Productivity Track
What if AI could actually save you time, simplify your work, and help you produce better results without adding complexity?
The AI Productivity Track is designed for small business owners, nonprofit leaders, educators, team leaders, and everyday professionals who want to move beyond experimenting with AI and start using it in ways that solve real problems. This isn’t about overwhelming theory or a long list of tools you’ll never use. It’s about real work, real applications, and real results.
Over three hands-on days, you’ll apply AI directly to your own work and discover practical ways to increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce everyday friction.
The experience is intentionally designed to guide you through a clear progression:
Trying AI → Using AI Intentionally → Integrating AI into How You Work
You’ll begin by identifying where AI can create value in your work, learn how to get better and more consistent results, build practical workflows, and develop strategies to use AI responsibly and effectively.
By the end of the experience, you won’t just understand AI, you’ll leave with practical workflows, a personalized AI productivity system, and a clear plan to use AI with purpose and confidence in your daily work.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this experience, participants will be able to:
- Identify high-value opportunities to apply AI in daily work
- Create prompts that generate useful, relevant outputs
- Build repeatable workflows for writing, summarizing, and content creation
- Evaluate and refine AI outputs using human judgment
- Create a personalized AI productivity system and adoption plan
Presentation slides will be available at the end of each day.
Track Leader: Karina Hernandez
Schedule
Daily: Check in begins at 8:30am. Coffee on the 3rd floor until sessions begin at 9am.
Room location: Across the street, Room 1114
Monday, June 22
9:00 am – 10:15 am
Start Smart: Understanding the AI basics and building a strong foundation on which to build
Presenter: Suzanne Newell
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Creating My Personal AI Action Plan
Presenter: Romelia Flores
11:30am – 12:30pm Lunch & Networking
12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
From Prompting Chaos to Consistency: The 6-Pillar Framework for Scalable AI Outputs
Presenter: Zoubida Rezki
Blog post: https://bastai.substack.com/p/hey-boss-7-dead-giveaways-youre-treating?triedRedirect=true
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
How to Make a Simple Agent
Presenter: Thomas Akintan
Recording: https://tinyurl.com/aiprodrecthomas
Tuesday, June 23
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Scope Before You Build: Designing a Research Agent That Actually Works for You
Presenter: Larry Allen
10:15 am – 11:30 am
How to design with AI (Nano Banana/NotebookLM/Veo)
Presenter: Steve Mudd
11:30am – 12:30pm Lunch & Networking
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
The Code of AI Ethics for Knowledge Workers
Presenter: Annie Hardy
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
Finding Your Human Value
Presenter: Jennifer Clemente
Wednesday, June 24
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Beyond LLMs: Cognitive AI, the Future of AI
Presenter: Peter Voss
10:15 am – 12:00 pm
From Prompts to Playbooks: Build Your Personal AI Operating System
Presenter: Ed Stockwell
12:00pm – 1:00 pm Lunch & Networking
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Fireside Chat
Dilawar Syed, Professor & Entrepreneur
Sean Bauld, Executive Director of Austin AI Alliance
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Celebration
Resources
Explore and download all the tools shared during the training.
Here you’ll find templates, guides, and links used throughout each day of the AI Productivity Track, organized to help you revisit, apply, and extend your learning beyond the sessions.
© 2026 Austin AI Alliance. All slides, templates, and resources shared on this page are intended solely for participants of the Summer AI Intensive – Productivity Track. No part of these materials may be copied, reproduced, distributed, or used for other purposes without explicit permission from the authors.