Product at Heart keynote 2025, Hamburg - AI Agents in Practice

Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
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Product at Heart keynote 2025, Hamburg - AI Agents in Practice

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Here are the slides for my keynote "AI Agents in Practice" at Product at Heart conf in Hamburg. We are quickly moving towards a world where most companies and teams have AI agents as colleagues. But what does that mean in practice?

Here are the slides for my keynote "AI Agents in Practice" at Product at Heart conf in Hamburg.

Abstract:
We are quickly moving towards a world where most companies and teams have AI agents as colleagues. But what does that mean in practice?

This keynote will give a glimpse of the future, using today's technology. What is an AI agent? How do you make agents that actually work and do useful stuff? And what are some things to keep mind when doing so - tips, techniques, pitfalls? In this keynote Henrik shares his experience with real-life agent development.

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Here is also a link to the Agent Design Canvas that I showed.

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