In this exclusive interview, Mihir Shukla, CEO and Co-Founder of Automation Anywhere speaks to Intelligent CIO’s Arrey Bate about his journey, the place of AI and the future of work. Mihir founded Automation Anywhere in 2003 with a mission to unleash human potential by helping companies transform their business and succeed with intelligent process automation. Today Automation Anywhere serves 5,000+ businesses and helps to run over 300 million AI agents worldwide.
Questions:
- Tell us about your journey, how did your background and early experiences influence your founding vision for Automation Anywhere?
- There is a lot of hype around AI, what is your take on its impact?
- How should businesses evaluate and think about deploying AI in their organisation?
- How should businesses look at enterprise productivity and staying competitive?
- How does AI help business streamline complex processes across the enterprise?
- You offer an open platform that integrates with hundreds of enterprise applications across numerous environments. Please explain why this is a benefit for customers vs competitors who aren’t?
- How do your partnerships like those with AWS and Google Cloud strengthen your platform’s offerings?
- How do you see Automation Anywhere changing the future of work for employees in large companies, especially for non-technical teams?
- What measures do you take to ensure security, strong governance and compliance with AI in large organizations?
- What do you see as one of the next big steps for AI and enterprise agentic process automation in reshaping work and giving companies a strategic advantage?