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I speak about what digital twins, simulation, and AI change about how an enterprise runs, and about the unglamorous work of making them useful once the purchase order is signed. Most of my talks come from things I’m building or have built: a digital-twin-powered OT security service at The Select Group, a partner ecosystem at Scaled Agile, and a consultancy of my own before that.
Topics
The Assessment Half-Life: testing OT security when the environment changes. Most OT networks get a penetration test once a year, often at one site, and the report starts aging the day it’s delivered. This talk covers why the calendar is the wrong trigger, how a digital twin of the OT network lets you test without touching production, and why most of the effort goes into clean data and change packages an operations change board will approve. (From TSG/ControlBurn, launched with Frenos in October 2026.)
Digital twins for operational resilience. How a twin can show system drift before a threshold trips, and what has to be true about your data before it can. (From my practice work at TSG and my July post).
The case against perpetual transformation. We have transformed the same organizations over and over and called it progress. This talk covers what it takes to build the muscles to stay changed instead. (TSG webinar, June 2026.)
From SDLC to ADLC: delivery when AI writes part of the work. What AI changes in the delivery lifecycle, including the cost to verify what it produces, and why portfolio decisions become the bottleneck. (From my ADLC series and my AI-assisted portfolio management work with Planisware.)
Small firm, big impact. Building a specialized business on clear positioning, trusted relationships, repeatable offerings, and commercial discipline. (From my book and ten years running Mattis & Co.)
Where I’ve spoken
2026: TSG webinar, The Case Against Perpetual Transformation
2026: Planisware On Tour, New York City, panelist
2025: Global RTE Conference, ASLM, The Netherlands
2025: Planisware Exchange25, Paris
2025: Technology Night, TDC Soft
2025: Global SAFe Summit, Sorrento
2025: Global SAFe Summit, Denver
2024: Global Technology Conference, FedEx, The Netherlands
2024: Global SAFe Summit, Washington, DC
2024: Global SAFe Summit, Berlin
2024: World Agility Days, Singapore
2024: Business Agility Conference, Brazil
Host of Business Agility Now, 2021–2025. Guest on The Art of Being Nimble (July 2025) and Hazard Ground.
Bio for event programs
Adam Mattis is Head of Product & Alliances at The Select Group, where he led the October 2026 launch of TSG/ControlBurn, a digital-twin-powered OT security service built with Frenos, and is standing up the firm’s simulation and digital twins practice. Previously, as VP of Partnerships at Scaled Agile, he built a partner ecosystem from zero to more than $20M in annual partner-influenced revenue and was named a SAFe Fellow in 2021. He founded Mattis & Co, which merged into SolutionsIQ in 2017 shortly before Accenture acquired it. He is the author of Small Firm, Big Impact and The Performance Machine, an Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient, and chairman of The Mattis Foundation. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Get in touch
For speaking and podcast requests, email adam@adammattis.com with the event, date, audience, and what you’d like covered. You can also reach me on LinkedIn.
If your organization wants help with OT security, simulation, or digital twins, that work runs through TSG. Start with the TSG/ControlBurn announcement or send me a note.