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AI that augments
The through line for nine years: AI raises the ceiling on what people can do, rather than replacing them.
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What AI changes, for the people in the room.
IBM architect and TED speaker. Keynotes for conferences, companies and universities.
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AI and software architect, Watson applications.
Developer Expert for machine learning.
TED
TED@IBM, and TEDxCincinnati.
Four books
Manning, Packt, and McGraw Hill.
324,000
Subscribers on his YouTube channel.
Topics
Every talk is shaped to the room. These are the four arguments he has been making, and the events where he made them.
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The through line for nine years: AI raises the ceiling on what people can do, rather than replacing them.
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Governing autonomous agents, and who is accountable when one of them makes a mistake.
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What actually shifted, what is hype, and how a leadership team tells the two apart.
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Health, mental health and accessibility. The work behind the TED talk.
Selected talks
Full talks, not clips. Every one of these is public and linked to its source.
On stage
He made the case on the nasscom stage in 2017 that AI raises the ceiling on what people can do rather than replacing them. He opened INFOCOM Hyderabad in 2026 saying the same thing, with nine more years of evidence behind it.
2026
Opening keynote, and a masterclass session.
2026
Governing the second workforce. Bengaluru.
2017
Opening keynote.
2017
Technology that tackles the teen suicide epidemic.
2017
Keynote. The Linux Foundation, North America.
Formats
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Opening and main stage sessions. nasscom, Open Source Summit, INFOCOM Hyderabad.
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A single idea, tightly built, in under fifteen minutes. TED@IBM and TEDxCincinnati.
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A longer working session for a technical or leadership audience.
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Student and developer community sessions, including Google Developer Student Clubs.
About
Tanmay Bakshi is an AI and software architect at IBM, working on Watson applications, and a Google Developer Expert for machine learning. He has written four books, for Manning, Packt and McGraw Hill, and his YouTube channel has 324,000 subscribers.
He first argued on the nasscom stage in 2017 that AI raises the ceiling on what people can do rather than replacing them. He returned to India in 2026 to open INFOCOM Hyderabad and to speak at People Summit in Bengaluru, and the argument had not changed. What changed is that there is now nine years of evidence for it.
His current work is about the part nobody had to think about in 2017: what happens when the systems act on their own, and who is accountable when one of them is wrong.
The question is not what AI replaces. It is what it raises the ceiling on.
Nine years of making that argument on conference stages, to engineering teams and to universities. The talk is built around your theme, your room and what you want them thinking about on the way out.
Questions
AI and what it changes for the people who have to work with it. Four areas in particular: AI that augments people rather than replacing them, governing autonomous agents, telling genuine shifts apart from hype, and AI applied to human problems in health, mental health and accessibility. Every talk is shaped around the event's theme rather than delivered off the shelf.
Industry conferences, corporate and leadership events, developer and open source events, and universities. He has opened conference main stages such as INFOCOM Hyderabad and the nasscom Big Data and Analytics Summit, spoken at TED@IBM and TEDxCincinnati, keynoted the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America, and run sessions for university developer communities.
Send the date through the form on this page, with the event and who is in the room. Availability comes back first, before fee or format is discussed, so you know quickly whether to keep him on your shortlist.
Yes, and he does both. Corporate and leadership audiences usually want the accountability and the signal versus hype material. University and developer audiences usually want the technical work and the career path. The talk is built differently for each.
The talks section on this page links three in full, including the TED@IBM talk and a 2026 conference keynote. More sessions are on his YouTube channel at @tanmayteaches.
There are no published reviews from past events on this page yet. Rather than write testimonials that nobody said, this page links the talks in full and names the events that booked them, so you can judge the work directly. Organiser feedback from upcoming events will be published here as it comes in.
Bring Tanmay to your stage.
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Booking
01The date. It is the one question you can answer without asking a committee.
02The room. Who is in it, how many of them, and what they came for.
03The answer. Availability first, then whether the talk is right for that audience.
