SPEAKING & COMMUNITY

Your audience is asking where AI actually improves the work. I help them answer it.

I bring the view of a former enterprise data executive, a founder and someone who still builds. Audiences leave with practical questions they can use the following Monday.

TOPICS

Speaking topics

Knowledge

Putting organizational knowledge to work

Why the details that matter live in conversations and exceptions, and how to make them usable by people and AI.

Takeaway: where to start

Performance

Where AI improves performance

Beyond efficiency: faster responses, stronger proposals, better customer decisions. And how to measure the whole workflow.

Takeaway: what to measure

Dependability

Dependable agents, earned autonomy

Permissions, review, measures and ownership. In Québec, section 12.1 of Law 25 sets specific duties when a decision is based exclusively on automated processing of personal information.

Takeaway: the right boundaries

Literacy

AI literacy for leaders and teams

Enough understanding of capabilities and limits to ask better questions and decide well.

Takeaway: better questions

Format

Keynotes, panels, offsites

In English or French, shaped around your audience and the decision in front of it.

Tailored

Invitation

Invite David

Send the audience, topic, format and date. In English or French.

Invite to speak

APPEARANCES

Selected appearances

Presentation

CDAO Canada 2024

Presentation: “AI-Driven Excellence: Transforming Bids and Proposals with Minimal Investment.” Toronto, March 2024.

Toronto, March 2024

Discussion

11th Annual Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada

David Legendre, the leftmost panelist (dark hair, glasses, dark blazer), on stage at the 11th Annual Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada. The screen reads “Data Literacy: Bridging the Knowledge Gap.” Two other panelists sit to his right.

Panelist · Toronto · June 2025

AI literacy discussion.

Panel

Les Affaires, Intelligence artificielle

Les Affaires panel: four men seated on stage. David Legendre is second from the left (dark hair, glasses, dark blazer, legs crossed), listening. The bald man on the far right is the one speaking. Photo © Josée Lecompte.

Photo © Josée Lecompte

Panelist · Montréal · November 2024

Booth

Web Summit Vancouver 2026

David Legendre, left, glasses and black quarter-zip, in conversation with a visitor at the Quantumize AI booth (SaaS, A2-01 ALPHA) during the Web Summit Vancouver 2026 Startup Showcase. A colleague stands at the right of the booth counter.

Startup Showcase pitch · Vancouver · 2026

Photo: a booth conversation at the Quantumize AI stand, not a stage keynote.

PARTICIPATION

Community, not speaking slots

Membership

OpenExO

Member of the OpenExO community, a global community focused on innovation and organizational transformation.

Membership

Peer

Gartner CDAO Circle

Past participant. Not a speaking appearance.

Peers

Short speaker biography.

David Legendre is co-founder and CEO of Quantumize AI, an AI-native services firm in Montréal, and still builds AI systems himself. He previously led data and analytics as VP at a multi-brand restaurant franchisor and held data leadership roles at a leader in aviation and training and a big six Canadian bank. He helps CEOs and COOs decide where AI pays first, and make it work inside the business. He speaks in English and French.

Invitation

Planning an event or an executive offsite?

Invite Daviddavid.legendre@quantumizeai.com