Seven 20-minute talks: AI agent in 1C and team motivation discussed at A&PM EVENT 2026

On October 30, 2026, the INFOSTART A&PM EVENT 2026 conference hosted the "Open Mic" program. It featured seven 20-minute talks. Topics ranged from connecting an AI agent to a 1C database to team motivation. The format is short: a speaker has time to show a work situation, a tool, or project experience rather than an overview of trends.

One of the talks closes the gap between personal experiments and shared practice. Employees already use AI, but each in their own way. Successful techniques remain in personal chats, and colleagues go through the same path of trial and error again. Alexander Shevchenko, support line team lead and project manager for AI implementation at "1C Business Solutions," describes how this practice was changed over six months. An AI Club appeared at the company: work cases undergo joint review and audit, then become the basis for team rules. The talk is "What AI changes in an analyst's work: from chaotic AI use to team rules in six months," 11:30.

The second talk is about an agent (a program that itself executes a chain of actions toward a given goal) directly in a 1C database. Vladimir Kharin, head of AIDevStart, demonstrates the connection, discusses the tasks that can be handed to the agent, and issues of protecting sensitive data. Participants are promised a free 1C extension for connecting the agent with data anonymization. The talk is "AI agent in your 1C database: how to connect it and how it will help an analyst," 12:00.

The third announced talk is organizational. Natalya Ivanova, head of digital transformation, examines the gaps between data, context, and people's expectations after connecting AI to ERP (enterprise resource planning system). The program includes an assessment of company readiness and a model. The full description of the model in the source note is cut off.

In practice, this is an attempt to move AI from a personal habit into a team process. The AI Club with case audits is one way to fix the rules. Connecting the agent to 1C raises the question of data access: without anonymization, sensitive information enters the agent's environment. The talk about ERP reminds us that technical connection does not equal the readiness of people and data.

What remained unknown: the full roster of the seven talks and the schedule of the remaining presentations. The criteria for case audits in the AI Club and how the company measured the result over six months are not disclosed. Regarding the free 1C extension, there is no data on the license or distribution terms.