2-Part Workshop: Agentic AI Onboarding for Small businesses and Solo Entrepreneurs - Session 2
This is the 2nd session of a 2-part workshop.
You’ve seen what AI agents can do. Now, let’s take the next step: learning how to use them more effectively, choose the right tools for your business, and work with them safely.
In this 2nd session, we’ll build on Session 1 with practical techniques, live demonstrations, and useful tools to help small business owners and solo entrepreneurs work smarter.
What You’ll Learn
Review & Build on Session 1: Revisit the fundamentals of agentic AI and key takeaways from our previous demonstrations.
Organize Your Business Files with AI: Watch an AI agent organize a folder of business documents and learn how to prevent accidental file changes, deletions, or data loss.
Practical Tips for Working with AI: Learn actionable techniques to improve your AI workflow and get better results.
Level Up Your AI Toolkit: Explore tools and capabilities that can help small businesses streamline everyday tasks and build practical solutions.
Bring Your Questions!
We’ll wrap up with an interactive fireside chat. Bring your most pressing questions about AI agents, and join the instructor to explore possibilities, challenge assumptions, and discuss practical solutions for your business.
Who Should Attend?
Small business owners, solo entrepreneurs, independent professionals, and early-stage founders who want to explore practical ways to apply AI to their businesses. No coding experience required.
What You’ll Need
A laptop: MacBook or Windows laptop.
A paid AI subscription: Claude or ChatGPT. Please ensure your subscription is active before the workshop so you can follow along with the demonstrations.
About the speaker:
Gordon Cheng is a New York-based product designer who teaches non-programmers to hand real work to AI agents. He runs a one-person business himself. Before moving into product design, he spent more than a decade in advertising at Ogilvy, Dentsu, BBDO and ByteDance. He has since led a series of hands-on AI agent workshops.
This workshop is part of the 2027 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge online workshop series. Participants will have a chance to win up to a $20K grant for their startup businesses. Applications are due March 1, 2027. Learn more at http://queensstartup.org/