Agentic AI | Future of AI Summit 2025
Agentic AI has become the headline act across social media, demos and product decks – but how much of it is real, and what does it mean for business?
At the Financial Times’ Future of AI Summit, Yemi Olagbaiye aims to bring clarity to the topic on a panel exploring what agentic AI means for business.
From Automation to Collaboration: What Agentic AI Means for Business
With investment pouring in and tech giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft racing to define Agentic AI, the promise is immense: smarter workflows, leaner teams, and faster decisions.
But hype alone doesn’t build capability. Most organisations are still grappling with the hard questions:
- Can we trust these systems to operate safely in complex roles?
- What kind of training do our people need to work alongside them or manage them?
- How do we move from pilot projects to production systems that deliver?
This panel delves beyond buzzwords and into the real work of transforming agentic AI into enterprise value. Expect a frank, fast-paced conversation about what’s working, what’s not, and what it’ll take to make this shift real.
Meet the speaker
Yemi Olagbaiye
Director, AI Strategy & Transformation
Yemi Olagbaiye is Director of AI Strategy & Innovation at Softwire. With over 15 years of experience spanning sales, consulting, and innovation strategy, Yemi sits at the intersection of commercial growth and emerging technologies.
His work focuses on helping large enterprises unlock business and customer value through data, AI, and digital transformation. As one of the firm’s most senior commercial leaders, Yemi has driven multi-million-pound growth across both public and private sector portfolios. He now spearheads Softwire’s push into AI strategy, advising clients on how to harness AI not just for productivity gains, but for differentiation, clarity, and long-term resilience.
Known for his provocative takes on the future of AI, Yemi believes we’re entering a new era where taste, (not just technical ability), becomes a strategic asset. He champions the shift from execution to curation as the defining leadership skill of the AI age, and argues that organisations must reimagine how decisions are made, communicated, and trusted in a world increasingly shaped by machine-generated output.
