AI for Everyone

Introduction

Nicole Butterfield • 15 minutes

• Nicole Butterfield, O’Reilly’s senior acquisitions editor of AI content, welcomes you to AI for Everyone.

Streamline Your Workflow: Visual Brainstorming and Asset Creation with GenAI

Benjamin Dehant • 12 minutes

• Designer and content creator Benjamin Dehant shows how Midjourney can serve as your visual brainstorming partner, helping you generate draft assets that can be refined and customized later. Whether you’re working on a new project, designing for a startup, or crafting visuals for a corporate brand, this tool can help you save time and accelerate your creative process, making it easier (and faster) to move from ideas to tangible visuals.

Democratizing GenAI Application Development: Drag-and-Drop UI for a Product Recommender

Tejas Kumar • 12 minutes

• Tejas Kumar, a longtime engineer and host of the popular ConTejas Code podcast, takes you through Langflow, an open source visual framework that democratizes AI development by enabling anyone in business—even those with no technical background—to build sophisticated generative AI applications without writing code. You’ll learn how to leverage LLMs, vector databases, and other AI tools to create a product recommender with a drag-and-drop interface in minutes rather than months.

From Zero to App Store: How AI Helped Me Build an iOS App Without Coding Skills

Marlene Ronstedt • 12 minutes

• In 2017, product marketing manager Marlene Ronstedt had an idea for a location-based reminder app, but as someone from a liberal arts background, she felt it would be impossible to build on her own. But with AI, she was able to make her idea a reality. Marlene shares how she used ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s Gemini to tackle everything from setting up a coding environment to solving complex architectural and logic challenges.

Bridging Gaps: Using ChatGPT and Copilot to Communicate AI Insights with Impact

Kimetha Dunn • 12 minutes

• Microsoft AI researcher Kimetha Dunn discusses how to leverage technology like Copilot and ChatGPT to bridge the communication gap with diverse audiences and leadership. By integrating ChatGPT, you can transform intricate AI concepts into engaging and relatable narratives, making every interaction impactful and meaningful.

Personalized Technology Demos: Harnessing Claude AI for Tailored Client Engagement

Vicki Reyzelman • 12 minutes

• Discover how to leverage Claude AI to create highly personalized technology demos that resonate with your clients. Akamai senior solutions engineer Vicki Reyzelman shares the step-by-step process for gathering client insights, defining demo objectives, and generating customized content that addresses specific pain points. You’ll learn practical prompts and techniques for Claude AI that can enhance demo materials like slides and follow-up emails, ensuring a compelling presentation that drives engagement and conversion.

Break

5 minutes

Getting Real Product Management “Stuff” Done with GenAI

Dean Peters • 12 minutes

• Productside principal consultant and trainer Dean Peters’s April 2023 webinar, “Really Getting PM ‘Stuff’ Done with ChatGPT,” sparked numerous dialogues with companies hiring Productside to enhance their product management operational model. Dean explains how Productside integrated these practices into its training, empowering product professionals to drive collaboration and influence using PM tools and techniques powered by popular AI tools.

Upgrade Your Data Analysis Toolkit with AI

Ann Jackson • 12 minutes

• Ann Jackson, founder and managing director of consulting firm Jackson Two, shows you how ChatGPT can enhance your data analysis process. You’ll learn how to clean and prepare datasets with greater efficiency, uncover key insights from both qualitative and quantitative data, and effectively communicate and share your findings. With AI as part of your toolkit, you’ll be ready to tackle data challenges and ensure your results drive meaningful business outcomes.

The Human Half: Communicating About AI

Jonathan Soma • 12 minutes

• There’s a wide gulf between those who know how to use AI tools effectively and those who are dragged down by chatbots’ supposedly helpful suggestions. Whether you’re leading a team or managing up, successfully communicating AI’s capabilities and limitations is often a larger force multiplier than using the tools themselves. Jonathan Soma, the Knight Chair in Data Journalism at Columbia University, goes beyond simple use cases to highlight the role soft skills and human insight plays in the “centaurs and cyborgs” AI-influenced workforce.

Creating Personalized Experiences: How AI Customization Drives Business Success

Helena Liu • 12 minutes

• Helena Liu, founder of Product Camps, Chat Lemon, Whiteboards AI, and ExamsPM, explains how to create personalized experiences for customers using AI tools such as ChatGPT and Zapier to tailor interactions, adapt responses, and provide customized solutions that resonate with individual needs and preferences, thereby optimizing engagement and fueling long-term business growth.

Accelerating Data Science with AI: Leveraging AI Tools for Data Storytelling and Analysis

Thu Hien Vu • 12 minutes

• A key challenge in data science and AI is to effectively communicate complex insights and technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders. Economist-turned-data-nerd Thu Hien Vu shares how AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT have enhanced her productivity and creativity, helping her brainstorm ideas and craft effective metaphors to tell compelling data stories, and how AI coding assistants help her streamline repetitive and time-consuming tasks like data visualization, so she can focus on critical thinking and domain expertise.

Closing Remarks

Nicole Butterfield • 5 minutes

• Nicole Butterfield closes out today’s event.