eiqWaves

Episode 2

Automation Workers in the Agentic Age

May 28, 2026

Part : 01 - Automation Workers in the Agentic Age

eiqWaves Episode 2 Part 01 features Sanjay Koppikar, CPO & Co-Founder, and Lokesh Venkatappa, SVP, Solution Consulting, EvoluteIQ in a sharp conversation on how automation is evolving from bots and workflows to intelligent, agentic systems.

What happens when automation stops being just task execution and starts becoming context-aware, adaptive, and enterprise-ready? 

In this episode, Sanjay and Lokesh unpack the real shift from traditional automation to Agentic AI; where the opportunity is massive, but so are the challenges around predictability, trust, and scale. If you want to understand what all the hype is about, what is real, and what enterprises should do next, this episode is worth a watch.

Inside this conversation:

  • How the role of the automation worker has evolved from coding and task automation to advisory, process-aware problem solving
  • Why earlier ideas of “digital workers” fell short, and what makes today’s agentic systems different
  • The gap between impressive demos and the predictability enterprises need
  • How AI Agents can multiply team output while humans focus on judgment, ambiguity, and governance
  • Why end-to-end process thinking matters more than ever in the age of Agentic Automation

Featured speakers

Sanjay Koppikar, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at EvoluteIQ

Sanjay Koppikar
CPO & Co-Founder, EvoluteIQ

Product visionary and automation leader driving the platform’s approach to enterprise-scale, Agentic Automation.

Lokesh Venkatappa

Lokesh Venkatappa
SVP, Solution Consulting, EvoluteIQ

Enterprise transformation expert helping organizations translate complex automation challenges into practical business outcomes.

Part : 02 - Automation Workers in the Agentic Age

What remains uniquely human in an agent-driven world?

How do humans stay relevant in a world where AI agents can build bots, optimize workflows, generate code, and make autonomous decisions?

In this episode of eiqWaves, Sanjay Koppikar, CPO & Co-Founder, EvoluteIQ and Lokesh Venkatappa, SVP, Solution Consulting go beyond the hype to ask the question many automation leaders are quietly wrestling with: what truly stays human when the workers are agents?

In this part, they discuss:

  • Why agentic AI is reshaping the automation ecosystem faster than any previous technology wave 
  • The shift from task execution to value architecture and why humans remain central 
  • Real stories of where AI agents excel and where they fail due to bias, ethics, or ambiguity 
  • The collapse of siloed automation COEs (RPA, BPM, Data, AI) and the move toward integrated, process-first platforms 
  • How enterprises should rethink their automation strategy amid multiple overlapping hype cycles 
  • Why predictive AI is becoming more critical as generative AI scales 
  • Human judgment in life‑and‑death automation scenarios and why “good decisions” cannot be left to agents alone 
  • Why platforms like EIQ are positioned to lead due to integrated decisioning, automation, ML, events, and orchestration

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