Release management orchestrates the complex journey from development to deployment — coordinating dependencies, compliance gates, testing, and environment management across multiple teams and systems. As enterprises struggle with visibility gaps, approval bottlenecks, and time-consuming routine operations, AI agents offer a promising path forward. This session explores where AI can realistically help today — from dependency analysis and compliance documentation to environment health monitoring — while addressing the elephant in the room: AI mistakes are expensive in release management. We’ll share our pragmatic, phased approach: starting with AI-assisted data collection and validation, progressing to human-in-the-loop autonomous actions, and ultimately enabling fully autonomous agents with built-in cross-checking — and invite you to share your own use cases and join us on this journey.