Seattle Board Meeting | July 30 2025
Meeting | Agenda | Members | Format
8am - 12noon:
What’s Real Today (Closed-Door Member-only session)
Agentic AI has captured imaginations - where is it actually delivering value today?
This morning session is designed to surface the most grounded, ROI-positive examples from enterprise deployments—whether assistive AI agents or more autonomous Agentic AI (Definitions are here). We’ll lean on each other’s lived experience to build a realistic snapshot of the current state, and a practical, experience-based playbook for overcoming common blockers.
Our plan
- What’s real today: Each member to share one concrete use case that’s shown ROI or real traction
- Extract solutions for blockers: Identify the top 2–3 shared barriers to moving forward and crowdsource different ways this group has tackled it
- Build the playbook: Leave with a practical framework of “what’s working, what’s in the way, and how to move through it”
Please be prepared to discuss
- What’s one use case that has delivered/will deliver meaningful impact? Was it assistive (AI agent) or autonomous (Agentic AI)?
- What has been your hardest blocker in progressing this work? How have you and others begun to overcome that challenge?
The outcome we want
A shared map of what’s real, where the edge is, and how this group is navigating the transition from pilots to production.
Lunch 12noon - 1pm
Birds of a Feather Table Discussion
1pm - 5:30pm:
Looking Around the Corner (Guest Members join)
With the morning grounded in the now, the afternoon shifts to the near horizon: What’s next in platforms, architecture, and capability? We will debate with industry builders, platform leaders, and research voices on where things are going - so we can anticipate how our strategies, systems, and organizations must evolve.
Our plan
- Scan the horizon for emerging capabilities in agentic AI - planning, memory, autonomy, multi-agent collaboration
- Understand how platform and enterprise architecture are shifting - open protocols, orchestration layers, governance mechanisms
- Explore what operating at scale looks like: what’s required to get there?
- Decode platform provider directionality: how are leaders reshaping around agents/agentic?
Please be prepared to question
- How are agent capabilities evolving, and what will be ready in the next 12–18 months?
- What architectural models are proving effective at supporting autonomy across systems?
- What early patterns are forming in industry adoption - and what’s breaking?
- How should we think about organizing for autonomy - what operating model shifts are on the horizon?
Dinner 615pm - 900pm
Board dinner and continuing group conversations.
Executive Technology Board (c)
Definitions: AI agent and Agentic AI