Why it matters
Architecture choice is a direct cost lever -- unnecessary multi-agent orchestration multiplies model calls and token spend, so a heuristic for right-sizing agent design is directly useful for cutting agent bills.
The tokenmaxxing angle
The talk's premise -- pick single-agent, multi-agent, or orchestrated 'without unnecessary complexity' -- is a cost-avoidance argument: every extra agent hop in a pipeline is extra token spend that may not buy better output.
From the organizers
Speaker Chase, a Professor of AI and AI Fellow at Metro State University with an MBA and CISSP, presents a 'decision flow and heuristics' framework, followed by networking at Lake Monster Brewing.