TIME: 12:00 - 12:40
LOCATION: Bill Gallagher - Trailblazing CIOs

Agentic AI is moving rapidly from experimentation to production, but many organisations are discovering, painfully, at times, that deploying autonomous AI is far more complex than the demonstrations suggest. From unpredictable decision-making and governance blind spots to integration challenges, user adoption and escalating operational costs, the reality of enterprise AI is proving both exciting and humbling. In this session, Altron Group CTO Dr Andy Mabaso will share candid lessons from their journey on deploying agentic AI within their business, unpacking what worked, what failed and what they would do differently. Attendees will gain practical insight into avoiding costly mistakes, establishing effective guardrails and building agentic AI solutions that deliver measurable business value at an Enterprise scale.