What to Expect: 

AI is already deliv­er­ing sig­nif­i­cant enter­prise val­ue, with four core use cas­es lead­ing the charge: knowl­edge man­age­ment sys­tems that unlock insti­tu­tion­al exper­tise, cus­tomer ser­vice automa­tion that scales sup­port oper­a­tions, code gen­er­a­tion tools that accel­er­ate devel­op­ment cycles, and indi­vid­ual pro­duc­tiv­i­ty tools that sup­port a broad set of dai­ly tasks. How­ev­er, the future of enter­prise AI lies in agen­tic sys­tems — autonomous AI that can plan, rea­son, and exe­cute com­plex mul­ti-step tasks with min­i­mal human intervention. 

This con­ver­sa­tion will first exam­ine the proven use cas­es gen­er­at­ing ROI today, then explore how agents rep­re­sent a fun­da­men­tal shift from tra­di­tion­al AI imple­men­ta­tions. We’ll define what makes a sys­tem tru­ly ​“agen­tic,” con­trast the dynam­ic deci­sion-mak­ing of agents with the rigid log­ic of tra­di­tion­al work­flows, and sur­vey the emerg­ing plat­form land­scape — from low-lev­el frame­works such as LangChain’s Lang­Graph for tech­ni­cal teams, to no-code builders such as Forge for cit­i­zen devel­op­ers, to domain and ecosys­tem-spe­cif­ic plat­forms such as SAP Joule.

Guest Speak­ers:

Rami Bran­itzky is a Part­ner at Sap­phire Ven­tures and leads the Port­fo­lio Growth plat­form, which he began 10 years ago with a mis­sion to help Sapphire’s port­fo­lio com­pa­nies scale. Under Rami’s lead­er­ship, Port­fo­lio Growth is made up of expe­ri­enced oper­a­tors who play a cru­cial role in help­ing our port­fo­lio com­pa­nies land new cus­tomers, hire excep­tion­al tal­ent, dis­cov­er best prac­tices in the areas of rev­enue and engi­neer­ing excel­lence, and more.

By focus­ing on port­fo­lio CEOs and deliv­er­ing val­ue that mat­ters most to them, Rami and his team have been pri­ma­ry dri­vers of Sapphire’s CEO NPS scope of 82. 

Rami has over 20 years of expe­ri­ence in tech in a vari­ety of roles. Pri­or to Sap­phire Ven­tures, he was CEO of Numen­ta, an inno­va­tor in AI. Pri­or to Numen­ta, he served as man­ag­ing direc­tor of SAP Labs North Amer­i­ca, an orga­ni­za­tion that encom­passed SAP’s devel­op­ment and prod­uct teams across the region. Rami also served as a Senior Vice Pres­i­dent at SAP SE, where he led soft­ware part­ner­ships and busi­ness devel­op­ment glob­al­ly. Rami was an ear­ly mem­ber of Top­Ti­er Soft­ware where he held field and prod­uct lead­er­ship posi­tions, pri­or to the company’s acqui­si­tion by SAP. 

Rami holds a bachelor’s from Hof­s­tra Uni­ver­si­ty, where he grad­u­at­ed magna cum laude, and an MBA in infor­ma­tion sys­tems and finance from New York Uni­ver­si­ty Stern School of Busi­ness. Born in Israel, Rami served in the Israeli Defense Forces, Infantry Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Elec­tron­ics branch, where he was award­ed the Mer­i­to­ri­ous Ser­vice Award.

David Carter is a Part­ner at Sap­phire Ven­tures lead­ing the Engi­neer­ing Excel­lence plat­form.  In this role, he sup­ports the tech­ni­cal lead­ers (VPEs, CTOs) in Sapphire’s port­fo­lio, help­ing them to scale both their orga­ni­za­tions and archi­tec­tures through strat­e­gy guid­ance, peer learn­ings, play­books, part­ner con­nec­tiv­i­ty and oth­er val­ue-add services.

He joined Sap­phire from JP Mor­gan Chase, where he led DevOps strat­e­gy for the Glob­al Tech­nol­o­gy orga­ni­za­tion – a role focused on main­tain­ing the pulse of cloud and DevOps indus­try trends, part­ner­ing close­ly with star­tups, facil­i­tat­ing PoCs and eval­u­a­tions, and devel­op­ing emerg­ing tech adop­tion strate­gies. Pri­or to cor­po­rate strat­e­gy, he worked as a net­work engi­neer with a focus on L4-L7 ser­vices (prox­ies, web app fire­walls, etc). Before JPMC, he devel­oped web-based ERP sys­tems in the man­u­fac­tur­ing industry.

David grad­u­at­ed from the Eller Col­lege of Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ari­zona with a degree in Man­age­ment Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems. He lives in Austin with his wife, son, and two dogs and enjoys camp­ing, rock climb­ing, and BBQ.

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