Raj Koneru

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  AI Agent Governance Failures Enterprises Are Hitting Right Now | Raj Koneru, Kore.ai

  October 06, 2026 · 📺 TFiR

  Raj Koneru, CEO and Founder of Kore.ai, explains why most enterprises are losing control of their AI agents and how Kore.ai's Artemis platform enforces governance, evals, and auto-optimization from day one. Full article and transcript: https://tfir.io/govern-ai-agents-befo... Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than they can govern them. Every team spins up its own agent, nobody tracks what those agents are doing, and accountability disappears the moment something goes wrong in production. Kore.ai has spent 12 years building conversational and agentic AI at enterprise scale. In this e…

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  Kore.ai’s Raj Koneru Reveals the Multi-Agent CX Shift Leaders Can’t Ignore

  June 02, 2026 · 📺 CX Today

  Single chatbots are giving way to coordinated teams of AI agents that can execute workflows across systems, policies, and teams. In this interview, Rob Wilkinson speaks with Raj Koneru, Founder and CEO at Kore.ai, about why multi-agent architecture is becoming inevitable in customer experience (CX). Raj breaks down what has changed in the last 12 months as models have improved in generation and reasoning. He explains why “prompting alone is not an enterprise architecture” and why CX leaders need explicit orchestration, reusable execution patterns, and lifecycle governance if they want autonom…

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  Introducing the Industry's First AI Programmable Platform

  May 26, 2026 · 📺 Kore.ai

  Raj Koneru, Founder and CEO of Kore.ai, introduces the next chapter of enterprise AI a platform built to solve the problem every enterprise is running into: building an AI agent is easy, but building governed, secure, enterprise-grade multi-agent systems is incredibly hard. Over the last two years, agentic coding and ai agentic coding tools have democratized AI development. Almost any team can spin up an agent today. But that speed created a new problem: different teams building with different tools, behaviors, and rules and when those agents moved from demos into production, interacting with…

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  Building AI Agents Is Easy—Transforming Enterprise Workflows Is the Hard Part

  May 14, 2026 · 📺 Techstrong TV

  In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insight Series interview, Mike Vizard speaks with Kore.ai CEO Raj Koneru about why building AI agents is only the beginning of enterprise transformation. As organizations move beyond experimentation, the real challenge is applying agentic AI to customer experience, employee experience and process automation in ways that are scalable, governed and tied to real business outcomes. Koneru explains why enterprises need to balance deterministic rules with reasoning-based AI as they modernize applications and workflows. The conversation also explores why a model-agno…

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  USISPF Conversations | Raj Koneru on AI, Innovation, and India’s Digital Growth

  May 13, 2026 · 📺 USISPF

  In the latest episode of USISPF Conversations, we speak with Raj Koneru, Founder and CEO of Kore.ai and Board Member at USISPF. In a candid chat with Akshobh Giridharadas of USISPF, Raj spoke on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi and shared his insights on AI, enterprise technology, and India’s rapidly expanding digital economy and why this is India’s next “Techade”. Raj unpacks the juxtaposition of creating new jobs as a tech entrepreneur and how the workforce of the future should adapt themselves to be AI ready as the industry changes. Raj dives deep into the evolution of A…

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  India AI Impact Summit 2026: Kore.ai CEO Raj Koneru on Agentic AI and Enterprise Adoption 🚀

  February 17, 2026 · 📺 Digit

  In this conversation, Kore.ai CEO and co-founder Raj Koneru talks about the shift from AI experimentation to real-world deployment, and why many enterprises still find it difficult to scale beyond pilots. We discuss the hype around agentic AI, common misconceptions companies have about AI agents, and what responsible AI looks like when serving millions of users, especially in markets like India. Raj also shares his perspective on building a sustainable business model for enterprise AI, managing compute costs, and how AI is slowly moving from being a cost centre to a real revenue driver across…

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  Kore.AI On Enterprise Conversational AI & Agentic Solutions | Startup Street

  February 17, 2026 · 📺 CNBC-TV18

  "India is rapidly moving from AI pilots to production at scale," says CEO & Founder of koredotai, Raj Koneru. #koreai #enterpriseai #conversationalai #agenticai #aiagents #artificialintelligence #automation #digitaltransformation #technews #businesstechnology #generativeai #enterpriseautomation #aiinnovation 🔴CNBC TV18 LIVE TV: https://youtube.com/live/P857H4ej-MQ SUBSCRIBE to our Channel: https://bit.ly/3nvEcxf --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👑 Check Out Top CNBC TV18 Playlist Videos: 🔹   • Young Tur…

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  Can AI Agents Really Replace Human Employees in 2025?

  December 11, 2025 · 📺 Kore.ai

  AI isn’t just another tech wave. In this re:imagine CityTour San Francisco keynote, Kore.ai founder and CEO Raj Koneru explains how AI is fundamentally changing how businesses design products, serve customers, and run internal operations and what it really takes to reimagine business with AI at enterprise scale. 00:00–02:10 - Introduction and Company Overview 02:11–05:30 - Evolution of AI and LLM Moment 05:31–09:10 - AI Revolutions vs Enterprise Adoption Pace 09:11–12:50 - Small & Medium Models vs AGI Hype 12:51–17:20 - From NLP to Reasoning & Multimodality 17:21–20:00 - Language, Hallucinat…

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  What If AI Systems Could ACTUALLY Work for Your Business?

  December 03, 2025 · 📺 Kore.ai

  In this keynote from the Kore.ai Reimagine City Tour in Mumbai, Raj Koneru, Founder & CEO of Kore.ai, unpacks what Agentic AI really means beyond the buzzwords—and how enterprises can move from experiments to true business impact with AI agents, governance, and a new “speed of business” metric. 1. Raj’s 11-year journey building Kore.ai: from NLP + deterministic workflows to LLM-driven agents 2. Why “agentic AI” is still poorly defined—and what it actually means in practice (understanding, planning, reasoning) 3. The hype vs reality of autonomous AI: why most systems today are still semi-auton…

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  Raj Koneru: AI Will Be Everything

  May 13, 2024 · 📺 Center for Strategic & International Studies

  In this episode of It’s More Than Grit, Mariana and Andrew sit down with Raj Koneru, CEO and Founder of Kore.ai, to explore Raj’s entrepreneurial journey. Raj discusses the challenges facing entrepreneurs in India, as well as the opportunities and risks associated with AI. He also offers advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in the technology landscape. Raj Koneru has been at the forefront of innovative solutions for global enterprises for more than 25 years. He is the CEO and Founder of Kore.ai, a leading provider of advanced AI technology. Before starting Kore.ai, Raj was the CEO and founder o…

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  Kore.ai CEO discusses their recent $150M funding led by FTV Capital

  March 18, 2024 · 📺 New York Stock Exchange

  Raj Koneru, CEO + Founder of Kore.ai, discusses their recent $150M funding led by FTV Capital and how it fuels their strategic growth in the competitive AI landscape. #NYSEFloorTalk with Judy Khan Shaw

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  Impactful AI Takes Strong Focused Leaders On A Mission, Raj Koneru - Founder & CEO Kore.ai

  March 06, 2024 · 📺 The Reboot Chronicles with Dean DeBiase

  How do you find companies driving market-making moves with AI? Look for strong focused leaders that are on an impact mission—but aren't afraid to pivot. For years I have been speaking on, writing about, advising, and running AI-related ventures. But with Generative AI (GAI) at the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle, we still find ourselves in the too much talk and not enough impact phase. This “all hat, no cattle” dilemma reminds me of the famed Wendy’s “Where’s The Beef” ad campaign. Sure, there are some wins on the board since the AI sector got a turbo boost with the introduction of ChatGPT…

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