The team of tomorrow: agents, alignment, and team ritual

As AI agents move from tools to active participants, product teams will need to rethink how collaboration actually works.

In this talk, GitHub product operations leader Chris Butler uses design fiction to imagine a near future where AI agents work alongside engineers, designers, product managers, customer support, legal, privacy, and security — raising uncomfortable but necessary questions about decision-making, trust, and accountability when not everyone in the room is human.

When should teams listen to an agent, when should they ignore it, and what does alignment really mean in a world of partially automated contributors? This session helps product leaders start grappling with those questions before that future arrives.