Keynote & workshop speaker · AI, product & fintech · English & Hebrew
No large dev team. No agency. 90 days to a complete platform. I did it, then I built the system so anyone can. These talks are about what actually happened.
David Balsam is a keynote and workshop speaker on AI-native product building, small-team execution, and fintech. Co-Founder and CPO of Adesco. Former product leader at Melio. Available worldwide in English and Hebrew. Book David for your conference or email david@adesco.co.il.
Featured at PM Live 2026 · UXI Conference · Google for Startups Israel
A 120-second video tells more than a 10-page bio.
Built from what I actually do every day: running a company, shipping product, and building with AI every day. Real cases, real frameworks, nothing theoretical.
The full story of building Adesco from zero: product, compliance, backend, and live customers with two people and AI as the force multiplier. What we got right, what almost killed us, and the exact model we run today.
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What product management looks like when AI removes every translation layer between idea and user. The Builder/Architect framework, the prompt-as-spec model, and how PMs need to rethink their role from the ground up.
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Why brilliant teams resist AI and how to change that. Drawing on behavioral psychology and real transformation work with companies across Israel, this talk gives leaders a practical model to shift how their organization actually uses AI.
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The rules for building an MVP changed. AI removed the translation layer between idea and working product, but most founders are still operating on the old playbook. This talk shows what MVP development actually looks like today: how to scope it, what AI can own, where shortcuts backfire, and how to get to real users in weeks not months. Built from the experience of shipping a complete platform in 90 days.
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The builders who move fastest are not always the most technical. They are the ones who can make people care. This talk applies behavioral psychology to the craft of storytelling: how to structure a founding narrative, how to pitch without pitching, how to get team buy-in before you have proof, and how to build a personal brand that works while you work. Practical, direct, and built from 15 years of doing it in rooms where it mattered.
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Nine appearances on product management, AI, and building with technology.
I am Co-Founder and CPO of Adesco, a bootstrapped, profitable fintech running on AI-native workflows. My co-founder and I shipped a full multi-tenant payment platform, backoffice, third-party integrations, and regulatory compliance in 90 days. Two people. No external dev team.
That became a talk. The talk became a methodology. The methodology became a playbook used by hundreds of PMs and founders every week.
Before Adesco: first PM at Melio, the fastest-growing B2B payments company in the USA. Led the product building of the first online freight marketplace at Freightos. VP Product Leading cloud cost optimization and product strategy at PointFive. Fifteen years of shipping at high-growth companies taught me what fast actually looks like. The last two years have been about pushing that ceiling further.
When I stand on your stage, I can answer any question from live experience. I am building with AI every single day. Not in retrospect. Right now.
For PMs and founders, not event bookers: the exact frameworks and prompts used to build Adesco. Used at PM Live 2026 and by hundreds of teams worldwide.
Conferences, corporate innovation days, product summits, team workshops. Available worldwide in English and Hebrew. Tell me about your event and I will get back to you within 24 hours.
Prefer email? david@adesco.co.il
Quick answers for conference and event bookers.
David Balsam is Co-Founder and CPO of Adesco, a keynote speaker on AI-native product building and fintech, and former product leader at Melio. He speaks at conferences worldwide in English and Hebrew.
David speaks on AI-native product development, building companies with small teams and AI, fintech execution, MVP development in the AI era, AI adoption psychology, and storytelling for founders. Sessions run 30 to 60 minutes as keynotes or workshops.
Use the form above or email david@adesco.co.il with your event name, date, audience size, and preferred talk topic. David responds within 24 hours.
Yes. David presents in English and Hebrew, in person or remotely, for audiences worldwide.
It is David’s signature keynote on building Adesco, a full fintech platform, with two people and AI in 90 days. The audience learns the Builder/Architect framework, what AI can own versus what it cannot, and practical first steps for their own teams.
David was among the first product managers at Melio, led product building of the first online freight marketplace at Freightos, was VP Product at PointFive, and is now Co-Founder and CPO of Adesco.