The replacement frame, and why it predicts badly
Where the automation story comes from, what it got right, and the specific places it has been a poor guide to what actually happened.
Speaking topic
An AI keynote about raising the ceiling on what people can do
The argument Tanmay has been making for nine years, and the one he still opens with: the useful question about AI is not which jobs it removes, it is which ceilings it lifts. It is a talk for a room that has heard the replacement story and wants a more accurate one.
The room
Mixed audiences. Conference main stages, all-hands, and any room where the technical and non-technical are sitting together.
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.
Augmentation with the receipts
Systems that raised the ceiling for the person using them, drawn from work he can speak to directly rather than from a vendor deck.
What this changes on Monday
How the framing changes which projects a team picks up, which it drops, and how it describes them internally.
Why him
He is an AI and software architect at IBM and has been making this argument on stage since 2016, including at TED@IBM and on the nasscom main stage.
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
It can be either. The argument does not need code to land, and he adapts the depth to the room. Tell him who is in the audience and he will tell you which version he would give.
Yes. This is the talk he gives most often to mixed rooms, because the argument is about how to think about the technology rather than how to build it.
The other things he speaks about
- 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
- AI for human problemsHealthcare and public sector audiences, purpose-led conferences, universities, and any programme with a social impact track
- 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.