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Mura Lakshmanan

Public Influencer

Speaking, writing and academic service beyond a single employer.

Upcoming

  • 7 Nov 2026

    PACE: A Security Practitioner's Framework for Governing Autonomous AI Agents

    Speaker · BSides Charleston 2026, Beatty Center, College of Charleston, South Carolina · Event page

    BSides Charleston
  • 10–12 Nov 2026

    From AI Assistants to Autonomous Agents: Architecting Enterprise AI

    Speaker · Great Lakes AI Week (Enterprise Technology Association), Toledo and Bowling Green, Ohio · Agenda

  • 10 Dec 2026

    Defining Good Behaviour: Engineering Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

    Invited panelist · The AI Summit New York, Next Generation stage, Javits Center

  • 22–24 Feb 2027

    AI Software Factory Summit 2027

    Speaker · Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort, Florida · Event page

Speaking

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    On stage, COLLIDE 2026
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    Panel on stage, with the session screen
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    Full panel
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    Panel, wide view
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    Panel announcement graphic
    LinkedIn post by fellow panelist Keyur Vyas of Capital One naming the panelAdd photoimages/collide-2026-keyur-vyas-linkedin.jpg
    Fellow panelist's LinkedIn post

    Agents in the Enterprise: Context, Control, and Reality

    Panelist · COLLIDE Data & AI Conference (Data Science Connect), Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center, Atlanta · 1 Oct 2026

    Panel on running AI agents in large enterprises, moderated by Honeywell's Sr. Director of Data Management, Governance & AI Strategy, with senior data and AI leaders from Capital One, EXP and TelevisaUnivision. We covered moving beyond prompts to enterprise-grade AI systems, what agents should remember and forget, and what it takes to scale an agentic system from prototype to production. Fellow panelist Keyur Vyas (Senior Director, Capital One) independently described the session in a LinkedIn post naming the full panel (last photo).

    COLLIDE event pageKeyur Vyas’s LinkedIn post
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    Certificate of appreciation

    Career Research in the AI Era: Tools, Insights, and Opportunities

    Featured Speaker & Judge · Career Compass Series, Kennesaw State University (CCSE) · 30 Sept 2026

    Workshop for computing students on what employers actually need in the AI era: beyond familiarity with AI tools, the problem-solving, systems thinking, domain knowledge, communication and judgment needed to apply technology responsibly.

    More on mentoring →
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    Title slide, ICIEEE-2026Add photoimages/icieee-2026-slide.jpg
    Talk title slide
    ICIEEE-2026 keynote certificateAdd photoimages/icieee-2026-keynote-certificate.jpg
    Certificate of Appreciation

    From Cloud-Native to AI-Native: Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise

    Keynote Speaker · ICIEEE-2026, World Research Union / MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur · 11–12 Sept 2026

    Keynote at the International Conference on Innovations in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, with proceedings in IEEE Xplore. The talk showed how everyday AI-driven banking and retail experiences depend on real-time data infrastructure, for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

    ICIEEE-2026 conference pageCertificate (PDF)
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    Conference venue, NIT Warangal

    The Architecture of Intelligence: Engineering Resilient AI-Native Systems at Enterprise Scale

    Keynote Speaker · 7th Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2026), NIT Warangal / Soft Computing Research Society · 5–6 Sept 2026

    Keynote on taking AI systems from experimentation to reliable enterprise deployment. Covered independently by Zee News in its report on the congress.

    CIS 2026 conference pageZee News article

Interviews

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    Portrait

    How AI Is Disrupting Our Industry, and What We Can Do About It

    Interview · Authority Magazine (Medium) · 8 October 2026

    Featured in Authority Magazine's interview series on AI disruption. I discuss how generative and agentic AI are changing financial services, from software development to customer operations; why AI should earn autonomy gradually, with governance, auditability and human accountability built into the architecture from the start; and the PACE framework I developed for agentic AI.

    Read the interview

Writing

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    Screenshot of Thep Tan's LinkedIn post

    Agentic Commerce Is Coming for Fintech's Human-First Assumptions

    Article · Finextra[8]

    On what changes for fintech, and for payment security in particular, when AI agents rather than people initiate transactions. The article was cited, unsolicited, by industry professional Thep Tan, who built a LinkedIn post around the same thesis[12]: independent evidence that the thinking is feeding into industry discussion of agent-initiated payments.

    Read on FinextraThep Tan's LinkedIn post

  2. AI Assist vs. AI Complete: The Real Gap in Most AI Workflows Today

    Article · DZone · 1,909 views[7]

    Drawing on a 24-hour AI hackathon where teams chained several AI tools together and none reached a complete end-to-end result, the article separates AI that assists with individual steps from AI that completes a whole workflow, and argues that most current workflows only achieve the first.

    Read on DZone

  3. Caching architecture series

    Series · Dev.to · 15 parts, complete

    A complete 15-part series on caching architecture, written from the experience of building and operating a production real-time caching platform. I also use it as mentoring material for colleagues, consultants and interns.

    Series index

Research

Newest first. Also described, with how each paper grew out of the platform, under Invention and Innovation.

  1. CAIS 2026 certificate of appreciation for the oral presentationAdd photoimages/cais-2026-certificate.jpg
    Certificate of appreciation, oral presentation

    Multi-Agent Orchestration for Agentic Commerce: Coordinating Shopping, Payment, Rewards, and Fraud Agents in Real-Time Financial Transactions

    Paper · CAIS 2026 · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation, Kuala Lumpur · Oral presentation, 29 September 2026

    How shopping, payment, rewards and fraud agents can coordinate within a single real-time financial transaction.

    ConferenceCertificate (PDF)Needed: paper or proceedings link

  2. AI-Augmented Loyalty: Integrating LLMs and Agentic AI into Rewards Platforms for Personalization at Scale

    Journal article · International Journal of Computer Applications · Vol. 187, No. 136, pp. 16–21 · August 2026[2]

    Applying LLMs and agentic AI to personalization on rewards platforms.

    Read the paperDOI 10.5120/ijca97298325f6eb
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    Title slide
    Certificate of participation, oral presentationAdd photoimages/ecpdc-2026-certificate.jpg
    Presentation certificate

    A Self-Optimizing Multi-Agent AI Caching Architecture for High-Throughput Financial Systems

    Paper · ECPDC 2026, Singapore · ACM ICPS proceedings · Oral presentation, 8 August 2026[1]

    A multi-agent caching architecture in which cooperating agents predict demand, prewarm keys and tune eviction.

    ConferenceCertificate (PDF)Needed: DOI / ACM DL link

Public record

Evidence of this influence is publicly accessible across conference programmes and committee listings, published proceedings and journals, articles on DZone, Finextra and Dev.to, an Authority Magazine interview, and independent coverage by Zee News: a multi-platform public record independent of my employer. Fellowships, Technical Program Committee membership and peer-review certificates are on the Inspiration and Recognition page.

References

  1. ECPDC 2026 — 3rd International Conference on Edge Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing
    https://www.ic-ecpdc.org/
  2. Lakshmanan, M. AI-Augmented Loyalty. International Journal of Computer Applications 187(136), 16–21, Aug 2026. DOI 10.5120/ijca97298325f6eb
    https://www.ijcaonline.org/archives/volume187/number136/ai-augmented-loyalty-integrating-llms-and-agentic-ai-into-rewards-platforms-for-personalization-at-scale/
  3. CAIS 2026 — International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation, Kuala Lumpur, 28–30 Sept 2026
    https://www.ic-ais.net
  4. CIS 2026 — 7th Congress on Intelligent Systems, NIT Warangal / Soft Computing Research Society, 5–6 Sept 2026 (keynote speakers)
    https://scrs.in/conference/cis2026
  5. Zee News — CIS 2026 ends at NIT Warangal with focus on human-centric AI
    https://zeenews.india.com/industry-updates/cis-2026-ends-at-nit-warangal-with-focus-on-human-centric-ai-3070521.html
  6. ICIEEE-2026 — International Conference on Innovations in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Kuala Lumpur
    https://icieee.com/2026
  7. Lakshmanan, M. AI Assist vs. AI Complete: The Real Gap in Most AI Workflows Today. DZone
    https://dzone.com/articles/ai-assist-vs-ai-complete
  8. Lakshmanan, M. Agentic Commerce Is Coming for Fintech's Human-First Assumptions. Finextra
    https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/32921/agentic-commerce-is-coming-for-fintechs-human-first-assumptions
  9. COLLIDE Data + AI Conference 2026 — Data Science Connect, Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center, Atlanta, 1 Oct 2026
    https://datasciconnect.com/events/collide/
  10. Authority Magazine — Muralidharan Lakshmanan of Synchrony: How AI Is Disrupting Our Industry, and What We Can Do About It (8 Oct 2026)
    https://medium.com/authority-magazine/muralidharan-lakshmanan-of-synchrony-how-ai-is-disrupting-our-industry-and-what-we-can-do-about-610a81f1b8fa
  11. Keyur Vyas (Capital One) — LinkedIn post on the COLLIDE 2026 panel, naming the panelists
    https://lnkd.in/p/eBSPpF3q
  12. Thep Tan — LinkedIn post citing the Finextra article
    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/theptan_agenticcommerce-fintech-payments-share-7508220168855277568-jRh5/
  • Link needed: ECPDC paper DOI
  • Link needed: CAIS 2026 paper or proceedings link

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