AI‑SAFE V1.0by Prashant Akhawat

Speaking

Keynotes on the AI transition

Prashant Akhawat is an AWS Summit keynote speaker who helps boards and leadership teams turn AI from experiment into governed, production‑scale capability. Talks are practical, hype‑free, and built around a working framework — AI‑SAFE.

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Signature talks

AI as Substrate: Architecting the AI-Native Enterprise

Why winning firms treat AI as the substrate they are built on, not a tool they adopt — and the architecture (AI‑SAFE) that makes it real.

Audience takeaways

  • The four commitments and 36‑cell matrix that name every AI concern and accountable role.
  • Where AI initiatives fail structurally — and how to defend each cell.
  • The Trust and Value rings: containing risk while proving return.

The CEO’s Real Job in the AI Transition

95% of enterprise AI fails for organizational, not technological, reasons. The three non‑delegable mandates a CEO must personally hold.

Audience takeaways

  • Architect, Operator, Steward — and why none can be delegated.
  • The signature 2026 failure mode: running Architect and Operator at full speed while deferring the Steward.
  • A ten‑move playbook that separates winners from the failure list.

The Inference Economy

Why cost‑per‑token is becoming the defining metric of enterprise AI — and how to run compute as a managed asset, not an open tab.

Audience takeaways

  • Route every request to the cheapest capable model.
  • Attribute value per workflow; treat inference as a P&L line.
  • AI FinOps as a board‑level discipline.

Provable or Unsellable: AI Governance in Regulated Industries

In regulated industries, AI that cannot prove what it did does not ship — so governance becomes the accelerator, not the brake.

Audience takeaways

  • A six‑step governance lifecycle mapped to the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST, FDA and GxP.
  • Run the process once; discharge every framework together.
  • Why GRC now sets the pace of AI velocity.

On stage

Prashant Akhawat keynoting at AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026.
Keynote · 2026 AWS Summit Bengaluru — From Patterns to Agentic AI Reality
Prashant Akhawat presenting at AWS Summit Mumbai 2025.
Talk · 2025 AWS Summit Mumbai — Legacy to AI: Migration & Modernization with AOTM
Prashant Akhawat presenting AI in Medical Imaging at NASSCOM Xperience AI 2019.
Talk · 2019 NASSCOM Xperience AI — AI in Medical Imaging

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