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Cohere VP says enterprise AI sovereignty requires control of the full agent stack at VB Transform 2026

VentureBeat · 10h ago · 🇨🇦 Canada

Cohere VP says enterprise AI sovereignty requires control of the full agent stack at VB Transform 2026

Hundreds of enterprise leaders and technical experts packed the main ballroom of the luxurious Hotel Nia in Menlo Park this week for VB Transform 2026 , the year's preeminent conference on using generative AI agents to drive business outcomes. Rachad Alao, vice president of product engineering at the rising Canadian enterprise AI startup Cohere, joined VentureBeat CEO and editor-in-chief Matt Marshall for a fireside chat about building agentic systems without surrendering sensitive data, infrastructure control, or the ability to change vendors. Alao, who previously led responsible AI and

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