The agentic enterprise isn’t just about smarter decisions—it’s about turning decisions into outcomes through real-time data, real-time execution, and sovereign deployment across hybrid environments. Organizations are shifting from isolated assistants to orchestration-first operating models that coordinate specialized agents across enterprise tools with centralized governance and policy guardrails, keeping execution secure, auditable, and resilient at scale. In parallel, agentic approaches are being applied across the digital lifecycle to accelerate modernization and delivery while...
Sunil Murthy
AI Field CTO - watsonx Technical Leader, US West
IBM
Sunil Murthy is IBM AI Field CTO and works at the intersection of strategy and execution, partnering with leaders and their organizations to build the AI foundation that makes enterprise transformation real and durable. He works across various industries in defining AI strategy that is grounded in real-world constraints, ensuring enterprise data is ready to power impactful Agentic AI applications, and establishing the governance and security frameworks that allow AI to scale with confidence, designing AI operating models aligned to business outcomes and the organizational structures needed to operationalize and sustain AI at scale.
With over 25 years of enterprise software experience at IBM, Sunil brings a rare combination of technical depth and business acumen. His expertise spans information architecture, AI and ML at industrial scale, data fabric, and the full spectrum from traditional to Generative and Agentic AI. Having worked across product development, product strategy, software architecture, and client advisory roles, he understands both what it takes to build AI-powered systems and what it takes to make them matter to a business.
Sunil is based at IBM Silicon Valley Labs in San Jose, California.
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