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The Intelligent Control Plane: Trusted Orchestration of Agentic AI

The era of siloed automation is over. Join the 2026 Automation Virtual Summit to explore "The Next Horizon: The Intelligent Control Plane." Learn how to evolve enterprise automation into a strategic foundation that securely governs your AI investments.

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    Build Your Intelligent Control Plane:

    Learn how to reposition workload automation as the foundational execution layer for enterprise AI and data product delivery, coordinating and governing operations across all hybrid environments.

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    Operationalize AI with Confidence:

    Discover how to embed AI jobs directly into orchestrated workflows, making every AI execution a governed, auditable object, reliable component of your business processes with necessary human-in-the-loop controls.

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    Embrace Agentic AI:

    Explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how to support distributed agent ecosystems, ensuring coordination and security as your enterprise adopts external AI services.

ON-DEMAND RECORDINGS

01

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Jeff Hughes

Head of Marketing, Automation by Broadcom

Join tech entrepreneur, innovation expert, and jazz guitarist Josh Linkner as he explores our new reality. In an AI-driven world, our most critical competitive advantage is human creativity. This session will challenge you to think differently, showing how the fusion of human ingenuity and intelligent automation can unlock profound value and empower the innovator within your teams.

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The Human Advantage: Trusted Orchestration for AI Amplification, Not Replacement

Sol Rashidi

World's 1st Chief AI Officer, Best-selling Author

The future of work is not humans vs. machines—it’s humans with machines. While many organizations are currently deploying AI to cut costs, the true value of AI lies in its ability to elevate capability. Sol Rashidi reframes this challenge, introducing

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Speed, Resilience, Trust: Why Automation is the Ultimate Agentic AI Accelerator

Serge Lucio | Kieran Taylor

GM Agile Operations Division, Broadcom | Head of Marketing Agile Operations Division, Broadcom

Deploying Agentic AI today presents enterprises with an impossible choice: give models unfettered access to mission-critical systems or build a complex, fragile safety infrastructure from scratch. In this executive session, Serge Lucio explores a strategic “third way” and how the future of enterprise automation is tailor-made for the agentic era. Learn why an Intelligent Control Plane provides the observability and governance critical to safely scaling autonomous systems, and how automation professionals can leverage their unmatched expertise in operational speed and resilience to take the lead in accelerating AI initiatives

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The Intelligent Control Plane in Practice: Four Proven Scenarios for Private and Public Cloud

Dave Kellermanns

Global Solution Architect

What does an Intelligent Control Plane look like in the real world? In this rapid-fire session, Dave Kellermanns explores how organizations are already deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with Automic Automation to reduce effort, eliminate costs, and sustain innovation. From push-button disaster recovery to fully-governed RAG data pipelines, we'll examine four field-tested architectural patterns that are making a difference to major global enterprises as they prepare for a landscape of AI-fueled growth, increased operational threats, and unrelenting hybrid complexity.

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Autonomous Rightsizing and More: Zero-Touch IT Delivery with VCF and Automic

Fernando Sousa | Andrés Flores

RTO, Broadcom | IT Infrastructure Sr. Manager, Evertec

Your infrastructure health checks may be green, but if the business waits for manual processing of routine VM requests like rightsizing, true agility remains out of reach. Triage, complex approvals, testing, and sequential handoffs cost hours, days, or even weeks of delay—and drain valuable IT resources. There's a better way. By combining VCF Operations' deep diagnostic analytics with Automic Automation's execution power, you can add operational intelligence to your environment for a zero-touch, self-healing infrastructure. In this session, fintech leader Evertec will join Broadcom to explore using an intelligent control plane to process observability alerts and autonomously execute error-free VM right-sizing in just two minutes - seamlessly updating VCF, ITSM, and CMDB. We'll show how to eliminate manual bottlenecks, and explore ways to expand this self-governing ecosystem across other complex operations.

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New Research: The Orchestration Accountability Gap

David Gehringer | Aline Gerew

Dimensional Research | Head of Automation, Agile Operations Division, Broadcom

Join David Gehringer of Dimensional Research and Aline Gerew, Head of Automation, Agile Operations Division, Broadcom for a discussion about the new findings from a global survey of over 500 IT leaders. The research identifies a critical Orchestration Accountability Gap that is creating significant IT audit and compliance problems for most organizations today. Learn why the issues plaguing IT now will only be magnified by AI, and what steps you must take to build a foundation for future success.

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Beyond the AI Black Box: A Governance Blueprint for Auditable & Resilient Workflows

Caroline Denoon-Slater

Global Solution Architect, Broadcom

In today's modern enterprise, the 'black box' of AI creates significant risk. This session moves beyond the hype to offer a practical governance framework for deploying AI that you can trust. Learn how to transform high-risk processes into auditable, resilient workflows with real-world use cases. Join us to discover how to establish a governed AI foundation that enforces trajectory integrity and empowers you to confidently manage risk and maintain confidence in your AI initiatives.

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Quantifying Trusted Orchestration: Measuring Cost, Performance, and Quality in the AI Era

Jon Hiett

Global Solution Architect, Broadcom

Operating a truly Intelligent Control Plane requires unprecedented operational and financial visibility. It is no longer enough to know if a job is executed; you must understand its cost, reliability, and business impact. In this session, Jon Hiett reveals how to contextualize the cost of automation against overall performance. Discover how analyzing financial chargeback models alongside SLA success rates and workflow resilience empowers IT to align technical execution directly with departmental outcomes and drive enterprise efficiency.

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Navigating the New Horizon: Delivering Trusted Automation for Agentic AI and VCF

Rajeev Kumar

Head of Product, Automation by Broadcom

Where is enterprise automation headed, and how do we get there? This session paints the big-picture view: a future where siloed, script-bound automation gives way to a governed, AI-augmented orchestration fabric - an intelligent control plane. Join Rajeev Kumar, Head of Product, to outline the vision across four fronts: agentic AI orchestration and the evolving role of enterprise automation; prompt-driven "vibe coding" that delivers automation efficiency at lightspeed; an observability and governance layer delivering predictive insights and FinOps-grade cost control; and a VCF-native, cloud-aligned foundation for elastic scale.

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Access the 2026 Automation Virtual Summit On-Demand to explore "The Next Horizon: The Intelligent Control Plane." Learn how to evolve enterprise automation from Broadcom, Google Cloud, and Automation leaders on how to create a strategic workflow foundation that securely governs your AI investments. Register now to learn how teams can operationalize AI with confidence and prove the value of your automation investment today. 
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