AI WorkshopOct 25 · 4–6 PM · Lecaudia · In person
Your business has enough busywork. Put AI to work on one task that matters.
Then relax and network over pizza.
Bring one workflow that takes too much of your time. Learn where AI can help, where a person should stay in control, and what to build next.
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Would you let it send?
Pick one. This is the kind of call you’ll practice in the workshop.
A made-up example, not a real customer or business.
For small and medium business owners, startup founders, students, and engineers who want to turn AI possibilities into practical results.
Workshop starts in
When and where
October 25, 2026
4–6 PM at Lecaudia, then a free networking hour (6–7 PM). Pizza included in person.
Tickets
Early bird $47Regular $57 · Students $30
IEEE SPS members free. Early bird $47 through October 10 (Pacific Time), $57 from October 11.
Led by Chhavi Jain, proposer and lead of the SPS AI Systems and Practitioner Engagement Track — San Diego Pilot.
Who’s behind it
IEEE Signal Processing Society
Approved $3,500 in pilot support through its Member Driven Initiative Program. The IEEE SPS San Diego Chapter is the organizing community. IEEE SPS members attend free.
UC San DiegoUC San Diego startup community
Chhavi Jain mentors in UC San Diego’s startup community and was invited back to The Basement’s 2026–2027 LaunchPad cohort. The October workshop is not a UC San Diego event.
Live AI DreamLive AI Dream
Provides the course content, practical tools, learning-lab access, and technical and marketing support.
Course material and tools
Learn with real material. Build with real AI tools.
Course material by Live AI Dream
Step-by-step learning themes, practical exercises, and project worksheets, built by Live AI Dream.
AIONEDGE.ORGThe AI on Edge site
Tutorials, guides, and the project library, all on aionedge.org. Explore the catalog any time.
AI TOOLSAI tools built by Live AI Dream
Practical AI tools and a learning lab you can use to try ideas and test agent workflows. See what Live AI Dream builds at liveaidream.com.
The project library
1,200+ projects to learn from, with ongoing video tutorials.
Get access to a library of more than 1,200 projects. Each project has its own page with details, so you can see what it does, how it works, and whether it fits your workflow before you build on it.
New video tutorials keep arriving, so there is always a next thing to try after the workshop.
- 1,200+projects
- 1 pageof details for every project
- Ongoingvideo tutorials
You’ve tried AI. Now make it useful to your business.
Maybe you’ve used it to write an email or brainstorm an idea.
But the work still piles up. Customer requests still need answers. Information is scattered. And every new tool seems to create another decision.
The next step is choosing one useful workflow—and understanding how to make it work reliably.
That’s what this workshop is built around.
One AI workshop. One business problem. A clear next step.
Work on your own business problem or a provided example and leave with:
Your AI opportunity map
Identify repetitive steps, bottlenecks, and decisions in one workflow.
Your first agent blueprint
Define what the agent should do, what information it needs, and which tools it would connect to.
Your human-approval plan
Decide when the agent can prepare work, when it must ask, and when it should stop.
Your practical starting point
Identify the access, tools, and skills required for a useful first pilot.
Your success checklist
Define how you’ll judge time, cost, quality, and the effort required for human review.
You leave with a completed blueprint and a next step you can act on. Building and deploying the system comes next.
See one business workflow come together.
A customer asks a question. The agent finds relevant information, prepares a response, and proposes the next action. A person reviews it before anything is sent.
We’ll walk through the useful parts—and the moments when the agent should ask for help.
Bring a problem, an idea, or the skills to build.
Small and medium business owners
Find a practical starting point for repetitive operations and customer-facing work.
Startup founders
Scope a useful pilot before spending more time and money building.
Students and engineers
Practice translating a business need into a system someone can use.
Come on your own. No existing team is required. Opportunities to collaborate will be available.
Meet your program lead
Practical AI learning, led by Chhavi Jain.
Program proposer and pilot lead · Vice Chair, IEEE SPS San Diego Chapter · UC San Diego startup mentor
Chhavi Jain proposed the SPS AI Systems and Practitioner Engagement Track — San Diego Pilot to connect students, researchers, and industry practitioners around the challenges of putting AI systems into use. IEEE Signal Processing Society approved $3,500 in support for the pilot through its Member Driven Initiative Program in August 2026.
Her experience includes work at Qualcomm and mentoring within UC San Diego’s startup community. She was invited to return as a mentor for The Basement’s 2026–2027 LaunchPad cohort.
For this program, Chhavi is leading the development of the learning pathway and coordinating its practical workshop experience. The focus is concrete: help participants identify a useful problem, make sound engineering decisions, and document what they build and learn.