Leadership in the agentic era

The Self-Driving Enterprise

The Self-Driving Enterprise

An organization that senses, decides, acts, and learns—without waiting for the next planning cycle.

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The operating shift

AI is not another transformation program.

It changes who makes decisions, how work is organized, and what leaders are accountable for. The advantage will not come from adding more tools. It comes from redesigning the enterprise around a new operating logic.

Invitation only · Helsinki

Executive VIP
Roundtable & Lunch

The Self-Driving Enterprise — How Leadership Transforms in the Agentic Era.

Date

11.11 Wed

Hours

11 AM — 1 PM

Venue

Hotel Kämp

Days

Hours

Minutes

Seconds

Hotel Kämp

Hosts

  • Anthony Gyursanszky

    CEO, Codento

  • Antti Koskelin

    Member of the Board, Codento

  • Markus Hongisto

    Country Manager, Google Cloud Finland

Who's in the room

CIOs and executive leaders already confirmed from:

  • Nordea
  • Finnair
  • Kone
  • Fingrid
  • YLE
  • Neste
  • Ilmarinen
  • DNA
  • F-Secure
  • Fazer
  • Mehiläinen
  • Elo
  • Stockmann
  • Valmet
  • Sweco
  • Veritas
  • S-Pankki
  • HIAB
  • VR Group
  • Kuntarahoitus

The leadership agenda

Nine questions you cannot delegate.

Each question exposes a design decision. Together, they define whether AI remains a collection of experiments—or becomes an enterprise capability.

01

Question 1 of 9

What does the CEO actually own now?

The shift

From setting direction to designing the system that senses, decides, and learns.

Listen to the episode · 3:25

02

Question 2 of 9

Does AI replace the leadership team?

The shift

Not replacement. A new division of labor between human judgment and machine intelligence.

Listen to the episode · 2:46

03

Question 3 of 9

How does a leader out-compete an agent that never sleeps?

The shift

By making context, purpose, and accountability the organization’s advantage.

Listen to the episode · 2:53

04

Question 4 of 9

Who actually makes the decision now?

The shift

Decision rights must be redesigned before autonomy can be safely scaled.

Listen to the episode · 2:41

05

Question 5 of 9

How do you know the system still does what you designed?

The shift

Governance becomes continuous observability, not periodic oversight.

Listen to the episode · 3:39

06

Question 6 of 9

Do you still need functions?

The shift

Rigid silos give way to outcomes orchestrated across people, data, and agents.

Listen to the episode · 3:22

07

Question 7 of 9

What about the AI already running without your sign-off?

The shift

Shadow AI is a leadership signal: make safe adoption easier than workarounds.

Listen to the episode · 2:47

08

Question 8 of 9

In-house, SaaS, or agentic platform?

The shift

Architecture becomes a strategic portfolio choice—not a single technology bet.

Listen to the episode · 3:08

09

Question 9 of 9

What happens the day an agent gets it badly wrong?

The shift

Resilience starts with clear accountability, intervention points, and recovery paths.

Listen to the episode · 3:48

An original short audio series

Two CEOs and One Fairway

Nine holes. Nine leadership questions. Two old friends discovering that transforming a company is one thing—and admitting you might need to is another.

Kai Ahonen and Runo Salmela walking and talking on a Finnish golf course
Kivimäki Golf · Forty minutes outside town

Kai Ahonen, 52

CEO, Ahonen Precision

Two years into a full The Self-Driving Enterprise rollout, business and margins are up—and so is his time on the fairway. Enthusiastic, mostly self-aware, and privately unsure what the CEO’s job is becoming.

Runo Salmela, 54

CEO, Salmela Metalli

Kai’s old business-school friend still runs on one legendary estimator, an aging AS/400 and pure nerve. Sharp, stubborn and quietly terrified, he has never heard the words “The Self-Driving Enterprise.”

Season one

Play the nine episodes

  1. 01

    To course

    What does the CEO actually own now?

    3:25

  2. 02

    From course

    Does AI replace the leadership team?

    2:46

  3. 03

    To course

    How does a leader out-compete an agent that never sleeps?

    2:53

  4. 04

    From course

    Who actually makes the decision now?

    2:41

  5. 05

    To course

    How do you know the system still does what you designed?

    3:39

  6. 06

    From course

    Do you still need functions?

    3:22

  7. 07

    To course

    What about the AI already running without your sign-off?

    2:47

  8. 08

    From course

    In-house, SaaS, or agentic platform?

    3:08

  9. 09

    To course · Finale

    What happens the day an agent gets it badly wrong?

    3:48

Explore the model

The Self-Driving Enterprise Advisor

Explore how leadership roles, decisions, and operating models change as your organization becomes agentic.

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The Self-Driving Enterprise Ebook

Open the interactive ebook to explore the principles behind an enterprise that senses, decides, acts, and learns.

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