Non-technical User's guide to Agent Teams with Grok Bot

Aki Wijesundara is an AI leader with a PhD in Machine Learning and extensive experience mentoring startups at Google’s AI Accelerator. With a career spanning research and applied AI, Aki has taught 5,000+ students worldwide how to design and deploy production-ready AI systems.

He has worked across areas including AI agents, RAG pipelines, observability and large-scale deployment. As a researcher and educator, Aki makes complex AI systems approachable and actionable for engineers, founders and product leaders.

Aki is also a frequent speaker and advisor to organizations adopting AI and moving from experimentation to production.

Manu Jayawardana is a serial entrepreneur with multiple AI startup successes.

He is the Co-Founder of Snapdrum, an AI consultancy helping companies integrate and automate their businesses using AI. Through Snapdrum, Manu has worked with startups and enterprises across the U.S., Europe and Asia, advising on automation, product development and AI strategy.

Manu is also an experienced AI founder whose work spans fundraising, scaling products and leading teams to deliver production-grade AI solutions used by businesses globally.