Prompt Engineering: How to Unlock the Power of AI
Antonia Forster
AI is transforming our lives inside and outside of the workplace - but it is only as effective as the input we give it. In this talk, you'll learn the skill of prompt engineering and how to make the most of generative AI - how to automate tasks, spark new ideas, and use it as a tool to accelerate, not replace, your own abilities.
During the expert session, Antonia engages the audience through methods like a Q&A session, live demonstrations of AI applications, and interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app to discuss ethical concerns related to AI, such as biased training data and underrepresentation.
She also highlights positive uses of AI for marginalized communities, emphasizing the importance of involving the community in creating solutions and preventing bias through tools like bias audits. Antonia concludes by encouraging everyone to educate themselves about potential biases and make informed decisions to ensure the positive impact of AI on society.
In this engaging AI masterclass, Senior XR Engineer Antonia Forster offers a practical and eye-opening guide to understanding and using Artificial Intelligence. The session moves away from viewing AI as a "magic box" and instead focuses on how users can take full control of the technology to improve their daily work.
Forster explains that AI doesn't actually understand language the way people do; instead, it works by recognizing patterns. She describes how the system turns words into numbers and places them in a "map" to see which ideas are related.
She also explains that AI "learns" through a process of trial and error, adjusting its internal settings until its answers match what a human would expect. This explains why AI is excellent at predicting what should come next in a sentence but can also "hallucinate" or confidently state things that aren't true.
To help the audience get better results, she introduces the RAYS framework, a simple toolkit for writing better instructions (prompts):
The session concludes with an important discussion on the risks and ethics of AI. Forster highlights concerns about data privacy, the bias often found in AI training data, and the surprising environmental cost of running these massive systems.
Her main message is that we should strive to be "Centaurs": using the AI for its speed and efficiency (the "legs") while keeping the human firmly in charge of the strategy and final judgment (the "head"). By staying in the driver’s seat, we can use AI to automate the boring stuff without losing our own critical thinking or creativity.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
AI is transforming our lives inside and outside of the workplace - but it is only as effective as the input we give it. In this talk, you'll learn the skill of prompt engineering and how to make the most of generative AI - how to automate tasks, spark new ideas, and use it as a tool to accelerate, not replace, your... It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
Antonia Forster is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.5 out of 5, across 384 responses, and rate Antonia personally 4.7 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Antonia, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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