Biography
Maanas Mediratta is CEO and Co-Founder of Bridged Media, an AI Agent platform empowering event organizers to create profitable events which create meaningful connevtions. Since launching Bridged in Barcelona in September 2022 (backed by Techstars '22), the platform has been used by 1000+ events!
Maanas also founded CabAmigo, India's first cab-sharing application, acquired by Ola Cabs in 2016 after gaining 50,000+ users. A graduate of IIT, Maanas is fluent in English, Hindi, and Spanish, and serves as a thought leader on AI adoption in events and B2B media
Session
- AI For BuildersSpeaker
Debate 1 — Agents: The Real Platform Shift, or 2026's Most Overhyped Demo?
Tuesday 22 September, 12:00 – 12:55Auditorium StageEvery deck in 2026 says 'agentic.' Most agents still break the moment they touch a real workflow. Side A: agents are the genuine platform shift — the jump from copilots that suggest to systems that actually do the work, and the teams already shipping them in production are pulling ahead. Side B: 'agentic' is this cycle's most oversold demo — brittle, expensive, badly governed, a thin wrapper over the same models we already had. 55 minutes, two builders, one moderator who has actually run agents in prod, and an audience vote before and after.
With Damien Acheson, Dave Garcia, Simon Bosch, Barnaba Barcellona, Emma Rees, Michael Kessler