# AI-Workshops

> Practical AI agent workshops for career professionals who want to build and use agents in real job workflows.

## Canonical page
- [AI Agent Workshop for Professionals](https://www.ai-workshops.ca/): AI-Workshops teaches professionals how to understand, build, test, and use AI agents for real work across marketing, operations, product, sales, admin, leadership, and other computer-based roles.

## Locations
- Barrie
- Newmarket
- Toronto
- Vaughan
- Markham
- Mississauga
- Oakville
- the GTA
- Ontario

## Role fit
- Marketing: Build agents for campaign research, content briefs, performance summaries, competitive monitoring, and handoff notes.
- Operations: Use agents to triage requests, summarize status, prepare recurring reports, and coordinate multi-step process updates.
- Sales: Create agents for account research, follow-up preparation, meeting notes, CRM hygiene, and proposal support.
- Product: Apply agents to customer feedback synthesis, release notes, research summaries, and product decision briefs.
- Leadership: Use agents for executive summaries, meeting preparation, decision logs, stakeholder updates, and priority tracking.
- Admin and coordination: Build agents for scheduling support, document preparation, inbox follow-up, spreadsheet updates, and repeat coordination.

## Curriculum
- Day 1 / Day 1 morning: AI agents core concepts. Understand what makes an agent different from a chatbot, where agents are useful, and how to make them work.
- Day 1 / Day 1 midday: Managing workflows and context. Learn how to prevent your agent from falling into the classic AI hallucination problem and keep it smart for accomplishing real tasks.
- Day 1 / Day 1 afternoon: Agent steering, and task execution. Learn fundamental principles of agent steering, and how to actually get AI to intelligently complete tasks you assign to it.
- Day 2 / Day 2 morning: Automation and human-in-the-loop. Learn how to intelligently automate your AI systems and determine appropriate approaches for human intervention vs. 100% machine automation.
- Day 2 / Day 2 midday: Building your first automated workflow. Apply your learnings to date to plan your automated workflow and connect to MCPs.
- Day 2 / Day 2 afternoon: Launch your workflow and showcase. Complete your workflow, present it to the class.

## Agent-callable tools
- find_workshop_sessions: Find public AI agent workshop sessions by city, format, and available seats. This is a read-only tool.
- recommend_workshop_path: Recommend role-specific workshop fit and likely workflow examples from the user's job role and experience level. This is a read-only tool.
- start_workshop_enrollment: Prefill the visible booking form so the user can review details before submitting or opening checkout.
- contact_ai_workshops: Prefill the visible contact form so the user can review their question before sending it.

## Instructor
Anthony Badowich, AI workshop instructor. Instructor for practical AI agent workshops focused on helping professionals turn repeat computer-based work into reliable agent-assisted workflows.

## FAQ
### Do I need coding experience?
No. This workshop is built for professionals who work at a computer, not software developers. You will learn the practical structure, setup choices, prompts, guardrails, and tests needed to build a useful AI agent.

### What will I have by the end?
You will leave with a working AI agent you built yourself, one real workflow mapped and automated, reusable workflow templates, and a clear plan for improving the agent after the workshop.

### What kind of workflow can I automate?
Any repeat computer-based work with a clear output: examples range from simple email follow-ups, meeting prep, status updates, and client communication, to complex research briefs, document summaries, reporting, request triage, application usage, and more.

### Is this a theoretical or practical workshop?
This is primarily a practical workshop. We cover basic theory, but the main focus is hands-on experience. About 60% of time spent is hands-on activities to produce outcomes.

### What days are workshops held? Do you offer private sessions?
Confirmed workshop dates are listed on the AI-Workshops website. Sessions are primarily offered on weekends with an occasional weekday series. Private training sessions for groups and companies are available on demand.

### Can my company book a private AI workshop?
Yes. Companies can request a private team cohort with schedule, location, and workflow examples shaped around the team.

### What should I bring?
Bring a laptop, charger, access to the tools you normally use for work, and one or two recurring workflows you would like to improve. Tool setup instructions will be sent before the workshop dates.

## Actions
- [View dates](https://www.ai-workshops.ca/#dates)
- [Book or request private training](https://www.ai-workshops.ca/#booking)
- [Contact](https://www.ai-workshops.ca/#contact)