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Understand the Problem Before Choosing the Technology
Why understanding the people involved, the business problem, and the outcome we want to achieve must come before choosing a solution
What if your next technology decision started with no technology at all?
Technology is never the starting point
This talk challenges conventional thinking about technology, exploring how seemingly reasonable decisions create hidden dependencies and limit future choices
Based on my research paper How Organizations Become Locked into Working Technologies
What You'll Take Away
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How Successful Technology Decisions Create Lock-In
How integrations, exceptions, processes, and dependencies accumulate around working solutions, gradually making change harder and reducing future options
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Make Better Decisions Without Losing Future Options
How to evaluate business value, trade-offs, and long-term consequences before committing to technology decisions that will shape the organization for years
Audience
Open to everyone, especially leaders across the organization, including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and executives outside technology
Selected Appearances
LLMday Montevideo 2026
A talk on why AI initiatives should start with the business challenge—and a practical framework for turning business needs into better technology decisions
TEDx Ciudad De La Costa
A talk about why technology should never be the starting point—and how technology-first decisions can create complexity, dependencies, and fewer options over time
build 101
Participated as a mentor at build 101, Universidad de Montevideo’s AI hackathon, supporting teams developing working AI products
XSeed
A webinar on technology leadership—why leadership is the job, and why people and the business come before technology
The Technology Vanguard
An honest conversation about IT leadership, the mistakes that teach us, the transition from technical excellence to leading people, and the lessons that really shape the path to becoming a CIO
Turning Cloud Investment into Business Value — Nublit
A conversation with Nublit about cloud strategy in Latin America, hybrid adoption, cultural and regulatory barriers, and the role of technology as a driver of growth, innovation, and operational resilience
ORBIE CIO Awards
Recognized as a finalist in the Global CIO category at the Central Texas awards
Industrial Reinvention — The Economist
Invited participant in Industrial Reinvention: New Business Models and Jobs for Tomorrow’s Technology, hosted by The Economist Impact, with fellow CIOs in Houston, Texas