​Alex Howearth is a Tasmanian founder and an active member of the state's AI and technology networks. As Delivery and Operations Lead at Enterprize Tasmania, he curates community events and entrepreneurship programs across Tasmania and leads the state's AI CoLab. Always building with AI, he relies on reusable AI skills in his everyday work and play.

​Do you keep explaining the same task to AI? You paste in the same instructions, correct the same mistakes, and get a slightly different result each time.

​A skill fixes that. It’s your process written down clearly enough for AI to follow it the same way each time. If you can explain a task to a new colleague, you can build one.

Alex will guide you through building a skill from something you already do:

• ​Choose one repeatable task from your day-to-day work

• ​Break it down using a simple template: what goes in, the steps you follow, what good looks like, and when the AI should stop and check with you

• ​Turn it into a skill.md you can use across various AI systems

• ​Test it on sample documents, find where it falls short, and fix it

​Good starting points include processing meeting transcripts, building a standard report from scattered information, or distilling a large amount of material into clear actions.

What you’ll leave with

​A tested first version of your skill, the template for building your next one, and the steps for adding it to your own AI account. at the end of the session you will email it to yourself.

​No technical background needed.

​Bring one task you’d like to hand off. Please don’t bring real or confidential documents: we’ll provide sample documents to test with, and the CoLab laptops use shared accounts.

​We have 10 laptops ready to go, with nothing to install. You’re welcome to bring your own laptop and AI account if you’d prefer.

Booking

​Wednesday 18 November 2026

​Level 5, 24 Davey Street, Hobart

​The same workshop runs twice, with 10 free places in each session:

• ​3.00pm to 4.00pm

• ​4.00pm to 5.00pm

​Book the session you can make.