Cofounder, Chief Scientist & CTO of Concentric AI; Computational Neuroscientist & Enterprise AI Strategist; Author of the Forthcoming Book "Coherence"

Austin, TX, USA
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Madhu Shashanka Biography

Dr. Madhu Shashanka studies how large numbers of independent units become coherent, first in the brain and now in the enterprise. He earned his PhD in computational neuroscience studying how the brain coordinates vast numbers of independent units into coherent behavior, then spent two decades applying that lens to organizations, building and deploying enterprise AI across manufacturing, financial services, social media and cybersecurity.

Dr. Shashanka is a former director of machine learning and data science at Charles Schwab and is cofounder, chief scientist and chief technology officer of Concentric AI. Dr. Shashanka provides AI strategy for CIO and CISO communities at Fortune 500 companies.

His book, "Coherence," brings the two halves of that career together, explaining what the science of coordinated systems reveals about competing in the age of abundant intelligence.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/04/2026.

Madhu Shashanka Speaking Topics

  • When Everyone Can Go Fast, Coherence Is What Wins

    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

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