KEYNOTE SPEAKER 

 OPENING REMARKS 

Hot Off the Press: Explore HBR’s New AI Research

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.

Opening Remarks

Introduction

Work^AI 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 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 Safely Scaling 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.

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.

How to Build AI and Automation Bridges with Stakeholders

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

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