Thursday, November 19, 2026
1:00 to 2:00 PM ET 

Most economic developers have tried AI. Fewer have made it work the same way twice. You type a question, get an answer, and start over the next time. The fix is a skill that takes less than an hour to learn: building an AI project.

A project gives AI your context once, so every answer sounds like your organization and fits your work. It can help with grant narratives, business outreach, meeting summaries, and community updates without starting from scratch each time.

In this session, you will:

• Get a quick refresher on prompting, so your questions get better answers
• See how to set up a project/notebook and what makes one useful
• Learn how to write your own custom instructions, using a simple guided power prompt tool (to be provided)

Why join: You will walk out with a working project for your own role, not just ideas. It is the foundation for every other way you will use AI, and it saves time right away.