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DIS26 KEYNOTE: Zero Trust Intelligence: How to build and run in an age of deficits - David Pontoppidan, Head of Business AI for Nordics & Baltics at SAP
Intelligence is a good thing. Adding it to business is for the better... right? More agents. More copilots. More autonomous everything. Just add intelligence and watch productivity soar. But what if adding intelligence ad hoc actually makes things worse? We are living in an age of deficits – deficits of trust, of accountability, of cooperation, and of leadership. In this environment, technological capability is not the only thing that scales. Resistance scales too. Intelligence without coordination becomes a liability, not a strategy.
In this session, SAP's Head of Business AI for the Nordics and Baltics makes the case that the winners of the agentic era won't be the companies that deploy the most AI – they'll be the ones that treat coordination, governance, and trust as encoded architecture, not afterthoughts. Expect uncomfortable questions, frontier research, and a framework for building and running intelligence that earns its trust – because in an age of deficits, nothing else will.
In this talk, David Pontoppidan shares a framework for building and running intelligence that earns its trust, explaining why treating coordination, governance, and trust as encoded architecture is vital to winning the agentic era.
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DIS26 KEYNOTE: Zero Trust Intelligence: How to build and run in an age of deficits - David Pontoppidan, Head of Business AI for Nordics & Baltics at SAP
Intelligence is a good thing. Adding it to business is for the better... right? More agents. More copilots. More autonomous everything. Just add intelligence and watch productivity soar. But what if adding intelligence ad hoc actually makes things worse? We are living in an age of deficits – deficits of trust, of accountability, of cooperation, and of leadership. In this environment, technological capability is not the only thing that scales. Resistance scales too. Intelligence without coordination becomes a liability, not a strategy.
In this session, SAP's Head of Business AI for the Nordics and Baltics makes the case that the winners of the agentic era won't be the companies that deploy the most AI – they'll be the ones that treat coordination, governance, and trust as encoded architecture, not afterthoughts. Expect uncomfortable questions, frontier research, and a framework for building and running intelligence that earns its trust – because in an age of deficits, nothing else will.
In this talk, David Pontoppidan shares a framework for building and running intelligence that earns its trust, explaining why treating coordination, governance, and trust as encoded architecture is vital to winning the agentic era.
Data Innovation Summit 2026 - The Biggest and Most Influential Applied Data, Analytics and AI Event in the Nordics and Beyond
Follow us on:
⬗ LinkedIn: / showcase
⬗ Twitter: https://x.com/DISummit2030
⬗ Facebook: / datainnovationsummit
⬗ Instagram: / datainnovationsummit
⬗ Hashtags: #DISummit2030 #DIS2026x1
