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When AI agents take on work alongside employees, leaders must rethink who does the work, who is accountable for the results, and how budgets divide between people and AI. Join me for a live, interactive discussion where Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer, Jeetu Patel, explains what makes agentic transformation work.
Large enterprises are moving beyond digital transformation and assigning daily work to AI agents alongside human teams. In Episode 934, I talk with Jeetu Patel about how organizations adapt people, accountability, and budgets during agentic transformation, drawing on Cisco’s experience with AI agents writing product code.
Patel oversees Cisco’s products and the engineering teams that build them, an organization that uses AI agents to write code for Cisco’s products. Before Cisco, he was Chief Product Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Box. This is his second CXOTalk appearance; he last joined in May 2025 to discuss how to build an AI-first enterprise.
What Jeetu will discuss:
What agentic transformation means, and how it differs from digital transformation
Who holds accountability when AI agents write product code at Cisco
How leaders plan and manage a token budget alongside a human budget
How AI agents change an executive’s own job and where to draw the line between human work and agent work
How to bring employees along when AI agents take on part of their work
How the CIO role changes and what organizational decisions CEOs and boards must make
Join this interactive session with Jeetu Patel live on Friday, October 23, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET on CXOTalk.
The conversation is live, and your questions are part of it. Ask Jeetu anything in the LinkedIn Live chat, or on X with the hashtag #cxotalk and @mkrigsman, and I will bring your questions into the discussion.
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Jeetu Patel is President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco. He joined Cisco in 2020 and earlier led its Security and Collaboration business. He serves on the boards of JLL and Equinix.
Michael Krigsman is a globally recognized analyst, strategic advisor, and industry commentator known for his deep expertise in business transformation, innovation, and AI leadership.
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