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Tanmay Bakshi

Tanmay Bakshi

TED & Keynote Speaker, AI/ML Systems Architect, Author and Honorary IBM Cloud Advisor

Tanmay Bakshi is a 16-year-old Canadian author, media personality, AI & ML Systems Architect, TED & Keynote speaker, Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning, and IBM Champion for Cloud.

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Tanmay Bakshi is a 16-year-old Canadian author, media personality, AI & ML Systems Architect, TED & Keynote speaker, Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning, and IBM Champion for Cloud. He has addressed over 200,000 executives and developers worldwide at conferences, universities & schools, financial institutions, and international companies. The United Nations, NASSCOM, Linux Foundation, Apple, SAP, IBM, Walmart, Deloitte are a few of the many organizations he has keynoted for.

Being a media personality, he’s been featured in the Toronto Star, on the front page of The Vancouver Sun, pictured on stage doing what he loves to do – sharing his knowledge with the world, in Forbes and CNBC, as well as in Bloomberg Businessweek as a Young Entrepreneur, in The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, just to name a few.

His YouTube channel called “Tanmay Teaches” is where he shares his research and knowledge with audiences of all ages. He has had the honor of being the recipient of the Twilio Doer Award, Knowledge Ambassador Award Global Goodwill Ambassador at LinkedIn and Life Mentor Award.

This year in 2019, Tanmay authored three books on technology taking a big step towards his goal of reaching out to 100,000 aspiring coders to help them innovate:

Hello Swift, Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson and Tanmay Teaches Julia

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Topics

Topics

What really is “Artificial Intelligence” or “Machine Learning”?
Why does AI not pose an existential threat to humanity?
Why is it important to bring the youth into technology?

Videos

Videos

Building The Future 2020 - Tanmay Bakshi - Culture and New Competences of the Future
13 Year Old on a Mission - to Connect the Disconnected w/Ai | Tanmay Bakshi | TEDxCincinnati

Books

Hello Swift by Tanmay Bakshi
Hello Swift by Tanmay Bakshi
Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson by Tanmay Bakshi
Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson by Tanmay Bakshi

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