Speaking

I’m open to talks, panels and conversations for hospitality audiences: founders and owners, teams, students, and the people who design and market venues. These are three subjects I can speak to from my own work.

Talk topics

Three subjects from my own work

Each can be a talk, a panel contribution or a working session.

  1. From concept to every night after

    For First-time restaurant, bar and café founders; investors; hospitality students.

    What founding Underdoggs in 2011 and designing five of its venues taught me about the order of decisions, from concept and site to opening, and what changes once a venue has to work on an ordinary weeknight.

  2. The brand is the room, the menu and the photograph

    For Hospitality marketers, brand managers, designers and owners.

    Guests meet a venue as one experience. Drawing on the Mrs Kaur’s flagship, Ālaya and Underdoggs, how space, menu, service and imagery can carry one idea, and where they tend to drift apart.

  3. Practical AI for restaurants, bars and cafés

    For Owners, operators and food and beverage teams getting started with AI.

    Using AI for the unglamorous work, such as structuring training documents, recipe cards and launch content, with human checks at every step. Based on the methods I share through AI for Hospitality.

Formats Talks, panels, fireside conversations and workshops for teams.

Podcast excerpt

How I talk

From a conversation on my podcast, Create Inspiration.

I feel like anybody can be inspired by anybody. Everybody has the ability to inspire people just by how they show up and present themselves.

Rish Saini
Create Inspiration, Ep. 1 with Blake Mathews (2023). Watch on YouTube (external site)

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