e& and IBM Unveil Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI to Transform Governance and Compliance

e& and IBM Unveil Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI to Transform Governance and Compliance

By PR Newswire
Publication Date: 2026-01-19 12:30:00

  • Announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the deployment marks e&’s move beyond traditional chatbots to enterprise-grade agentic AI.

  • Powered by IBM watsonx Orchestrate, agentic AI is embedded into mission-critical governance and compliance systems across e&.

DAVOS, Switzerland and DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global technology group e& and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a strategic collaboration to advance towards an enterprise-grade agentic AI foundation at e&, starting with policy, risk, and compliance. Unveiled at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, the initiative reflects e&’s move beyond traditional natural language processing (NLP)-based chatbots toward governed, action-oriented AI embedded in core enterprise systems.

e& and IBM unveil enterprise-grade agentic AI at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ana Paula Assis, SVP and Chair for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, IBM and Hatem Dowidar, Group CEO, e&