A deep dive into how Prosus is deploying over 30,000 AI agents to create an 'AI Agentic Workforce'. The talk covers the transition from simple assistants to trusted senior colleagues, the internal tooling developed, and the crucial organizational strategies used to overcome adoption barriers and foster a bottom-up culture of innovation.
Experts from IBM discuss the nuanced role of AI in mainframe modernization, the immense infrastructural and product challenges behind global AI adoption, and the critical need for a multi-layered, security-by-design framework for the safe deployment of AI agents.
In this interview, Sarah Wells and Nick Selby discuss the significant business risks introduced by the current rush to adopt AI. They cover how AI vendors blur security terminology, how the insatiable need for data creates an enormous blast radius for breaches, and provide a framework for responsible AI adoption through threat modeling, cross-disciplinary governance, and a return to IT fundamentals.
The panel discusses Microsoft's Copilot usage report, the "Ralph Wiggum" prompting strategy for coding agents, the significance of the India AI Impact Summit, and the implications of AI companies advertising during the Super Bowl.
Nathen Harvey, leader of Google's DORA research team, discusses the surprising findings from their latest research on AI's impact on software development. While initial AI adoption correlated with decreased stability and throughput, the latest data shows a reversal for throughput. The conversation explores why this happens, presenting AI as an amplifier of existing systems and introducing DORA's seven essential capabilities for successful AI adoption, including the critical roles of documentation, trust, and expertise.
Ethan Mollick, author of "Co-Intelligence", discusses the necessity for US firms to reignite their experimental approach to management to successfully adopt AI. He introduces his "Leadership, Lab, and Crowd" framework for fostering internal innovation and cautions against over-reliance on external consultants and opaque vendor solutions, urging companies to empower their "secret cyborgs" to drive productivity.