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AI Fundamentals for Investors: Understanding Generative AI, Agentic AI and Enterprise Software

June 12, 2026 40 MIN

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses operate, how software creates value and how investors evaluate opportunity across the technology ecosystem. In this webinar, Vista’s Suzanne Donohoe, Chief Operating Officer, and Brian Loring, Senior Vice President, provide a practical overview of AI fundamentals for investors, outlining the technologies, trends and applications driving the next phase of adoption.

The discussion connects AI fundamentals to enterprise software value creation, from the structure of the AI stack to how large language models (LLMs) operate, and the emergence of Agentic AI as autonomous executors of work. It also explores the critical role of context, trust and scale in the enterprise aiming to ensure consistent, deterministic outcomes, and the transition from software as a tool to software as a worker.

Topics covered in the webinar include:

  • LLMs and how they power modern AI applications
  • Generative AI vs. agentic AI and what changes when AI can take action
  • Enterprise software’s role in giving AI the workflow context needed to create value
  • Governance, guardrails and oversight for responsible enterprise AI adoption
  • Investor considerations for evaluating AI adoption, value creation and risk across enterprise software

For investors evaluating AI’s impact on enterprise software, this discussion provides a practical foundation for understanding how Agentic AI is shifting enterprise software from a tool to a worker and shaping next phase of value creation.

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