Speaking & Keynotes
Gary Rodrigues has spent fifty years managing risk in some of the world’s most unforgiving industries — including decades advising on complex construction and nuclear projects where failure carried extraordinary consequences.
He has also spent forty years studying something far less measurable: what happens when institutions lose the trust of the people they were meant to serve.
His presentations bridge both worlds — combining the discipline of enterprise risk management with the human stories that determine whether systems ultimately succeed or fail.
Gary is a frequent speaker at major industry gatherings, including the annual Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Finance Summit and global technology forums. He has addressed audiences of up to 500 professionals on resilience, infrastructure, leadership, AI, and systemic risk.
His forthcoming book, What the Island Asked of Me, tells the extraordinary true story connecting those worlds — from the 1967 Anguilla Revolution to the modern AI era.
Featured Presentations
The Cost of Neglect: Lessons from an Island Revolution
Using the 1967 Anguilla Revolution as a case study, Gary illustrates how benign neglect and infrastructure failure create long-tail liabilities. This talk challenges leaders to identify the invisible premiums they are paying for risks they choose to ignore.
The Architecture of Resilience
Drawing on his fifty-year career in the nuclear sector and his forty-year relationship with Anguilla, Gary explores the Human Butterfly Effect. He demonstrates why even the strongest systems collapse when individuals stop believing their actions matter — and how to build organizations where people at every level are empowered to respond when the unexpected arrives.
Powering the Future: Risk, AI, and the Nuclear Option
A deep dive into the infrastructure requirements of the modern tech world. Gary discusses the strategic discipline needed to provide reliable power for AI data centers while managing the enterprise risks of the clean energy transition.
The Risks We Couldn’t Measure
In 1984, Gary was sent to a Caribbean island with $5,000 cash, no scheduling software, and forty-five days to reopen eleven derelict buildings. What he discovered transformed his understanding of risk — and shaped thirty years of nuclear and construction advisory work that followed. This talk explores the human variables that no spreadsheet can capture and why they determine whether projects succeed or fail.
From Pawn to Prince: Two Revolutions and a Gold Rush
Anguilla fought the British Empire in 1967 and won without shedding a drop of blood. Decades later, Silicon Valley began paying tribute to the same island — without knowing it. This talk uses Anguilla’s extraordinary story to explore disruption, the unexpected value of overlooked places, and what the .ai domain gold rush reveals about innovation, identity, and economic resilience.
Why David McCullough Answered My Letter
In 2014, something so profound happened that Gary had nowhere to go but to write David McCullough. McCullough answered — while finishing The Wright Brothers. This talk is a masterclass in authentic communication: how one true letter opened a mentorship that changed everything, and what it teaches us about reaching the people who matter most.
The Island That Doesn’t Need a Smoke Monster
What a 1,500-year-old Caribbean sacred site can teach us about protecting what matters most. Drawing on the Taíno spiritual history of Anguilla — fifteen centuries of carved faces watching from limestone walls, a sacred spring that still flows, and a government still trying to figure out how to safely open it — this talk explores indigenous resilience, the power of place, and why the most important things are sometimes the hardest to reach.
For more information, please email: info@garyrodrigues.ai