Will agents replace search teams? A discussion

Hosted by Daniel Tunkenlang and Doug Turnbull

173 students

In this video

What you'll learn

Agentic search vs traditional search

What's the difference? Where do we see agentic search fitting into user's journey? Does it replace the search bar?

Where agents fit into teams + planning

What role do agents play on teams helping to solve relevance and query understanding problems?

Where human judgment still matters

Where human taste, strategic thinking, intuition, and inspiration still fits on the search team

Why this topic matters

Exhilarating and terrifying - that's AIs potential on the search industry. We all feel it. Can we plan for it? For our career? For our teams? Depending who you ask either nothing or everything is changing. Daniel and Doug, two long time search professionals will lead a discussion, debating different perspectives, with audience participation

You'll learn from

Daniel Tunkenlang

Principal, High Class Consultant

Independent consultant specializing in search, machine learning, and AI. Known as “Mr. Query Understanding,” Daniel co-founded Endeca, led a local search team at Google, and served as a search and data science leader at LinkedIn, where he established the query understanding team. He holds a PhD in computer science from CMU and has written extensively on information retrieval, search, and AI.