You Built the AI Agent. Now What? IBM Think 2026

Most enterprises have AI agents. Very few can run them at scale, govern them across departments, or even see what they're doing. That's the gap IBM watsonx Orchestrate is aiming to close.

Episode Summary
At IBM Think 2026 in Boston, Maribel Lopez sat down with Suzanne Livingston, VP of Product for IBM watsonx Orchestrate, to talk about where enterprise AI has actually arrived — and what it takes to move from building agents to operating them. The conversation covers the full watsonx portfolio, the new Orchestrate Agent Control Plane, and why governance isn't optional once agents start scaling across departments.

What You'll Learn

Why the shift from generative AI to agentic AI changes the entire operating model, not just the technology stack
What an agent control plane does and why visibility across all your agents matters more than perfecting any one of them
How to think about identity, permissions, and access control for AI agents that touch multiple systems
What "agent governance light" looks like for organizations that haven't built a formal governance program yet
How leading enterprises are already treating agents like digital employees — with goals, managers, and performance reviews

Guest Bio
Suzanne Livingston is Vice President of Product Management for IBM watsonx Orchestrate, IBM's enterprise AI orchestration platform. She leads the product team responsible for agent building, orchestration, evaluation, and the recently announced Orchestrate Agent Control Plane. Suzanne presented at IBM Think 2026 in Boston.
Who This Is For

CIOs and CDOs evaluating enterprise agentic AI platforms
IT architects designing multi-agent orchestration across SaaS and on-prem environments
Risk and compliance officers thinking through AI governance for agentic systems
Technology leaders who have piloted AI agents and are now trying to scale them
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🔍 ABOUT MARIBEL LOPEZ
Maribel Lopez is founder and principal analyst at Lopez Research, a technology research and strategy firm focused on enterprise AI. She advises CIOs, CDOs, CMOs, IT leaders and technology vendors on AI adoption, agentic systems, AI governance, and AI-driven customer experience. Her insights have been featured in mainstream TV and print media such as Bloomberg, CGTN, Marketwatch, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and Yahoo Finance. She's also a contributor to Forbes.com, and her research is used by organizations navigating the gap between AI capability and enterprise deployment reality.
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Видео You Built the AI Agent. Now What? IBM Think 2026 канала Maribel Lopez