AI in Product Management: Agentic AI Demystified

Overview
Agentic AI is the next leap beyond chatbots and RAG apps—autonomous, goal-seeking systems that loop through Perceive → Plan → Act → Learn. But when is that extra complexity worth it?

In this fast-moving session we’ll:

• Define the agentic pattern in plain English.
• Contrast it with the three workhorse Gen-AI patterns (prompt-only apps, RAG, and fine-tuned models).
• Decide with a 5-question litmus test exactly when agents make sense—and when they don’t.
• Demo three production-grade agents you can replicate this month.
• Send you home with open-source repos, architecture diagrams, and a decision checklist PDF.

Whether you lead a product team, wrangle data pipelines, or just want AI to do more than write emails, you’ll leave ready to pilot your own agent—without letting it go feral.

Agenda

• 2:00pm - 2:30pm: Arrival and networking
• 2:30pm - 2:45pm: Announcements and round-room introductions
• 2:45pm - 3:30pm: Featured presentation by Mike Hands, Agentic AI Demystified: What It Is, When to Use It, and 3 Real-World Agents You Can Steal
• 3:30pm - 4:00pm: Your impromptu discussion topics
• 4:00pm onwards: Continued networking at Monster Brewing

Meet Our Featured Speaker
Mike Hands – Fractional Product & AI Consultant, founder of Able AI.
Mike has led the development of flagship digital products in Fortune 500 and startup settings across a range of industries.

Sponsors
This event is sponsored by Lab651 & Recursive Awesome

Organizers
This event is part of the community interest groups series at Applied AI, where community members power sessions for niche interest areas through the Applied AI platform.

This event is organized and hosted by Cameron Gross, John DeBauche, and Beth-Alison Berggren.

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