S7 E10: Talking trust in AI: Tokenomics, Splunk, and the future of the agentic era, with Kamal Hathi

Before we actually jump into anything Splunk or Cisco specific, I want to talk about everything Kamal.

Just a little synopsis of your life.

So born and raised in India, although partially raised in Western Germany.

I know that you studied AI and biomedical engineering in Cleveland.

You are a second degree black belt, so we're not going to mess with you.

And you always carry a professional camera when you travel.

Does that sound about right?

Just about right, yeah.

I mean, that's, you know, a bunch of things

that I do, but it's for the ballpark.

Okay, no, that's fair.

Are there any specific pieces of that background that kind of drive what you do or how you work now? I

mean, you mentioned a few, but I think it's a diversity that really comes together.

Having done different things, you know, in different ways... you tend to start thinking and looking at the world a little bit more out of the box.

And things like martial arts lead you to embrace the discomfort of doing things you're not used to.

Again, it's become something, your ability to really respond to novel situations.

And above anything else, I think it's a great sort of way that this diversity of background to drive embracing new things like technology.

Technology is the ultimate when it comes to changes and constant evolution.

And so I love technology.

And I think all these different things you talked about have influenced me to really be this techno lover, if you will.

Yeah, absolutely.

And techno as in technology, not techno as in genre of music.

Although that's okay.

You could go down that path as well, but

not sure