Agenda
Two days to master the AI agent revolution
Two days of keynotes, panels, use cases and workshops to understand why missing the AI agent shift is not an option — and how to prepare your organization for what comes next.
09:10am Strat
The enterprise facing its next operating system: the era of AI agents
- - Why AI agents represent a disruption comparable to the arrival of the web or the cloud
- - How agents become a new interaction layer with information systems
- - Impacts on organization, processes, and management models
- - Strategic decisions to take today to prepare for this transition
09:35am HR
Will AI agents become your best collaborators or your future competitors?
- - Real capabilities of autonomous agents in knowledge work
- - Boundaries between assistance, delegation, and replacement - AI assistant, copilot, or agent?
- - New human roles, organizational and cultural risks of large-scale agent adoption
10:00am Tech, Cyber
The state of data: the agent is only the tip of the iceberg
- - Why data quality determines agent performance
- - Challenges of silos, governance, and data access
- - Architectures needed to make data usable by agents
- - Priority investments before large-scale deployment
10:25am HR
Key internal skills to unlock the value of AI
- - "We deployed AI, but no one is really using it": how to avoid this situation
- - Structuring rapid and sustainable upskilling
- - From occasional user to augmented employee
- - New roles to recruit or develop internally
☕ Break — 30 min
11:20am Tech, Cyber
APIs, MCP, infrastructure: key technical questions to ask your IT department before deploying AI agents
- - Essential technical prerequisites for reliable deployment
- - Role of APIs, connectors, and emerging standards like MCP
- - Security, monitoring, and resilience challenges
- - Trade-offs between speed and architectural longevity
11:45am Strat
My board is asking for AI ROI: how to measure it
- - Relevant metrics beyond productivity gains
- - How to measure impact on costs, revenue, and risk
- - Common mistakes in ROI calculations
12:10pm Use Case
Finance & Banking vertical: how AI agents are rewriting transaction rules
- - Automation of complex financial processes
- - Agents specialized in analysis, compliance, and risk detection
- - New models of customer relationships in banking
- - Regulatory impacts and trust challenges
🍽️ Lunch break — 1h30
2:00pm Strat
Build, Buy or Partner: avoiding the AI vendor lock-in trap
- - Pros and limitations of each strategy
- - How to maintain technological flexibility
- - The importance of open standards and portability
- - Criteria for evaluating AI partners
2:25pm Tech, Cyber
Govern without constraining: who really controls your AI agents when they make decisions?
- - Supervision and governance mechanisms
- - Limits of autonomy in critical processes
- - Human approval and delegation models
- - Traceability and explainability of decisions
2:50pm HR
The intellectual evolution of work: which jobs will be transformed first?
- - Activities most exposed to cognitive automation
- - New high-value skills and opportunities for creating new roles
- - Expected transformations in knowledge-based professions
3:15pm Strat
How to move out of pilot mode: architectural decisions that commit your organization for 3 years
- - Technology choices that are difficult to change once deployed
- - Centralized vs distributed agent architectures
- - Governance of models, data, and tools
- - How to avoid uncontrolled proliferation of initiatives
☕ Break — 30 min
4:05pm Use Case
Retail & Customer Experience: personalization, autonomous customer service, and new growth models
- - Evolution of the customer journey with AI agents
- - Hyper-personalization at scale
- - Autonomous conversational agents and 24/7 customer service
- - New levers for loyalty and revenue
4:30pm Governance & Compliance
AI Act / regulatory pressure: what your legal and IT departments must finally align on regarding AI
- - Concrete obligations stemming from emerging regulations
- - Respective responsibilities of legal and IT teams
- - Non-compliance risks and governance mechanisms to put in place
4:55pm HR
Talent management
- - How to attract and retain the most in-demand AI profiles
- - New employee expectations in an augmented workplace
- - Reskilling and internal mobility
- - The role of HR in agentic transformation
5:20pm Strat
Day 1 recap: from vision to action — decisions to take now
- - Strategic priorities for the next 12 months
- - Mistakes to avoid
- - Concrete actions to implement upon returning to the office
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Why most AI agents will fail in production — and how to design reliable agentic AI from day one. Lessons from CIOs already assigning real tasks to them
- - Main causes of failure in early agent projects
- - Why demos succeed but deployments fail
- - Challenges of robustness, security, and supervision
- - How to move from demonstration to operational adoption
09:35am Tech, Cyber
Memory, context and reasoning: how agents learn from the enterprise
- - Different types of memory used by agents
- - How to leverage enterprise knowledge assets
- - Relevance and update challenges
- - Preferred knowledge architectures
10:00am Strat
Why your employees are (unintentionally) sabotaging your AI project
- - Human barriers to adoption and levers to drive ownership
- - Behaviors that degrade output quality
- - Change management adapted to AI agents
10:25am Tech, Cyber
Multi-agent systems and technical complexity: when AIs learn to collaborate
- - Principles of multi-agent architectures
- - Task distribution and orchestration
- - Coordination and supervision challenges
- - Use cases where multiple agents deliver real value
☕ Break — 30 min
11:20am Tech, Cyber
AI Coding Agents: towards a team of digital engineers?
- - What distinguishes a coding agent from a simple conversational LLM
- - Current capabilities: feature development, debugging, testing, and refactoring
- - Orchestrating multiple agents within the same software project
- - Key challenges: quality, security, governance, and human oversight
11:45am Tech, Cyber
Cybersecurity: prompt injection, data leakage, and compromised agents
- - New attack surfaces created by agents
- - Risks of manipulation and information exfiltration
- - Protection strategies and security best practices from the design stage
12:10pm Strat
From individual AI to collective AI: avoiding siloed use of AI agents
- - Sharing knowledge and agent capabilities
- - Enabling collaboration across teams and systems
- - Avoiding fragmented initiatives
- - Building an enterprise agent platform
🍽️ Lunch break — 1h30
2:00pm Tech, Cyber
From prototype to 100,000 users: scaling AI agents
- - Performance, cost, and governance challenges
- - Architectures for large-scale deployment
- - Support and operational requirements
- - Lessons from large-scale projects
2:25pm Strat
How CIO budget allocation is evolving in a world where AI can do everything
- - Impact of AI on software investments
- - Buy, build, or generate on demand?
- - New CIO budgeting trade-offs and their impact on vendors and ecosystem players
2:50pm Use Case
Legal: the arrival of the employee who reads 100,000 pages overnight. AI agents for compliance, contract drafting, and regulatory monitoring
- - New AI use cases in legal functions
- - Document analysis, compliance, and regulatory watch
- - Limits and associated responsibilities
- - The evolving role of legal professionals
3:15pm Strat
Evolution of workflows in an accelerated environment
- - How agents reshape business processes
- - New decision and execution chains and their impact on how work is organized
- - Gains in speed and quality
☕ Break — 30 min
4:05pm Use Case
Supply chain vertical: AI agents for procurement, logistics, and inventory
- - Demand forecasting and inventory optimization
- - Intelligent coordination of logistics operations
- - Reducing shortages and costs
- - Proactive supply chain risk management
4:30pm Tech, Cyber
Agent observability: how to monitor what you no longer directly control
- - Key performance and reliability indicators
- - Tracking agent actions and decisions
- - Detecting drift and unexpected behavior
4:55pm Governance & Compliance
AI regulation & ethics: turning legal obligation into a driver of customer trust
- - Upcoming regulatory requirements to anticipate
- - Implementing pragmatic AI governance
- - Strengthening transparency and explainability
- - Turning compliance into trust and differentiation
5:20pm
The agentic enterprise in 2027: where we are heading, and what you must decide before leaving
- - Most likely three-year scenarios
- - What will remain human vs what will be delegated to agents
- - Strategic decisions to take today to prepare the enterprise of tomorrow
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