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Andre
Kerr
Director, Applied AI Lab
American Express
André Kerr is Director of the Applied AI Lab at American Express, where he leads development of enterprise generative AI products from experimentation to global deployment. He builds high-compliance AI systems for regulated environments, drawing on a background in aerospace engineering and systems engineering. Previously he worked at Raytheon Technologies on propulsion and software systems for aircraft and engine performance. He holds an MS in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from City College of New York. He is also an instructor and mentor in AI, focused on practical, scalable and responsible AI systems.
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29 October 2026 12:30 - 13:00
Panel | From GenAI to autonomous workflows: how teams are evolving their AI systems
Many teams start with contained GenAI pilots: narrow use cases, limited integrations, and clear human oversight. Once those same systems are expected to power larger workflows, the assumptions behind how the generative layer was designed stop holding up. This session looks at what shifts inside the generative stack as organisations move from experiments to workflow‑level impact. It focuses on the points where prompting, retrieval, evaluation, and model orchestration start to strain as systems become more connected and their outputs drive real work. What this session will cover: - Where early GenAI pilots and “feature‑level” architectures begin to fall short once they’re asked to support end‑to‑end workflows - How prompting and retrieval design change when outputs become dependencies between steps instead of one‑off results - What evaluation needs to look like when generated outputs trigger actions, not just acceptable answers - How teams are reshaping their generative stack before introducing genuinely autonomous or agentic behaviour