In this episode, Brad Hairston speaks with Tom Davenport, a renowned author, professor, and one of the leading voices in AI and analytics, who provides a good reality check on how and where agentic AI is beginning to emerge.

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- The perspective Tom contributed to the book Agentic Artificial Intelligence by Pascal Bornet, published in March of 2025

- What’s most exciting and most concerning about agentic AI

- The pace of agentic AI adoption

- The way most companies are easing into agentic AI

- Overall readiness to give machines decision-making authority

- How early-stage agentic experiments or proof of concepts are falling short

- The value of showing real proof points

- How higher ed students view the agentic trend

- The opportunity to reinvent education with AI

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In this episode, Brad Hairston talks with Andy Dyer, Automation Manager at Devon & Cornwall Police, who explains how the police force has leveraged automation to impact several areas of the organization, including ESG objectives.

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- The automation journey at Devon & Cornwall Police

- Automations that have had the biggest impact

- How ESG became an underlying objective of the automation program

- Automation examples tied to ESG goals

- Critical success factors for Devon & Cornwall’s automation program

- How the mindset of the organization has changed

- Advice for automation leaders trying to breathe new life into their programs

- What’s next for Devon & Cornwall on the automation front

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In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI.

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News stories covered in this episode:

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The CEO of a $62B data and AI company says people underestimate how hard it is to completely automate tasks

https://www.businessinsider.com/when-ai-automation-replacing-humans-databricks-ceo-ali-ghodsi-2025-6

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Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027

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China’s biggest public AI drop since DeepSeek, Baidu’s open source Ernie, is about to hit the market

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/china-biggest-ai-drop-since-deepseek-baidus-ernie-to-hit-market.html

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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

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In this episode, Brad Hairston talks with Dr. Lou Bachenheimer, CTO Americas at SS&C Blue Prism, who explains how companies can take their RPA automations to the next level, task-based agentic automation.

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Here’s what we talked with Lou about:

- The different levels of agentic automation

- The key differences between today’s RPA and task-based agents

- How companies can begin moving toward task-based agents

- The importance of governance in the agentic realm

- Changing skill sets needed in automation teams

- Why now the right time for enterprises to make this transition

- The future of agents and RPA

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In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI.

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News stories covered in this episode:

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The Gentle Singularity

https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity

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What “Working” Means in the Era of AI Apps

https://a16z.com/revenue-benchmarks-ai-apps/

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Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-universal-sue-image-creator-midjourney-copyright-infringement-2025-06-11/

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Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1 https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/midjourney-launches-its-first-ai-video-generation-model-v1/

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In this episode, Brad Hairston talks with Grzegorz Wasiak, Sr. RPA Developer at Electrolux, based in Krakow, Poland. Grzegorz was awarded the 2025 customer excellence award, “Global Builder of the Year,” and he shares many best practices that contributed to him getting this recognition.

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- Overview of Electrolux

- What the SS&C Blue Prism Global Builder of the Year award means to Grzegorz

- The evolution of the RPA developer

- Why managing agents, data and guardrails together is essential

- The importance of cloud competence for RPA developers

- Perfecting the collaboration between the automation team and other stakeholders

- Measuring success of automation projects

- How a "culture of innovation" within Electrolux contributes to automation success

- Automation success story

- Some parting advice to other automation developers

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In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI.

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News stories covered in this episode:

Sam Altman says Meta is offering $100 million to poach his employees https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/18/tech/meta-openai-sam-altman-100-million

AI Agents Alone Won’t Automate The Enterprise—But They Can Make It Smarter - https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/06/17/ai-agents-alone-wont-automate-the-enterprise-but-they-can-make-it-smarter/

How To Stay Ahead Of AI – The Human Skills Universities Must Teach https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2025/06/08/how-to-stay-ahead-of-ai--the-human-skills-universities-must-teach/

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