Making Your Business Systems AI-Ready

Making Your Business Systems AI-Ready

About the event

Date: 18.09.2026
Time:
9:00 - 12:00 EEST
Location: Microsoft Building, Keilalahdentie 2 - 4, Espoo

AI agents are moving quickly from experimentation to real business use. But for many organisations, the biggest challenge isn’t building the agent, it’s connecting it to the systems and data the business already relies on.

Join Frends as part of Microsoft AI & Agent Lab for a practical workshop on Making Your Business Systems AI-Ready.

What to expect?
You’ll get a practical look at what it takes to make existing business systems ready for AI agents, without rebuilding the technology that already works. Hear from Frends and Microsoft, see a real customer proof of concept, and explore how AI can connect to and act across ERP, CRM, legacy and custom systems. The session combines practical insights, real-world examples, and discussion you can take back to your own organisation.

How can organisations connect AI agents to ERP, CRM, legacy and custom systems without rebuilding everything?

In this session, we’ll look at what it takes to bring AI into existing business environments, from connecting agents with business systems to creating the integrations and workflows needed to make AI useful in practice.

Agenda

09:00

Welcome & Introduction: Introduction to the AI & Agent Lab and the shift towards AI-ready organizations.
Antti Alila is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Microsoft Finland

09:15

Making Any Business System AI-Ready: How organizations can connect AI agents to existing business systems and processes without rebuilding their technology landscape
Antti Toivonen, Head of Product, Frends

10:00

Coffee break

10:30

Connecting AI to Legacy or Custom Systems: A real-world example of how a Frends customer approached AI readiness and connected AI with their existing systems

 

11:00

Q&A and closing of the event

11:30

Lunch & Networking 

 

Speakers

Antti Alila
Antti Alila

Chief Operating Officer

Microsoft

Antti Toivanen
Antti Toivanen

Head of Product

Frends