Artificial intelligence, from generative to agentic capabilities, has reached a critical inflection point where CIO sentiment has shifted dramatically from skeptical to bullish within just 12 months. As AI capabilities now match or exceed human performance while costs decline rapidly, organizations face a stark binary outcome: capture transformational value or risk permanent competitive disadvantage.

The evolution from traditional AI through generative AI to agentic AI opens progressively sophisticated business opportunities - from simple automation to real-time personalized interventions to autonomous reasoning and planning.

This session, led by Damian Stephenson, head of enterprise technology practice, Asia-Pacific, Bain & Company, will explore:

• Strategic transformation approaches across the AI capability spectrum;
• Architecture and governance frameworks for safe, rapid AI scaling;
• How to get the right road map in place to deliver short-term value while solving for long-term enterprise success.