What an agent actually is
The working definition, stripped of vendor language, and the line between an assistant and something acting on its own.
Speaking topic
Who answers for an AI agent
Agents now do real work, and most organisations cannot say who owns a decision one made alone. It was his 2026 People Summit keynote in Bengaluru.
The room
Leadership audiences, HR and people functions, risk and governance teams, and conferences programming an agents track.
- 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
Rewritten for each audience, so the order and the examples change. These are the subjects it covers.
Where accountability currently sits
The gap between how agent work is delegated and how responsibility for it is recorded, and why that gap widens quietly.
Governing it without stopping it
What a team can put in place that survives contact with people who want to move fast.
The questions to ask a vendor
A short list an audience can use the same week, aimed at claims that do not survive follow-up.
Governing the second workforce
“There's no second workforce here.”
The twist ending of that keynote: AI agents amplify the workforce you already have. Accountability, and care, stay human.
For people and business leaders
Why him
He keynoted nasscom People Summit in Bengaluru on this subject in 2026, and it is the subject he works in as an architect at IBM. That keynote and the INFOCOM Hyderabad session below are both on camera.
On this subject
Watch him give it
Questions
What organisers ask about this one
No. It names no vendor's product. The talk is about the governing question, which applies to whichever tool a company has bought this year.
Yes, and he will ask for the sector before writing the talk. Where he has no direct experience of a sector, he says so.
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