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Confidence in agentic AI: Why eval infrastructure must come first


Thys Waanders, Shailesh Nalawadi, Shawn Malhotra, Joanne Chen,

As AI agents enter real-world deployment, organizations are under pressure to define where they belong, how to build them effectively, and how to operationalize them at scale. At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, tech leaders gathered to talk about how they’re transforming their business with agents: Joanne Chen, general partner at Foundation Capital; Shailesh Nalawadi, VP of project management with Sendbird; Thys Waanders, SVP of AI transformation at Cognigy; and Shawn Malhotra, CTO, Rocket Companies.

A few top agentic AI use cases

“The initial attraction of any of these deployments for AI agents tends to be around saving human capital — the math is pretty straightforward,” Nalawadi said. “However, that undersells the transformational capability you get with AI agents.”

At Rocket, AI agents have proven to be powerful tools in increasing website conversion.

“We’ve found that with our agent-based experience, the conversational ...


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