Speaking & Sessions

My Sessionize speaker profile is where the speaking side of the job lives — the sessions, the talks, and the events I've been part of over the years. It's an active directory profile rather than a single appearance: a running record of where I've shown up to talk about technology, AI, and building organizations.

The Profile

The profile lists me as CTO at Ashley Furniture Industries, based in Tampa, Florida — where I lead a global technology organization spanning platforms, infrastructure, data, architecture, development, and emerging technologies, aligning AI, data, and digital platforms with manufacturing, supply chain, transportation, warehouse, retail, and customer experience at global scale.

It also carries the earlier chapter: CTO at El Toro, where my work contributed to multiple patented, 100% cookie-free advertising technologies — IP Targeting and Mobile Ad ID Targeting — innovations that helped define a new category of privacy-forward, data-driven advertising.

Why It Matters

Speaker directories are how conferences find people. If you're looking for a CTO who's been on panels, given talks, and actually built the things he talks about, the profile is the public record — a shortcut to the sessions I've done and the ones I'm available for.

The full profile is live at sessionize.com/richard-teachout. If you're organizing an event and want to see the range of topics I cover, that's the fastest way.

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