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Why this course
AI has moved from answering questions to doing work. Agents can research, draft, analyse, chase and report on their own. Most senior people have tried a chatbot and stopped there. This day takes you from asking AI questions to running agents that work for you.
It is hands on and in small groups. You bring real work from your own job and leave with it running.
What you leave with
- Two working agents doing real tasks from your own job
- Your chosen platform set up properly and connected to your work
- A plan for the next five jobs to hand over, with the checks to keep them safe
What you will learn
- What an agent is, what it can do today and the mistakes it still makes
- How to choose the work to hand over first and the work to keep
- How to brief an agent so it gets the job right first time
- How to connect it safely to your email, documents and calendar
- How to check, correct and trust its output
- How to share agents with your team and keep them under control
- How to build a second agent and plan the next five jobs
Who it is for
Leaders who want AI doing real work for them, with an expert beside them while they build it. Chief executives and their leadership teams, senior leaders who have tried AI and want more from it, and anyone who wants an agent working for them by Monday.
Bring the AI you already use
Pick your platform when you book and Ewan teaches you on the tool your company already pays for: Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini or ChatGPT.
How the day runs
- Agents in plain English: what agents can do today, with live examples, and where they still go wrong
- Build your first agent: set up your platform properly and build around one real task
- Connect it to your work safely: email, documents and calendar, with the data rules that keep your company safe
- Put it to work: run your agents on live work, learn to check and correct them, and build a second
- Your plan from here: a written plan for what you hand over next and how you will check it
You will need a laptop with your work account and one piece of real work you would happily never do by hand again.
Who teaches it
Ewan MacLeod, President of the City CIO Club and a serial group chief information officer who has led technology and transformation at Nordea and Sohar Bank. Ewan teaches the build side of AI: agents, workflows and the operating model that holds them together. More about Ewan.
Want this for your own team? Email Ewan.