Talks & Workshops
I speak, train and run workshops, mostly on AI for working teams. It started in 2019 with undergraduates at FAST NUCES, then working professionals at iQualify UK, and now the AI programmes I design and run at IOTA and outside it. My research is at the end of this page.
Workshops and talks
Internal sessions are usually for about 30 to 40 people; external sessions for 40 to 60.
A hands-on workshop that takes a team from the basics to power-user workflows.
What AI is doing to business, and where generative AI goes next in Pakistan.
Prompting, RAG and the everyday AI use cases a working team actually has.
Agents and multi-step automation, from first principles to working patterns.
Founders Circle: Builder meetups for founders and builders. I took part as a community member from February to May 2026. More on About
Offered sessions
My talks are vendor-neutral; no product pitches. Each session can be shortened, extended or adapted to your team, and I can run it in English or Urdu.
A hands-on workshop that takes a team from its first prompts to the workflows power users rely on, in whichever assistant the team uses. We work on real tasks from the room: drafting and reviewing documents, analysing data, working with long files and setting up projects so context carries over. People leave with habits they can use the next morning, and a clear sense of where the tool falls short.
For people who use AI at work but do not build with it. I cover how to frame a request, how to give the model the context it needs, what retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) does in plain terms and how to check an answer before you rely on it. No coding and no tool tour: the exercises come from the everyday tasks the room already has.
What an agent is once the marketing is stripped away: a model that can call tools in a loop. I build up from a single tool call to multi-step automation, then cover the patterns that hold up in practice, the ways agents fail and how to keep a person in control of anything that matters. It ends with a live build and a short test for whether a task needs an agent at all.
For the live build, each participant needs a laptop, a code editor and an API key for one model provider.
Where AI helps a security operations centre today, and where it adds risk. I look at alert triage, written triage summaries, plain-English response policies and the human approval step, then at what changes when the network is air-gapped: running models locally, updating them safely and keeping an audit trail. It draws on years of building monitoring and security software, and it stays vendor-neutral.
I was promoted three times in four years at one company, from senior engineer to CTO, and each step asked for something new while keeping everything from before. I cover what changed at each stage, from running one team’s releases to answering for sales and the business side, what I got wrong along the way and what I would tell myself at each step.
Grown out of the AI Lens 2026 panel in Islamabad. A conversation about what AI is changing inside businesses in Pakistan and the Gulf, where generative AI goes next, and what a company should do this year instead of someday. I bring examples from enterprise work and from the teams I train, and I leave plenty of room for the audience’s questions.
For students deciding what to do with an interest in AI. I taught computer science at FAST NUCES for three years, wrote my master’s thesis on human-in-the-loop neuroevolution and now ship AI in enterprise products and my own. The session covers which skills carry from coursework into industry, how a research idea becomes something people use, and plenty of time for questions about careers.
Speaker kit
Use any of these as they are. Headshots are sent on request.
Usman Kaisser Moghal is CTO at IOTA Solutions, which builds monitoring and security software for telecom operators, government bodies and large enterprises, and co-founder of Arlo, an AI chief of staff. He builds AI products of his own and trains teams on applied AI. He is based in Islamabad.
Usman Kaisser Moghal is CTO at IOTA Solutions in Islamabad. He owns its product lines, Trace9® for IT monitoring, Amygdala XDR® for security operations and Thalamus for network access control, leads its engineering and runs its pre-sales and sales. He joined IOTA as a senior engineer in 2022 and was promoted three times in four years, to CTO. He is also co-founder of Arlo, where he runs the enterprise side, and founder of Voxera, a real-time voice agent, and AI Continuum, a knowledge graph of AI engineering. He designs and teaches IOTA’s AI programmes and taught computer science at FAST NUCES.
Usman Kaisser Moghal is CTO at IOTA Solutions, an Islamabad company whose monitoring and security software runs at telecom operators, government bodies, utilities and hospitals, including sites with no internet connection. He owns IOTA’s product lines: Trace9® for IT monitoring, Amygdala XDR® for security operations and Thalamus for network access control. Five team leads and more than 20 engineers report to him, and since February 2026 he has also run IOTA’s pre-sales and sales, working directly with senior leaders at its customers.
He joined IOTA in 2022 as a senior engineer and was promoted three times in four years, through development manager and deputy CTO to CTO. He still writes and reviews code.
In 2026 he co-founded Arlo, an AI chief of staff that reads mail, calendar and files and drafts the replies, and he runs its enterprise side. He has also founded two AI products of his own: Voxera, a voice agent that takes and makes calls in 60 languages, and AI Continuum, a sourced knowledge graph of AI engineering that agents query over MCP.
Teaching runs through his career. He taught computer science at FAST NUCES for three years and professional courses at iQualify UK for two, and he now designs and leads IOTA’s training on prompting, RAG and agentic AI. He holds an MS in Computer Science from FAST NUCES and a BS from Air University, both summa cum laude, with a gold medal for the BS.
Our next speaker was promoted three times in four years at IOTA Solutions, from senior engineer to CTO, and now runs both its engineering and its sales: please welcome Usman Kaisser Moghal.
Classrooms
Machine learning, business intelligence, security and database systems.
Web development, database systems, digital image processing, advanced programming and iOS development.
Research
My MS thesis on human-in-the-loop neuroevolution comes first, then a paper I co-authored for IEEE as an undergraduate. The course papers from my master’s are folded below them.
An MS thesis on interactive neuroevolution combining GANs with human-in-the-loop feedback for intelligent data augmentation in machine learning.
A semantic web-based e-learning platform with integrated experience tracking for adaptive learning and personalized education delivery.
Written for MS courses at FAST NUCES.