The Unspoken Reality of Enterprise AI - Why Enterprise AI Gets Hard When Agents Start Acting

12pm – 12.20pm IST, 13 October 2026 ‐ 20 mins

Paul Gilbride, Director of Data & AI, Sogeti

AI is moving from something that answers questions to something that takes action. That changes the enterprise conversation completely.

This session explores the uncomfortable realities behind deploying AI agents at scale: how much autonomy are we genuinely prepared to give them, who is accountable when they get something wrong, and why organisations have dramatically different appetites for AI risk.

We’ll examine the tension between innovation and control — why some organisations are prepared to redesign their businesses around AI while others struggle to move beyond pilots — and what leaders need to put in place to deploy agents with confidence without governing away the value they were meant to create.

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Paul Gilbride

Director of Data & AI, Sogeti

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Paul Gilbride

Director of Data & AI, Sogeti

Paul Gilbride is a Data & AI Director at Sogeti Ireland, working with organisations across Ireland and Europe on how they turn AI ambition into enterprise reality. His focus is not simply on the technology, but on the difficult questions that emerge when AI moves from experimentation into production — governance, accountability, risk, operating models, value and organisational change. Working across industries and with senior technology and business leaders, Paul brings a pragmatic perspective on the gap between what AI can technically do and what organisations are actually prepared to let it do.