In an executive interview with Jake Yang, CTO of S&P Global Energy, at CERAWeek 2026, UptimeAI CEO Jag Gattu shares insights on the challenges facing the energy and heavy process industries, how the global expertise shortage is amplifying these challenges, and how AI can help companies battling these issues not only survive, but thrive.Â
In the CERAWeek 2026 Innovation Agora, UptimeAI CEO Jag Gattu presented on how AI Reasoning Agents answer to the challenge of the expertise crisis in the heavy process industries, the problems they’re being deployed to solve, and how they’re delivering 2-5% EBITDA improvements for some of the industry’s leading companies. Â
Every new digital tool seems to demand more experts — but with experts retiring daily, this approach simply isn’t scalable. While digital tools can automate tasks, they struggle to codify expertise. So, what if there was a smarter solution?
Enter AI Reasoning Agents.
Jagadish Gattu, CEO of UptimeAI, provides an overview of how these agents are changing the game. By utilizing domain skills and logic, tapping into all your data sources, and delivering context-aware suggestions — AI Reasoning Agents can run hundreds of RCAs or refresh maintenance strategies on the fly.
