The 3As of artificial intelligence: Architecture, Agents, and (future) Applications

Place : Room 3.216 - Grand Paris Campus & online 
Time : 12.00-01.30 PM 

Speaker : Eleonora Pantano, Associate Professor in Retail and Marketing Technology, University of Bristol.

Discussant : Jean-Marie Letort - Head of Cybersecurity Solution Area - Microsoft France

Despite the evident values of AI developments, the question of whether and how AI can represent a real benefit still remains. This talk provides a new understanding of AI, with an emphasis on agentic AI, to elucidate how its opportunities can be successfully harnessed. To this end, I draw upon theories of intelligence (human versus artificial), and I unpack the AI architecture and characterizing agents, to illustrate actual and future applications. Through this study, I explicate the concept of agentic AI for different business purposes, developing a theoretical framework for their configuration types and mechanisms, not anchored to a specific AI label. 

Biography : Eleonora Pantano holds a Ph.D. in “Psychology of Programming and Artificial Intelligence” (University of Calabria, Italy), M.Eng. Management (UNiversity of Calabria), and P.G. Cert. Higher Education Teaching and Supporting Learning (Middlesex University London). She is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). Before joining the University of Bristol, she was Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University London, and previously Associate Research Fellow at the Technical University of Eindhoven (NL).

For further information, please contact Professor Margherita Pagani: margherita.pagani@skema.edu