Intro to AUTONOMOUS

A welcome to AUTONOMOUS and a look at what’s ahead. Philippe de Ridder sets the stage for a day of bold ideas, real-world AI stories, and a glimpse into how organizations are becoming truly autonomous.

Intro to AUTONOMOUS

A welcome to AUTONOMOUS and a look at what’s ahead. Philippe de Ridder sets the stage for a day of bold ideas, real-world AI stories, and a glimpse into how organizations are becoming truly autonomous.

Steering the Shift: Governance for AI-Driven Transformation

Mariyka Zelkovskaya shares how Danone is building the governance frameworks, data-operating models, and leadership alignment needed to steer AI-driven transformation as a core business capability. As AI accelerates faster than most organizations can adapt, she explores how strong governance enables innovation with integrity, helping leaders embed trustworthy, scalable AI into the systems, cultures, and decision flows that shape the enterprise.

Scaling AI at the World’s Largest Retailer

Few companies operate at Walmart’s scale - or face its complexity. In this session, Dave Glick joins BOI’s Philippe de Ridder to reveal how the world’s largest retailer is making AI part of its core DNA. From early experiments to enterprise-wide systems, hear how Walmart is reshaping its culture and operations to become an AI-first organization.

Alexandria: Building a Knowledge Corporate Vault / Industrializing Intelligence

We stand at a unique crossroads in history — perhaps as the last generation of professionals who have refined their expertise through the slow and deliberate art of experience. Decades of experimentation, intuition, and human mentorship have shaped a profound yet fragile understanding — difficult to replicate and even harder to preserve. Today, we face the urgent need to accelerate this process of understanding. Artificial Intelligence offers us the means to do so — to activate intelligent agents capable of distilling entire domains of knowledge into structured graphs and ontologies that both preserve human wisdom and project it into the future. Alexandria was conceived as a response to that challenge: an industrialized framework to capture, curate, and deploy corporate knowledge at scale — transforming scattered expertise into a living, evolving asset.

Make AI Stick: Operating Model, Funding, Governance That Work

Building AI is one thing. Making it stick is another. This session dives into the structures, incentives, and governance models that make AI scalable, sustainable, and valuable across the enterprise.

Lessons Learnt from Implementing AI in Enterprises – Why So Many of Them Fail

Despite big investments, most AI projects still struggle to deliver impact. Tiger Tyagarajan shares lessons from years of enterprise transformation - why AI initiatives fail, and what leading companies do differently to turn pilots into real business value.

AI Native by Design: Imagining the Next-Generation Enterprise

What would a company look like if it were designed for AI from day one? Tobias Rees explores the idea of the "AI-native enterprise," where creativity, decision-making, and structure evolve around intelligent systems, not legacy models.

Autonomous Growth

AI is rewriting how businesses grow. The companies pulling ahead aren’t just automating their old playbooks - they’re reinventing them. They’re redesigning how they innovate, market, and sell from the ground up. This session explores the rise of the Autonomous Growth OS; an AI-native model for growth that learns, adapts, and scales on its own.

The Importance of Brand in the Age of AI

As AI agents begin to search, recommend, and even buy on our behalf, brand takes on a new kind of power. This session explores how identity, trust, and emotional connection will define success in the era of agentic commerce - where decisions are driven not just by people, but by intelligent systems interpreting what those people value.

Building the AI-Native Beauty Ecosystem: Lessons in Integration, Governance and Consumer Trust

Béatrice Dautzenberg shares how L’Oréal is creating an AI-native beauty ecosystem that blends data, real-time insights, computer vision, and governance to craft personalized and trusted experiences at scale. She’ll explore how the company is reimagining its structure, systems, and brands to meet new expectations for intimacy, ethics, and innovation.

The AI Rocketship: Lessons from Bolt.new’s Rapid Scale

How a scrappy startup went from near-shut-down to $40M ARR in five months and what it teaches us about the future of AI-native products.

Video in the AI Era

What happens when video becomes as fluid as text? This session dives into the new creative frontier shaped by AI - where stories are generated, personalized, and scaled instantly. Hear how Synthesia is redefining what it means to produce, localize, and communicate through video in a world where anyone can create anything.

How to translate pilot wins into sustainable business outcomes

Vincent Pirenne will guide you through how organizations can move beyond isolated AI pilots to embed scalable, measurable value into their business models. He will uncover how strategy, operating model, and value-capture mechanisms must align to ensure pilots don’t just succeed but become a part of the business.

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AI Is Not a Tech Issue to Scale: It’s a Transformation Challenge

Alan Boehme will outline how scaling AI isn’t ultimately a matter of selecting the best model, but of re-imagining business culture, operating models and organizational systems. Drawing on his extensive leadership experience at major multinationals, he will explore how legacy enterprise dynamics block AI-scale and what transformation leaders must prioritize to make AI real.

AI, You, and the Future of Work

The future of work isn’t about replacement - it’s about reinvention. Dave Drodge shares how AI is reshaping organizations like Roche, redefining how humans and machines collaborate. He’ll explore how new mindsets, roles, and operating models are enabling people to focus on higher-order work while AI manages the routine, transforming both capability and culture.

From Co-Pilots to Copilots: Designing Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems

AI is moving fast, but real value is only found in systems built around human needs. Chris Covert shares lessons from a career shaping AI systems from reinforcement learning in aircraft cockpits to agentic tools for enterprise productivity, simulation, and gaming, showing how to design for trust and transparency.

The Future of AI Agents: Fast, Multimodal, Battle-Tested

AI agents are moving from demos to deployment. Shelby Heinecke shares how Salesforce is building the next generation of fast, multimodal, and reliable AI agents, and what it takes to make them work in real enterprise environments.

AI-native Entertainment

Jason Zada, the Emmy Award–winning director behind Coca-Cola’s 2025 AI-generated Christmas commercial, explores how entertainment is evolving into AI-native experiences — where storytelling, audience participation, and technology converge to create content that’s hyper-personalized and truly lived, not just watched.

Purpose-Built AI: Designing With Intent

As AI embeds across the enterprise, the question isn’t what to build, but why. This session explores how intentional design aligns AI with real business and human goals, ensuring it remains focused, ethical, and valuable from data to experience.

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Why the Success of AI Will Always Come Down to User Experience

Jon Temple argues that true AI success depends not on technology alone, but on the user experience built around it. He’ll show how enterprises can prioritize design, empathy, and seamless human–machine interaction to ensure AI isn’t just powerful, but trusted, adopted, and genuinely useful.

5x Growth with AI: Rethinking Enterprise Transformation

Danilo McGarry draws on his experience scaling AI in global enterprises to show how AI isn’t just a bolt-on tool, but a catalyst for 5× growth when baked into your transformation strategy.

Making Agentic AI More Trustworthy

How do we build AI agents we can actually trust? This session breaks down the essentials of transparency, accountability, and control - so autonomy doesn’t come at the cost of confidence.

Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into the Enterprise

As generative AI moves from pilot projects to enterprise-scale impact, accountability is the new frontier. Drawing on insights from Wharton’s 2025 AI Adoption Report, Stefano Puntoni unpacks how leading organizations are turning experimentation into measurable ROI - and why the next wave of competitive advantage will depend less on the tools themselves and more on how leaders align talent, training, and trust to unlock value.

Scaling AI in the Enterprise; What It Takes and What We Learned

Drawing on her experience leading AI transformation at Telstra, Dayle Stevens shares what it really takes for large organizations to scale AI beyond pilots. She’ll unpack the foundations, operating models, and culture that enabled Telstra to turn experimentation into impact - along with the key lessons, enablers, and missteps that shaped the journey.

How to Build AI-Native GTM Teams

Go-to-market is being rebuilt for the AI age. Marcel Santilli shares how teams are evolving from traditional funnel playbooks to AI-native, workflow-based systems built for speed and scale. Drawing on his work at GrowthX AI and across high-growth organizations, he explains how to combine human expertise, automation, and agile structures to stay ahead.