(KARNATAKA, India) — NEWS: thegeekconf Mini 2026 will convene product builders, engineering leaders, AI practitioners, founders, and technology decision-makers on August 1 at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bengaluru. McKinsey’s 2025 global survey found that 62% of respondents said their organizations had started experimenting with AI agents. Yet 23% reported scaling an agentic AI system in one or more business functions, and no function crossed a 10% scaling rate. A production system must manage state, recover from failure, protect data, and route high-risk actions to people. A panel will examine the future of product teams in the agentic AI era.