Coordinating Humans and AI Agents: The PM Role in a Hybrid Team
Learn how project managers can set accountability, decision rights, and communication for teams that include both people and AI agents.
Live Date
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Session Window
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Format
Live Virtual Conference
Member-exclusive resources & replay access included
Designed for PM leaders leveling up their org
Why project leaders are booking this
- • Actionable tactics to ship deliverables faster without scope slip
- • Live Q&A with a battle-tested practitioner
- • PDUs to keep credentials current while sharpening team leadership
What to Expect
AI agents are joining project teams. They write code, draft documents, run workflows, and post updates around the clock, and many people expect them to make project managers less necessary. In practice, they make the PM’s job bigger. Projects already fail because problems surface too late, decisions stall, and coordination can’t keep up, and agents make all three worse. Updates pile up faster than anyone can read them, it’s unclear who owns an agent’s output, and plans change faster than anyone can update them.
In this session, Keshav Puttaswamy, CPO of Empwr and a product leader who spent 17 years working on Microsoft Project, looks at how the PM’s three core jobs (staying connected, keeping the plan current, and communicating to drive action) are stretched when the team includes both people and AI agents. He’ll cover practical ways to set accountability, decision rights, and communication for both audiences, and how PMs can use AI to handle the routine work of project management, like taking notes, collecting status, keeping everyone informed, and raising risks early, so they can spend their time on judgment.
The session ends with a live look at how the Empwr team coordinates humans and AI agents day to day, followed by Q&A. Attendees will leave with concrete practices they can apply to their own hybrid teams right away.
You Will Walk Away With
- A clear view of the three most common reasons projects fail (problems surface too late, decisions stall, and coordination can’t keep up) and how AI agents on the team make each one worse
- An understanding of how the PM’s three core jobs change in a team of people and AI agents: staying connected, keeping the plan current, and communicating to drive action
- An approach to designing project communication that keeps both people and AI agents informed, with high signal and low noise
- A practical sense of which routine PM work AI can take on, such as taking notes, collecting status, keeping everyone informed, and raising risks early, so you have more time for judgment and leadership
Meet the Expert
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Keshav Puttaswamy
Live Q&A + practical frameworks you can deploy with your PMO immediately.
Keshav is product leader and founder focused on helping organizations execute better in complex, fast-moving environments. Over the past two decades, he has led product strategy for billion-dollar platforms, built and scaled high-performing product teams, and delivered enterprise software used by millions. Today, he is building Empwr, an AI PM teammate and system of intelligence designed to reduce coordination debt and improve execution across the enterprise. He's worked across collaboration, developer platforms, messaging, AI, and enterprise infrastructure building products like Project, SharePoint, Yammer, Jira, Confluence, and large-scale messaging and calling systems at Meta.
Skill Focus
Accountability
AI agents
AI automation
AI in Project Management
decision rights
Empwr
hybrid teams
Keshav Puttaswamy
Live Event
PMI PDU
Project communication
Project Failure
project manager role
status reporting
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