The AI agent ecosystem is rapidly advancing, characterized by considerable hype and overwhelming choices. In this session, we provide an overview of the AI agent ecosystem, highlight key players and outline evolving deployment models to help IT leaders drive business value.

Generative AI technologies and techniques are evolving at an unprecedented pace, accompanied by significant hype, making it challenging for leaders to navigate this dynamic landscape. AI leaders can leverage this Hype Cycle to identify the innovations most worth pursuing as they shape and execute their AI strategies.

Overlooked risks and unintended consequences of GenAI can disrupt operations, ethics, security and value realization. CDAOs should understand the second- and third-order effects of GenAI adoption and proactively address hidden challenges to safeguard their organizations’ competitiveness and resilience.

This session will explore how generative AI technology will evolve over the next decade, moving from large, general-purpose models to agentic, multimodal and deeply personalized systems. IT leaders will gain foresight into the architectural, ethical, and strategic shifts that will define the next wave of enterprise AI.

The enormous potential business value of AI will not materialize spontaneously. AI leaders should guide their organizations toward an era in which AI is not only creating tangible business value but goes beyond to become a critical competitive differentiator and industry disruptor.