Shabeer Puthukkudi is the Founder and CEO of Core Cognitics, where he is building Intel Interact, a telco-native AI Interaction Intelligence Platform bringing AI agents, human interaction, enterprise systems and communications infrastructure into a single governed platform.

Before founding Core Cognitics, Shabeer spent 17 years at BT, including as Technology Director, where he led technology programmes across critical national communications infrastructure, including the UK’s 999 emergency services, interconnect voice and accessibility services.

He is an alumnus of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Today, his focus is on how telecom operators and enterprises can evolve their networks for the agentic AI era, combining telco infrastructure, AI governance and intelligent human–AI interactions.