Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
Post‑Industrial Summit 2025:
Autonomous Organizations
November 5-6, 2025
Menlo Park, CA
AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations with and without humans in the loop.
Are you prepared?
Join Visionary Leaders
Building the Organizations of the Future.
AI agents will result in explosive productivity growth and transform the way we work. At this curated Summit for senior leaders we will go beyond productivity gains and explore how AI agents will allow us to build self-improving, autonomous organizations.
Connect and learn about:
The State of AI Transformation
- Adoption: hype vs. reality
- Transforming enterprises, industries
- How AI is powering startups
- Workforce transformation
- Barriers and Solutions
- AI investment trends
The AI Agent Technology Stack
- Hardware, models, inference
- Storage, payments, discovery, contracts
- Interoperability standards and protocols
- Accessing the physical world
- Risks: Security, Privacy, Safety, Reliability
- Costs and energy usage
- Monitoring and simulating agents
- Past, current, and future capabilities
The Global Agent Economy
- Agents as the interface to the firm
- Agents buying/selling your products
- Marketplaces for agents
- Agent-to-agent negotiation and contracts
- Agent-managed supply chains
- Branding by/for agents
Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
- Flexible organizational structures
- Dynamic teaming of humans and agents
- AI and Industrial Psychology
- Human+AI detection of problems and opportunities
- Human+AI problem-solving, org. alignment
Building AI-First Businesses
- Customer acquisition and experience
- Product development
- Operations and finance
- Reinventing HR
- Strategy
- Governance and IR
Building Autonomous Organizations
- AI-First vs Transformation
- Types of Autonomous Organizations
- Levels of autonomy
- The role of humans
- Autonomous Innovation and Strategy
- Autonomous Continuous Improvement
- Governance in Autonomous Organizations
- The Autonomous Economy
AI Transformation Workshop
We will also hold an executive workshop on AI Transformation where you can interact with fellow delegates and apply what you learn to address your own challenges.
About the Post-Industrial Institute
Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.
In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.
We share original research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.
Speaking and Sponsorships
A range of sponsorship opportunities are available.
For more information, email [email protected].
We are very carefully curating speakers for this Summit. If you are a Senior Executive in a large Enterprise, a Founder, or an Investor, and you are interested in speaking, please write us at [email protected].
Participants
Our past summits have included executives from Nvidia, AWS, ServiceNow, Box, VMWare, Cisco, Unifi, Travelers Insurance, Hitachi, Tech Mahindra, Salesforce, Orion Innovation, Synopsys, Dell, NETGEAR, Stride, NEA, Fanatic, Rakuten, PARC, Broadcom, Swisscom, Deloitte, Accenture, Yamaha, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, and other leading organizations. We have also welcomed faculty members from Stanford, GGU, GWU, UCLA, and UC Santa Cruz.
Why you should attend
1. New research on how AI is reshaping firms
2. Discover how Autonomous Organizations will work
3. Join a community of visionary leaders
4. Build relationships for mutual learning
5. Executive workshop on AI Transformation
6. Actionable strategies for building the future
Premier Partner
AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations with and without humans in the loop.
Are you prepared?
Join Visionary Leaders
Building the Organizations of the Future.
AI agents will result in explosive productivity growth and transform the way we work. At this curated Summit we will go beyond productivity gains and explore how AI agents will allow us to build self-improving, autonomous organizations.
Connect and learn about:
The State of AI Transformation
- Adoption: hype vs. reality
- Transforming enterprises, industries
- How AI is powering startups
- Workforce transformation
- Barriers and Solutions
- AI investment trends
The AI Agent Technology Stack
- Hardware, models, inference
- Storage, payments, discovery, contracts
- Interoperability standards and protocols
- Accessing the physical world
- Risks: Security, Privacy, Safety, Reliability
- Costs and energy usage
- Monitoring and simulating agents
- Past, current, and future capabilities
The Global Agent Economy
- Agents as the interface to the firm
- Agents buying/selling your products
- Marketplaces for agents
- Agent-to-agent negotiation and contracts
- Agent-managed supply chains
- Branding by/for agents
Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
- Flexible organizational structures
- Dynamic teaming of humans and agents
- AI and Industrial Psychology
- Human+AI detection of problems and opportunities
- Human+AI problem-solving, organizational alignment
Building AI-First Businesses
- Customer acquisition and experience
- Product development
- Operations and finance
- Reinventing HR
- Strategy
- Governance and IR
Autonomous Organizations
- AI-First vs Transformation
- Types of Autonomous Organizations
- Levels of autonomy
- The role of humans
- Autonomous Innovation and Strategy
- Autonomous Continuous Improvement
- Governance in Autonomous Organizations
- The Autonomous Economy
AI Transformation Workshop
We will also hold an executive workshop on AI Transformation where you can interact with fellow delegates and apply what you learn to address your own challenges.
Participants
Our past summits have included executives from Nvidia, AWS, ServiceNow, Box, VMWare, Cisco, Unifi, Travelers Insurance, Hitachi, Tech Mahindra, Salesforce, Orion Innovation, Synopsis, Dell, NETGEAR, Stride, NEA, Fanatic, Rakuten, PARC, Broadcom, Swisscom, Deloitte, Accenture, Yamaha, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, and other leading organizations. We also welcomed faculty members from Stanford, GGU, GWU, UCLA, and UC Santa Cruz.
Why you should attend
1. New research on how AI is reshaping firms
2. Discover how Autonomous Firms will work
3. Join a community of visionary leaders
4. Build relationships for mutual learning
5. Executive workshop on AI Transformation
6. Actionable strategies for building the future
Post-Industrial Institute
Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.
In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.
We share original research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.
Speaking and Sponsorships
A range of sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, email [email protected].
We are very carefully curating speakers for this Summit. If you are a Senior Executive in a large Enterprise, a Founder, or an investor, and you are interested in speaking, please email [email protected].
Premier Partner