PepsiCo’s blueprint for agentic AI | BRK224
PepsiCo partnered with Microsoft to build an agentic AI solution on a unified lakehouse data platform.
“so many companies believe if they don't have the right data infrastructure, the right data, the right secure data, quality data, AI projects are kind of doomed to fail”
At Microsoft Build, principal architect Bob Ward framed a PepsiCo case study showing how consolidating siloed, sprawling data onto a unified lakehouse platform is the prerequisite for successful agentic AI. The session reinforces the industry theme that data modernization and governance, not models alone, determine whether enterprise AI projects succeed. It matters as a concrete enterprise validation of the data-foundation-first approach to agentic AI.