Atlanta, GA
Wed · Jul 22Atlanta Tech Village · Buckhead
The Southeast's largest tech hub — the startup home of Calendly and Salesloft. A hands-on AI agent workshop for Atlanta's business pros, government leaders, and educators.
The hands-on AI agent workshop · A program of All Things AI
One day. One working AI agent. Built by you, for your job.
A one-day, hands-on workshop for business professionals, government leaders, and educators. Walk in with a workflow you hate. Walk out with an agent that does it for you — no coding required. If you can write a clear how-to email, you can build an agent.
4.7★ · 224 reviews | Early bird from $297, all-inclusive | Presented by All Things AI · All Things Open · The AIE Network
What you build & walk out with
A working agent — not a slide deck.
By 6 PM you have something running against your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 account. You codify a workflow you own as an AI agent and walk out with a working automation built on Claude Cowork (Anthropic), ChatGPT Agents (OpenAI), or Manus.
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Pick a workflow
Reports, intake, scheduling, drafting, research — bring the one you hate.
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Codify it as a skill
Capture your expertise as instructions an AI agent can follow.
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Wire it into your stack
Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, your CRM, your inbox.
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Ship it the same day
Demo it before you leave. Take the pattern home and build again.
8 hours, hands-on
3 agent stacks
1 working agent you keep
Who it's for
Built for non-developers who have real work to automate.
No coding background required. You'll use Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Agents, and Manus at a level that never asks you to write production code.
Business professionals
An agent that drafts your weekly report, triages your inbox, or runs the research outreach you never get to.
Government leaders
An agent that triages constituent intake, summarizes public-comment dockets, or pre-screens RFPs — with an audit trail you can defend.
Educators
An agent that drafts rubrics, gives first-pass feedback on student work, or builds study plans from a syllabus.
What attendees say
The room is the room.
4.7/5
224 reviews
Mark Hinkle's AI workshops across The AIE Network
"The best day I've spent on learning in a long time. As a complete non-techie, I've already started building my first app using Manus. This event gave me the confidence I needed to get started — with zero coding experience."
Sr. Manager, Curation to Execution · Mayo Clinic
"As a COO of a medium-sized company, the training was perfect for my role and skillset. Being able to render an updated website to my team using Manus in about 10 minutes was an amazing experience."
COO · Danner Corporation
"I'm done reading 'agents will be able to' — I'm ready for 'this is how you make an agent,' which is exactly what this session was."
Partner · 1616 Ventures
Training business professionals at these leading organizations.
Some attendees at our past AI workshops at the All Things AI conference.
- Mayo Clinic
- U.S. Bank
- Abbott
- Duke University
- Univ. of South Carolina
- Clinisys
- Nasuni
The day
From keynote to working agent in eight hours.
The same eight-hour arc runs at every city stop. Todd Lewis (All Things Open) opens the day; Mark Hinkle teaches the full build. Because every workshop is live, the schedule flexes to the room.
- 9:00 AM Welcome & the build mindset. Todd Lewis & Mark Hinkle open: build first, debate later.
- 9:15 AM Crack open the agent. Model, tools, memory, and the agent loop — draw one on a napkin.
- 10:00 AM Pick your first three agents. Mark's S.M.A.R.T. framework — leave with three real tasks ready to automate.
- 10:45 AM Write your first skill. The anatomy of a SKILL.md — plus the self-improving "lessons learned" pattern.
- Midday Three stacks, three builds. Ship a Manus research agent, a ChatGPT Workspace agent, and a Claude Cowork agent wired to your tools.
- 4:30 PM Your Monday plan + Q&A. A ranked punch list of agents to build first this week, plus governance.
See the full agenda
8:00–9:00 · Registration, coffee & welcome. Pick up your badge, meet your cohort, sign in to the laptop you actually use at work.
11:30–12:15 · Ship an autonomous research agent (Manus). Build a Morning Brief that triages email, preps your calendar, and ranks the day's news — running on a 6 AM schedule.
1:15–2:30 · Put an agent to work on your data (ChatGPT Workspace Agents). Wire an agent to Drive, email, or your CRM with a human checkpoint before anything goes live.
2:45–4:00 · Build the agent that knows your job (Claude Cowork). Drop in your SKILL.md, connect Slack/Notion/Gmail, run an end-to-end workflow, schedule it as a recurring agent.
4:00–4:30 · Turn drafts you'd reject into output you'd ship. The weekly refinement habit that takes an agent from a 3 to a 9.
Each city's specific speakers and rooms confirm closer to the date. The outcomes don't change; the path we take to get there might.
Presented by
Operators who built the Southeast's AI & open-source communities.
Taught by Mark Hinkle, founder of The AIE Network and co-founder of All Things AI — 30+ years in emerging tech (cloud.com, the Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation). Co-founder Todd Lewis opens every Build An Agent Day.
All Things AI
Free live events all year — monthly meetups in the Research Triangle, Tuesday lunch-and-learns, virtual workshops, and the annual All Things AI conference that drew 2,500+ attendees from 39 states in 2026.
All Things Open
Running technology events in the Carolinas for more than a decade — POSCON, Open Source 101, and the annual All Things Open conference. Co-founder Todd Lewis opens every Build An Agent Day.
The AIE Network
Mark publishes five days a week — the same practical, no-hype voice you get in the workshop, every week, for free. Mark Hinkle · 250,000+ readers.
Pick your city
Two dates. One working agent. Choose yours.
Early bird from $297, all-inclusive — first 100 tickets per city. Standard $397.
Charlotte, NC
Tue · Jul 28Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City
Uptown, in the same room where AI//FORWARD trained Charlotte's executives last October. This time it's hands-on — you bring a laptop and build a working agent for your own job.
Most employers reimburse Build An Agent Day under professional-development budgets. We provide an expense-ready receipt on request.
FAQ
Everything you'd ask before buying a ticket.
Do I need to be a developer?
No. The day is designed for non-developers — business pros, government staff, K-12 and higher-ed faculty. You'll use Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Agents, and Manus at a level that never asks you to write production code. If you can write a clear how-to email, you can build an agent.
What does it cost, and can my employer reimburse it?
Early bird $297 · standard $397 · all-inclusive (eight hours of instruction, all three agent stacks, meals, materials, and the working agent you take with you). Most employers reimburse it under professional-development or continuing-education budgets — we provide an expense-ready receipt on request.
What should I bring, and what will I leave with?
Bring the laptop you actually use at work, signed in to your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 account, and one workflow you wish you didn't have to do anymore. You'll leave with a working agent wired to your real tools, a reusable skill that captures your expertise, the agent design patterns to build more, and a year of community access.
Which AI tools does it cover?
Three agent stacks: Claude Cowork (Anthropic) for knowledge workers automating their own jobs, ChatGPT Agents (OpenAI) for enterprise IT and sales operations, and Manus for research-heavy, long-running tasks. You build the same workflow on all three and pick the one that fits your environment.
How is this different from an online AI course?
Online courses give you concepts. Build An Agent Day gives you a working agent connected to your real work tools, built in a room with peers and an instructor walking every table. You don't go home with a reading list — you go home with something that runs.
Something missing? Email info@allthingsai.org.
One day of building beats a year of reading about it.
Pick your city and reserve your seat. Early bird from $297, all-inclusive — first 100 tickets per city.