MPS2026 Panel: Kanika Tolver

Maryland Product Symposium 2026 / Kanika Tolver

Panel Member

Kanika Tolver

Senior AI Product Manager · Career Rehab LLC


Organizational AI Harnesses: Building multiplayer AI experiences for teams of Agents & People

Interactive panel & breakout
Thursday, October 22, 2026 · 1:00–2:00 p.m. Eastern
Live online · Interactive panel and breakout

About the session

Organizational AI Harnesses: Building multiplayer AI experiences for teams of Agents & People

Professional AI product experience and productivity gains are defined by the harness we use, and the future is in organization sized AI harnesses.

The Harness: Claude Code, Codex, or Hermes if your bold, defines the modern professional’s AI product experience. When voice and chat are the common UI, it’s the orchestration around the LLM call driving the experience.

And while many are just figuring out how to download Claude Code, modern organizations and startups are starting to tackle the organizational harness.

How does the team interact with AI? New interface or the tools they know? How do we control an entire team of agents, with different users, or different skill levels? How is memory and context shared, but sensitive information protected from leaks? How do we stop hallucinations? How do I manage token spend? How are expert skills and workflows distributed? How can I enable my team to build their own custom apps, with some control?

This talk looks at examples and stories from companies and startups doing the work to figure out how to harness and control these powerful and unpredictable AI-enabled systems.

What you will take away

  • Look beyond the LLM call to the organizational harness that shapes the professional AI experience.
  • Consider how teams manage shared context, sensitive information, hallucinations, token spend, and skill distribution.
  • Design enterprise AI so people with different roles and skill levels can work with agents safely and productively.

Session details

DateThursday, October 22, 2026

Time1:00–2:00 p.m. Eastern

FormatLive online

Length60-minute interactive panel and breakout

About the speaker

About Kanika

Kanika Tolver is a Senior AI Product Manager, bestselling author, and founder of Career Rehab, LLC. With nearly 20 years of experience in technology, she has led AI, ServiceNow, digital transformation, and product initiatives across the federal government and private sector. Her expertise includes AI product strategy, Microsoft Copilot, ServiceNow, agentic AI, enterprise AI adoption, and Agile product management. Kanika is also a professional speaker and the author of Career Rehab: Rebuild Your Personal Brand and Rethink the Way You Work.

Why this session

Evidence from the work itself

This session moves beyond individual AI tools to the orchestration problems organizations face once AI becomes shared infrastructure. The panel focuses on the practical questions of context, controls, hallucinations, cost, workflows, and team-level use that determine whether AI actually scales.

Join us live on October 22.

Hear the session, ask questions, and connect the lesson to your own product work.