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Navigating the Future: Cognitive Parallelism and AGI

Explore Rana's unique concept of cognitive parallelism, how AGI systems mirror human intuitive (System 1) and deliberate (System 2) thinking, and the profound implications for businesses and society.

Autonomous Reasoning Machines: Transforming Decision-Making

Delve into the revolutionary concept of autonomous reasoning in AI, reshaping industries, enhancing human potential, and navigating ethical frontiers.

Trust in the AI Era: Authenticity and the Deepfake Arms Race

Rana's original insights into digital authenticity provide strategies to tackle misinformation using AI-driven behavioral profiling, ensuring trust and integrity in digital interactions.

Empathy at Scale: Building Agentic AI that Understands Us

Rana Gujral will talk about how Agentic AI systems - emotionally intelligent virtual agents capable of observing human intention, emotion, and behavior - are transforming our relationship with machines. Drawing from neuroscience, behavioral science, and real-world enterprise implementations, this talk reveals how AI can become a socially intuitive partner rather than a transactional one.

Agentic AI and the New Human Contract: Rewiring Work, Trust, and Identity

In this thought-provoking session, Rana will explore how emotionally intelligent AI agents are rewriting the rules of human-machine interaction, from reshaping the future of work and customer experience to challenging core assumptions about agency, empathy, and trust.

Algorithm: Teaching AI to Think Like Us

This session explores how Cognitive AI marks a shift from task-specific intelligence to adaptable, human-like reasoning systems. It examines the technologies driving this evolution, like deep learning, symbolic reasoning, and neuroscience-inspired models, and their role in the journey toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).