through London, York, Edinburgh and Ireland.	On stage Watch
Sep2024	Bengaluru	GitHub GitTogether Fine-Grained Authorization for Modern Applications The hometown stage, a year before any of the others.	On stageNo recording linked
Oct2021	RemoteOnline session	Alexa Developers (Amazon) Alexa & Friends with Ashish Jha, Alexa Champion An hour of interview on Amazon’s own channel, weeks after the Champion badge.	On air Watch
Oct2020	RemoteOnline session	O’Reilly live training AWS Certification Prep: Alexa Skill Builder Ran twice in one year, by demand. I hold the certification it prepares for.	On airNo recording linked
Sep2020	RemoteOnline session	VOICE Talks India, episode one (Modev) The Transformative Power of Voice The first Indian edition, presented by Google Assistant. Also “Making Money with Alexa”, the same month.	On air Watch
Feb2020	BengaluruBIC Bengaluru	Alexa Community Day Making Money with AlexaA photograph from the first stage My first conference talk. That morning I wrote: “A bit nervous but equally excited!” Track 2, 2 p.m., speaking out of Vixen Labs. Before London, this room. Alexa Community Day, Bengaluru · February 2020.	On stageNo recording linked
Nov2019	RemoteOnline session	Alexa Developers (Amazon) Meet the Alexa Pioneers from India Twenty-one, and the first time Amazon put a camera on me.	On air Watch

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Community talks & workshops / 2018–2020

It started with
37 workshops and meetups.

Ashish speaking into a microphone at Alexa Community Day, with the audience seated in front of him. — My first conference talk. Alexa Community Day, Bengaluru · February 2020.

Ashish leaning over a laptop to help a participant during the Quark workshop, with other learners working behind them. — Helping a participant. Quark, BITS Pilani Goa · February 2020.

Ashish at the front of a lecture hall, with Quark workshop participants working on laptops. — From the back of the room. Quark, BITS Pilani Goa · February 2020.

Between 2018 and 2020, I organised meetups, workshops and webinars about building for voice. I found venues, wrote the material, invited participants and taught the sessions.

I started with Alexa Delhi, which grew into Alexa Community India. The workshops gave me practice explaining ideas, answering questions and helping people build their first skills. My first conference talk followed at Alexa Community Day in February 2020.

Teaching, too

Voice-development courses for O’Reilly and Educative. An Alexa developer community built alongside the work.

An earlier conversation: Alexa & Friends on YouTube (new tab)How the community became part of my life →

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What I speak about

AI agents & authorization

What an agent is allowed to do, and where fine-grained authorization belongs in the system.

Identity beyond roles

RBAC, relationship-based access control, and building with OpenFGA.

Voice & conversational interfaces

Designing and building voice applications, and teaching other developers to do the same.

Ashish smiling with his arms folded, wearing a blue polo shirt at NDC Copenhagen. — NDC Copenhagen, 2025.

A bio you can use

Ashish Jha is a Solutions Engineer at DevRev, where he deploys AI support agents into production. His talks cover authorization, identity, and conversational interfaces. Previously, he was Okta's first solutions engineer in India. He has built 1,000+ voice applications, founded India's Alexa developer community, and taught voice development for O'Reilly and Educative.

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