Main Conference Day 2, Wednesday, 5 December 2025

8:00 am - 8:00 am Morning Drinks

8:00 am - 9:00 am Workshop B: Building Agentic AI Systems with AI Foundry and Co-Pilot

Pooja Bhatia - Data & AI Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

• This workshop provides an overview of AI Foundry and Co-Pilot capabilities, demonstrating

how these tools support the development and orchestration of agentic AI systems through

practical, hands-on examples.

• Demonstrates core features of AI Foundry for scalable AI model development and

deployment, enabling autonomous agent behavior in complex workflows.

• Explores Co-Pilot integration to enhance developer productivity with AI-assisted coding

and automation, facilitating multi-agent collaboration and decision-making.

• Walks participants through real-world scenarios showcasing AI Foundry and Co-Pilot in

action, highlighting their role in building and managing agentic AI systems.

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Pooja Bhatia

Data & AI Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft

Daniel Hulme, Chief AI Officer, WPP, Room Universe

• In a world where many believe access to more and more data will lead to ever better decision-making, we’ll look at what AI really is - Identifying the current and future challenges and opportunities for emerging technologies

• New framework for thinking about AI, and discussion on how organisations can practically adopt these technologies and avoid being seduced by the hype

• Whilst these technologies are incredible at creating growth and streamlining operations, for companies to stay innovative they need to also use AI to unlock the creative capacity of their workforce.

• Macro impact these technologies may have on business and humanity over the coming decades

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Armand Angeli

Vice-President, Digital Transformation and International Groups, DFCG and Expert
DFCG

9:10 am - 9:40 am Opening Keynote: Rethinking AI and how Agents impact Business and Humanity

Daniel Hulme - Chief AI Officer, WPP

• Definition of intelligence and decision-making in the context of AI, questioning the

assumption that more data automatically leads to better outcomes

• Application of agentic systems to augment human creativity, enable adaptive operations,

and support long-term innovation across sectors.

• Assessment of AI’s broader impact on society, governance, and human agency over the

coming decades, including ethical and economic implications

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Daniel Hulme

Chief AI Officer
WPP

9:40 am - 10:10 am From Open Models to Enterprise Value: Operationalizing Open-Source GenAI

• How open-source foundation models can be securely adapted and fine-tuned for real-

world business use cases.

• Insights into model versioning, access control, and performance tracking as enablers of

responsible AI deployment at scale.

• Examples from enterprise projects that combine modular tooling, community-driven

innovation, and production-grade workflows.


Reserved for one of our business Partners

10:10 am - 10:40 am Agentic AI Unleashed: The Power and Pitfalls of Multi-Agent Systems

Bogdan Pirvu - Head of Data Science, Novomatic AG

• Exploring fundamental technical aspects of AI agents, including core capabilities and

architectures enabling agentic behavior.

• Discussing multi-agent systems with collaborative and competitive AI agents pursuing

shared objectives, and their superior use cases.

• Highlighting challenges in deploying multi-agent systems, such as error amplification and

suboptimal system behavior, and implications for business users.

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Bogdan Pirvu

Head of Data Science
Novomatic AG

10:40 am - 11:10 am Coffee Break and Networking

11:10 am - 11:40 am From Engineering to Customer Experience: Deploying AI Agents in Manufacturing Workflows

Haydar Vural - Chief Digital Officer (Cdo), Karsan

• How autonomous agents are being integrated into engineering workflows across the

product lifecycle, supply-chain, purchasing and manufacturing operations.

• Use cases for AI in product life cycle (PLM) systems and within design teams.

• Breaking silos in manufacturing and using agents to unite the path from design phase to

final customer experience

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Haydar Vural

Chief Digital Officer (Cdo)
Karsan

11:40 am - 12:10 pm Panel: Organizing for AI Success: New Roles, Teams, and Operating Models

• How leading enterprises restructure around GenAI — from AI product owners to prompt

engineers and data domain stewards.

• Explore federated vs. centralized approaches, business-user enablement, and lessons in

cultural transformation.

• Insights into how new team structures align with regulatory expectations and support

scalable, cross-functional AI deployment.

12:10 pm - 12:40 pm Agentic AI in Practice: Moving Up the Value Chain with Secure and Trustworthy Architectures

• Showcasing real-world applications of agentic AI across automotive, pharma, finance,

and insurance sectors.

• Examining how enterprises structure secure, compliant multi-agent systems using

frameworks like Semantic Kernel and Autogen.

• Reviewing evaluation strategies for GenAI quality and responsible AI design under evolving

regulatory expectations.

12:40 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch break

Stream A Empowering AI-Centric Organizations

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Empowering Business Teams with Agentic AI: From No-Code Prototypes to Scalable Automation
Eric Joachim Liese - Strategic Advisor and Lead Architect for AI & Data, BSH Home Appliances Group

• How agentic workflows and no-/low-code platforms enable

business users to design AI-powered automations without full

developer dependency.

• Highlights the organizational challenge of balancing creative

freedom with compliance, quality control, and long-term

maintainability.

• Early lessons from deploying visual orchestration tools

for internal operations, with a view toward secure external

applications.

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Eric Joachim Liese

Strategic Advisor and Lead Architect for AI & Data
BSH Home Appliances Group

Stream A Empowering AI-Centric Organizations

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Organizing for AI Readiness: Upskilling, Ownership, and Global Coordination

• Define which roles across business and tech functions need

• AI-related upskilling, and to what depth.

• Compare centralized vs. decentralized models for both GenAI

• implementation and capability building.

• Clarify how headquarters and local entities split responsibility

• for enablement, innovation, and compliance.


Slot reserved for one of our business partners

Stream A Empowering AI-Centric Organizations

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Innovating Change Management Through AI for Future Operational Success
Wioletta Strączek - Senior Director, GBS Finance Transformation and Lean Partner, Jacobs

• Exploration of AI-driven change management techniques to

enhance operational excellence.

• Use of AI for strategic decision-making, including predicting

and managing change impacts.

• Automation of routine processes to increase productivity and

streamline organizational transformation.

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Wioletta Strączek

Senior Director, GBS Finance Transformation and Lean Partner
Jacobs

Stream B Industrial Agents Room Jupiter

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Applications of Agentic AI Approaches in Pharma and Biopharma Manufacturing

• Showcases real-world applications of agentic AI to optimize

pharma and biopharma manufacturing processes.

• Explores autonomous agents for predictive maintenance,

quality control, and supply chain coordination.

• Highlights challenges and solutions in deploying agentic

systems within highly regulated manufacturing environments.

Ogsen Gabrielyan - Head of Data Science in the Global Engineering & Technology, Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals


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Ogsen Gabrielyan

Head of Data Science in the Global Engineering & Technology
Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals

Stream B Industrial Agents Room Jupiter

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Unlocking Hidden Knowledge with our RAG Chatbot Nexi: From accelerating Semiconductor R&D to Organization-Wide Impact
Ulrike Petrusch - Project Manager, Nexperia Germany Gmbh

• How GenAI transformed our R&D Risk and knowledge

management by introducing our R&D chatbot “nexi”

• A solution built for 120 R&D specialists iand its integration into

a global IT AI strategy for a >10.000 employee company.

• Lessons learned and how we are approaching challenges

like organizational boundaries, resource and competence

constraints, accuracy, relevance, hallucination, speed, AI

adoption in the teams and balancing the AI hype within the

company

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Ulrike Petrusch

Project Manager
Nexperia Germany Gmbh

Stream B Industrial Agents Room Jupiter

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Beyond Language: Domain-Specific Generative AI for Industrial Signal Interpretation
Benjamin Wolters - Head of AI, Data & Architecture, ROSEN Group

• Application of a signal-native generative model that

transforms magnetic and ultrasonic waveforms into 3D

corrosion and wall-thickness profiles for infrastructure like

pipelines and pressurized vessels.

• Integration of synthetic signal generation and simulation-

trained embeddings to overcome data scarcity, reduce expert

dependency, and deliver explainable, regulation-aligned output.

• Future potential for adapting the same architecture to other

signal-rich domains such as medical diagnostics, where real

data is scarce, and model bias must be minimized from the start

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Benjamin Wolters

Head of AI, Data & Architecture
ROSEN Group

Stream C Agentic Workflows and Architectures

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Architecting Intelligence: Challenges and Promise of Multi- Agent Systems

• Why multi-agent systems are critical for complex, creative

tasks beyond the reach of single LLMs

• The architectural trade-offs: centralized vs. decentralized,

freedom vs. structure

• Examples from real-world cooperative agent + human

systems and upcoming frameworks

Stream C Agentic Workflows and Architectures

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm From Raw Docs to Smart Graphs: Structuring Enterprise Knowledge for GenAI

• Use of labeling platforms, entity recognition, and relationship

extraction tools to convert PDFs, emails, and legacy wikis into

structured knowledge graphs.

• Integration of curated knowledge into chatbots, copilots, and

decision support tools for employees and customers.

• Scaling annotation with human-in-the-loop QA and

alignment with business taxonomies and security controls

Stream C Agentic Workflows and Architectures

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Grounded and Searchable: Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Enterprise

• Use of vector databases and semantic chunking to build RAG

pipelines that deliver accurate, explainable outputs in legal,

tech, and service use cases.

• Architecture patterns for combining public LLMs with private

corpora using on-prem, hybrid, or sovereign infrastructure.

• Governance of document updates, access control, and

hallucination risk mitigation in production RAG deployments.

Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee break with networking session


Stream A Knowledge Management with AI

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Knowledge Management with the Help of Generative AI – AskÖBB
Werner Rohrer - Leitung Data Science and Analytics, Öbb

• Addressing knowledge loss from workforce turnover by using

LLM-powered systems to support onboarding and reduce

training dependency on senior experts

• Deployment of retrieval-augmented generation using vector

databases to enable natural language queries across internal

documentation

• Managing inconsistencies in source material through

AI-supported synthesis and contextual reasoning across

fragmented content sets

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Werner Rohrer

Leitung Data Science and Analytics
Öbb

Stream A Knowledge Management with AI

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Round Table: Creating GenAI-Driven Knowledge Systems: Practical Challenges and Real-World Lessons
Mike Hales - Product Owner, EE

• Preparing and formatting internal content for AI systems

• Challenges with hallucinations and prompt tuning

• Demonstrating ROI and ongoing optimization of GenAI tools

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Mike Hales

Product Owner
EE

Stream B AI in Life Science

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Synthetic Data, Real Impact: Generative AI for Medical Imaging

• How generative AI can address foundational challenges

in healthcare AI, including limited labeled data, and privacy

constraints

• The potential of synthetic medical images to support fairer,

more generalizable models and improve diagnostic workflows

in radiology and oncology

• Current limitations and open challenges in evaluating

generative models, including clinical relevance, realism, and

unintended artifacts

Stream B AI in Life Science

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Monitoring Quality of Life Using Vocal Biomarkers

• Quality of life is a complex, multidimensional concept that is

difficult to continuously measure using conventional methods.

• Vocal biomarkers offer a promising alternative because

voice production is highly complex and sensitive to changes in

physical and mental health.

• A machine learning model was developed to analyze vocal

characteristics and objectively assess quality of life.

• Due to the complex data structure, a quantum-based

machine learning model was also investigated to capture

deeper patterns.

Stream C Creative Agents: Image & Video Gen

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Precision by Design: GenAI for Scalable Image Generation

• Use of generative models to create brand-consistent

imagery across marketing, ecommerce, and documentation

workflows.

• Deployment of controlled image generation pipelines

using structured prompts, visual references, and predefined

templates to reduce reliance on stock photography.

• Integration with human review, metadata tagging, and digital

asset management systems to maintain aesthetic coherence,

IP safety, and regulatory alignment.

Stream C Creative Agents: Image & Video Gen

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Dynamic Storytelling: Agentic AI for Enterprise Video Generation

• Use of agentic AI systems to generate explainer videos,

training content, and product walkthroughs by combining

narration, imagery, and animation in real time.

• Chaining of LLMs, text-to-video models, and editing tools to

produce scene-structured outputs based on user intent and

enterprise knowledge.

• Incorporation of brand rules, compliance filters, and

multilingual adaptation to support global scalability and

internal reuse.