Scaling Intelligence: Inside the Agentic Enterprise

Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises create value, collaborate, and compete. In this episode of Stay Cognizant, host Pamela Axtell (Senior Director, Global Brand Strategy and Marketing at Cognizant) is joined by Naveen Sharma (Naveen Sharma, SVP and Global Practice Head, Data and AI at Cognizant) and David Schubmehl (Research Vice President for AI and Automation at IDC) to explore the rise of the agentic economy, a new era where autonomous, interconnected AI agents are transforming how work gets done.Naveen and David unpack what makes this moment different from past waves of automation, how agentic systems are becoming the new “operating system” for business, and what early adopters are learning as they reimagine workflows and labor models. They share real-world examples from multi-week processes reduced to 30 minutes to enterprises scaling AI-driven decision-making across entire ecosystems and discuss how leaders can prepare their organizations for this next phase of digital transformation.Together, they examine the opportunities, challenges, and human implications of an economy powered by agents that can sense, decide, and act, setting the stage for a new era of enterprise intelligence.🔔 Love the podcast? Don’t forget to subscribe and rate us!