Speaking and workshops
Practical sessions for teams and founders.
Malay speaks and runs workshops on where creativity, marketing and technology actually meet inside a working business — drawn from film sets, recording studios, a decade of independent music and years of building content and growth systems.
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Topics
What Malay speaks about
From creative craft to a sustainable creative company
What actually changes when a maker starts carrying payroll, pipeline and pricing.
Why content begins before the camera
Positioning, audience and offer decide whether a shoot was worth doing.
Sound, attention and what brands can learn from film
Audiences feel when something isn't true long before they can explain it.
Founder-led content that creates authority and demand
Turning a founder's expertise into a recurring, commercially useful engine.
AI-integrated workflows without hype or dehumanisation
Where technology removes blank pages and repetition — and where judgment must stay human.
Removing the founder bottleneck
Team design, ownership, SOPs and review systems that survive the founder's calendar.
Independent music, collaboration and sustaining art for a decade
Ten years and eight people: listening, disagreement, patience and commitment.
Growth beyond vanity metrics
Positioning, margin, follow-up and learning loops instead of louder output.
Men, emotion, fatherhood and modern responsibility
The emotional reality of being a founder and a father, spoken about honestly.
Vibe coding and useful internal tools
Building working software without a traditional engineering background.
Teaching
Where he teaches
Gray Spark Audio & Sound Engineering Academy
Faculty — film sound, recording, sound design and audio production
MIDAS School of Entrepreneurship
Visiting faculty and coach — entrepreneurship, creative business and applied growth
Caliac Academy
Founder-led educator — content systems, workflows, growth and AI integration
Business Education Unfiltered
Host — operator conversations across business, creativity, leadership and AI
For event organisers
Speaker introduction
Our speaker is Malay Vadalkar — founder of Caliac Studios, award-winning sound engineer, creative strategist, educator and founding bassist of Easy Wanderlings. Malay trained in film and sound at FLAME University and SRFTI, and later in Performance and Growth Marketing at IIM Kozhikode. He works where storytelling, content, business systems and practical AI meet.