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Frode Odegard speaks to executives, boards and investors about how AI agents and decentralization are reshaping organizations and industries.
Chairman and CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute (PII), which develops new management science and technologies for building the organizations of the future.
Over the last 25 years, Frode has pioneered the reinvention of industrial-era organizational design for modern organizations that primarily do knowledge work. He identified the combination of decentralization and exponential technologies as marking the start of the transition to a post-industrial civilization. He gave his first keynote on the impact of AI agents on the orchestration of work, branding, business models, strategy, and industry transformation in 2016. In 2019 he launched PII’s leadership community, the Post-Industrial Forum, which has hosted speakers from leading organizations such as NVIDIA, OpenAI, Cisco, Salesforce, Mitsubishi, Samsung, Palo Alto Networks, and Hitachi.
Frode is the author of a forthcoming book on the post-industrial transition. A serial entrepreneur since his high school years, Frode has a multidisciplinary background that stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom. He has a passion for history, linguistics, disruptive technologies, philosophy, and Iwama-style Aikido.
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The largest impact of AI agents will come from speeding the evolution of firms and entire industries. Frode explains how agentic systems are leading toward Autonomous Organizations, a qualitative change in organizational design, and what that means for leaders today.
Suited to CEOs, executive teams and product development leaders.
Related paper: The Rise of Autonomous Organizations
AI agents that autonomously discover products and services, negotiate terms, and execute transactions are becoming active participants in the global economy. Within a decade, the majority of transactions will likely occur between agents rather than people, reshaping supply chains, collapsing coordination costs, accelerating growth, and challenging the firm as the primary unit of economic organization. This session examines the implications for branding, strategy, and governance.
Suited to executive teams, boards and strategy leaders.
AI lowers the barrier for outsiders to disrupt established industries, and it gives incumbents new ways to move first. This talk covers both sides: how to protect the core business and how to use AI to open new sources of value.
Suited to executive teams, strategy leaders and investors.
Directors now oversee industries whose structure is changing faster than ever. Frode discusses what boards can do to guard against loss of shareholder value from technology disruption, and how to make sure management pursues renewal.
Suited to boards of directors and CEOs.
Industrial-era management slows organizations down just when they need to move faster. Drawing on more than two decades of Institute research, this talk examines the obstacles to change and how modern management thinking and AI agents can help leaders overcome them.
Suited to senior executives leading large organizations.
AI agents are able to handle more complex work over longer periods of time. This is leading to a tremendous acceleration in innovation and product development, which is turn is driving the evolution of organizations and entire industries. We are also no longer building products exclusively for humans. Soon the majority of users and buyers will be AI agents.
Related article: Implications of Autonomous Innovation and Product Development
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