Build an Agent Day

Build an Agent Day - Atlanta

**Walk in with a workflow you hate. Walk out with an agent that does it for you.**

Build An Agent Day is a one-day, hands-on workshop where you codify a real task from your job as a working AI agent — and leave with the design pattern to do it again and again. No slide decks to take home. By 6 PM you have something running against your own Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 account.

It's a program of All Things AI and All Things Open, built for the people who do the work: business professionals, government leaders, and K-12 and higher-ed educators. If you can write a clear how-to email, you can build an agent here.

What you'll build

Over eight hours, you'll build the same workflow across three agent stacks and pick the one that fits your environment

• **Claude Cowork** (Anthropic) — for knowledge workers
• **ChatGPT Agents** (OpenAI) — for enterprise IT
• **Manus** — for research-heavy roles

The arc: pick a workflow you own (reports, intake, scheduling, drafting, research), capture your expertise as a skill an AI can follow, wire it into your stack, and ship it the same day. You'll demo it before you leave.

A sample of the day

• **Crack Open the Agent** — the three primitives (model, tools, memory) and the agent loop, narrated tool call by tool call
• **Pick Your First Three Agents** — Mark's S.M.A.R.T. framework to sort your tasks by AI readiness and match each to AI, Human, or Both
• **Write Your First Skill** — the anatomy of a SKILL.md, plus worked examples including an "anti-slop" quality skill and a composed website-audit skill
• **Ship an Autonomous Research Agent** — build a Morning Brief in Manus that triages email, preps your calendar, and ranks the day's industry news
• **Working lunch, three stacks, three tables** — poke at all three with food in front of you

The full eight-hour arc runs at every city stop. Because every workshop is live, the schedule flexes to the room.

Who's teaching

**Mark Hinkle** — Workshop instructor. Founder of The AIE Network (250,000+ subscribers), co-founder of All Things AI, 30+ years in emerging tech across cloud.com, the Linux Foundation, and the Node.js Foundation. An operator, not a consultant.

**Todd Lewis** — Co-founder, All Things Open. More than a decade running technology events in the Carolinas (POSCON, Open Source 101, All Things Open).

What's included

• Eight hours of hands-on building
• All three agent stacks
• Meals and materials
• The working agent you walk out with
• A year of community access across All Things Open, All Things AI, and The AIE Network — meetups, virtual events, and ongoing learning

Pricing

• **Early bird: $297** (first 100 registrants)
• **Standard: $397**

All tiers are all-inclusive. Most employers reimburse the ticket under professional development or continuing education budgets — receipts formatted for expense reports available on request.