Leading Your Agent Team: From Agent to Agentic Orchestration
NewBuilding an agent is only the beginning. The next wave of AI innovation is being driven by teams of specialized agents working together to solve increasingly complex problems. As organizations move beyond individual agents and toward coordinated AI systems, a new challenge emerges: how do you lead, coordinate, and govern intelligent teams? In this hands-on tutorial, you'll move beyond creating agents and begin learning how to orchestrate them. Through practical exercises and real-world examples, you'll explore how specialized agents can collaborate, share responsibilities, and work together toward common goals. You'll learn the principles of agentic orchestration and discover how humans remain essential in providing vision, direction, guardrails, and oversight. This session focuses on three key ideas: Specialize → Coordinate → Lead. You'll learn how agent roles emerge, how agents collaborate as a team, and how effective leadership transforms individual agents into coordinated systems capable of accomplishing far more than any single agent alone. The industry is rapidly moving from individual AI assistants toward orchestrated teams of intelligent systems. If you've built an agent then this tutorial will help you understand where AI is heading next and how to stay ahead of the curve.
This tutorial is hands-on and assumes familiarity with the concepts covered in Forming Your Agent Team: From LLM to Agent or equivalent experience.
Kevin Pyles works for FamilySearch as an AI/ML SDET where he is testing test AI with AI. He has been in the QA industry now for over 18 years with project, product, and management roles throughout. Kevin worked previously for test.ai where he was the Head of Product. Kevin also served on the board for QA at the Point (a local testing meetup), and is an award-winning international speaker. Kevin enjoys golf, attending soccer games, and watching college football. He loves spending time with his family including his wife and 6 kids. He loves Brazilian food and pepperoni pizza, and can’t help himself when there is ice cream.