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# Talks by Kyle Ledbetter

Talks, panels and podcasts by Kyle, newest first, from 2016 to 2025.

- **[How this AI-powered duo found PMF by building 3 products in 9 months](https://suprainsider.substack.com/p/59-how-this-ai-powered-duo-found)**  
  2025 · Podcast · Supra Insider podcast, episode 59  
  With Andy Keil, Dreambase co-founder.  
  How Kyle and Andy Keil found product-market fit by building and launching three products in nine months.  
  Links: [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAFkApEZi9o&t=3663s) · [Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/6TMmn1S1ATCD4U4brZowMI) · [Listen on Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/supra-insider/id1737704130)
- **[Agency Over AI Agents](https://speakerdeck.com/player/d69bea57470d40dca122c3f2640f5943)**  
  2024 · Talk · World Design Policy Conference, part of World Design Capital San Diego + Tijuana  
  How to keep human agency as AI advances. The talk covers risk management beyond compliance, how communities are adapting and governance frameworks that keep people in control.  
  Links: [View the slides on Speaker Deck](https://speakerdeck.com/player/d69bea57470d40dca122c3f2640f5943)
- **[Augmented Design at the Speed of AI](https://speakerdeck.com/player/0a549ac341fe4f1184e33d3109398254)**  
  2024 · Talk · DDX San Diego · San Diego  
  Panel: “Augmented Creativity & Innovation: How does role and processes change?”, with Sebastian Gier, DDX; Morgan Quinn, Google Gemini; Benjamin Kuhn, Mercedes-Benz.  
  How AI is changing design right now, and how top teams speed up while keeping creative control.  
  Links: [View the slides on Speaker Deck](https://speakerdeck.com/player/0a549ac341fe4f1184e33d3109398254) · [DDX San Diego](https://www.ddxconference.com/sandiego/)
- **[UX keynote at Teradata Universe](https://players.brightcove.net/pages/v1/index.html?accountId=1222253929001&playerId=default&videoId=6097709549001&mode=iframe)**  
  2019 · Keynote · Denver, Colorado  
  Audience: 2,000 customers in the room, plus thousands more streaming online.  
  The Teradata UX team’s work, presented on stage to 2,000 customers, including the voice of the customer, dark mode and developer.teradata.com.  
  Links: [Watch the keynote recording](https://players.brightcove.net/pages/v1/index.html?accountId=1222253929001&playerId=default&videoId=6097709549001&mode=iframe)
- **[We Feel The Need, The Need For Speed](https://www.slideshare.net/SanDiegoAMA/kyle-ledbetter-scott-robinson-need-for-speed)**  
  2019 · Talk · Art of Marketing conference, San Diego chapter of the American Marketing Association · San Diego  
  With Scott Robinson, CEO of Freshform.  
  Where UX, CX and digital marketing converge, told with a Top Gun theme while the new Top Gun was filming in town.  
  Links: [View the full presentation on SlideShare](https://www.slideshare.net/SanDiegoAMA/kyle-ledbetter-scott-robinson-need-for-speed) · [2019 Art of Marketing conference](https://sdama.org/events/2019-art-of-marketing-conference/)
- **[Building Angular Material Enterprise Web Apps](https://soundcloud.com/method-matters/tp008-kyle-ledbetter)**  
  Podcast · Tech People podcast, episode 8, from Gistia  
  With Carlos Taborda, CEO of Gistia (host).  
  Why Kyle’s team chose Angular and Material Design for Covalent, and why he hired designers who could also build.  
  Links: [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/method-matters/tp008-kyle-ledbetter) · [Episode page and transcript (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210803211217/https://www.gistia.com/insights/episode-8-kyle-ledbetter)
- **[Building Enterprise Web Apps on Angular-Material](https://speakerdeck.com/kyleledbetter/building-enterprise-web-apps-on-angular-material)**  
  2016 · Talk · UX + Dev Summit  
  Why Material Design works for enterprise apps, and why speed to productivity (functional UI in one sprint) is the most important metric.  
  Links: [View the slides on Speaker Deck](https://speakerdeck.com/kyleledbetter/building-enterprise-web-apps-on-angular-material)