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Oren
Michels
Co-Founder & CEO
Barndoor.ai
Oren is an entrepreneur, investor, board member, and advisor to technology startups in the US and Europe. He’s co-founder and CEO of Barndoor AI, the control plane for agentic AI in the enterprise. He co-founded Mashery in 2006 and served as CEO until Intel acquired the company in 2013. Oren is also a Tony-nominated Broadway and Off-Broadway producer whose credits include Romeo+Juliet and Good Night and Good Luck, starring George Cloney. His angel investments include Uber, Pebble Post, and eero. Oren has advised numerous enterprise software companies on developing and implementing strategies for growth and in closing M&A transactions. He also served on the US Government Health Information Technology Policy Enrollment Workgroup at the invitation of the White House CTO. Oren has spoken at numerous conferences around the world, including SXSW, Le Web, f.ounders, the Dublin Web Summit, Web 2.0, and Podim Slovenia and has guest lectured at MIT, Columbia, Cal and UCLA. Prior to founding Mashery, Oren was VP at Feedster, a search engine and ad network for RSS feeds, where he led the company’s business development efforts in the US and China, closing partnerships with AOL, Real Networks and Mitsui. He was president of ColtHR (a SaaS employee benefits management platform) and of winebid.com (the Internet’s largest wine auction house). He also spent a year as ED and CEO of The Groundlings, a Los Angeles based comedy improv theatre company.
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30 October 2025 11:45 - 12:15
The agentic ecosystem: Lessons and tasks for IT and management
Agentic systems are the most powerful impact of GenAI in the workplace, modifying existing workflows and discovering new efficiencies, new adjacencies and alliances, even new products and business models. They require dramatic transformations of internal and external processes, while sustaining security, visibility, and governance. IT needs a high level of business operations knowhow, and business leaders must develop sophisticated technology understanding. What lessons can we draw from both previous transitions, and from fast-moving companies here and in China? How will people manage the burgeoning ecosystem of AI systems, agents, and MCPs, while maintaining compliance and control?