Practical AI: From Business Architecture to Business Analysis

Join Linda and Angela, industry leaders and collaborators, as they share how to deliver Agentic AI value in this Converge2026 workshop. Most organizations are talking about AI, and many are starting to integrate it into end-to-end business processes. This workshop cuts through the noise. Participants start at the business architecture level, then work down into a full enterprise process to decide where AI belongs, where it doesn't, and what kind of AI is viable. We begin where good AI decisions actually begin: the bigger picture. Using a realistic case study, participants map the value stream, connect it to the business capabilities and strategic drivers behind it, and pinpoint where AI could create real enterprise value. That front-end analysis is what keeps a team from optimizing a process that shouldn't exist or automating a task that never mattered. From there, you zoom into a single process. Redesign it for Agentic AI opportunity and stay connected to the architecture while understanding what developers are looking for in collaboration with you. You'll map the workflow, identify decision points, and classify candidate tasks for the appropriate level of AI and agent-based orchestration. Small-group breakout work forces the real conversations: feasibility, failure modes, data gaps, and where human oversight must stay in the loop. You'll also see how analysis drives good AI decisions and keeps an organization from fixating on shiny tools, so teams solve real problems and pursue real opportunities. Learning Objectives • Connect AI opportunities to the business architecture. Map value streams, business capabilities, and strategic drivers to decide where AI investment is worth pursuing before touching a single process. • Decompose an enterprise-level process into an AI-driven solution plan. Identify which steps are viable candidates for AI • Understand AI design business decisions that are needed, where the process requires human intervention and without defaulting to tool-first thinking. • Begin to see how to facilitate cross-functional analysis using structured techniques that surface assumptions, challenge unrealistic expectations, and drive teams toward a realistic and practical AI integration plan. Angela Wick Currently helping organizations redefine analysis for AI and Agentic AI enterprise transformation. Angela has 25+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Product Owner, and Project Management. She is an expert known globally for her experience on some of the largest projects and BA practices organizations have undertaken in scope and complexity, and her work in helping 100s of organizations define their business analysis and product ownership practices. Angela works with and helps teams and individuals use AI and ensure their practices are evolving to help organizations use AI in their business processes. 27 years of doing, leading, evangelizing, and teaching modern analysis practices, 2.5 million trained Linda Finley Linda brings her experience as a leader, architect, advisor, community-builder, consultant, practitioner, speaker and coach for the benefit of your organization. Linda leads the BAF Business Architecture Community (including TCBAF, Houston BAF, and Chicago BAF), Linda's commitment to equipping organizations and individuals for success persists. Her sincere and straight-forward style ensures her effectiveness as a trusted advisor who has enabled improvement, facilitated formation of vision and strategy, and guided desired transformation across a diverse set of organizations. Linda focuses on clarifying individual and organizational purpose as a critical starting point in maximizing the skills and talents individuals bring to organizations, and designing business capabilities for extraordinary results; she is an enthusiastic proponent of the practice and performance of enterprise and business architecture to drive strategy, transformation, and growth. -- Angela WickLinkedIn Learning Courses (2.4+ million learners): https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/angela-wick Maven Courses (Live Online Interactive): https://maven.com/angela-wick BA-Cube Community Membership: https://ba-cube.mn.co BA-Squared: www.BA-Squared.com/NextGenBAModernizing BA and Product Owner Skills for the Future! Futureproof Book: https://www.iiba.org/career-resources/business-analysis-resources/iiba-bookstore/