What’s the biggest risk in deploying autonomous agents? It’s not the technology—it’s the lack of rules governing how they operate. John Roese reveals why Dell made governance the foundation of their agentic AI strategy, requiring every agent to carry a Dell-issued identity and operate within a set of non-negotiable specifications. He shares hard-won lessons about identity management, federated architectures and the critical controls needed to prevent chaos while unlocking the transformative power of autonomous agents across your enterprise.
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Chapters:
00:04 – The Biggest Challenge with Agentic AI
00:55 – Rules Over Agents: The Framework-First Approach
01:42 – Dell’s Non-Negotiable Agentic Specification
03:01 – Identity as the Kill Switch
05:23 – No Rogue Agents: The Governance Process
05:38 – Federated Architecture: The Two-Ring Model
06:46 – Incorporating Agents into Enterprise IT, Security and Data Architectures
08:06 – The Takeaway: Governance over Chaos
