Unfinished Business: Dallas

July 16, 2026 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM

How AI agents actually make modernization work

Unfinished Business: Dallas edition

brought to you by Mechanical Orchard and Thoughtworks

AI has made modernization a hot topic, but much of the conversation misses a core issue behind the 70% failure rate: long, costly testing cycles that slow progress. While AI is increasing speed, it also raises critical questions - how do you trust what it produces, and how do you translate that into real value?

Join us for an in-person event where we will examine two common failure patterns in modernization efforts: traditional code-based approaches and the emerging business rules extraction (BRE) approach. Neither transpiling code nor capturing rules alone delivers success under real-world conditions. The gap between understanding a system and proving it behaves correctly is where modernization efforts stall.

We’ll discuss how a test-driven, behavioral approach closes this gap by combining AI-assisted modernization with continuous verification of system behavior. Using real data to prove equivalence at every step, teams can move faster, minimize rework, and reduce disruption—resolving the tradeoff between risk and speed.

When “should do” becomes easy to do, the only question left is: why not?

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