Mark Woods - Field CTO at Splunk - On Leadership in the Agentic Era - CIOFEST Interview

Will You Lead the Agentic Era or Just Watch it Happen?

Tomorrow, CIOFEST in London officially kicks off, and it is your final chance to join the most pivotal conversation in digital leadership this year. The "Agentic Era" isn't just another buzzword—it’s a fundamental shift in how enterprises operate.

🔗 Last chance to register: https://www.cionet.com/ciofest-uk-community-event-23-april-2026

To set the stage for tomorrow, we are thrilled to release our interview with Mark Woods, CTO of Splunk. Mark offers a sobering and visionary look at why agentic systems are different from anything we’ve built before. He argues that we are moving away from deterministic systems (where one input equals one predictable output) into a world where capacity planning, connectivity, and "intent" are the new currencies of success.

Watch the full interview to find out:

🚀 How the "plausible lie" risk is a key factor to closely monitor in an agent-to-agent chain
🚀A hot take on teaching machines to "speak machine" rather than "speak human"
🚀 Why the accountability shift is crucial in the Agentic Era
🚀 How the role of the CIO is changing to a "creator of permissive environments".

Ready to lead in the Agentic Era? Mark's insights are just the beginning. We’ll be diving even deeper into these themes tomorrow in London. See you there!

Published on 05.01.2022


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