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___________________________________________________________________________________ Bayer
Consumer Health
Adjusting hasn’ t always been easy. They stepped up as champions
This perspective reinforces the shift toward headless architectures, where capabilities are no longer tied to applications, but can be invoked dynamically by AI agents across workflows.
That idea drives her to examine the future IT workforce. She leads a working group focused on what skills will matter in an agentic era. This is especially important for experienced engineers who have spent decades building and operating systems in more traditional ways.
“ Adjusting hasn’ t always been easy.” Early on, some experienced technologists were skeptical. But when sandbox environments and safe spaces for experimentation opened up, many of those same engineers and business colleagues began tinkering themselves.“ They stepped up as champions.”
At a company known for deep scientific expertise, that combination of human knowledge and AI capability is especially powerful. By combining Bayer’ s domain expertise with AI, teams can build intelligent systems that go beyond automation, acting as collaborators, advisors, and accelerators.
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