Starting from the person, not the dataset
What changes about a project when the outcome is somebody's day rather than a metric.
Speaking topic
A keynote on AI applied to health, mental health and accessibility
The work behind the TED talk. Where machine learning is pointed at problems that are about people rather than throughput, what that changes about how you build, and what it demands of the people building it.
The room
Healthcare and public sector audiences, purpose-led conferences, universities, and any programme with a social impact track.
Every booking starts the same way: tell him who is in the room and what you want them doing afterwards. The enquiry form asks for exactly that and nothing else.
- Formats
- Conference keynote, TED style talk, Masterclass, University session
- On this subject
- 2 talks you can watch
- Shaped to you
- Written for your audience and your programme
What it covers
The beats of the talk
Shaped to your audience rather than delivered off the shelf, so treat these as the argument rather than as a running order.
Accessibility as an engineering problem
Work on communication and access, and what it taught him about designing for people the default case ignores.
The responsibility that comes with it
Where the stakes are highest and where the temptation to overclaim is strongest.
Why him
This is the subject of his TED@IBM talk and of his TEDxCincinnati talk, both public and both linked on this site.
On this subject
Watch him make this argument
Every one is public, plays here, and carries its year. This is an archive, not a schedule.
Questions
What organisers ask about this one
He speaks to the projects that are public and documented. He does not present private or clinical work, and he will tell you in advance exactly which examples the talk uses.
Yes. It is the talk that travels furthest outside technical rooms, and it is the one most often programmed as an opening or closing keynote.
The other things he speaks about
- AI that augmentsMixed audiences
- The second workforceLeadership audiences, HR and people functions, risk and governance teams, and conferences programming an agents track
- Signal, not hypeExecutive offsites, board sessions, leadership summits, and the strategy track of a larger conference
- For conferencesConference producers and programme chairs, for a main-stage opening, a closing keynote, or a track headline
- For companiesAll-hands and town halls, leadership offsites, engineering weeks, customer and partner events
- For universitiesStudent conferences, faculty and departmental events, orientation and careers weeks, hackathon opening and closing sessions
Bring Tanmay to your stage.
Send the date and tell him who is in the room. Availability comes back first.