Hands-on Workshop · 3 Hours · Build, Don't Just Watch
From AI-Curious to
Agent-Builder, by Noon.
Three hours. Three working sessions. You'll leave with a real agent you built yourself, prompts that pay back the morning, and the vocabulary to lead the next conversation on your team.
Date
Tuesday, May 12
2026
Time
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Doors open 8:45 AM
Venue
UTDesign Capstone
UT Dallas · Richardson, TX
Three hours, three working sessions
Speak the Language
The 20 concepts that matter — tokens, prompts, context, RAG, agents — in the order they build.
Leave with
- Reason about cost & context
- Tell hype from substance
- Hold your own with your team
Make Documents Work
Three labs, one doc pack: draft a memo, extract clean JSON from an invoice, query across five docs.
Leave with
- A prompt pattern per task
- A feel for grounding
- Long-context vs. RAG intuition
Build a Real Agent
Ship a triage agent on LasaAI — classify, draft, route. Then the Trust Ladder: what to automate, what not to.
Leave with
- One agent you built
- 20 agent-ready tasks
- A worksheet for your team
Led by the builders of LasaAI
Rafi Dudekula — Founder & CTO. 20+ yrs on mission-critical systems; ex-Microsoft Application Architect.
Waheeda Dudekula — Co-Founder & CEO. 20 yrs in enterprise software; ex-SharePoint Solutions Architect.
Authors of
Engineering Reliable AI Agents & Workflows
Dec 2025 · 40+ yrs combined enterprise experience · "the antidote to AI hype"
Venue
UTDesign Capstone
800 W. Campbell Road
Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
What to bring
A laptop, an account on any AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini all work), and one real workflow you wish AI could handle.
Sponsored by UTD & Xona Partners
Reserve your seat — seats are limited.
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