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Beyond The Pilot: Enterprise AI in Action

VentureBeat
Generative AI
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
AI Agents
Napkin AI
AI Design
Intuit
Powerpoint
Graphic Design
Openai
Agentic AI
Cisco
Cloud Migration
Paypal
AI Infrastructure
Visa
Large Language Models
AI and Machine Learning
Legal Technology
Modernization

AI gets real here. On “Beyond the Pilot,” top business execs share what actually happens after the AI proof of concept — from infrastructure and org design to wins, failures, and ROI. Not theory, but deep dives into how they scaled AI that works.

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Executive leader with experience at Docker, Cisco, and Intuit
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Harrison Chase
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Min Chen
Senior Vice President and Chief AI Officer of LexisNexis
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Episode: LexisNexis on Why Standard RAG Fails in Law
Johan Gerber
EVP of Security Solutions at MasterCard with a background in law enforcement
MasterCard
Episode: Mastercard's 160 Billion Transactions: AI's Biggest Test
Chris Mertz
SVP of Data Science at MasterCard, responsible for building AI models
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Episode: Mastercard's 160 Billion Transactions: AI's Biggest Test
Erran Berger
VP of Product Engineering at LinkedIn
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Amjad Masad
CEO of Replit, known for his innovative solutions in AI and software development
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Co-host, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VentureBeat, who engages with industry leaders on practical applications of AI.

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LangChain: What OpenClaw Got Right (And Why Enterprises Can't Have It)
Q: How has LangSmith addressed the challenge of observability and monitoring for enterprise-grade agents, especially given unbounded inputs and spikes in model behavior?
LangSmith centers on agent traces as the foundation for observability. It enables regression testing with evals, a debugging playground, and scalable analysis via proxies like an LLM to inspect vast trace data. This approach helps enterprises understand agent behavior, catch issues, and optimize performance across millions of traces, which is essential for reliable production use.
LangChain: What OpenClaw Got Right (And Why Enterprises Can't Have It)
Q: What is context engineering, and how is it being done differently now than with early systems like AutoGPT?
Context engineering is about ensuring the LLM sees the right information at the right time by carefully constructing the system prompt, tool definitions, and how traces are presented. Today, harnesses leverage file systems and dynamic prompts to manage long contexts, allowing models to decide when to collapse context and how to structure tool calls, which improves reliability over earlier approaches like AutoGPT that lacked such integrated context-management.
LexisNexis on Why Standard RAG Fails in Law
Q: Can you give us an example of a query where a semantically similar answer like RAG was dangerously wrong because it lacked the legal authority?
Min Chen discusses how RAG's initial implementations did not guarantee authoritative answers due to the nature of pure semantic search and how they improved the architecture.
Mastercard's 160 Billion Transactions: AI's Biggest Test
Q: How do you build and organize teams to deploy AI?
It's crucial to integrate data scientists across different business verticals to unlock the data's full potential for AI applications.
Mastercard's 160 Billion Transactions: AI's Biggest Test
Q: How does thinking like a criminal change the way you design an enterprise AI security strategy?
Understanding criminal behavior helps shape technology and product development strategies to better prevent fraud.

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Conversations in this series offer a glimpse into the pragmatic aspects of artificial intelligence as shared by key business executives. Rather than focusing on theoretical applications, the discussions aim to illuminate real-world implementations of AI across various sectors. Topics frequently include the challenges of scaling AI, the intricacies of organizational design required for successful integration, and tangible lessons learned from both successes and failures. Insights from thought leaders in technology aim to break down the complexities of AI deployment, covering insights on infrastructure and return on investment (ROI). What makes this series particularly noteworthy is its commitment to showcasing concrete results and actionable... more

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