Speaking & Media
On stages and on the record.
Keynotes, panels, podcasts, and executive interviews on Voice AI, agentic architecture, latency, and governance — grounded in production deployments.
2026 appearances
Speaking & media history
AUG 2026
Engineering Choices You Have to Defend · Code Particle Podcast
Podcast
APR 2026
National Transformation Assembly, Dallas · Apex Assembly
Panel
APR 2026
ABM Alliance Technology Chapter NA Summit · The Adolphus Hotel, Dallas
Summit
MAR 2026
Business Development Institute executive panel · Del Frisco’s, Plano TX
Panel
MAR 2026
Apex Executive Insights · CIO/CTO/CISO peer interview
Interview
FEB 2026
AI Loves Data — GenAI & Intelligent Agents in the Enterprise · Austin
Talk
AUG 2026
America’s largest AI conference · The Venetian, Las Vegas
Speaker
DEC 2026
Enterprise security leadership event · Dallas, TX · Listed as Director of Cloud Engineering, Manulife
Speaker
Topics
What Hari speaks about
TALK
Agentic Voice AI in Production
Real-time voice automation powered by RAG and sentiment AI — the Manulife blueprint: Avaya IVR to self-optimizing agentic platform.
TALK
Architecture Over Bigger Models
Why hybrid SLM/LLM systems with confidence gating and context lakes beat model-chasing — latency, accuracy, reliability.
PANEL
AI Without the Hype
What’s real, what’s not, and what’s next in enterprise AI — governance, human oversight, and trust at scale.
Press & recognition
In the record
“Leadership is the ability to combine confidence with humility, expertise with curiosity, and ambition with accountability.”— Hari Kishan, Insights Success Magazine, Issue 244, Aug 2026 · Read the cover story ↗
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