Below the Waterline: The Hidden Engineering That Decides Agentic AI ROI

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Speaker: Nikki Rouda, Senior Director Product Marketing at DataRobot

Agent demos are everywhere. Agentic AI that delivers real enterprise ROI is not. The gap isn't the model or the framework — it's everything below the waterline.

This session examines the three foundational problems every team must solve before production ROI is possible: the developer experience of making agents enterprise-ready, agent identity and authorization for non-human actors, and the token economics to manage spend/increase utilization. None of this work is value-accretive by itself, yet each is a gating condition for the outcomes the business actually asked for.

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