My Talk on AI Agents and Agentic Workflows

TL;DR: Here’s the full PDF of my webinar presentation on AI agents and agentic workflows at the UD FinTech Innovation Hub on March 12, 2025.

One of my goals is to present my understanding of LLM chatbots, agents, and agentic workflows through demos I developed, rather than using abstract definitions. I came up with the analogy between animal/human/nexus and chatbot/agent/workflow while reading the book Nexus last year, which I think is a clear and simple way to think about these concepts:

I also discuss how no-code and low-code AI agent tools are empowering business professionals to tackle many tasks once reserved to technical experts, and why a three-tiered approach to AI training is essential for organizations to build true AI readiness.

The following are the demos I shared in the webinar:

Page 10 on agents with tools (Dify Agent):

Page 12 on AI coding agent (Windsurf):

Page 17 on general purpose agent (OpenMenus):

Page 19 on agentic workflow (Dify Workflow):