Thought Leaders – Unite.AI

August 17, 2026 August 17, 2026

By Daniel Dines, Founder and Chief Executive Chairman, UiPath

A Constitution for the New Enterprise: 15 Rules for AI Governance

By Daniel Dines, Founder and Chief Executive Chairman, UiPath

These essays were supposed to be about architecture. Read them back and notice what they actually did: they kept issuing rules. Approvals are not data; verifications...

August 17, 2026 August 17, 2026

By Mike Pappas, Cofounder & CEO, Modulate

The Hidden Cost of AI: How “Black Box” Models Are Eroding Trust, Budgets, and the Environment

By Mike Pappas, Cofounder & CEO, Modulate

The AI industry has a model design problem. Enterprises are starting to feel it in cost, performance, and reliability.

August 17, 2026 August 17, 2026

By Rob Zwiebach, CPO, BillingPlatform

Monetizing AI: A Modern Framework for How Companies Can Maximize Business Growth

By Rob Zwiebach, CPO, BillingPlatform

AI has rapidly moved from a competitive differentiator to a baseline expectation for software companies. However, it has also become the most expensive “free feature” in...

August 17, 2026 August 17, 2026

By Danny Manimbo, Managing Principal and ISO & AI Practice Leader, Schellman

Beyond Compliance: Why Companies Waiting for AI Regulatory Clarity Are Already Behind

By Danny Manimbo, Managing Principal and ISO & AI Practice Leader, Schellman

Most organizations know they need to establish AI governance, but many are struggling with the same question: How do you build a governance program when the...

August 14, 2026 August 14, 2026

By Chetan Saundankar, Founder & CEO, Coditation

AI’s Best ROI Right Now Is Fixing Old Code, Not Writing New Code

By Chetan Saundankar, Founder & CEO, Coditation

Every AI product demo I sit through starts the same way: an empty prompt box, a request in plain English, and a working app a few...

August 14, 2026 August 14, 2026

By Zuzana Drotárová, Head of Regional Competency, Avenga

When AI Is Right and the Process Is Wrong

By Zuzana Drotárová, Head of Regional Competency, Avenga

Imagine a common scenario in financial services. A team deploys AI to review contracts: hundreds of pages, repetitive clauses, and routine work that normally takes employees...

August 14, 2026 August 14, 2026

By Simone Giacomelli, Founder and CEO, Prem AI

The Shift from AI Capability to AI Control

By Simone Giacomelli, Founder and CEO, Prem AI

A series of high-profile incidents involving frontier AI providers has left businesses asking a question that, until recently, many hadn’t seriously considered. What happens when the...

August 13, 2026 August 13, 2026

By Hatem Ayad, CTO, Clarvos

The Architecture Test: How to Tell Real Agentic AI From Rebadged Automation

By Hatem Ayad, CTO, Clarvos

Open pretty much any marketing technology vendor’s homepage today, and you will find the same three words somewhere above the fold: “powered by AI.” It has...

August 13, 2026 August 13, 2026

By Ramkumar Pichandi, CEO, Rytsense

Hospitals Adopted AI Before They Understood What They Were Adopting

By Ramkumar Pichandi, CEO, Rytsense

Hospitals did not adopt artificial intelligence in a single, deliberate moment. It arrived in pieces: an imaging algorithm, a documentation assistant, a staffing forecast, a patient-message...

August 12, 2026 August 12, 2026

By Alex Connor, VP of Product, WestCX

Healthcare’s Hidden Access Problem: The Inbound Call Burden

By Alex Connor, VP of Product, WestCX

Healthcare providers and payers have begun to adopt AI technology; now they need to make the leap to AI orchestration. In the field, we see this...

August 12, 2026 August 12, 2026

By Andrew Frost Moroz, Founder, Aloha Browser

What the EU AI Act Doesn’t Tell Founders About Training Data

By Andrew Frost Moroz, Founder, Aloha Browser

Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires an AI system to disclose that a person is talking to a machine. It says nothing about what...

August 12, 2026 August 12, 2026

By Bindesh Vijayan, Co-founder & CTO, Myndlab

The First AI IPO Won’t Decide Who Wins AI

By Bindesh Vijayan, Co-founder & CTO, Myndlab

Why the industry’s next winners may not be the companies building the models.

August 11, 2026 August 11, 2026

By Niko Mastropaolo, Group CISO, CCI Global

AI is Already Here. The Real Challenge Is Trust

By Niko Mastropaolo, Group CISO, CCI Global

For years, discussions around artificial intelligence have centered on capability.Can AI write better content? Can it automate customer interactions? Can it improve productivity, detect fraud, analyze...

August 11, 2026 August 11, 2026

By Mathew Haswell, Co-Founder, Refiant

AI’s Memory Problem: Why Efficient Long Context Changes Everything, and What It Takes to Get It Right

By Mathew Haswell, Co-Founder, Refiant

A colleague who forgot every prior conversation the moment it ended would not last long in most jobs. Yet a lot of business AI works exactly...

August 11, 2026 August 11, 2026

By John Lunn, Founder & CEO, Gr4vy

Why Agentic Payment Logic Belongs at the Payment Layer and What It Means for Merchant Control in an AI‑Driven Economy

By John Lunn, Founder & CEO, Gr4vy

Earlier this year, Google introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to enable AI agents, businesses, and payment providers to communicate and transact...