In this UiPath Fusion 2025 Day 1 keynote analysis, theCUBE’s Dave Vellande and Rebecca Knight break down how UiPath is reframing enterprise automation with a platform-first, agentic AI strategy. Fresh from the main stage, they unpack CEO and founder Daniel Dines’ thesis that AI is a tailwind for automation – provided organizations invest in orchestration and process discipline. The discussion covers UiPath’s Maestro orchestrator, the “agentic AI meets ROI” mandate and notable partnerships announced on stage with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Nvidia and Snowflake Cortex – moves aimed at connecting end-to-end enterprise workflows and data. Vellante also spotlights key metrics and market context: ~$1.7B ARR growing ~11%, improving non-GAAP operating margin (~17%), operating cash flow margin (~11%), guidance raised, and investor reaction to the announcements.

The conversation dives into why many AI efforts stall – and the four failure factors Dines outlined: weak automation foundations, ambitions set too low (small POCs with limited NPV), security concerns (fear of rogue agents), and market confusion amid hype. Knight emphasizes the cultural change required to realize ROI – “process is the hero, not the tool” – and highlights customer lessons from CSL and JPMorgan on rethinking legacy stacks rather than “layering AI” onto old tech. The hosts probe how UiPath blends deterministic RPA with probabilistic gen AI under strict governance, how platform acquisitions like ProcessGold and Re:infer fit into a plug-in services model and why orchestration across agents, humans and bots is central to scaling outcomes.

In this UiPath Fusion 2025 interview, theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight sit down with Daniel Dines, CEO and founder of UiPath, to unpack why so many AI pilots fail and how to change the outcome. Dines outlines four failure factors – weak automation foundations, ambitions set too low, security concerns such as fear of rogue agents and broad market confusion – then explains why orchestration is the unlock. He argues that automation is the base layer and intelligence sits on top, that organizations should target high-pain processes to move the needle and that vendors must put skin in the game with customers.

The conversation explores culture and adoption, including how UiPath acts as “customer zero” with incentives tied to agentic outcomes. Dines shares examples like customer success and BDR agents to reach the long tail, why an RPA foundation gives a head start for agentic AI and why AI and automation centers of excellence should be combined. He discusses blending deterministic RPA with probabilistic gen AI, outcome-based deals and KPIs such as number of agents created and engaged. The dialogue also covers ecosystem strategy – open partnerships with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Snowflake Cortex and NVIDIA’s Nemotron plus support for open frameworks – along with an industry shift toward stronger workflow automation and pricing pressure on traditional SaaS as services become software.

In this UiPath Fusion interview, Rajat Kalia, CTO of Workplace Solutions at Voya Financial, joins theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight and Dave Vellante to share how a “progress over perfection” mindset helped Voya move agentic automation from experiments to production. Kalia outlines Voya’s mission across retirement, employee benefits and asset management, and explains why leadership sponsorship (starting with CEO Heather Lavallee) plus organization-wide AI literacy were essential to change management. He stresses that transformation is people- and process-led (“a fool with a tool is still a fool”), with humans in the loop to satisfy risk and compliance while shifting employees from repetitive work to higher-value tasks.

The discussion digs into funding and prioritization (focus on business outcomes, not agent counts), data readiness from years of harmonization work (“a battle well fought, never won”), and why Voya partnered with UiPath for speed, orchestration, interoperability and explainability – building on 130+ existing robots. Kalia also details Voya’s governance model to prevent shadow AI via an AI Review Council spanning legal, security, compliance, data privacy and architecture. He closes with lessons on avoiding vendor lock-in, operating across a diverse SaaS landscape, and reimagining domains like HR, wealth management and finance with agents, bots and humans orchestrated end-to-end.

In this UiPath Fusion segment, theCUBE’s Dave Vellante sits down with Shameiz Hemani, CEO of Greenlight Consulting, and Chris Ortega, CIO of Lake Michigan Credit Union, to unpack how agentic AI moves beyond pilots to enterprise-scale outcomes. The discussion centers on “agentifying” end-to-end lending with UiPath Maestro – designing the full journey first, then automating within it – so humans and agents can hand off work seamlessly. Hemani explains why ambitious, outcome-back planning matters (“validate, then fly”) and how focused, Lego-like agents become easy to test and stack. Ortega shares how framing the shift as transformation – not traditional change management – wins hearts and minds by giving teams back ~25% of their time for higher-value work.

The conversation dives into practical execution: mapping workflows with the business (even with pen and paper), orchestrating people, bots and agents through Maestro, and iterating quickly with agile methods. They explore why subject-matter expertise and context grounding (SOPs, regulatory requirements, historical patterns) are the “magic” for reliable agent behavior, supported by strong data governance and shared definitions. Listeners will hear how Lake Michigan Credit Union is targeting faster approvals, more personalized member experiences and scalable throughput (e.g., “three times more work in a month with less effort”) – all while keeping humans in the loop for the “hard maybes” and treating AI as a collaborative partner.

At UiPath Fusion 2025, theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight sits down with Jerry Liu, CEO & co-founder of LlamaIndex, and Taqi Jaffri, senior director of product management at UiPath, to unpack how enterprises are moving from legacy RPA to intelligent, agentic automation. Liu explains how LlamaIndex evolved from solving early context-window limits into a developer and managed services toolkit for connecting massive, unstructured enterprise data to state-of-the-art models – powering multi-step, human-in-the-loop workflows far beyond simple RAG chatbots. Jaffri outlines UiPath’s open, interoperable strategy (embracing frameworks like LlamaIndex) while UiPath Maestro provides the orchestration “canvas” that unifies agents, deterministic systems and people with dashboards, compliance, traceability and debugging for scale. The discussion explores real-world paths from demo to production (“measure your way to success”), why orchestration must handle versioning and idempotent execution, and how business outcomes like claims processing and intelligent document handling are accelerating.

The conversation also dives into how vibe coding is flattening the gap between developers and business users, with natural-language scaffolding and guardrails translating requirements into code. Jaffri highlights UiPath Autopilot for developers for English-first flow creation, Project Delegate for demonstration-based agent training, and Screenplay for computer-use agents that understand and act on screens. Liu weighs in on MCP/A2A trends, enterprise-grade security and stability in open source, and a partnership “home run” vision: rapidly deploying high-accuracy, document-heavy workflows with LlamaIndex tooling orchestrated in UiPath. If you’re tracking how customers modernize RPA into goal-directed agents – and how Maestro governs AI + humans across processes – this is your primer on the next phase of enterprise automation.

In this UiPath Fusion 2025 interview, theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight speak with Joe Gannuscio, director of advanced analytics development at OSF HealthCare, and John Sharpe, senior technical account manager at UiPath. The discussion traces OSF’s automation journey from early RPA wins during COVID to today’s agentic era – where LLM-powered agents augment brittle workflows and improve patient outcomes. Gannuscio shares how OSF evaluates agentic use cases, keeps humans-in-the-loop with UiPath Action Center and iterates quickly with stakeholder feedback to move beyond proofs of concept into production value.

The conversation dives into real-world healthcare scenarios, including an in-production agent that processes medication refill faxes across variable forms, along with denials POCs and upcoming referrals management work. Sharpe explains why “the value meter runs in production,” how to anchor efforts to CFO-level metrics, and where UiPath’s Agent Builder scoring and Guardrails features help teams engineer prompts, validate outcomes and prevent cross-tenant prompt injection. The guests outline the data-first foundations for safe, reliable agentic automation – tight feedback loops, contextual grounding, HIPAA/PII reviews and compliance workflows – and spotlight how feedback from Action Center reinforces desired behaviors. They also discuss IXP (prompt-based model creation for intelligent document processing) and the role of Re:infer in inferring structure from diverse documents as organizations evolve from deterministic RPA to resilient, goal-directed agents.

In this engaging episode from UiPath Fusion, we explore the world of automation with Venkat Bhaskara, director of automations-AgentOps at Pearson, and Mariesa Coughanour, head of advisory delivery, mindshare, automation, and agentic AI at Cognizant. Hosted by Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight of theCUBE, this session highlights the evolving landscape of agentic AI and its implications for businesses today.

Venkat Bhaskara brings extensive experience in automation at Pearson, where the team constantly pushes the envelope to enhance operational efficiency. Mariesa Coughanour provides insights from Cognizant's cutting-edge strategies for integrating AI into client solutions. The discussion explores the cultural shifts necessary for successful technology adoption, focusing on the critical role of change management and stakeholder engagement.

Key takeaways include the importance of understanding business processes, embracing technological orchestration, and fostering a collaborative mindset, according to insights shared by Bhaskara and Coughanour. This episode offers actionable strategies for driving automation success and highlights the intersection of technology and human resources, as noted by theCUBE analysts.

In this UiPath Fusion 2025 segment from Las Vegas, SoCal Edison’s Al Ochoa (principal manager, predictive analytics & data science) and GreenShield’s Andrew Kemble (manager, AI enablement & delivery) join theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight to explore how enterprises are evolving from traditional RPA to agentic automation. The discussion covers GreenShield’s early production rollout of communication mining to transform high-volume email support, why centralizing knowledge and customer data is prerequisite for trustworthy AI, and how low/no-code is empowering business teams to co-build solutions with IT. Ochoa details SoCal Edison’s “human-in-the-loop” approach – AI agents analyze usage patterns, weather and rate changes to explain high bills while agents deliver the outcome – plus the orchestration handshake between agents and bots. Kemble shares lessons on ROI-driven use case selection, culture change and agile sprints to course-correct quickly.

The conversation also examines practical governance (access control and document stewardship), the shift from reactive voice support to 24/7 email responsiveness, and what “agent coaching” roles could look like by 2030. The guests underscore automation maturity as a success differentiator: SoCal Edison runs ~150 UiPath RPA licenses and ~900 desktop automation licenses; GreenShield reports inverse-of-industry failure rates by staying close to the business problem and leveraging orchestration. If you’re modernizing legacy workflows into intelligent, goal-directed agents, this session offers concrete playbooks – pick hard, high-impact use cases; pair agents with RPA for execution; and keep data/knowledge management tight to ensure reliable outcomes.

In this UiPath Fusion 2025 segment, Infosys Topaz leaders Vivek Sinha, global head of AI & automation, and Nishant Khare, AVP and head of Americas, join theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight to unpack how enterprises are shifting from traditional RPA to agentic automation. They outline Infosys Topaz’s “future-fit organization” approach and a foundry–factory model that tests emerging capabilities before scaling proven solutions. The conversation highlights orchestration with UiPath Maestro and broader ecosystems (e.g., Azure AI Foundry), the move toward “AI shoring,” and a vision for an “internet of agents.” Noteworthy metrics include Infosys’ internal adoption – 35,000 developers using GitHub Copilot daily with ~25 million lines of code generated – and the rapid expansion from dozens to hundreds of agents per quarter as real-world use cases accelerate.

The interview also explores practical outcomes: internal “customer zero” deployments, ‘agentifying’ end-to-end processes (hire-to-retire, order-to-cash), and a sales-helper agent that drafts RFP responses in about an hour instead of one to two weeks. Sinha and Khare address the pilot-to-production gap (citing studies that most POCs stall), the imperative to continuously reimagine business workflows, and the human dimension – reskilling for creativity, empathy and relationship-building even as agentic systems scale. Listeners gain a grounded view of how orchestration, governance and adaptive operating models are turning agentic AI from experimentation into enterprise impact.

In this UiPath Fusion 2025 segment, Dana Forfa, VP & Global Head of Procurement, Real Estate & Travel at UiPath, and Hitesh Ramani, Chief Accounting Officer & Deputy CFO at UiPath, join theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight to unpack how UiPath is evolving from RPA “act one” to an ROI-driven “act two” of agentic automation. The discussion dives into how proven robots (the “doers”) now pair with thinking agents orchestrated by Maestro to transform end-to-end processes with human-in-the-loop governance. Forfa explains how procurement prioritizes ideas that remove friction for employees and scale customer-service outcomes – extending RPA foundations rather than creating technical debt – while Ramani details his remit to “agentify” the enterprise and target manual human touchpoints where technology is now ready.

Real-world examples include a new agent that tackles the quarter-close goods-receipt cleanup, shifting buyers to higher-value partnering; finance workflows that combine deterministic automation (e.g., general AR reserves) with probabilistic agents for judgment-heavy steps (e.g., specific reserves); and a “financial insights” agent that writes SQL against the data warehouse – tempered by orchestration, re-prompting and human oversight to mitigate hallucinations. The group explores how Maestro enables secure coordination across agents, humans and bots; why agentic capabilities amplify network effects and operating leverage versus stand-alone RPA; and how UiPath’s trust layer and internal use (“customer zero”) are cutting procurement SLAs in half or better while laying the groundwork for autonomous finance and broader enterprise adoption.