Madhu Shashanka

For a decade, the fastest-executing teams won. Then agentic AI handed everyone speed at once, and overnight, execution stopped being an advantage. This talk shows leaders what replaces it: coherence, the organizational architecture that makes AI autonomy effective and trustworthy at scale. Equal parts provocation and playbook, it ends with one uncomfortable question for their own organization, and a tool to answer it.

• Where your real AI advantage now lives, and where it has quietly disappeared
• The hidden-cost lens: why the price of autonomy is coordination, not compute
• The Reliability-Complexity Matrix: what to automate, what to augment, what to keep human
• A diagnostic question to bring to your team, and three concrete first moves