In the fast-evolving AI economy, mastering platform innovation is key to unlocking transformative business value. This presentation offers a strategic roadmap for building AI-ready technology foundations and leadership capabilities. We’ll explore critical building blocks for scalable, secure AI workloads, followed by designing resilient cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures for sustainable AI innovation. Finally, we’ll examine the rise of agentic AI systems enabling autonomous decision-making across IT operations, governance, development, and observability. This presentation equips the C-suite and technology leaders to recalibrate their platform strategy and confidently lead their organizations into the AI economy.

AI is transforming how software is created, tested and secured, enabling organisations to build at unprecedented speed and scale. But as development moves from AI-assisted to increasingly autonomous, a new challenge emerges: how do you trust what AI creates? This session explores why discovery alone is no longer enough, and what it takes to secure software at machine speed. We’ll examine how deterministic analysis and AI reasoning can work together to improve coverage and confidence, why context and prioritisation are critical to cutting through growing security noise, and why independent governance matters when AI is both writing and assessing code. As AI scales software creation, security must evolve from finding more vulnerabilities to providing the evidence, context and control needed to scale trust.

AI is only as good as the information it receives, and most of that information is lost before AI ever sees it.

This session looks at why, and what to do about it, We’ll cover:

• Why AI results depend on how information is created, not just how it’s cleaned up afterwards
• How ordinary business processes quietly leak the context that decisions need
• What changes when documents, workflows and decisions are connected in one governed layer
• One question to ask of any process, to see what AI is missing

Bring a real process to the IDC Connect roundtable and we’ll test it together

Enterprise networks were built for a different era of static data centres and predictable traffic, and they are struggling to keep pace with a business landscape that is multi-cloud, distributed, and constantly evolving.

This session shares real customer use cases showing why enterprise organisations are turning to Networking On Demand to modernise – and the business value they’re seeing in return: faster time to market, stronger resilience, and the flexibility to scale without being slowed down by infrastructure.

As AI transforms the enterprise landscape, organisations face a new generation of cyber risks alongside unprecedented opportunities for innovation. This panel will explore how businesses can strengthen data resilience, modernize cyber-preparedness strategies, and build trust in an increasingly AI-driven world. Industry leaders will discuss evolving threat vectors, the role of AI in both cyber defense and attack, regulatory and governance considerations, and practical approaches to safeguarding critical data and operations. Attendees will gain insights into how organizations can move beyond reactive security models toward resilient, adaptive frameworks fit for the AI era.

Demonstrating value from AI is hard. Scaling it is harder. As adoption grows, cost, performance and business outcomes start pulling in different directions, and most organisations lack a clear strategy to handle the trade-offs. Drawing on Capacitas’ work as a technology optimisation partner to a global travel platform and a leading consumer app, both operating at global scale, this session sets out the equations that will shape company growth in the AI era: where value leaks away, why it gets harder at scale, and what the organisations getting it right are doing differently.

Agentic AI is emerging as the next evolution of enterprise automation, enabling intelligent systems to make decisions, coordinate actions, and execute complex workflows with increasing autonomy. This presentation will explore how organisations are leveraging agentic AI to transform orchestration across IT operations, business processes, customer engagement, and decision-making. IDC will present on the technologies driving this shift, including multi-agent systems, generative AI, and autonomous workflow management, as well as the opportunities and risks associated with greater AI autonomy. This presentation will also examine governance, trust, and operational considerations organizations must address to successfully scale agentic AI initiatives and unlock measurable business value.

As organisations accelerate AI adoption, traditional IT architectures are being reimagined to support the scale, speed, and complexity of AI-driven operations. This panel will explore what it means to design AI-native architectures that are agile, open, and resilient by design. Industry leaders will discuss strategies for integrating AI across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enabling interoperability through open ecosystems, modernising data and application infrastructures, whilst building resilience against evolving operational and security challenges.