
Oleksandra Bovkun
Sr. Developer Advocate
About
Oleksandra Bovkun is a Developer Advocate at Databricks with a background as a data engineer, AI engineer, and solutions architect. She has spent her career building real-world AI solutions and architecting data platforms - which means she has made many of the mistakes so others do not have to. She is passionate about making complex AI and data topics accessible and helping the community ship things that actually work in production.
Talk
Oleksandra Bovkun | Cascading Failures in Multi-Agent Systems: Tracing and Evaluating Multi-Agent Deployments
Multi-Agent Systems, AI Observability, Distributed Tracing, AI Evaluation, MLflow
<p>Multi-agent systems shift the evaluation challenge from individual model outputs to the integrity of the coordination layer. When a supervisor agent delegates a task with flawed context, the error propagates and amplifies through the chain, leading to distributed hallucinations that bypass traditional end-to-end testing. Debugging these systems requires treating them as distributed networks rather than isolated large language model (LLM) calls.</p>
<p>In this session, Oleksandra Bovkun covers tracing, evaluation, and governance for multi-agent systems and how to ensure that agentic workflows remain reliable, transparent, and secure at scale. This session provides a technical deep dive into solving observability challenges in complex agentic workflows. She explores how to move from black-box testing to a transparent architecture using MLflow tracing.</p>
2026-11-27
11:20
12:05