Preparing for Agentic AI: Top Trends in Data and AI 2026 | Feat. Paul Baier
In 2026, the gap between companies "testing" AI and companies "running" on AI has become a chasm. In this segment of The Data Chief, Paul Baier, CEO and Co-Founder of @GAIInsights, explains why the honeymoon phase of Generative AI is over and the era of Agentic AI has officially arrived.
Paul breaks down how leading enterprises are pulling ahead by moving beyond simple chatbots to autonomous agents that can plan, reason, and execute complex workflows. If you want to know how to reshape your enterprise operating model to stay competitive, this is the field guide you’ve been looking for.
In this segment, we discuss:
- The Execution Gap: Why firms with GenAI already in production are decisively winning the market.
- From "Assistants" to "Agents": How Agentic AI moves from answering questions to autonomously completing multi-step business processes.
- The Leadership Imperative: Why AI literacy and alignment at the C-suite level are now the primary bottlenecks to scaling.
- Rewriting the Playbook: How to shift your operating model to support a hybrid workforce of humans and digital agents.
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