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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating People, AI, and European Sovereignty

Sebastian Kister

Transforming processes before people creates an agentic automation paradox. Discover how to architect predictability engines, orchestrate human-AI collaboration, and secure true digital sovereignty using active open-source strategies.

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#1 about 3 min

Harmonizing the agentic enterprise with human organizational structures

Establishing a business case foundation to blend AI enterprise architecture with continuous human collaboration.

#2 about 2 min

Transforming people first to enable engineering innovation

Empowering passionate technology builders with flexible tools outperforms enforcing rigid processes aimed at satisfying roles.

#3 about 2 min

Valuing tribal knowledge and stable business for AI context

Leveraging the deep enterprise expertise of long-tenured employees provides critical context for AI deployments rather than legacy constraints.

#4 about 2 min

Segmenting AI users and protecting engineering builders

Creating protected experimental environments enables front-line engineering problem-solvers to test and deploy new AI tooling.

#5 about 3 min

Escaping the automation paradox within dynamic enterprise environments

Shifting from static robotic process automation to dynamic agentic AI reduces compounding lifecycle maintenance burdens in shifting architectures.

#6 about 4 min

Architecting autonomous agents for production lifecycle management

Addressing the risk of multiplying probabilistic outcomes requires building stateful, auditable, and rollback-capable AI micro-inference pipelines.

#7 about 3 min

Decoupling engineering context from automation using predictability engines

Utilizing human-in-the-loop meta-agents verifies idempotent target states instead of statically defining unyielding and repetitive execution workflows.

#8 about 2 min

Centralizing automation playbooks by bringing intelligence to distributed data

Feeding dynamic business context into global playbooks eliminates fragile parameter harmonization efforts for distributed application programming interfaces.

#9 about 3 min

Optimizing platform architecture for flexibility and codifiable AI artifacts

Maintaining long-term technical flexibility relies on shifting repetitive agent workflows into codifiable and observable infrastructure.

#10 about 1 min

Open-sourcing the agent gateway and internal orchestration model

Donating agentic orchestration architecture to cloud native computing foundations creates broad maintainer collaboration opportunities.

#11 about 2 min

Addressing data sovereignty and compliance blind spots within AI

Evaluating the certification and regulatory gaps in agentic automation goes significantly beyond typical cloud application compliance standards.

#12 about 6 min

Mitigating shadow technology risks through enterprise open-source contribution

Overcoming vendor lock-in and minimizing shadow supply chains demands actively contributing customized features back to upstream dependencies.

#13 about 2 min

Scaling enterprise AI architectures through active open-source ecosystems

Securing business infrastructure scale requires participating as an active ecosystem builder rather than a passive software consumer.

Matching moments

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Designing agentic AI solutions for the enterprise

Damir Dobric · Coffee With Developers

4:08 min

Transitioning software engineering teams to AI-native development workflows

Florian Deter Florian Deter +4 · WWC Europe 2026

1:22 min

Preparing human resources teams for generative and agentic AI

Rudi Bauer Rudi Bauer +1 · Cappuccino with HR

3:45 min

Fusing developer experience and platform engineering for agentic SDLC

Julia Kordick Julia Kordick · WWC Europe 2026

1:56 min

Scaling AI adoption to non-traditional enterprise developers

Neel Sundaresan Neel Sundaresan +1 · WWC Europe 2026

3:13 min

Embedding generative AI in enterprise software platforms

Mike Butcher Mike Butcher +3 · WWC 2024

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