​Note: Seating is strictly limited and subject to approval. This event is aimed at Enterprise Executives and AI founders.

​Early Access Briefing: Autonomous Organizations

​We are moving from augmenting human knowledge workers to automating entire business functions using AI Agents. Very soon these functions will be unthinkable without AI. The nature of AI transformation has changed, and we are now moving toward building entire organizations that are increasingly autonomous.

​We will discuss:

• ​Types of Autonomous Organizations

• ​Stages in the journey to Autonomous Organizations

• ​Obstacles we will face (social and technical)

• ​New directions in workforce transformation

• ​How AI agents will link organizations together

• ​What lies beyond Autonomous Organizations

​Agenda

​5:00pm: Networking and Refreshments

​6:00pm: The Journey To Autonomous Organizations
Frode Odegard, CEO, Post-Industrial Institute

​6:30pm: Roundtable Discussion (all participants)
Moderator: Blaine Mathieu

​7:30pm: Networking and Refreshments

​8:00pm: Close

​Our host: This event is kindly sponsored by our friends at SRI, a pioneer in AI research since the 1960s. Some of the earliest work on AI agents was done at SRI.

​About the Post-Industrial Forum

​​Based in Silicon Valley, the Post-Industrial Institute (PII) was founded by Frode Odegard in 2004. Our mission is to develop new management science, frameworks, and tools for leaders building the firms of the future.

​​In 2019, we launched the Post-Industrial Forum—a community for visionary leaders who are building new pathbreaking firms or transforming leading enterprises. Members connect with peers, learn together, and apply insights to accelerate their journey.

​​We share original PII research with members and invite industry experts and executives from pioneering organizations to offer their insights. The Forum hosts public events and summits, as well as member-exclusive programs delivered both in person and online through a dedicated member portal featuring exclusive content.

​Speakers

​Frode Odegard
CEO, Post-Industrial Institute

​​Frode is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, an independent research organization developing strategy and tools for the organizations of the future.

​​Frode founded his first startup in high school in Norway, M2CS, which built a next-generation development environment for embedded systems programming.

​​Frode immigrated to Silicon Valley in the early 1990s and founded an independent R&D lab, Odegard Labs, which worked with enterprise customers to solve difficult problems in software architecture, quality, and reengineering. Odegard Labs also did pathbreaking work in formal methods and language design.

​​In 2004 Frode founded the Post-Industrial Institute, with the mission to develop a new school of management science for the post-industrial era. In 2019 he also founded the Post-Industrial Forum, a community for visionary leaders building the organizations of the future.

​Blaine Mathieu
Fmr. CEO, Pratexo
Moderator

​Blaine Mathieu is a growth-stage executive with a record of turning AI and SaaS innovation into scalable business value. His career in Silicon Valley spans Gartner, Adobe, Corel, and GoodData as CEO, CMO, and CPO. He built and ran the Startup Advisory Practice at Momenta VC. Most recently, Blaine served as co-founder and CEO of Pratexo, an energy and asset intelligence startup.

​Blaine combines deep product, go-to-market, and operational expertise across startups and public companies to accelerate revenue and market adoption. He is known for building partnerships that translate cutting-edge technology (AI, ML, IoT, edge, cloud) into real-world impact in energy, industrial, and enterprise software markets around the world.

​Sponsor and Host