FT Live event in Bucharest on agentic AI

Financial Times Live will bring its “Gaining an Agentic Advantage with Enterprise AI” event to Bucharest on April 28, with ING Bank Romania and Infosys on the speaker list. (enterpriseai-bucharest.live.ft.com) The in-person session is scheduled for the evening in Bucharest, starting at 5:00 p.m. local time with registration and ending at 8:00 p.m. after a networking reception. A 50-minute panel with audience questions is set for 5:55 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. local time. (enterpriseai-bucharest.live.ft.com) Financial Times Live lists Mihaela Bîtu, chief executive officer of ING Bank Romania, Lilly Vasanthini, vice president and delivery head for Eastern Europe, the Nordics and Switzerland at Infosys, and Adrian-Victor Vevera, general director of ICI Bucharest, among the speakers. Financial Times science editor Michael Peel is also on the program. (enterpriseai-bucharest.live.ft.com) Agentic artificial intelligence means software systems that can take a goal, break it into steps, and carry out parts of the work with limited human input. The Financial Times Live event page says the Bucharest discussion will focus on practical use cases, legacy-technology upgrades, data architecture, regulation and risk. (enterpriseai-bucharest.live.ft.com; infosys.com) That agenda lands as European Union rules on artificial intelligence are moving from broad principles to specific deadlines. The European Commission says the Artificial Intelligence Act entered into force on August 1, 2024, banned practices and literacy duties started applying on February 2, 2025, and the law becomes fully applicable on August 2, 2026, with some exceptions. (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) For banks, that timetable matters because many new artificial intelligence tools sit on top of general-purpose models. The Commission says obligations for providers of general-purpose artificial intelligence models started applying on August 2, 2025. (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu; digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) The Bucharest event is also being framed as a regional business pitch. The Financial Times Live page describes Bucharest as a fast-growing Eastern European tech hub with engineering talent and access to both European Union and non-European Union markets. (enterpriseai-bucharest.live.ft.com) Infosys has been publishing its own case for agentic systems in finance, arguing that adoption depends on roadmaps, data foundations and controls rather than stand-alone pilots. That aligns with the Bucharest agenda’s emphasis on modernising older systems and making company data usable by artificial intelligence tools. (infosys.com; enterpriseai-bucharest.live.ft.com) ING’s presence gives the session a local banking anchor. Financial Times Live says Bîtu has led ING Bank Romania since July 2019, after previously serving as head of wholesale banking and deputy chief executive officer. (enterpriseai-bucharest.live.ft.com) By the time delegates gather on April 28, the pitch in Bucharest will be less about whether companies should try artificial intelligence and more about who can run it inside real financial systems under European rules. (enterpriseai-bucharest.live.ft.com; digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)