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
Hour 1

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
Hour 2

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
Hour 3

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"
Reserve your seat — seats are limited.
https://lasa.ai/utd-workshop