AI agents promise a step change in how work gets done — but only if they are grounded in trusted data and kept under meaningful human oversight. Many organizations are moving fast on agentic use cases while still facing incomplete context, unclear accountability, and limited control, which makes it hard to scale agents safely.

This impulse session brings together leading experts to explore how enterprises can keep agents, data and humans in the loop as AI systems become more autonomous. Five senior data and AI leaders will ignite the discussion with a focused perspective:

• How Leaders Close the Governance Gap for Agentic AI (Faye Murray)
• How to Find the Checkpoints That Actually Matter in Human Oversight (Sina Wulfmeyer)
• Integrating Humans, Data, and Agents for Responsible Risk Management (Sonja Zillner)
• Why the Context Layer Coding Agents Read From Has No CDO (Dean Marti)
• The Data & Agent Readiness Crisis (Frank Block)

How does the Impulse Session work?

In the second part of the session, speakers will rotate across interactive working groups, giving participants the opportunity to exchange ideas, test perspectives, and actively shape the conversation.