Why Watch
Featured Speakers
Community and Connections
Network with IT, Enterprise Architecture, Data, and Business Systems leaders.
Mark Settle
IT Thought Leader, Author, 7x CIO (including Okta and BMC Software)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Sessions
Discover how today's leading Technology executives operationalize AI at scale (from pilot to production) and how Enterprise MCP helps maximize AI investments with org-wide adoption and measurable ROI.
Architect an Agentic Future
VIRTUAL EVENT | MARCH 11, 9AM-12PM PT
Director of Enterprise Technology, Amplitude
Devesh Gupta
VP of Business Technology, Workato
Stephanie Dwight
Head of Research, Workato
Massimo Pezzini
Margaret Minter
CIO, Bazaarvoice
Director, Analytics, Harvard Business Review
Alex Clemente
Bhaskar Roy
Chief of AI Products and Solutions, Workato
OPENING REMARKS
Stephen Franchetti
CIO, Samsara
CIO, Vituity
Amith Nair
AI Business Solutions Expert
Viet Huynh
Agenda at a Glance
Hot Off the Press: Explore HBR’s New AI Research
PANEL
Alex Clemente
Director, Analytics, Harvard Business Review
Join a founding member of HBR Analytic Services and thought-leading CIOs from Samsara and Vituity to discuss new AI research survey results from over 600 technology leaders on Agentic AI—defined as autonomous systems that make decisions to achieve goals with minimal human supervision. Get a first look at the data and hear how this impacts technology leaders, architects, and developers.
Stephen Frachetti
CIO at Samsara
Amith Nair
CIO at Vituity
Stephanie Dwight
VP of Business Technology at Workato
Opening Remarks
INTRODUCTION
Bhaskar Roy
Chief of AI Products and Solutions at Workato
WorkAI will open with welcoming remarks, providing an overview of the day’s agenda and featured sessions for this virtual event. Attendees will get a quick pulse on the Agentic landscape and Workato’s latest product updates, including Enterprise MCP.
Agentic AI: The Opportunity of a Lifetime for Every IT Leader
KEYNOTE
Mark Settle
IT Thought Leader, Author, 7x CIO at Companies like Okta and BMC Software
Mark Settle is a seven-time Chief Information Officer with broad industry experience in software, information services, consumer products, high-tech distribution, financial services, and oil & gas at multiple Fortune 500 companies. He currently sits on the advisory boards of several venture capital companies, has published two books, including “Truth from the Trenches, A Practical Guide to the Art of IT Management”, and authors The Modern CIO Newsletter. He is a three-time CIO 100 honoree.
Join Mark’s Keynote to:
• Reimagine end-to-end processes with Agentic AI
• Enable intelligent agents that collaborate, adapt, and drive innovation
• Address IT leadership’s evolving role in governance, oversight, and business partnership
• Balance process innovation with control, as multi-agent systems grow more complex
Drawing on real-world examples, Mark provides actionable guidance for CIOs and technology leaders to navigate staffing, bandwidth, and knowledge constraints, ensuring organizations thrive in an agentic AI-powered future.
A Framework for Scaling AI Agents
SESSION
Margaret Minter
CIO at Bazaarvoice
Explore a CIO’s framework for scaling AI agents across an enterprise to maximize impact while minimizing risk exposure. Gain insights into technology trends and how the IT organization at Bazaarvoice is approaching Agentic AI. Learn why integration and automation are essential to realizing AI initiatives with governance and future scalability.
SESSION
Devesh Gupta
Director of Enterprise Technology at Amplitude
The agentic enterprise is powered by autonomous agents with full enterprise context. In this session, learn how to build bridges across IT and the business to go beyond process automation to fundamentally rethink how work gets done with the power of AI agents.
How to Build AI and Automation Bridges with Stakeholders
Bringing the Agentic Enterprise to Life
CLOSING REMARKS
Bhaskar Roy
Chief of AI Products and Solutions at Workato
As WorkAI concludes, join Bhaskar Roy, Chief of AI Products and Solutions at Workato, to reflect on the day’s sessions and how to rethink integration and automation to build an agentic-first enterprise.
Walk away with actionable advice to:
• Build a Universal Bridge for AI and Enterprise Orchestration
• Ensure Security and Governance
• Embrace MCP as the Standard for Agentic Action
• Unlock AI-Ready Data and Services
• Drive Reliability and Scalability
Free Keynote Access
Gain candid insights on the CIOs role in the age of Agentic AI.
SESSION
Andres Ramirez
Senior Director, Architecture & Enablement Strategy
New agentic frameworks seem to emerge every week, fueling rapid innovation—but also chaos. As organizations rush to experiment, agent sprawl becomes inevitable unless there's a way to bring structure and control. The answer lies in a centralized, enterprise-grade MCP (Model Context Protocol) layer that unifies orchestration and governance. In an ecosystem where even small errors can have outsized consequences, mission-critical automation demands more than experimentation—it demands reliability.
Learn how robust orchestration and deterministic business logic empower enterprises to balance risk, scale confidently, and capture the full promise of Agentic AI.
Architect an Agentic Future with Enterprise MCP
Senior Director, Architecture & Enablement Strategy
Andres Ramirez
Practical Playbooks
Get actionable strategies to move agentic solutions from idea to orchestration.
Real World Examples
Hear how peers are deploying Agentic solutions at scale.
Sessions
INTRODUCTION
Opening Remarks
Bhaskar Roy
Chief of AI Products and Solutions at Workato
WorkAI will open with welcoming remarks, providing an overview of the day’s agenda and featured sessions for this virtual event. Attendees will get a quick pulse on the Agentic landscape and Workato’s latest product updates, including Enterprise MCP.
Mark Settle
IT Thought Leader, Author, 7x CIO at Companies like Okta and BMC Software
Agentic AI: The Opportunity of a Lifetime for Every IT Leader
KEYNOTE
Mark Settle is a seven-time Chief Information Officer with broad industry experience in software, information services, consumer products, high-tech distribution, financial services, and oil & gas at multiple Fortune 500 companies. He currently sits on the advisory boards of several venture capital companies, has published two books, including “Truth from the Trenches, A Practical Guide to the Art of IT Management”, and authors The Modern CIO Newsletter. He is a three-time CIO 100 honoree.
Join Mark’s Keynote to:
• Reimagine end-to-end processes with Agentic AI
• Enable intelligent agents that collaborate, adapt, and drive innovation
• Address IT leadership’s evolving role in governance, oversight, and business partnership
• Balance process innovation with control, as multi-agent systems grow more complex
Drawing on real-world examples, Mark provides actionable guidance for CIOs and technology leaders to navigate staffing, bandwidth, and knowledge constraints, ensuring organizations thrive in an agentic AI-powered future.
Andres Ramirez
Senior Director, Architecture & Enablement Strategy
Architect an Agentic Future with Enterprise MCP
SESSION
New agentic frameworks seem to emerge every week, fueling rapid innovation—but also chaos. As organizations rush to experiment, agent sprawl becomes inevitable unless there's a way to bring structure and control. The answer lies in a centralized, enterprise-grade MCP (Model Context Protocol) layer that unifies orchestration and governance. In an ecosystem where even small errors can have outsized consequences, mission-critical automation demands more than experimentation—it demands reliability.
Learn how robust orchestration and deterministic business logic empower enterprises to balance risk, scale confidently, and capture the full promise of Agentic AI.
Architect an Agentic Future with Enterprise MCP
PANEL
Join a founding member of HBR Analytic Services and thought-leading CIOs from Samsara and Vituity to discuss new AI research survey results from over 600 technology leaders on Agentic AI—defined as autonomous systems that make decisions to achieve goals with minimal human supervision. Get a first look at the data and hear how this impacts technology leaders, architects, and developers.
Alex Clemente
Director, Analytics, Harvard Business Review
CIO at Samsara
Stephen Franchetti
CIO at Vituity
Amith Nair
VP of Business Technology at Workato
Stephanie Dwight
Margaret Minter
CIO at Bazaarvoice
A Framework for Scaling AI Agents
SESSION
Explore a CIO’s framework for scaling AI agents across an enterprise to maximize impact while minimizing risk exposure. Gain insights into technology trends and how the IT organization at Bazaarvoice is approaching Agentic AI. Learn why integration and automation are essential to realizing AI initiatives with governance and future scalability.
Devesh Gupta
Director of Enterprise Technology at Amplitude
How to Build AI and Automation Bridges with Stakeholders
SESSION
The agentic enterprise is powered by autonomous agents with full enterprise context. In this session, learn how to build bridges across IT and the business to go beyond process automation to fundamentally rethink how work gets done with the power of AI agents.
Bhaskar Roy
Chief of AI Products and Solutions at Workato
Bringing the Agentic Enterprise to Life
CLOSING REMARKS
As WorkAI concludes, join Bhaskar Roy, Chief of AI Products and Solutions at Workato, to reflect on the day’s sessions and how to rethink integration and automation to build an agentic-first enterprise.
Walk away with actionable advice to:
• Build a Universal Bridge for AI and Enterprise Orchestration
• Ensure Security and Governance
• Embrace MCP as the Standard for Agentic Action
• Unlock AI-Ready Data and Services
• Drive Reliability and Scalability