Biography
Avinash Jha is Senior Director and Head of API & Integration at Volvo Group, where he leads the integration architecture that connects enterprise systems, data and partners in real time. His work focuses on moving agentic AI beyond proof-of-concept: making live data available to agents, and solving the harder problems underneath — agent identity, delegated authority, fine-grained access control, observability and accountability for agent actions. He is the author of a widely downloaded white paper on real-time integration and agentic AI.
Session
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Keynote 2 - The Hidden Blockers to Autonomous Operations
Tuesday 22 September, 10:00 – 10:15Auditorium StageAutonomous AI agents promise to revolutionize enterprise operations, moving beyond simple chat interfaces to execute complex, multi-step business workflows. Yet, despite massive investments in state-of-the-art LLMs, most enterprise agent pilots hit a hard wall when deployed into real-world operational environments. They loop endlessly, act on stale batch data, bypass security controls, or trigger cascade failures across critical backend systems. The problem isn't the intelligence of the model; it's the fragmentation of the underlying enterprise architecture. In this session, Avinash Jha explores why autonomous agents collapse without a Unified Information Fabric. Drawing from real-world enterprise failure modes, this talk breaks down the critical infrastructure gaps, from legacy API boundaries to unmonitored tool execution and presents a pragmatic blueprint for bridging AI reasoning with enterprise execution. Key Takeaways: The Enterprise Integration Gap: Why traditional, deterministic API gateways fail when handling non-deterministic, agentic execution loops and dynamic prompt streams. The Three-Tier Gateway Topology: How to complement existing API Gateways with AI/LLM Gateways (for model routing, streaming, and token cost controls) and MCP Gateways (for agent tool discovery, runtime context, and kill-switch governance). Zero-Trust Identity for Agents: How to replace high-privilege service accounts with task-scoped, short-lived cryptographic tokens to prevent runaway agent actions. The Unified Fabric Blueprint: A step-by-step architectural framework to connect real-time event streams, model context protocols, and legacy systems of record into a resilient foundation for autonomous operations.