AI in Your IDE: Building a Team of Bots
Interested in using AI for development but not sure where to start? Already using it and want to scale beyond a single chat window?
Join OWASP Las Vegas and Matt Raio, in person, for a 2-hour hands-on workshop on setting up your IDE to work with AI effectively and securely.
You don't have to be a developer. If you think like an architect and care about security, you can learn to build and use bots. That was the big takeaway from Matt's September session, and this is where you put it into practice.
What we'll cover
1. Grounding: how MCP architecture works and where Git/GitHub boundaries belong
2. Hardening: Python virtual environment isolation and disciplined secrets management
3. Hands-on: clone and work through the OWASP SPVS compliance repository in VS Code or PyCharm, then run a scripted check to verify your setup
📍 Hybrid, but in person is best. Hands-on help is much easier in the room.
🗓️ Thursday, October 8, 2026 · 5:30–7:30 PM PT
🏛️ Sahara West Library, Board Room · 9600 W. Sahara Ave, Las Vegas
💻 In person? About 30 seats. Bring a charged laptop.
💲 Free and open to everyone
Before you arrive
1. An IDE installed: VS Code or PyCharm
2. An AI assistant of your choice (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, etc.) with its extension installed in your IDE
3. A GitHub account
We'll help with setup at the start. The room opens right at 5:30, so setting up ahead of time means more hands-on time.
About Matt Raio
Matt Raio is an IT professional, author, and adjunct professor with three decades of experience in networking and cybersecurity. He teaches CS340 Operating Systems at CityU Seattle and SEC460 DevSecOps at Bellevue College. Matt is the author of Project Self: Strategies to Mastering IT and the 2026 release Coding with Agentic AI. He has collaborated on the NIST SP 800-53 framework [confirm wording with Matt], created the Hurricane Model for assessing AI risk, and developed the sandbox methodology during his time at GNS3.
About OWASP Las Vegas
The Las Vegas chapter of the OWASP Foundation, a vendor-neutral nonprofit working to make software more secure. Our events are free, community-run, and open to everyone.
This program is not a Library District event. The views expressed and other information presented are solely those of the producing entity.