Scaling and Managing Complex Agentic Workflows with Conductor

Managing complex workflows in autonomous systems poses significant challenges as they scale. This tech talk explores strategies for optimizing agent-based architectures, where multiple agents interact and adapt in dynamic environments.
In this talk, we will be discussing distributed decision-making and coordination, bottlenecks, adaptive workflow reconfiguration and resilience, and real-world applications. Attendees can also look forward to gaining insights into designing, deploying, and managing complex agentic workflows, unlocking the full potential of autonomous systems. Includes notes based on practical perspectives, on improved efficiency, reduced errors, and enhanced flexibility.


Speaker

Viren Baraiya

CTO and co-founder @Orkes

Viren is currently CTO and co-founder at Orkes – a company that works closely with the developer community and provides a cloud delivered SaaS offering for the leading open source application orchestration platform, Conductor. Viren was one of the original creators of Conductor while he was at Netflix and led the open sourcing of Conductor.

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Date

Tuesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Pacific LM

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