Speaking & media

Practical AI. Real operating stories.

Shawn Kercher speaks to founders, operators, executive teams, and technical leaders about putting AI to work inside real businesses. Every talk is grounded in systems that shipped, lessons learned, and decisions an audience can use the next day.

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Shawn Kercher

Founder & CTO, HummingAgent

Twenty years building software. Thirteen years at Comcast Labs. Eight US patents. Now building custom AI systems for real business operations.

Patents

40K+

Techs

20 yrs

Building

Production experience

AI systems used by 40,000+ field technicians

Operator perspective

Custom AI inside real businesses every week

Clear, useful sessions

No coding required and no product pitch

Colorado Startup Week 2026

On September 17, 2026, Shawn and Joey Kercher stood on the Grand Stair at Denver Place and showed a room of business owners how they actually run their own companies with AI. Not slides. Two live demos.

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Shawn Kercher presenting to business owners seated on the Grand Stair at Denver Place during Colorado Startup Week 2026

Delivered September 17, 2026 Denver, Colorado

AI for the Business You Already Have

The idea behind the talk was simple: you don't replace, you wrap. Keep the systems you already run and put AI on top. The room saw an agent read invoices and check them against the books, a website lead get researched, answered, booked and turned into a proposal, and a first look at HumCrew. Everyone left with one assignment: pick a task that is repetitive, describable and painful, and put an agent on it this month.

Existing softwareWorkflow selectionVoice AIPrivate knowledgeReal deployment lessons

Thursday, September 17, 2026, 4:00 to 5:00 PMDenver Place, Grand Stair, 999 18th Street, Denver. Hosted with CP Group. Free.

Speaking engagements

Conversations grounded in work that shipped.

Panels, founder conversations, and podcasts about what changes when AI moves out of the browser tab and into the business.

DataScienceWithSam episode 51 artwork with host Sam Dey and guest Shawn Kercher

Podcast

October 12, 2026

Episode 51: Building AI Agents That Actually Work in Production

DataScienceWithSam with Sam Dey

Why most products sold as AI agents are ChatGPT wrappers, the one test that tells them apart, discovery-first scoping with real data from day one, Private GPT inside the client's own environment, and the baby-steps rule for agent permissions.

On Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube

Podcast conversation with Sam Dey

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Shawn Kercher demonstrating HumCrew to a fence contractor at booth 1027 of The Fence Show in Las Vegas

Trade show

October 7 to 9, 2026

HumCrew's first trade show, booth 1027

The Fence Show & Security Expo

Three days on the floor with fence company owners talking about how their day really runs: the missed calls while they are on a job, the estimates waiting on a signature, the "where's my crew?" texts. The lesson from the booth: owners do not care about AI. They care about the job that did not get booked.

Ken Brown, Colonial Fence: "We get more booked appointments overnight and weekends than we do during the days."

South Point, Las Vegas, Nevada

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Talk

September 17, 2026

AI for the Business You Already Have

Colorado Startup Week

With Joey Kercher. Two live demos instead of slides: an agent reading invoices and checking them against the books, and a lead coming in through a website, getting researched, answered, booked and turned into a proposal with Joey only touching the decision points. Plus a first look at HumCrew.

One assignment for the room: put an agent on one repetitive, describable, painful task this month

Denver Place, Grand Stair, 999 18th Street, Denver

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Panel

July 22, 2026

Artificial Intelligence & the New Frontier

Grow House Coworking

A founder focused conversation about what is real in AI, what is noise, and where businesses should begin. The panel covered design, culture, strategy, security, jobs, and the practical path from curiosity to a working system.

Panel discussion, audience Q&A, and founder networking

Grow House Coworking, Denver

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Panel

May 27, 2026

David vs Goliath 2.0

Denver AI at the University of Denver

A conversation about how small teams and AI powered founders can compete with much larger organizations. Shawn shared lessons from putting AI into real businesses, not just running experiments.

More than 200 people attended

Ritchie School of Engineering, University of Denver

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Podcast

December 4, 2025

Episode 383: AI and Small Businesses

The Art of Construction

A 45 minute conversation about how small businesses can start with one useful AI project, test it in the real operation, and expand only after the value is clear.

45 minute episode

Podcast conversation with Devon Tilly

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Speaking topics

Useful for the room, not just impressive on the agenda.

Every session can be adapted for founders, operators, executive teams, technical leaders, or a mixed audience. The examples stay practical and the language stays clear.

AI for the Business You Already Have

How to add intelligence to the systems a company already runs without forcing a costly platform replacement.

From AI Idea to Working System

How to choose the right first workflow, scope it honestly, and get from a promising demo to dependable daily use.

AI Ownership, Security, and Control

What leaders and technical teams need to decide about infrastructure, access, data boundaries, deployment, and long term ownership.

What Actually Works with AI

Real stories from voice, private knowledge, finance, legal research, and workflow automation, including what did not work the first time.

Speaker bio

Meet Shawn Kercher

Shawn is the Founder and CTO of HummingAgent, where he leads the design and delivery of custom AI agents, voice systems, private knowledge tools, and software built around how each client operates. Before HummingAgent, he spent thirteen years at Comcast Labs building production technology across AI, computer vision, and large scale infrastructure.

His work includes eight granted US patents and AI systems that supported more than 40,000 field technicians. Today, he brings that enterprise experience to practical builds for growing businesses and internal technical teams.

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