The Intelligent Enterprise

In this special holiday episode of The Intelligent Enterprise, host Tom Stoneman takes a step back from the day-to-day pace of enterprise life to look at where AI has been in 2025 and where it might be heading next. To do it, he sits down with his colleague VS Joshi, Global Head of Product Marketing at Digitate, for a year-end retrospective and a 2026 outlook.

With a front-row seat to how enterprises talk about and adopt AI, VS has watched the story move from prediction and classification to creation, and now to action. He and Tom unpack how generative AI and large language models set the stage, why 2025 became the year of AI agents and agentic AI, and what it really means to treat AI as a “teammate” rather than just a tool. They discuss the botched launch of France’s Lucie chatbot as a cautionary tale about AI readiness and reputational risk, then look ahead to 2026 as a tipping point for autonomous systems, embodied AI, invisible AI embedded in processes, and a new wave of infrastructure, governance, and human–machine collaboration challenges. We also hear how VS’s life as a marathon runner has become his way of resetting outside of work.

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What is The Intelligent Enterprise?

Short on time but curious about how intelligent technology and AI are reshaping the enterprise world? Fear not, my friend. The Intelligent Enterprise is your short, sharp pause from the chaos of business as usual.

Every other week, Creative Thinker and Business Strategist, Tom Stoneman, meets with a business leader for a simple, real-world activity outside of tech, to talk about what’s going on inside it. It could be a coffee, a walk, some DIY, who knows? But it’s a chance to take a break, reflect and get to the heart of a single challenge in enterprise transformation with the help of leading experts in digital transformation, change management and workplace innovation.

From AI implementation strategies to debating the next wave of tech leadership trends, this is a show for CIOs, CTOs, and anyone navigating the fast-moving world of enterprise solutions.

The Intelligent Enterprise is brought to you by Digitate, creators of Ignio, the award-winning AIOps platform that keeps tech running smarter, faster and more autonomously. Join us for a coffee, run, or maybe even a dog-walking session, and get the inside scoop on what’s next for the enterprise world, by getting outside of it.