48 - CIO's Survival Guide to the Agentic AI Era with Sumit Taneja

About this episode

Sumit Taneja discusses the challenges and realities of implementing agentic AI in enterprises based on his extensive experience.

Sumit Taneja, SVP and Global Head of AI Consulting at EXL Service, took one of the most unconventional paths to the top of enterprise AI — and he's got the battle scars to prove it. In this episode, Sumit breaks down real agentic AI deployments, why most enterprises are failing at AI readiness, and the hard truth about what it actually takes to get AI working at scale. No hype. No theory. Just 25 years of hard-won experience distilled into one conversation.

People in this episode

Guest: Sumit Taneja

Topics covered

• agentic AI
• AI deployments
• enterprise AI
• AI readiness
• AI at scale

Keywords

• AI
• enterprise
• deployments
• readiness
• consulting
• technology
• business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EXL Service

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