Food and beverage companies manage thousands of interconnected decisions every day across manufacturing, distribution, and operations. Yet many organizations still rely on plans, reports, and manual coordination, which leads to slow response to change and constant firefighting.

A new buzzword is emerging in business operations: agentic systems. In practice, that means using AI for more than analysis or forecasting, and leveraging technologies that can make, coordinate, and adapt decisions across functions in real time.

This session is designed to create a practical framework for this often used term, and explain what agentic AI actually means in an operations context. Attendees will learn how these systems work, how decision making can be decomposed into specialized agents, how those agents coordinate across functions, and how this improves alignment between planning and execution.

The session will include a few practical examples from global food and beverage manufacturers, as well as a blueprint on how your teams can start to leverage these technologies.