Do you believe that (RPA, Automation, and intelligent Automation), coupled with clear guidelines, robust process mapping, and effective monitoring and control capabilities, can serve as a key enabler for successfully integrating AI and GenAI into an organization's operations and strategies?

I believe the automation functions you mentioned are great for productivity / workflow / etc...  I think the industry has to decide and invest in a standard framework to expose agentic capabilities that can be leveraged by an LLM during problem solving to truly take automation to the next level wrt GenAI.  (MCP, N8N, .....  has to be a real leader in this space that publishers get behind and endorse..)

With the availability of APIs and GenAI assistance, there will be fewer and fewer RPA use cases. If you're enabling processs with GenAI, go ahead and build the appropriate integrations unless it's just not possible to do so. 

Automation has "integration gap". All equipment - and all their generations - and sub- and sister-systems have to be carefully and correctly interfaced to the automation system. They may easily have 20 000 connections or more. The "integration gap" in to realise all those connections correctly and also to prove that they are correct.

RPA is just "automated data management" that often emulates human actions with ITC means. Thus rapidly.

AI can be used to generate code rapidly to such interfaces - often called "drivers" or "APIs". AI may not be succesfui in all cases, but eventually will make 99% of those interfaces. That will disrupt the automation and coding industry. Already ongoing - in starting phase.

I have been recently joined the IBM TechXchange Summit in Barcelona and one of the message was: GenAI is nothing without Automation

All the terms used are part of a digital organization, and maybe enablers. However they are not key to the successful integration of GenAI [ai is a catch all aand buzz word].