Douglas Laney
Research and Advisory Fellow, BARC

The autonomous organisation represents the next frontier in business transformation, moving beyond advanced analytics, piecemeal AI, and single-function automation. We are on the precipice of true organizational “self-driving” capabilities which will redefine business models and economies. While many enterprises still struggle with basic AI implementations, leading organisations are poised to introduce intelligent systems that can sense, decide, perform, interact, and adapt across entire business functions at digital speed.

Drawing parallels with the evolution of autonomous driving, Laney will define the seven levels of agentic AI – from early-stage chatbots to full business self-awareness and execution – and share new technology providers and business executives can prepare for this imminent inevitability.

Tom Davenport
Distinguished Professor
Babson College

Increasing numbers of CEOs are declaring that their companies are "all in on AI." Tom Davenport has researched this concept and described it in a book by the same name. In this presentation and discussion he will describe the attributes of companies that are highly committed to AI, discuss all-in approaches to analytical, generative, and agentic AI. and present several leading examples of such firms. He will also describe the attributes of AI leadership--both for CEOs and CDAOs--and provide examples of successful ones.