IBM x KI Park - The Intelligent Enterprise Stack | AI. Automation. Resilience.

​Join IBM x KI Park for an afternoon exploring how AI-driven automation enables scalable, resilient enterprise operations across the stack.

​Hear real use cases from leading organisations, exchange peer insights and connect with practitioners and solution builders.

​Why join > learn more on:

• ​Why enterprise AI fails without orchestration across cloud, infrastructure, APIs, and operations

• ​Autonomous AI networks: from hype to enterprise value

• ​Why AI agents need organizational context, not just access to data via MCP, building a “Corporate Brain” to enable smarter enterprise AI systems

• ​How small engineering teams can run and scale enterprise SaaS platforms using AI and automation

• ​Lessons on resilience, scalability, governance, and hidden AI risks from real production environments

​Agenda

• ​14:00 – 15:00 Registration  & Coffee

• ​15:00 – 15:45 Opening keynotes

  • ​Dr. Florian Schutz, Managing Director, KI Park

  • ​The Enterprise Complexity Ceiling: Why the Tech Stack Isn’t Getting Smaller, A discussion of AI-infused Automation to the architecture of organizations by Sebastian Grodzietzki, Principal DACH Automation Developer Ecosystems Leader & DACH Quantum Ambassador Leader, IBM

• ​15:45 – 17:30 Case perspectives & peer insights

  • ​"Building Autonomous Networks: From AI Potential to Value" by Karim Kotobi, Vodafone, Global Digital Product and Transformation Leader

  • ​"Why MCP is Only the Plumbing: Building the Contextual Foundation for AI Agents" by Bastian Maiworm, Amber, Co-founder

  • ​"Rethinking SaaS Engineering: How Small Teams Run and Evolve Enterprise-scale Systems in the AI era" Matthias Heicke, CTO / Co-Founder, Sweap.io

• ​17:30 – 18:10 Fishbowl Discussion – Audience participation/Interactive

• ​18:10 – 19:30 Networking & Drinks

​Detailed overview of content:

​"The Enterprise Complexity Ceiling: Why the Tech Stack Isn’t Getting Smaller, A discussion of AI-infused Automation to the architecture of organizations" by IBM - Modern enterprise tech stacks are messy - by design: Multi-cloud, uncountable APIs, legacy + new. Now add AI across everything. It doesn’t reduce complexity; it magnifies it. We’ve hit the ceiling. This keynote discusses the risks, the failures, the ways out and tech stacks that prevent service disruption, protect reputation and think ahead.

​"Building Autonomous Networks: From AI Potential to Value" by Vodafone - This talk presents a pragmatic approach to Autonomous Networks, focusing on value‑driven autonomy rather than technology alone. It explores how data, AI, and product thinking are combined to scale from isolated use cases to end‑to‑end autonomous outcomes, delivering measurable performance, cost efficiency, and/or operational simplification.

​"Why MCP is Only the Plumbing: Building the Contextual Foundation for AI Agents" by Amber - Enterprise AI can now access organizational data through standards like MCP — but access alone doesn’t create understanding. This session explores why autonomous AI agents need deeper contextual foundations, what a practical “Corporate Brain” looks like, where current approaches fail, and how enterprise AI architectures will evolve over the next 2–3 years.

​"Rethinking SaaS Engineering: How Small Teams Run and Evolve Enterprise-scale Systems in the AI era", by Sweap.io - Software engineering is shifting from building systems to continuously operating and evolving them. This session explores how a small team at Sweap runs a large-scale event platform using automation, serverless, and AI, and what this means for architecture, team structure, and maintaining reliable systems under constant growth and change.

​Who should attend

• ​Tech decision-makers across the enterprise stack

• ​Platform, product and engineering leaders

​Curated audience. Limited seats.

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