Not the CIO’s job? Getting your organisation AI agent ready – “the promise and the peril”

"Massive questions that we are grappling with, from the balcony all the way down to the dance floor"

Updated Jul 11, 2025 1:02 PM / Published Jul 10, 2025 2:09 PM 4 min read

Not the CIO’s job? Getting your organisation AI agent ready – “the promise and the peril”

How businesses prepare themselves for the use of AI “agents” is not merely a technology problem. It’s a multi-stakeholder strategic business challenge in a way that cloud migrations or other IT modernisation programmes weren’t. That was the view that emerged during a panel of digital leaders from Accenture, Lloyd’s Banking Group, Unilever and Virgin Media 02 in a packed out breakout session at Google Cloud NEXT.

“Multi-agent enterprises: Evolving today, revolutionising tomorrow” was the title and The Stack was in the room. (The session wasn’t recorded so if you want to get the details, this is going to be the only place for them…)

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Edward Targett

Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.