Building with AI: A Hands-on Workshop for Nonprofit Leaders
TLDR:
Join us for an in-person workshop for Chicago nonprofit leaders who are curious about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its real-world applications in the social sector. Learn to design and develop custom AI workflows to help increase your capacity and better serve your communities.
Lunch and happy hour drinks will be provided.
What you’ll learn:
Nobody knows your organization better than you do. During this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to design and build with AI. We will experiment, iterate and build using natural language to create AI-powered tools your organization can put to use right away. No prior coding background required.
Who this is for:
Chicago nonprofit and community leaders who are curious about AI's potential and want more than a demo. If you’ve wondered how to leverage AI for your work, this workshop is for you.
Build tools you can use tomorrow:
This workshop is hands-on. You'll leave with a framework built around your real, immediate challenges, not hypothetical ones. The goal isn't to make you an AI expert. It's to make sure you know how to put AI to work for your mission.
Your fearless leaders:
Milica Cvetkovic, AI Solutions Architect - Milica leads teams and builds AI production-ready systems for enterprises and startups. She has over 7 years of experience as an ML/AI engineer and over a decade of experience in teaching, technical enablement, and educational technologies. Over the course of her career, she taught classes, bootcamps, and workshops to more than 3,000 students in live sessions. At the moment, Milica is passionate about technical and non-technical AI enablement, with a focus on working directly with businesses and individuals to frame problems and solve them using AI.
Cory Garfin, Strategic Consultant - Cory builds AI tools and capacities for nonprofits. He previously spent nearly a decade as a researcher and strategist, the final two as co-director of Slover Linett at NORC, where he led projects with institutions like MCA Chicago, the Field Museum, the High Line, and the Smithsonian. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, he helped design YOUmedia, a digital learning space for teens, at the Chicago Public Library. He writes the newsletter AI for English Majors, where he grapples with AI on human terms.
Devon VanHouten- Maldonado, Consultant, Executive Director, and DJ - Devon is the Executive Director of SkyART, a nonprofit arts organization where he and his team have been working at the forefront of AI implementation at nonprofit organizations to increase capacity and revenue. Through that work, Devon began consulting and building customized AI solutions for other organizations including customized chat agents, automated workflows and fundraising tools. He also created Fundelop, an AI-powered platform that connects nonprofit leaders with new funders at a minimal cost. You can catch Devon every Friday night at 9pm on WIIT 88.9fm on Life Support Radio.