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Our team at the Intelligent Enterprise Leaders Alliance often gets asked "so what is it exactly that you guys do?" We thought we'd post a quick answer to that question. #IELA conducts extensive proprietary research with senior IT executives charged with, generally, digital transformation of the enterprise, including the usage of #technology like: #ArtificialIntelligence; #IntelligentAutomation; #Cybersecurity; etc. We distill that research into industry-leading conference content that attracts the best, brightest and most proactive industry practitioners in the world. Within these intensely curated conferences, we embed one-to-one business meetings that put solution providers in front of the enterprise technology leaders who are actively making technology investment decisions. Our research team works year-round to understand what practitioners are prioritizing and in the process, surfacing the operational challenges, budget priorities and decision criteria that make every 1:1 meeting at our Exchanges substantively different from a trade show conversation. The quality of the rooms we build is the result of a rigorous participant qualification process that ensures every person across the table has an active mandate and the authority to act on it. We are now building the room for the Agentic AI Exchange in New York, November 4-6, 2026. If you are looking to learn, benchmark and connect with peers, please apply to sponsor or attend here 👇
Leading change is tough. It’s tougher when #HR is accountable for outcomes, but decision rights sit elsewhere. 🤝📌 In the April HR Shared Services Circle, Stacy M., Director, HR Shared Services & Systems, People Analytics and HR Programs at Lifemark Health Group, led a candid discussion on how HR leaders build influence across HRBPs, COEs, legal, and regional teams without losing consistency or momentum. 💬⚙️ View the recap to see what your peers are talking about in real time: https://lnkd.in/en-qp2qu
The Intelligent Enterprise Leaders Alliance would like to thank Unframe for its recent sponsorship of the Agentic AI Exchange.
The Intelligent Enterprise Leaders Alliance would like to officially thank Dynatrace for its sponsorship of the Agentic AI Exchange.
One of the most compelling keynotes at the Intelligent Enterprise Leaders Alliance's Agentic AI Exchange brought together Steve Wilson, Chief AI and Product Officer at Exabeam and Ali Arsanjani, PhD, Director of Applied AI Engineering and Head of GenAI Blackbelts at Google, to address one of the most underappreciated challenges of the agentic era: 🎯 As AI systems become more autonomous, the attack surface grows in ways most organizations are not prepared for. Their framework traced the evolution from RAG-based chatbots through coding agents to fully autonomous digital workers, mapping the governance challenges and vulnerabilities that emerge at each stage. The discussion highlighted how the risks do not scale linearly with autonomy. They compound. Real-world examples made the point uncomfortably concrete! 😱 The answer centers on Agent Behavior Analytics. That is, building audit trails that answer the fundamental questions every enterprise leader should be asking: ❓Who is doing what; ❓ Are policies being followed; and ❓Is the behavior of your agent out of context for its role 💡Lightbulb moment: Governing autonomous AI systems requires the same behavioral rigor we apply to human actors in security operations. The sooner organizations recognize that, the better positioned they will be.
Agentic AI isn’t short on hype, but implementation is where most teams stall. That’s why we’re bringing together 60 enterprise executives this April 29–May 1 focused on putting #AgenticAI into action quickly and confidently. There’s still time to join current solution providers Adopt AI, Dynatrace, Exabeam, Fiddler AI, ORDR, OutSystems, Precisely, ThoughtSpot, and Unframe in San Diego. Explore the remaining sponsorship opportunities and get a detailed look at attendee demographics, including budget authority, company size, top priorities, industry breakdown, and more. ➡️ Download the prospectus: https://bit.ly/4tS7Ay3
The push to prove ROI in Shared Services and GBS isn’t going away, if anything, the bar just keeps getting higher. If you’re feeling the "transformation fatigue," let’s fix that. We're hosting SSOW in San Diego (Sept. 14–17) to cut through the AI hype and get into actual benchmarking with the people who are really doing the work. The logistics: If you’re planning to go, do it now. The Super Early Bird discount ends this Friday, and it saves your team $2,200. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eeWu3kpF
Over the last 24 hours, the enterprise AI story has not been “better models.” It has been better orchestration with stronger control. Atlassian expanded workflow-native agents in Confluence, Google Cloud positioned Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview inside Vertex Inc. AI’s governed enterprise stack, and Lucidworks pushed MCP-based connectivity for enterprise knowledge access. That matters because enterprise adoption is increasingly being decided by three things: 1️⃣Where agents show up in day-to-day work; 2️⃣How securely they connect to enterprise data; and 3️⃣ How much governance leaders have over what those agents can actually do The next competitive gap may not be who has the smartest model. It may be who can safely connect agents to the right systems, with the right permissions, telemetry, and escalation paths. Enterprises are moving from pilots to production, but concerns about agent sprawl and fragmented governance are rising just as quickly. That is why orchestration, governance, and interoperability now belong in the same leadership conversation. These are the conversations we’ll be unpacking at the Agentic AI Exchange.
I’m noticing a pattern in my research regarding the #AgenticAI conversation. Things are shifting from “cool capability” to where it actually lives in the enterprise and who governs it. On the news side, I'm seeing more vendors framing agents inside governed workflows (not open-ended autonomy), and more "#Agentic” positioning moving into core enterprise platforms and operational use cases. At the same time, in the conversations and inputs we’re collecting ahead of the #AgenticAIExchange, the same themes keep surfacing from enterprise leaders: 1️⃣ #Orchestration is the bottleneck, not models. Everyone has access to strong foundation models; fewer have reliable toolchains, permissions, and monitoring across systems. 2️⃣ Governance is becoming a build requirement, not a compliance afterthought. 3️⃣ The ROI discussion is maturing: less “chat” and more cycle-time reduction (intake → decision → execution → audit). If you’re implementing agents this year, I keep coming back to three practical questions: 🤔 Where do agents run — and who owns the runtime? ❓How do you enforce tool access, data boundaries, and audit trails? 🤔What does “safe fallback” look like when the agent is wrong? Curious where you’re feeling the friction most: governance, integration, or proving ROI? These are the conversations we’ll be unpacking at the Agentic AI Exchange — join us.
It’s that time again…. Saturday Selfie Sessions!!!! #SSOWeek was a whirlwind and I definitely did not get selfies with all my #sharedservices friends, but my phone is filled up with a bunch! I love seeing my friends each year like Sue Brauer and Sherin Abraham and some, like Robert Phillips, Liliana Becerril Ovalle and Jazmin Alvarado Gonzalez who I haven’t had the pleasure for years! Keep coming back everyone. It makes us so 🥹. Stay tuned here for th next several weekends for more selfie smiles!
