About Tanmay Bakshi

Tanmay Bakshi is an AI and software architect at IBM and a Google Developer Expert for machine learning. He has written four books for Manning, Packt and McGraw Hill, and 324,000 people subscribe to the channel where he teaches model internals in real code.

He gave his first keynote at nine, in 2013, and was building with machine learning years before AI was a boardroom topic. Since then: TED@IBM, a United Nations ITU conference in Buenos Aires, the nasscom main stage, and rooms in more than 30 countries.

His work now is on autonomous agents: what happens when systems act on their own, and who is accountable when one is wrong. That is what he brought to INFOCOM Hyderabad and People Summit Bengaluru in 2026.

His channel

The record

The record, year by year

From a first keynote at nine to CIOs in Hyderabad.

2013
The first keynote, at nine
Keynote speaker since 2013, the year the Toronto Star named him Newsmaker of the Year.
2016
Apple UK, London, and IBM
A keynote for Apple Distinguished School leaders at Apple's UK headquarters, and the inaugural group of IBM Champions for Cloud.
2017
nasscom Big Data and Analytics Summit
The opening keynote, on how AI raises the ceiling on what one person can do.
2017
TED@IBM, TEDxCincinnati, and a year on the road
Technology that tackles the teen suicide epidemic, then the United Nations ITU conference in Buenos Aires, INCmty in Monterrey, the BC Tech Summit and Open Source Summit North America.
2018
Munich, Reykjavík, Gold Coast, Bhopal
Bits & Pretzels, UTmessan, KPMG Australia, and a packed hall of engineering students at Rajiv Gandhi Technological University.
2019 to 2021
Four books, the channel, and Vienna to Doha
Hello Swift for Manning, Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson for Packt with Rob High, and two McGraw Hill titles, alongside keynotes at WeAreDevelopers in Vienna, the Institute of Internal Auditors in Las Vegas, Building the Future in Lisbon and the WISE Summit in Doha.
2022
Global AI Summit, Riyadh
Connecting the Disconnected.
2024
Google DevFest, Waterloo
The opening keynote.
2026
nasscom People Summit, Bengaluru
Invited back nine years on: governing the second workforce, with his 2017 keynote playing on the screen behind him.
2026
ABP InfoCom, Hyderabad
For CIOs: Please stop building AI agents. And a masterclass on what actually shifted in AI and what is hype.

Recognition

On the record.

Knowledge Ambassador, Dubai, UAE — **Dubai, UAE** Knowledge Ambassador, 2017. Named one of the first five, at the Knowledge Summit.

Life Mentor Award, Winnipeg, Canada — **Winnipeg, Canada** Life Mentor Award, 2019. Signed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

2013Newsmaker of the YearToronto Star. Age 9
2014Top young entrepreneurBloomberg Businessweek. Age 10
2016Honorary IBM Cloud AdvisorIBM
2016IBM Champion for CloudIBM. Inaugural group
2017Keynote for the United NationsITU conference, Buenos Aires
2017TED speakerTED@IBM and TEDxCincinnati
2017Knowledge AmbassadorMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation
2017Twilio Doer AwardTwilio
2019Life Mentor AwardPresented by Manitoba's Lieutenant Governor
2019HPCwire Readers' Choice AwardHPCwire. For Heart ID, which identifies people by their heartbeat
2019Google Developer ExpertGoogle. Machine learning, since 2019
2020Young Edison AwardShanghai TV
2022Developer 30 Under 30BetaKit, Canada
2022Top 25 Tech Influencers on LinkedInOnalytica

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Tanmay Bakshi is an AI and software architect at IBM and a Google Developer Expert for machine learning. He has written four books for Manning, Packt and McGraw Hill, and teaches model internals, from self-attention to CUDA, to 324,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel. He gave his first keynote at nine and has since spoken to more than 400,000 people in over 30 countries, for organisations including the United Nations ITU, TED, IBM, Google, Apple, KPMG and the Linux Foundation. In 2026 he spoke at ABP InfoCom in Hyderabad and was invited back to nasscom, nine years after his first keynote there. His current work is on autonomous agents: what happens when systems act on their own, and who is accountable when one of them is wrong.

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Our next speaker gave his first keynote at nine and has since spoken in more than 30 countries. Today he builds the systems most AI talks only describe, as an AI and software architect at IBM and a Google Developer Expert for machine learning. Please welcome Tanmay Bakshi.

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