World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage

The age of agency: When products start to think and act

What this session covers

The truth about AI products: Most ‘AI features’ are just glorified search bars. They wait for you to type, wait for you to click and wait for you to fix their mistakes. That era is over.

We are moving from passive software to agentic products. These systems don’t just assist. They reason, decide and act. They don’t wait for instructions. They chase goals.

But if you design an agent like a traditional app, you will fail. You’ll build something chaotic, opaque and untrustworthy.

What this talk is about: This isn’t a theoretical deep dive into LLM architecture. It is a practical session for the people actually building the future.

We will break down the shift from user-driven to goal-driven systems. You will learn why trust and control are your new design primitives and how to coordinate tools without losing the human in the loop.

World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage

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