IDC & SAP Executive Dinner
Unlocking Tangible Business Value with AI: Strategies for Success
To remain competitive and fuel sustainable growth, businesses must move beyond experimental AI pilots and embrace strategic, enterprise-wide integration. A pivotal enabler of this shift is the rise of advanced AI agents—intelligent systems embedded directly into core business processes to drive efficiency, innovation, and agility.
IDC defines AI Agents as LLM- powered autonomous software entities that perceive their environment, make decisions, act upon them and interact with users or other systems in a manner like a human. AI agents mark a new phase in the rapid evolution of AI, transitioning from assistants like chatbots and copilots to more autonomous – but under human supervision – systems and scenarios.
According to the latest IDC Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey, 44% of UK Large Organizations are already investing significantly in agentic AI with acquisition and training plans for using agentic AI-enhanced software.
As organizations advance along their AI-driven digital transformation journey, they must prioritize key imperatives: establishing a robust data strategy, ensuring the ethical and responsible adoption of AI, seamlessly integrating AI with existing digital infrastructure, and clearly demonstrating the return on AI investments.
At this dinner, you’ll have the chance to discuss your Business AI plans and challenges with experts from IDC and SAP, and learn from other digital leaders on topics such as:
- AI Agents integration into Business Processes for Efficiency and Reliability
- The role of data and AI Governance
- Measuring AI Business Value and ROI
Speakers
Andrea Siviero
Senior Research Director, EMEA Digital Business & Economy, Future of Work
IDC
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Andrea Siviero
Andrea Siviero leads IDC’s European Digital Business and Future of Work Research group. The group provides market research insights to foster a purposeful and fair adoption of technologies supporting digital societies, businesses and workforce and empower tech providers in strategic decision making, planning and go-to-market activities. Siviero also co-leads the IDC Worldwide MacroTech Research program, focused on the intertwined connection between the Economical and Digital worlds – analyzing the impact key MacroEconomic factors have on the digital landscape and viceversa, how technologies are impacting economies around the world.
Siviero advises IT players on building a forward-looking digital business and workforce strategy, while providing an in-depth view on future of work technology adoption, key digital use cases, macroeconomic digital impact, and digital regulations and emerging technology, via qualitative subscriptions and custom consulting projects. He has extensive experience with large strategy and go-to-market projects with IT providers. He is a member of IDC’s global Tech Storytellers taskforce and he is passionate about public speaking and customer engagement opportunities.
He joined IDC’s European team in 2014 and has become a recognized independent analyst across Europe and beyond in the vertical markets and digital business space. He is based in Italy and he holds a joint PhD in mathematics between the Université Bordeaux I (France) and the Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands). During his PhD, he covered scientific research, academic teaching, and vocational training. He is a native Italian speaker and he is fluent in English and French.
Partner
In Association with
SAP
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.
Venue
City Social Tower 42
25 Old Broad St,
London
EC2N 1HQ