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Go Beyond Prompting: Orchestrate Your AI Research Team

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Agentic AI for Product Teams: Build Workflows & Agents You Can Trust
John Whalen, PhD
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What you'll learn

Design Effective Agent Teams for Research Tasks

Learn how to define specialized roles—interviewer, analyst, synthesizer, critic—and structure agents to collaborate.

Orchestrate Agent Swarms for Complex Workflows

See how to coordinate multiple agents across multi-step research processes for deeper, faster insight generation.

Build Quality Controls and Trust Into Multi-Agent Systems

Discover how to introduce validation loops, guardrails, and human oversight to ensure reliable, defensible outputs.

Why this topic matters

Single AI agents can automate tasks, but multi-agent systems can transform how research gets done. As research becomes more agentic in 2026, the ability to design, orchestrate, and safeguard teams of agents will separate experimentation from true capability. This session shows you how to move from isolated tools to coordinated research systems built with oversight, validation, and trust.

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John Whalen, PhD

AI for UX Expert, Fortune 100 clientele, CEO, author & speaker

I lead Insights & Innovation at Brilliant Experience, where I help global brands understand the psychology behind their customers' behaviors and bring successful products to market.

Initially skeptical about AI, my team and I conducted “AI vs. Humans” studies to pinpoint precisely where AI-enhanced research excels—and where human judgment remains irreplaceable. I became convinced that AI will transform how research will be done.

With a PhD from Johns Hopkins, and author of Design for How People Think, I combine academic rigor with real-world pragmatism to help you harness the new realities of AI-powered research.

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