MAX AI & Beyond Panel: The Agentic Enterprise
📅 Thursday, 25 June 2026 in 8 days
A one-evening executive panel in downtown Toronto on moving agentic AI from pilots to enterprise-wide deployment. Senior leaders from EY, TELUS/ServiceNow, the Vector Institute, and TD Bank discuss governance, ROI, and operating models for autonomous AI systems.
The MAX AI & Beyond Panel: The Agentic Enterprise is a single-evening, in-person panel held at the EY Tower (100 Adelaide Street West) in downtown Toronto on 25 June 2026. It is the latest instalment in a panel series convened by MAX (Muslim Achieving Excellence), a Canadian professional network that connects senior, mid-level, and early-career professionals across science, technology, and business.
What it is
The session frames the central enterprise-AI question of 2026: with proof-of-concept pilots largely complete, how do large organisations actually operationalise AI agents that can act, decide, and execute autonomously - responsibly, at scale, and with measurable business value? Rather than a product demo, it is a candid executive conversation, followed by open audience Q&A and a networking dinner.
Why it matters
Agentic AI - systems that chain reasoning, tool use, and action with limited human supervision - is the dominant enterprise-AI theme of 2026, and the gap between successful pilots and durable production deployments is where most value is won or lost. The panel targets the practical hard parts: data readiness, operating models, change management, risk governance for autonomous systems, and honest ROI measurement.
Programme and who presents
The discussion is moderated by Shaheen Minhas (Partner, Insurance Consulting Leader, EY). Confirmed speakers are Armughan Ahmad (Executive AI Advisor, TELUS & ServiceNow), Cathy Cobey (Global Responsible AI Leader, EY), Cameron Schuler (Chief Commercialization Officer, Vector Institute), Saima Malik (Head of Enterprise Automation, TD Bank), and Lauren Nicoll (AI Transformation Lead, EY). The line-up draws on EY's consulting practice, one of Canada's largest banks, and the Vector Institute - Ontario's leading non-profit AI research organisation - giving the evening a mix of practitioner, financial-services, and research perspectives. The published agenda includes registration and dinner, opening remarks, a keynote, and the moderated panel with audience questions.
For a curated AI-events directory, this is a useful, verifiable snapshot of how the Canadian enterprise-AI community is grappling with agentic systems in production - a complement to the city's larger research conferences.
