Lauren McHugh Olende
Program Director, AI Open Innovation, who provides practical perspectives on enterprise AI usage, prompting strategies, and product adoption patterns.
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Nov 28, 2025 • 42min
AI agents in 2025: Why agentic commerce isn't ready for Black Friday yet
In this discussion, Chris Hay, a distinguished AI engineer, Lauren McHugh Olende, an expert in AI productization, and Volkmar Uhlig, VP at WatsonX AI, explore the future of agentic commerce. They debate the hurdles ahead of Black Friday 2025 for consumer agents. Lauren argues that checkout automation won't revolutionize retail. Volkmar emphasizes the backend benefits of agents in tasks like returns. A missing 'Shopify moment' in the developer ecosystem is highlighted, and the potential of language-to-agent interfaces is discussed.
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Feb 13, 2026 • 38min
Copilot usage reveals AI adoption patterns
Volkmar Uhlig, CTO and VP of Data Platforms, offers engineering and product takes. Lauren McHugh Olende, AI Open Innovation lead, brings enterprise prompting and adoption insights. Kush Varshney, IBM Fellow, covers governance and societal angles. They discuss Copilot usage patterns, differences between search and copilots, the Ralph Wiggum prompting tactic for coding agents, cost and licensing tradeoffs, and AI’s mainstream signals like Super Bowl ads.
