ESR News share：Deloitte Launches its Asia Pacific Agentic AI Centre of Excellence to Accelerate Scalable, Trusted AI Transformation
Source:Deloitte Asia Pacific Limited
- Deloitte launches its Asia Pacific Agentic AI Centre of Excellence, bringing together over 120 AI specialists in the region to help organisations achieve scalable, responsible AI transformation
- Agentic AI empowers businesses to automate complex processes, reimagine enterprise value chains and unlock new efficiencies through autonomous digital agents that learn and adapt.
- Deloitte helps clients rapidly boost productivity and efficiency by augmenting their workforce with Zora AI™ by Deloitte, built on NVIDIA AI, enabling rapid deployment of advanced, industry-specific AI agents to drive productivity and innovation.
Deloitte has launched its Asia Pacific (AP) Agentic AI Centre of Excellence (CoE), a major investment to help organisations across the region harness agentic AI at scale. The CoE brings together over 120 AI specialists from Asia Pacific and more than 6,000 practitioners across the region already supporting a pipeline of AI implementations valued at over US$1 billion. Closely aligned with Deloitte's Global Agentic Network—which connects delivery centres across North America, Asia Pacific, and EMEA—the CoE leverages Deloitte's alliances and platforms to help clients design, build, and deploy digital workforces at scale.
Why Agentic AI Matters for Business
Agentic AI marks a step-change in artificial intelligence, enabling AI agents to act independently, orchestrate workflows autonomously, and learn and adapt over time. For businesses, this means:
- Greater Efficiency: Agentic AI automates both routine and sophisticated tasks, freeing employees to focus on strategic priorities and innovation, while reducing operational costs and bottlenecks.
- Enhanced Decision-Making: Intelligent agents analyse vast and varied data in real time, providing actionable insights that enable organisations to respond swiftly to market changes and emerging opportunities.
- Scalability and Adaptability: Agentic AI solutions are designed to handle increasing data volumes and business complexity, ensuring precision and reliability as organisations grow.
"At the heart of the AP Agentic AI Centre of Excellence is the belief that industry knowledge must lead technology and not the other way around. What we have prioritised is the pairing of our deep sector understanding with advanced engineering to help clients move beyond experimentation to scale," said Chris Lewin, Deloitte Asia Pacific's AI Leader.
What Deloitte's Asia Pacific Agentic AI Centre of Excellence Offers
Deloitte's AP Agentic AI CoE combines deep sector expertise with advanced technology, enabling clients to:
- Leverage Advanced Technology: Through its partnership with NVIDIA, Deloitte assists clients through the Zora AI™ by Deloitte technology stack—an enterprise-ready suite of digital agents capable of autonomously executing business-critical tasks across finance, procurement, sales and marketing, and more with speed and accuracy.
- Accelerate Transformation: Zora AI agents, built on NVIDIA AI, are optimised for speed, can be rapidly deployed via cloud, and integrate with existing systems.
- Drive Innovation and Productivity: By harnessing Zora AI, organisations can automate reporting, scenario modelling, data analysis, and workflow management, enabling faster, smarter decision-making and freeing up resources for higher-value work.
- Ensure Trust and Governance: All solutions apply Deloitte's Trustworthy AI™ principles, ensuring transparency, security, and robust governance to instill confidence in AI-driven outcomes.
The AP Agentic AI CoE demonstrates Deloitte's commitment to pairing industry knowledge with advanced engineering, anchored by 180 years of global business expertise, moving clients beyond experimentation to achieve scale.
"We are on a path to becoming an AI-fueled organisation, embedding AI into our work and the services we offer," added Rob Hillard, Deloitte Asia Pacific Consulting Businesses Leader. "Our Global Agentic Network and the Asia Pacific Agentic AI Centre of Excellence are critical parts of this journey that is ultimately transforming our business, enabling us to scale our experience and build credibility as we assist clients with their own transformational journeys with speed, precision and creativity."
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