Built by you, for your job.
A hands-on one-day workshop for business, government & education leaders. Walk in with a workflow you hate — walk out with an agent that runs it. No code.
Rated by attendees of Mark Hinkle's AI workshops, bootcamps, and events across The AIE Network — the same instructor and curriculum behind Build An Agent Day.
Read the reviewsPick a workflow
Reports, intake, scheduling, drafting, research — bring the one you hate.
Codify it as a skill
Capture your expertise as instructions an AI can follow.
Wire it into your stack
Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, your CRM, your inbox.
Ship it the same day
Demo it before you leave. Take the pattern home.
Early bird $297 · standard $397 · plus taxes and fees
Two stops across the Southeast in Summer & Fall 2026 — Atlanta and Charlotte.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Atlanta 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.
Reserve Atlanta seatTuesday, July 28, 2026 · 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Dubois 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.
Reserve Charlotte seatMost employers reimburse Build An Agent Day under professional-development budgets. We provide an expense-ready receipt on request.
Every week, the same report, the same intake, the same triage — hours you'll never get back, on work an agent could already be doing. The headlines keep promising what agents will be able to do. Meanwhile the recurring task on your plate next Friday looks exactly like the one from last Friday.
Stop reading the brochure. Build the thing.
Some attendees at our past AI workshops at the All Things AI conference.
Build An Agent Day is a one-day, hands-on AI training workshop and a program of All Things AI and All Things Open. It's built for business pros, government leaders, and educators — attendees codify a workflow they own as an AI agent and walk out with a working automation built on Claude Cowork (Anthropic), ChatGPT Agents (OpenAI), or Manus.
Build An Agent Day visits two cities in Summer & Fall 2026: Atlanta, GA (July 22 at Atlanta Tech Village) and Charlotte, NC (July 28 at the Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City). Each stop is a separate one-day event — see the events page for confirmed dates.
The workshop is taught by Mark Hinkle, founder of The AIE Network and co-founder of All Things AI, with 30+ years in emerging tech (cloud.com, Linux Foundation, Node.js Foundation). Each city stop opens with a keynote from a local economic-development partner.
Three agent stacks: Claude Cowork by Anthropic, ChatGPT Agents by OpenAI, and Manus. Each is taught with a different audience fit in mind — knowledge workers, enterprise IT, and research-heavy roles respectively.
Yes. Build An Agent Day is designed for non-developers — business professionals, government staff, K-12 and higher-ed faculty. If you can write a clear how-to email, you can build an agent at this workshop.
Online AI 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.
Yes. Most employers reimburse Build An Agent Day under their professional development or continuing education budgets. Early bird tickets start at $297 (plus applicable taxes and fees) — well within most PD budgets. We provide a receipt formatted for expense reports on request.
Build An Agent Day comes from the team behind All Things AI — the Southeast's biggest AI-for-business conference. These rooms are what the work looks like: professionals, government leaders, and educators building skills they use at work the next morning.
Photos from All Things AI 2026 · Carolina Theatre & Durham Convention Center, Durham, NC
By 6 PM you have something running against your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 account. You don't go home with reading.
Build the same workflow with Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Agents, and Manus. Pick the one that fits your environment.
Designed for business pros, government leaders, and educators. If you can write a clear how-to email, you can build an agent.
Attend once, plug into All Things Open, All Things AI, and the AIE Network — meetups, virtual events, ongoing learning.
Co-founder, All Things AI · Founder, The AIE Network
Founder of The AIE Network (250K+ subscribers). 30+ years on the leading edge of emerging tech — cloud.com, the Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and a run of open source and infrastructure startups.
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Co-founder, All Things AI · Founder, All Things Open
Has been running technology events in the Carolinas for more than a decade — POSCON, Open Source 101, and All Things Open's annual conference — focused squarely on upskilling and technical fluency.
Connect on LinkedInThis is 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, even as a person with zero coding experience.
Laura Briscoe
Sr. Manager, Curation to Execution · Mayo Clinic
Most training events hand you a slide deck and send you home. Build An Agent Day is the start of something. Mark publishes five days a week and runs free events all year long — the same instructor, the same no-hype voice, 250,000+ business professionals reading along.
FREE EVENTS ALL YEAR
Monthly meetups, Tuesday lunch-and-learns, virtual workshops, and the annual All Things AI conference — 2,500+ attendees from 39 states in 2026. You don't have to wait for the next Build An Agent Day to keep building.
SOUTHEAST'S OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY
Co-founder Todd Lewis has been running technology events in the Carolinas for more than a decade. Your Build An Agent Day ticket connects you to this community year-round.
5 DAYS A WEEK · 250,000+ READERS
Mark publishes five days a week — AI news, hands-on lessons, executive strategy, and deep-dive analysis. The same practical, no-hype voice you get in the workshop, every week, for free.
What you'll be reading after the workshop
All articles at theaienterprise.io
AI Advantage · May 27, 2026
Workspace Agents for Mundane Repeat Work
The 75-word agent template Mark uses to fact-check and copy-edit every newsletter issue. The agent runs the checklist — you stay the editor.
Read →
AI Lesson · Apr 7, 2026
Run a Company of AI Agents
Move from single-task prompts to an org chart of AI agents — with budget controls, governance, and goal alignment, built on open source.
Read →
AI Tangle · Apr 16, 2026
Anthropic Just Turned Agents Into Infrastructure
Managed Agents turn long-horizon orchestration into a product category. The real platform fight is moving up the stack — into the agent layer.
Read →
AI Deep Dive · Mar 20, 2026
The Agent Governance Gap
81% of teams are deploying agents — only 14% have full security approval. Why every agent needs an identity, a budget, and an audit trail.
Read →Early bird tickets are $297 for the first 100 registrants per city. Standard tickets are $397, plus taxes and fees. Every tier covers eight hours of hands-on building, all three agent stacks, meals, materials, and the working agent you walk out with.
