Executive Dinner

29 Sep 2026

Executive Dinner

Scaling AI and Automation : Efficiency Without Duplication

29 Sep 2026

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Why do companies that treat automation and AI as separate investments end up paying twice — and scaling neither?

You’ve likely already invested in automation and AI. The real question is no longer whether to move forward, but how to sequence your building blocks, from RPA to autonomous agents, to deliver measurable value.

For some organizations, AI and automation are already delivering concrete results. For many others, they mostly generate costly complexity. The difference isn’t about budget — it’s about how leaders sequence their investments: process mining, RPA, intelligent document processing, then autonomous agents.

Strategic focus areas

Measuring and proving business value

Which use cases actually deliver on their promise? How do you prove ROI in a language the CFO trusts, with a strategy driven by outcomes rather than technology.

Risk in the age of autonomous systems

The shift from deterministic RPA to autonomous agents redefines governance, trust, and regulatory exposure. Who’s accountable when an agent makes a costly mistake, and how do you build a risk model that holds up against the EU AI Act?

Knowing when to industrialize, when to experiment

RPA, intelligent document processing, agentic AI: each maturity level has its right use case. Where should you scale what’s proven, where should you experiment with what’s emerging, and what operating model does that require?

Why you should attend?

  • Benchmark your organization’s automation portfolio (RPA, document processing, agentic AI) against your peers.
  • A practical framework for deciding what to scale now and what to keep experimenting with.
  • IDC’s take on market timing and upcoming regulatory exposure.
  • Test your value, risk, and governance trade-offs against peers facing the same decisions, in a closed-door, peer-only setting.

Agenda

Executive Dinner

One Day Event

7:00PM

Welcome and Networking Cocktail

7:30PM

IDC Welcome Speech and Positioning

Neil Ward-Dutton

Neil Ward-Dutton

VP Global Enterprise AI and Agentic AI Strategies, IDC

Guillaume Rameaux

Guillaume Rameaux

Modérateur, IDC

7:45PM

Welcome from IDC & Uipath

Heather Barton-Jones

Heather Barton-Jones

Area Vice President – Strategic Transformation Office, UiPath

8:00PM

Dinner Roundtable Discussions

  • Measuring and proving business value
  • Risk in the age of autonomous systems
  • Knowing when to industrialize, when to experiment
10:30PM

Thank you from IDC and Uipath

Market Insights

$21,5 B

Size of the European automation platforms market by 2029

45,8%

Annual growth rate of AI and agentic automation in Europe, the market’s fastest-growing segment

28.8%

​Share of AI-driven automation in the European market by 2029, up from 11.7% in 2024

25.6%

of European organizations rank AI and automation as the technology area most protected from budget cuts

Speakers

Neil Ward-Dutton

Neil Ward-Dutton

VP Global Enterprise AI and Agentic AI Strategies

IDC

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Guillaume Rameaux

Guillaume Rameaux

Modérateur

IDC

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Heather Barton-Jones

Heather Barton-Jones

Area Vice President – Strategic Transformation Office

UiPath

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Sponsors

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Venue

Hôtel The Burgundy

6-8 Rue Duphot, 75001 Paris

Located in the heart of the 1st arrondissement, The Burgundy Paris embodies French elegance and refinement. This 5-star hotel, blending contemporary design with a Haussmannian spirit, offers an ideal setting for exceptional events. Its bright reception rooms, attentive service and intimate atmosphere create an environment conducive to exchange and inspiration.

Just steps from Rue Saint-Honoré and the Tuileries Garden, The Burgundy Paris combines comfort, discretion and prestige – the perfect venue to rethink the future of work in the age of AI together.

Eligibility Criteria

This is an invitation-only evening, limited to around twenty executives, reserved for C-level decision-makers and their direct reports (C-1) at end-user companies with 5,000+ employees. Registrations from technology vendors, systems integrators, or consulting firms may be declined at the organizer's discretion. Attendance is intentionally limited to preserve the quality and candor of the discussion.