Remember Viskleken? You whisper “The cat sits on the mat” into your neighbor’s ear, and 12 giggling children later, it comes out as “The king knits in a hat.” Charming. Harmless. A party game.

Now let’s professionalize it. Let’s put it into production. And now, let’s change the setting, the parameters, and the actors while the game is running.

Congratulations: You have just built a modern multi-agent system. Agents don’t giggle.

My keynote takes the audience on a guided tour through this delightfully dysfunctional playground because every absurd rule of our escalated whispering game maps to a very real, very current engineering problem.