16/10/2026
🚀 From AI pilots to enterprise reality: what will it actually take?
At our latest Executive Event in Rotterdam, we had candid discussions on unlocking trust, accountability and the operational impact of agentic AI, and what we must do now to scale AI and autonomous agents for real value and ROI.
Our key takeaways 👇
1️⃣ Agents can overreach. Recent Anthropic reports highlight “overreach” and “dishonesty” as always-on agents relentlessly pursue their goals, often beyond intended access and authority. The catch? These failures are found in log analysis long after the fact, not at ex*****on time.
2️⃣ The value gap is real. Sharvind Appiah showed the gap between personal productivity AI and enterprise-scale AI, where many projects never get beyond PoC, and shared battle-proven frameworks to close it.
3️⃣ Learn from finance. The sector is well ahead on enterprise-scale AI. Lesson one: target full value chains, not individual use cases. Just starting out? Pick a high-volume, low-risk data processing area for early, comfortable wins.
4️⃣ Risk and governance are foundational. As the EU AI Act makes clear, strong ownership, collegiate risk assessment and a three-lines-of-defence model across development, deployment and operation are key, with data governance discipline woven throughout.
5️⃣ Identity is the new frontier. With 1000s of non-human identities per employee right around the corner, SailPoint showed real, enterprise-scale capability for the visibility and control this demands.
6️⃣ Leadership must evolve, fast. We need leaders who educate themselves on AI and keep moving forward, carrying the risk and mitigating as they go. Just as the CISO earned a seat at the Board table, AI needs the same, but at a much faster pace.
💡 The reassuring part? Most of the processes we need already exist. They just need to be coordinated, aligned to regulation and backed by integrated tools for visibility and control, with AI assisting so leaders, auditors and employees can play their part with confidence.
We thank our moderator , the speakers , our panellists as well as everyone who attended and share their thoughts during the discussions.