Presentation: Architecting AI Systems for the Messy Reality of Enterprises: Why Agentic Compute is the Missing Layer

Arun Joseph: My talk today is going to focus entirely on enterprises. There will be different definitions of agents. You might have heard about Cursors, Lovables, and autonomous agents that run for hours, but I'm going to ground it in the context of enterprises. That's why I call it agents for the rest of us in enterprises. Building anything greenfield is easy. If you want to, in enterprises, you already have the cars, you already have the trucks, you need to lift it up and then fly. This is the aura that AI actually brings in. My name is Arun Joseph. I was here talking about our journey in my previous role as head of AI engineering for Deutsche Telekom. There was a program that we did, which we envisioned in 2023. We were one of the first agentic platforms to go live, potentially, as I know, in Europe or elsewhere, and that too in a large enterprise like Deutsche Telekom. I was leading that program. It was entirely built open source. It's called LMOS. It stands for Language Models Operating System. It's now moved under Eclipse Foundation and still running in Deutsche Telekom across multiple countries. Ever since, I…