Panel: People + Agents in Real-World Quality Engineering — Lessons from Finance, Legal, Higher Ed & Pharma
Financial Services. Legal. Higher Education. Pharma. Four very different industries, but all facing the same fundamental shift: what happens when AI agents become part of the software delivery and quality engineering team?
At Prolifics, we believe the future is people and AI agents working side by side to deliver value. But this is bigger than another evolution in software delivery. Agile transformed how we built software 20 years ago. We believe people + agents will drive a transformation several times greater — fundamentally changing the economics, speed, roles, and lifecycle of software delivery.
In this panel, Prolifics leaders will share lessons from real enterprise implementations: how our Quality Fusion + Agents toolkit is changing testing in financial services; how AI is being applied across legal and higher education; and what we’re learning from introducing AI into quality engineering at scale within pharma.
We’ll compare what has worked, what hasn’t, where measurable efficiencies are emerging, and what ROI looks like in practice. Where should agents take over? Where is human judgement essential? And how do quality engineering teams — and the lifecycle around them — need to change when people and agents deliver together?
Greg Hodgkinson
Greg Hodgkinson is CTO and Head of R&D and Innovation at Prolifics, where he is helping enterprises reinvent how value gets delivered in the age of AI.
He established and grew the Prolifics Innovation Center into the leading edge of the business — building it into an engine for AI-first enterprise transformation. His work focuses on how AI agents, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled engineering are reshaping the way organizations modernize systems, accelerate delivery, and create competitive advantage.
Greg leads initiatives spanning agentic enterprise architectures, AI-powered modernization factories, engineering acceleration platforms, and next-generation delivery models designed to dramatically improve speed, quality, and business agility. He works with global enterprises across industries to modernize legacy estates, unlock enterprise data for AI, and create practical pathways toward AI-transformed value streams.
Known for turning emerging technology into practical execution, Greg has a track record of building high-impact teams, innovation programs, and enterprise platforms that convert disruptive ideas into scalable business capability and measurable outcomes.
With more than 30 years of experience in enterprise technology and digital transformation, Greg has worked across every major shift in enterprise architecture from distributed systems and SOA through cloud, DevOps, and now AI-first operating models. Before joining Prolifics through the acquisition of 7irene, a UK-based SOA platform company he co-founded, he built products focused on enterprise integration, distributed runtime platforms, and collaborative engineering. He holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Srikanth Nagavarapu
Naseer Mohammed
Naseer Mohammed is a seasoned technology leader at McKesson, bringing deep expertise in enterprise software delivery, transformation, and building technology solutions that solve complex business challenges. With a strong focus on turning strategy into real-world impact, he brings valuable insights on how technology, innovation, and execution can come together to drive meaningful outcomes.