Join Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader, for an exclusive Ask Me Anything session. Explore the ethical challenges of AI, responsible development, and the future of trustworthy AI in an interactive discussion.

This talk will explore the evolving ethical implications of autonomous AI systems, comparing them to traditional models, and will discuss how to establish AI governance frameworks and core ethical principles as AI innovation progresses.

Let's talk about making AI more impactful for business and society. In this session I'll provide you a perspective why AI Agents are the next evolution step in our AI Journey and how they can enable all of us to scale AI for business impact and innovation. After a short recap about key elements and characteristics of AI agents, I'm going to share meaningful use cases and real-live customer examples as inspiration to start our journey with AI Agents today.

Agents can utilize tools to access real time data and to invoke business logic. Agentic applications can even generate execution plans how multiple agents should be orchestrated for specific tasks. While the capabilities are evolving quickly, agents don't always work reliably. Developers and AI Engineers need to understand how these systems work to improve them. Because of the level of complexity, observability for agents is even more important than for Large Language Models only. In this session you'll learn why observability and transparency are key topics for agents and how the open-source agent framework 'Bee' helps developers to understand agentic flows.