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Post‑Industrial Summit 2026: Autonomous Organizations
Post‑Industrial Summit 2026: Autonomous Organizations
Perspectives
Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents
Blaine Mathieu with Philip Rathle
Jan 16, 2026
Knowledge Graphs are critical for achieving more reliable AI agents. They also help overcome silo boundaries in the organization.
Articles and Interviews
Managing AI Agents
Blaine Mathieu with Tatyana Mamout
Jan 13, 2026
We’re still asking the wrong question about AI agents. The question isn’t “What can agents do?”. It’s “How do organizations actually work when intelligence is no longer exclusively human?”
The Rise of Autonomous Organizations – Part 1
Blaine Mathieu with Frode Odegard
Dec 18, 2025
Agent interoperability is consolidating, shifting us from ad-hoc prompts to coordinated, stateful systems that elevate agents to the strategic layer, erode traditional moats, and make organizational speed of evolution the primary condition of survival.
The Rise of Autonomous Organizations – Part 2
Blaine Mathieu with Frode Odegard
Jan 07, 2026
Agent interoperability is consolidating, shifting us from ad-hoc prompts to coordinated, stateful systems that elevate agents to the strategic layer, erode traditional moats, and make organizational speed of evolution the primary condition of survival.
The Rise of Autonomous Organizations
Dec 18, 2025
Agent interoperability is consolidating, shifting us from ad-hoc prompts to coordinated, stateful systems that elevate agents to the strategic layer, erode traditional moats, and make organizational speed of evolution the primary condition of survival.
Can a firm have a will of its own?
Dec 4, 2025
Organizations can now develop autonomous decision-making systems that persist beyond any individual member. What began as Simon’s bounded rationality evolved through decades of research into coalition dynamics, sense-making rituals, and self-perpetuating institutional structures. Now AI agents threaten to collapse this entire architecture by executing the same cognitive functions at speeds that bypass the very institutional inertia that once defined organizational identity.
Management: From the Stone Age to the 20th Century
Dec 4, 2025
Humans have built organizational technology for 3.3 million years, from standardized toolmaking to Sumerian tablets, Greek constitutions, Islamic finance, and factory systems. Each innovation solved an immediate problem while enabling future advances. AI agents now inherit this evolutionary stack, compressing millennia of procedural knowledge into systems that operate at computational speed rather than institutional time.
Speaker Insights
“Most people think AI agents are about autonomy but, in enterprise reality, they’re about finally automating the processes we couldn’t automate before. Instead of unpredictable autonomous agents, we can use AI to transform messy, human-dependent workflows into reliable, deterministic automation.”
Stefan Petzov, Head of Innovation Lab
SWISSCOM
2026 Summit Topic:
The Future of AI Agent Technology
“If you want to automate, simply automate! If you want to make your processes more intelligent, use AI.”
Subha Shetty, Chief AI officer
WAYFOUND
2026 Summit Topic:
AI Transformation:
Experiences, Trends and the Future
“Most people believe transformational leadership requires a ‘turnaround expert.’ This is false. True transformational leadership is about having a fresh outlook, a new vision for the future, and the conviction to bring all stakeholders along to achieve it.”
Anu Parthasarathy, CEO
AnuPartha
2026 Summit Topic:
Effective Transformational Leadership
“The truth is, it empowers them to do the work that really matters – and helps improve the top line numbers and customer satisfaction.”
Manjeet Singh, Sr Director,
Agentforce and GenAI platform
Salesforce
2026 Summit Topic:
Autonomous Customer Acquisition and Support
“People assume AI transformation is primarily a technology initiative, when it’s actually a leadership and strategy challenge.”
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu, VP Innovation & GM
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center
2026 Summit Topic:
AI Transformation
“The false belief is that AI shrinks work. What’s actually shrinking teams is unclear requirements; once organizations learn what they can ask for, demand will surge and AI-enabled talent scarcity will hit harder than ever.”
Dr. Alireza Boloorchi, CEO
Catch Up AI
2026 Summit Topic:
The New Workforce: Humans and AI Agents
“Transformation is only effective, impactful, and sustainable when top leadership leads it. Senior leaders must transform themselves first and model the cultural evolution they expect from the organization.”
Dr. Masa K. Maeda, Founder
ARYSYN
2026 Summit Topic:
Effective Transformational Leadership
“People think AI Agents will suddenly solve their communication problems and help them scale. I believe if there is a sharing issue, it comes from the core where data and knowledge sharing is not in the culture and the purpose for adopting AI is not clearly outlined with metrics to validate its progress.”
Vishanka Gupta, Founder
ApertureData
2026 Summit Topic:
Organizational Intelligence and Hyper-Adaptive Enterprises
“A lot of people I talk to believe that being AI first means AI will replace a lot of things and humans don’t have a role. I actually think humans(a smaller cohort of them) “with agency” are the only ones who will be able to build a great AI agent first ecosystem. This is the weird paradox that we actually can’t architect a great agentic and autonomous ecosystem without humans with agency. “
Rahul Ramkumar, Founding Chief Product Officer
Rocket
2026 Summit Topic:
AI First: Building AI Ventures
“Leaders overwhelmingly believe that they have communicated their AI plans effectively throughout their organizations, but when their employees were asked if they understood their organizations’ plans around AI, less than 40 percent had a basic understanding.”
Karen Gordon, CEO
5 Dynamics
2026 Summit Topic:
Effective Transformational Leadership
Registration
Summit Participation
Connect with peers and industry experts, explore in depth how AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations
$1,600
✓ Access to all speaker and panel sessions
✓ Access to networking activities, incl. evening social
✓ Join private community of leaders building the future
✓ Connect with industry leaders and technology experts
✓ No media, no fluff, just learning with fellow leaders
Summit + AI Acceleration Workshop
Access to all Summit Sessions and Participants, plus:
$2,200
✓ Hands-on executive-level workshop
✓ Solutions for accelerating AI Transformation
✓ Facilitated by PII Founder, Frode Odegard
✓ Summit faculty assisting in your biggest challenges
✓ Workshop only available to 30 participants
Corporate volume discounts available. For any questions about the summit, please email Sreeja Dandu.
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