The Path to Autonomous Organizations: Obstacles and Possibilities

How will AI agents transform the structure, governance, and economics of organizations?
At our February 2026 Post-Industrial Summit, we explored the rise of Autonomous Organizations with speakers from NVIDIA, Cisco, Salesforce, OpenAI, GreyOrange, XOPS, Neo4J, Atlan, and other industry leaders.
AI orchestration and execution of work are now widespread. Foundation models and agent platforms are advancing rapidly. Emerging standards are making it possible to connect agents across organizational boundaries. As the Global Agent Economy is emerging, another topic we have covered over the past year. Soon a majority of economic activity will be orchestrated by AI agents. They will curate products and services, negotiate terms, orchestrate delivery, and monitor satisfaction.
Join us for a focused discussion about what is needed to achieve Autonomous Organizations, and what will turbo-charge progress in the next 18-24 months.
You will learn about:
How Autonomous Organizations adapt and evolve faster
Types of Autonomous Organizations
Stages in the journey to Autonomous Organizations
Obstacles we will face (social and technical)
Workforce, customer, and supplier implications
How AI agents will link organizations together
Emerging industry standards
Governance in Autonomous Organizations
What lies beyond Autonomous Organizations
Who should attend
This event is aimed at Enterprise Leaders engaged in organizational transformation and AI founders. Seating is strictly limited and subject to approval.

Agenda
5:00 pm Networking and refreshments
6:00 pm Welcome to the Post-Industrial Forum

6:10 pm Presentations
Frode L. Odegard, Founder, Post-Industrial Institute
Nitin Badjata, fmr. SVP of Solution Management, SAP

7:00 pm Roundtable discussion
Facilitator: Blaine Mathieu, Host, Post-Industrial Forum

7:45 pm Networking and refreshments
8:30 pm Close
Post-Industrial Forum Members: Please use your code for complimentary attendance.
Sponsors: This event is kindly sponsored by our friends at SRI, a pioneer in AI research since the 1960s. Some of the earliest work on AI agents was done at SRI.
About the Post-Industrial Forum
Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.
In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.
We share original PII research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.
Speakers

Blaine Mathieu
Host, Post-Industrial Forum
Blaine Mathieu is a growth-stage executive with a record of turning AI and SaaS innovation into scalable business value. His career in Silicon Valley spans Gartner, Adobe, Corel, and GoodData as CEO, CMO, and CPO. He built and ran the Startup Advisory Practice at Momenta VC. Most recently, Blaine served as co-founder and CEO of Pratexo, an energy and asset intelligence startup.
Blaine combines deep product, go-to-market, and operational expertise across startups and public companies to accelerate revenue and market adoption. He is known for building partnerships that translate cutting-edge technology (AI, ML, IoT, edge, cloud) into real-world impact in energy, industrial, and enterprise software markets around the world.
Blaine is the author of The River Doesn't Wait: A Senior Executive Guide to Navigating the Surge of Agentic AI and Pulling Away From Your Competitors, ‎Murphys Business Press, June 2026.

Frode Odegard
CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
Frode is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, an independent research organization developing strategy and tools for the organizations of the future.
Frode founded his first startup in high school in Norway, M2CS, which built a next-generation development environment for embedded systems programming.
Frode immigrated to Silicon Valley in the early 1990s and founded an independent R&D lab, Odegard Labs, which worked with enterprise customers to solve difficult problems in software architecture, quality, and reengineering. Odegard Labs also did pathbreaking work in formal methods and language design.
In 2004 Frode founded the Post-Industrial Institute, with the mission to develop a new school of management science for the post-industrial era. In 2019 he also founded the Post-Industrial Forum, a community for visionary leaders building the organizations of the future.

Nitin Badjata
fmr SVP of Solution Management, SAP
Nitin Badjatia has spent thirty years building product strategies and go-to-market narratives for some of enterprise software's most consequential companies. He came to the field by way of institutional finance before pivoting into software at Oracle and Siebel Systems, then spent the next two decades shaping strategy and market messaging at RightNow Technologies, Oracle, ServiceNow, and SAP, most recently as Senior Vice President for Solution Management overseeing a multi-billion dollar CX business.

A Consortium for Service Innovation Innovator Award recipient, founding board member of Customer Commons, and frequent contributor to prominent publications, Nitin's latest commentary can be found at his Substack (www.nitinbadjatia.com) and personal weblog (Badjatia.com).
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