AI talks you’d actually stay in the room for
I am Mykhailo Kushnir, CTO of DestiLabs. I build production AI for a living - voice agents, LLM systems, and the benchmarks that tell you what actually works. On stage I bring the real numbers and the failure modes, not a deck of promises.
- Speaks in
- English
- Based in
- Lisbon - travels across Europe
- Formats
- Talk, workshop, panel, podcast
Signature talks, ready to run
Each one can flex from a conference talk to a hands-on workshop. Tell me your audience and I will tailor the depth.
Why your voice agent breaks in production
Cascaded pipelines versus speech-to-speech models, and where each one quietly falls apart once real callers show up: latency, interruptions, and hallucinated departments in non-English calls. I bring a live benchmark across the major voice engines and show the failure modes with real transcripts, not slides.
Answer Engine Optimization: getting cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini
Search is splitting into ten blue links and one synthesized answer. This talk covers how answer engines pick the sources they cite, how to measure whether your brand shows up in AI answers at all, and which changes actually move citations - drawn from a live visibility benchmark I ran across engines and verticals.
From demo to production: the AI proof-of-value playbook
Most AI pilots die between the impressive demo and a system anyone can rely on. I walk through the discover / build / scale approach we use to ship a measurable proof-of-value in weeks, how we hold it against a baseline before scaling anything, and the handoff that leaves the client owning the models and the pipeline.
Watch me speak
A conversation with GigRadar on how a lean, AI-first agency outships teams ten times its size - the automation, the Claude workflows, and the systems that actually run in production.
Watch on YouTube“How a 10-Person AI Agency Outperforms Big Teams” - in conversation with GigRadar
How we can work together
Keynotes & talks
20-45 minutes, tuned to your audience - technical depth or founder-level, your call.
Hands-on workshops
Half or full day. People leave having built something working, not just notes.
Panels & fireside chats
Voice AI, agents, and where applied AI actually earns its keep for a business.
Podcast guest
Remote, async-friendly. Specific, data-backed takes over generic hype.
The work behind the talks
Every talk is grounded in systems I have actually shipped and data I have actually measured.
Have a stage that needs a real AI talk?
Tell me the event, the audience, and the date. I will come back with a tailored talk or workshop - and whether I am the right fit.