On Thursday 19 November I'm giving a 15-minute lightning talk at the Emerging Te
By Shawnbaako · November 13, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
On Thursday 19 November I'm giving a 15-minute lightning talk at the Emerging Tech Conference with Phat Nguyen: "Beyond Automation: From Task Bots to Agents That Know Your Business."
Today's AI assistants answer one question, then wait for the next. Someone still writes the prompt, reads the answer and decides what happens next.
We'll cover what changes when the agent runs that loop itself:
• What it needs to work without someone in every step: context about your business, access to the systems your people use, and clear limits on how far it can act.
• How it gets better from its own mistakes. Each one becomes a test it has to pass before the next release, so the same mistake doesn't come back.
• How the same loop handles business work that runs for weeks, not one prompt at a time.
10:00 EST, Shared Crystal/Roanoke Foyer.
Session details: https://sched.co/2a29q
If you're at ETC, come find us afterwards. We'd like to hear what your team is doing with AI today.
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