"Do you really think HR will exist as a department ten years from now?” A Workday venture investor asked Pietro Maria Picogna, CEO of Pack, this question, and it set the starting point for this session. Agentic AI can now automate many of the processes that justify the traditional HR structure. Drawing on conversations with leading HR tech investors, Pietro looks at the two forces that will decide whether the people function evolves or disappears. The first is the context graph challenge: building reliable, business-relevant data beyond static HRIS records. The second is workflow adoption: redesigning outdated processes around AI agents, with HR acting as the human-in-the-loop. He then sets out two practical paths to staying relevant. HR professionals can become high-impact business partners who understand finance, operations and sales, or they can lead AI adoption across the organisation, where real adoption still sits at around 2%.