Kodiak Gas Services has a booming business due to the AI data center buildout; it needs to hire more people and retain the experienced employees it has. The bit: AI-powered digital workers can complement humans in the field and staff up to meet demand.

Adarryl Roberts, Chief Information Officer at the Defense Logistics Agency, said agentic AI is a business change and shouldn't be viewed as just an IT project. And to make agentic AI work, you'll need to first start with making your data ready to be used by AI.

Caterpillar said its autonomous equipment efforts are accelerating, but the company is focused on using its domain knowledge as the differentiation as it trains models.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is betting that a move to the cloud as well as a healthy dose of artificial intelligence will enable it to distribute its weather and forecasting data out faster. First, NOAA is looking to wrangle data, speed up research and process information wherever it is stored.

CarMax is leveraging Auros, which can now add human intelligence to AI and digital experiences.

Capital One walked through how it is evaluating and governing AI agents in production at scale. The company built its own system architecture to wrangle its agents.