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Focus AreaAgentic AI & Autonomous Systems

Agentic AI is moving from experimental technology into enterprise infrastructure and the gap between hype and production is where the real conversation lives.

$52B

Projected global agentic AI market by 2030

40%

Enterprise applications expected to embed AI agents by end of 2026

11%

Organizations with AI agents successfully deployed in production
The Moment We're In

The Moment We're InThe pilot-to-production gap is the story of 2026

The generative AI experimentation phase is ending. What's emerging is a structural shift in how enterprises deploy intelligence at scale — systems that reason, plan, and pursue multi-step goals autonomously. Yet most companies are still experimenting, not scaling. 2026 is the inflection point where early architectural decisions determine who leads and who stays stuck in pilot purgatory.

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→ Only 5% of companies achieved AI value at scale despite average GenAI spends of $1.9M in 2024 — what separates the 5% from the 95%?

→ CISOs express deep concern about agent risk, yet most have no mature safeguards — organizations are deploying agents faster than they can secure them.

→ Gartner predicts 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027 because legacy systems can't support modern AI execution demands.

What We are Tracking

Sub-topics inside this pillar

Framework

Agentic frameworks for business transformation

MCP, LangGraph, AutoGen — which orchestration patterns survive enterprise governance, and how do CIOs build guardrails without killing innovation speed?

Operating Model

Autonomous enterprise operating models

Gartner predicts 15% of day-to-day decisions will be made autonomously by 2028 — what does this mean for workforce design in regulated industries like insurance and finance?

Region

Manufacturing transformation in NC

How Triangle-area manufacturers are deploying agent-driven quality control, predictive maintenance, and AI-optimized supply chains.
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Agentic AI: A Tool to Accelerate Interdisciplinary Research

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Nitish Deshpande, PhD  - Wireless Systems Engineer, Apple · Electrical Engineering (Wireless Communications)
Pallav Ranjan, PhD — Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

The agentic AI framework opens new avenues for researchers from different backgrounds to work together on real-world problems at the intersection of several disciplines.
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