Agentic AI Enterprise Adoption Hits 72% Production but 60% Governance Gap Persists — Conference Shifts to 'How to Scale'

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The AI Agent Conference 2026 (May 4-5, Manhattan) drew 1,000+ senior executives and engineers with the message shifting from 'should we deploy agents?' to 'how do we govern, secure, and scale them.' Data shows 72% of enterprises now have agentic AI in production, but a 60% governance gap remains. VentureBeat's tracker logged 4,800 production agent deployments across the Fortune 500 in Q1 2026 alone, while the dominant failure pattern is deploying across 10 workflows before validating any single one.