You submit a pull request. You ask a coding assistant to build a feature. An email lands in a shared mailbox. A service desk ticket is raised. An API receives a request. What happens next?

For decades, software followed workflows designed by people. Now, reasoning models can analyse objectives, plan, delegate to specialist agents, weigh approaches and adapt as they learn. Software may begin deciding what the workflow should be.

This session explores why agent teams are emerging and what this shift means for engineers building systems with dynamic execution. We’ll examine planning, delegation, identity, governance and trust, and why these challenges may matter as much as model capability.

This isn’t about replacing engineers. It’s about understanding a new execution model and our role when software helps decide how work gets done.