iShruti
iShruti
iShruti Speaker Category
We believe the shift from chatbots and copilots to autonomous agents is the most consequential change in enterprise AI since ChatGPT — and that most audiences are being sold a fantasy version of it. At iShruti, we curate speakers who can explain what agentic AI actually is: software that can plan, use tools, and take multi-step action toward a goal, with a human somewhere in the loop. Not a magic employee. Not a science-fiction pitch.
The agentic AI conversation is drowning in demoware. A slick two-minute demo of an agent booking a trip tells you nothing about whether it will hold up across ten thousand real transactions with real edge cases and real consequences. The speakers we look for have built agentic systems and wired them into production workflows — so they can speak honestly about orchestration, reliability, guardrails, and the places where agents still fall over.
We serve operations leaders, automation and shared-services teams, CIOs and their centers of excellence, and conference organizers who need a grounded, deployable view of autonomous AI and intelligent automation — not another keynote promising that agents will run the company by Tuesday.
The copilot-to-agent transition changes the entire automation calculus. Traditional RPA and workflow automation were powerful but brittle — they broke the moment reality deviated from the script. Agentic systems can handle ambiguity and exceptions that used to require a human. Leaders drafting their 2026 automation roadmaps need to understand what is newly possible, and what is still fragile.
Reliability and governance are the real bottlenecks, not raw capability. An agent that is right 95% of the time can be worse than no agent at all if that 5% goes unmonitored in a high-stakes process. The speakers worth booking are the ones who can talk credibly about evaluation, observability, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design — not just the impressive demos.
The organizational-design implications are badly underappreciated. Once agents can complete multi-step work, the question stops being which task to automate and becomes how to redesign the process and the team around a digital workforce. That is a leadership and change-management conversation, not just an IT project.
Automation ROI is real but concentrated. The largest returns cluster in a handful of high-volume workflows that mix rules with judgment. Speakers who help audiences find those specific opportunities — and resist the temptation to boil the ocean — deliver far more value than those who paint the whole enterprise as automatable.
Every speaker is individually vetted by our team. What you see is what you book.
We're actively sourcing speakers in this category for our August 2026 launch.
Tell us your brief and we'll curate one for you — or apply to join this roster.
These are the most-requested topics for agentic ai & automation keynote speakers for 2026 conferences.
Five questions every event organizer should ask before booking.
A general futurist maps the landscape; an agentic AI specialist goes deep on autonomous systems — tool use, orchestration, reliability, and the operational reality of deploying agents in production. For an operations or automation audience, the specialist will land far better. Look for someone who has actually shipped agent systems, not just recorded demos of them.
In most organizations it is a complement, at least for now — deterministic RPA still wins for stable, high-volume, rules-based tasks, while agents shine where judgment and ambiguity used to require a person. A good speaker will be honest about this rather than telling you to rip out everything you have. Look for someone fluent in both worlds.
These audiences are technical and rightly skeptical, so the strongest format is usually a keynote paired with a working session. Ask the speaker to show real deployments — including where agents failed and what they did about it. Honest discussion of failure modes builds more credibility with this crowd than a flawless highlight reel.
Read the speaker's recent writing and watch a full talk, not a clip. The tell is balance: credible speakers spend as much time on guardrails, evaluation, and where agents break as they do on what agents can do. If every example is a triumph and nothing ever fails, you are looking at a marketing deck, not a practitioner.
Because this is a fast-moving frontier, genuine practitioner-speakers are in high demand and fees vary widely by profile and format. Our platform shows each speaker's fee range transparently, with a flat 17.5% platform fee and no hidden markups, so you can match the engagement to your budget before you commit.
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Yes — this is a specific thing we screen for. The rare and valuable profile is someone who can speak to agent architecture and reliability while also addressing how work, teams, and roles get redesigned around automation. We vet for both capabilities.
Many practitioner-speakers offer a keynote-plus-workshop format, which is often the highest-value structure for automation initiatives: a keynote to align the room, then a working session to pressure-test your specific use cases. Tell us your goals and we will match accordingly.
Yes. As agents take on more consequential actions, governance is becoming its own topic — permissions, guardrails, evaluation, human oversight, and accountability. We can prioritize speakers who lead with the responsible-deployment dimension.
Every speaker is individually reviewed by our team for practitioner credentials, content quality, presentation skill, and audience feedback. We do not accept pay-to-play applications, and we charge a transparent 17.5% platform fee on bookings.
Yes. Most of our speakers offer virtual and hybrid keynote and workshop formats, which work particularly well for distributed operations and technology teams.
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