Accenture and ServiceNow launched the Forward Deployed Engineering program at Knowledge 2026 to address the delivery gap that keeps 88% of enterprise AI initiatives from reaching scale production. David Kanter, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of the ServiceNow Business Alliance at Accenture, and Miku Jha, GVP of Applied AI and Forward Deployed Engineering at ServiceNow, outline how embedding co-engineering teams inside customer environments from day one, backed by 300+ agentic AI workflows and a governance-first architecture, changes what enterprise AI deployment actually produces.