Bhaskar Roy is the Chief of AI Products & Solutions at Workato, the workflow automation leader with more than 11,000 customers and a $5.7 billion valuation. He has been with the company for nearly 11 years, previously serving as CMO. A serial head of products, Bhaskar co-founded Qik, which was acquired by Skype in 2011 for $150 million and later by Microsoft for $8.5 billion, and later held leadership roles at Playphone. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra, India.

In this conversation, we discuss:

Bhaskar’s journey from co-founding Qik to leading AI products at Workato, and why a lightbulb moment convinced him to pivot from marketing back to product innovation
What Bhaskar learned from building products that scale globally and how those lessons shape his view on AI’s real-world impact
Why Bhaskar sees AI agents as the next leap beyond low-code automation and how they orchestrate complex business processes
The balance between deterministic workflows and AI’s reasoning capabilities, and how to maintain human oversight
How enterprises can move beyond AI experiments at the fringes to transformative use cases that deliver measurable ROI
The cultural shift required to embrace AI in the workplace, from reducing fear of automation to unlocking new opportunities for employees

Resources:

Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter
Connect with Bhaskar on LinkedIn
AI fun fact article
On How to Help Companies Push Boldly Into The Future
Past episodes with amazing guests from Workato:
- Interview with Vijay Tella, CEO of Workato
- Interview with Carter Busse, CIO at Workato

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