

🧠The AI Collective Tri-Valley | Brilliant at the Basics: AI Prompting Lunch & Learn
​Curious about how AI can help save time and simplify tasks for your business?
​Join us for a practical Lunch & Learn in downtown Livermore, designed to give you the foundational insights to begin using AI without the overwhelm. Whether you run a storefront, service business, or online brand, this session provides an opportunity to learn simple, high-impact skills in a supportive, community-focused environment.
​What You Will Learn: We will focus on the foundational skills needed to make AI useful for you:
​Basics of Prompting: How to talk to AI tools to get high-quality results relevant to your specific needs.
​Practical AI Use Cases: How to use AI to speed up writing, brainstorming, marketing, and content creation.
​Real-World Application: Practical examples of how these tools are being applied by other small-to-medium businesses today.
​No laptops required—just bring yourself! We’ll provide a printed guide for the session so you can follow along, and you’ll receive a digital copy of the presentation afterwards to keep as a reference.
​Agenda:
​11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Lunch & Mingling (Small bites and drinks provided)
​11:30 AM – 12:15 PM: "Brilliant at the Basics" — Talk & Workshop with Jia
​12:15 PM – 12:30 PM: Q&A and Wrap-up
​About Your Speaker: Jia Gao — UX Researcher at Google and AI Collective Community Experience Lead. Jia specializes in understanding how people interact with technology. With a background in shopping trends and small businesses research, she is passionate about making AI tools accessible and useful for everyone.Â
​Hosted by:
​Jessie Chen — Co-founder of Seeji and Tri-Valley Chapter Lead of The AI Collective.
​Joanne Tan — Founder/Owner @Good Morning Maxwell
​Jia Gao — AI Collective Community Experience Lead
​Alice Leung — Tri-Valley Event Partnerships Lead
​Gretechen Codus — Tri-Valley Event Planning Lead
​As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!
​​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 100,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
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