Event Moment: Paul Langowski on Pushing AI Beyond Prediction to Transform the Business

In this main stage panel discussion with leaders from WB Mason, Microsoft, and BDO, Paul Langowski, Managing Director of Enterprise Business Applications, BDO, shared how AI agents can move beyond traditional forecasting to uncover new signals, anticipate business impacts, and enable capabilities that were previously impossible.

Key Takeaways

AI Moves Predictive Analytics to the Next Level: Organizations have long used AI and machine learning for forecasting and planning, but agents can incorporate a much broader range of contextual information. By continuously monitoring external signals, AI can uncover factors that traditional models may never have considered.

Contextual Intelligence Creates New Business Capabilities: AI agents can connect information such as road closures, local events, and other environmental factors to business decisions. This allows organizations to anticipate changes in customer behavior and respond before those changes affect operations.

AI Creates Possibilities Beyond Incremental Improvement: The opportunity is not simply to automate existing processes or make current tasks more efficient. By using AI to accomplish things that were previously impractical or impossible, businesses can fundamentally rethink how technology creates value.

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