UiPath Fusion 2026 - if your data isn't ready, your agents aren't either

Here's a question worth sitting with: do you actually know how your people make decisions?

Not what the process documentation says, or the official workflow – but what context a merchandiser is actually drawing on when they're deciding where to push stock, what signals a pricing manager is weighing when margin is under pressure, what's really happening at the moment a decision gets made.

Most organizations, if they're honest, don't know. And that matters enormously right now, because Chris Ashley, Director of BD & Strategy at UiPath, argues is that this is exactly what agentic AI needs to work from – and without it, you're building on sand. Ashley joined UiPath following the acquisition of Peak AI in March 2025, where he worked with leaders across retail, CPG and manufacturing. At UiPath Fusion in London, he told me:

The speed of the agentic evolution, especially in ...