Institutionalizing AI | Viren Shah, Aryn Drawdy

Who is allowed to build AI agents at your company? At AGCO, the world's largest pure-play manufacturer of agriculture equipment, the answer is everyone. Viren Shah and Aryn Drawdy of AGCO present how the company is democratizing AI across the enterprise through a dual-track strategy that pairs bottom-up citizen development with enterprise-scale agent deployment, in a session hosted by Sharon Chen of Akila. The session covers AGCO's three-pillar framework of value, technology, and people, a zone-based governance model that gives employees a safe sandbox to experiment while activating checkpoints as agents scale, an infinity loop between citizen-developed and enterprise agents, the shift from task automation to decision automation in cross-functional processes, and the Talking Tractor, an AI-powered multilingual voice interface that is transforming how operators around the world learn to use agricultural machinery.