AI Agents, Strategy, and Business Models
Our first Post-Industrial Forum event of 2025 is here! We will focus on how AI Agents will revolutionize strategy and business model development, in large organizations as well as in startups.
Most of the conversation around agents so far has been about operations and the impact on individual roles. It is clear, however, the agents will challenge a lot of strategic assumptions. It is important to get in front of this now, because it will be happening soon.
We will discuss:
Challenges in strategy and business model design
How AI agents will accelerate strategy development
Using AI agents to monitor strategy execution
How AI agents will speed business model development
What strategies and business models will become possible (or easier) with AI agents
Autonomous organizations
Addressing technological and cultural obstacles to AI agent deployment
Speakers
- Amit Mulgaonkar, Sr. Strategist, Emerging Tech, SRI
- Frode L. Odegard, CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
- Mick Costigan, VP Salesforce Futures, Salesforce
- Dr. Tatyana Mamut, CEO, Wayfound.ai
- Pepi Menon, VP and CPO, Outshift by Cisco, Cisco
Program
3:00pm - Networking and refreshments
4:00pm - Welcome
4:05pm - Agents and The Future of Firms (Frode Odegard)
4:25pm - Panel Discussion: Agents, Strategy, Business Models
5:25pm - Q&A
5:55pm - Next steps
6:00pm - Close
Our host: This event is kindly sponsored by our friends at SRI, a pioneer in AI research since the 1960s. Some of the earliest work on AI agents was done at SRI.
About the Post-Industrial Institute
Founded in 2004 by Frode Odegard, the Institute is an independent research organization developing strategy and tools for the organizations of the future. We host regular events and summits, conduct independent research, and advise on organizational transformation.
Speaker bios
Dr. Tatyana Mamut
CEO, Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
Pepi Menon
VP and CPO, Outshift by Cisco
Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.
Mick Costigan
VP Salesforce Futures, Salesforce
Mick Costigan leads the Salesforce Futures team, helping Salesforce leadership and customers anticipate, imagine and shape the future, with a focus on AI, sustainability, customer experience, and work. Mick has two decades of experience in innovation and futures at Salesforce and in strategy consulting across four continents. He was also a Salesforce Fellow in the AI policy team at the World Economic Forum.
Frode L. Odegard,
CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Frode Odegard studies how firms can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, an independent research organization developing strategy and tools for the organizations of the future.