Swami Chandrasekaran has worked through four generations of AI and leads KPMG's move from experimentation into scaling. To understand agents properly, he built an agent harness from scratch rather than reading about frameworks. His mandate splits three ways: innovate, enable, standardize. Rather than build everything, KPMG assembles an ecosystem, which is why he is unusually direct about what gets a startup through the door: be a journey partner, bring differentiated technology, and have the nerve to let an enterprise actually use the product. The through line is the last 40%. Security, trust, scale and adoption are unglamorous, and they are what decides whether an agent ever leaves the demo environment.
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"How We Agent" is Lyzr AI's podcast and video series taking you inside real enterprise AI deployments with sovereign AI, agentic automation, and the production-ready agents actually running in the world's biggest companies. Each episode sits down with industry leaders building (and governing) AI agents at scale