Speaking
Cedric Strickland is Head of Product for Gmail Enterprise & AI at Google, and the author and illustrator of My Black Job. He has spoken from conference main stages, university classrooms, and community rooms, about building AI products at consumer scale, and about the careers those products make possible.
Where Cedric Has Spoken
A Selection
- • Google Cloud Next ’26, Las Vegas, 2026 Stage session: “Reimagine email: Introducing AI power for Gmail.”
- • Google PMConnect, Chicago, 2025 Google-internal product-management conference.
- • Black Tech Mixer, Seattle, 2024
- • Texas State MathWorks, San Marcos, 2022 and 2025
Topics
What Cedric Speaks About
• Agentic AI in productivity, at consumer scale: What changes when the assistant can act rather than only answer, and how you ship that into a product people already open every morning.
• Shipping AI responsibly under global regulation: Designing products that hold up under the EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, and other regulators, without stalling the roadmap.
• Career possibility and representation in tech: The question behind My Black Job: how young people decide what is available to them, and what it takes to see yourself in a job before you have ever met someone doing it.
• Teaching product judgment: How teams learn to decide, not only to build. Drawn from the graduate software-management course he taught at the University of Washington.
Invite Cedric to Speak
For conferences, panels, classroom visits, career days, and community events, write to books@neua.llc with the date, the audience, and what you would like the room to leave with.