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Earn Your Prompt Engineering & Agentic AI Agent Development Credentials - Plus more...

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an introductory level ai workshop

Introduction to Generative AI
Prompt Engineering & AI Agent Development

Upcoming Workshops (2025 - 2026):


Always 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Arizona Time (AZ doesn't recognize DST)

December 9th - 12th | Tuesday - Friday
January 6th - 9th
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January 20th - 23rd
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February 3rd - 6th
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February 17th - 20th
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March 3rd - 6th
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March 17th - 20th
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March 31st - April 3rd
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March 14th - 17th
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March 28th - April 1st
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Day 1 & 2 Agenda

Day 1 (2 Hours)

  • Welcome and Icebreaker

  • Demo of What We'll Build in The Workshop over the Next 4 Days

  • Signing up for ChatGPT & DeepSeek

  • Workshop Tools - Sign-up and Use 

  • Introduction to Chat GPT & LLMs

  • Effective Prompting: Basics

  • Chaining Basic Prompts to Create an Outcome

  • Hands-On Exercise - Workshop Competition

  • Offline Work | Open Office Hours with Workshop Facilitator

Day 2 (2 Hours)

  • Students Demonstrate Their Homework

  • Introduction to Advanced Prompting Techniques 

  • Prompt Optimization Tools

  • CINDEF + Persona 

  • Prompt Engineering Certificate Project

  • Offline Work | Open Office Hours with Workshop Facilitator

Included in Workshop

Free to AILA Members
Non-Members: $700

  • Introduction to Generative AI

  • No prior experience required

  • Instruction on ChatGPT 4o Use in L&D - from beginning prompts to advanced prompts

  • Instruction on building a Custom AI Agent for yourself or your organization

  • Use of ESource's L&D Expert Assistant and Prompt Optimizer on a private and secure server during the class.
    Security Disclosures.

  • Free use of an AI Agent platform provided by Chatbase.

  • Use of ESource course-building tools. Currently benchmarked by ChatGPT 4o at up to 99.98% reduction in course development times and 4,340x faster than traditional methods. The fastest L&D AI Agent known. (LINK)

  • Two take-away manuals. One 80-page manual on ChatGPT commands and use; and One 69-page manual on Creating Chatbots and AI Agents. 

  • Two AILA/ESource certificates *awarded on merit*: Prompt Engineering & Chatbot Development.

Day 3 & 4 Agenda

Day 3
(2 Hours)

  • Introduction to AI Agent Development

  • Using LLMs as a Collaborator

  • Using Vibe Coding 2.0

  • Developing Markdown Code

  • Designing Your AI Agent's Tuning

  • Using an LLM to Simulate Your AI Agent

  • Defining Your AI Agent's Knowledge Base

  • Designing Your AI Agent's UX

  • AI Agent Deployment and Prompt Testing

  • Offline Work | Open Office Hours with Workshop Facilitator

Day 4
(2 Hours)

  • Demonstrating Your AI Agent

  • AI Agent Certificate Award

  • Examples of Other AI Tools

  • Questions & Answers

  • Graduation and Awarding of Certificates

  • Wrap-Up, Resources, Contact Information