Post by Left Field Labs

What does it actually take to run on agentic AI, not just talk about it? Kevin Siminski, CCO at Salesforce sat down with Yann Caloghiris from Left Field Labs for a refreshingly honest conversation about why most companies aren't there yet. Kevin walked us through how Agentforce connects the clouds people already run on (Sales, Service, Marketing, Loyalty) through one data foundation in Data 360, because an agent is only as good as the data underneath it. A shaky foundation doesn't give you a helpful agent, it gives you a liability. Then he got honest about why this is hard, and it has almost nothing to do with the tech. Most companies are sitting on marketing tools they've spent years and budget building around, so the instinct is to protect what they have rather than change it. And the bigger blocker is people: agentic AI only works when marketing and IT stop operating as separate kingdoms and start working as one team. We also got into how the way companies pay for this is shifting, and what it really looks like when the system, not a weekly meeting, makes the call on what happens next. Watch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gz5f4GmD #SportBeach #CannesLions #Salesforce #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI