ESMT Insight Hour: Who runs the company when AI agents do the work?

The question is no longer whether AI will transform organizations. The question is how you design a company where humans and autonomous agents work side by side. The stakes are high: firms that fail to get the balance right risk losing control, trust, and competitive advantage as work becomes increasingly agentic.

The core challenge? Design hybrid teams, governance, and leadership so agents can carry workload while experts carry judgment, and the organization learns continuously from both.

In this ESMT Insight Hour, Dr. Martin Hofmann, author of The Agentic Enterprise, will present insights from his new book and introduce a new business operating model built around hybrid teams of domain experts and AI agents that sense, decide, learn, and act autonomously. Drawing on the Agentic Enterprise Framework™, he will show how enterprises move beyond automation into true autonomy and why trust becomes the organization’s new operating system.

You’ll gain insight into:

• How to architect hybrid teams of humans and AI agents, and the roles each should play
• Why trust, rather than rules, must become the organization’s operating system
• Practical leadership, governance, and scaling strategies for agentic organizations

Join us to find out what it really takes to lead, scale, and orchestrate intelligence in the era of autonomous agents.

Moderated by Catalina Stefanescu-Cuntze, Professor of Management Science and Faculty Lead, Master in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, ESMT Berlin.

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Host or Publisher ESMT Berlin