FLAGSHIP| Beyond the Hype: How an AI Strategist Uses Claude and Why LLM Communication Skills Beat Tools: A Hands-On Session
Technical = Ways of Working
Strategy = Business Acumen
This event is limited to 50 registrations. Please register early.
Description: This session gives project managers an inside look at how an AI strategist actually uses Claude, from everyday chats to structured projects and emerging features like Skills and Cowork, across the project management lifecycle. Rather than surveying dozens of tools, this presentation makes the case that developing strong LLM communication skills through prompt, context, and intent engineering is the higher-value investment that empowers PMs to build their own solutions. Attendees will get hands-on practice applying prompt techniques, walk through building a Claude Project, and get an introduction to creating custom Skills. The session closes with a forward look at agentic workflows and what project managers need to understand now about their organizations' data to be ready.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how Claude's core features (Chats, Projects, Skills, and Cowork) can be applied to real project management tasks like planning, status reporting, and stakeholder communication.
- Understand why developing LLM communication skills, including prompt, context, and intent engineering, is more valuable than adopting any single AI tool.
- Apply prompt techniques in a hands-on exercise to experience how structured communication with an LLM improves output quality.
- Build a Claude Project and understand how to create custom Skills that automate repeatable workflows relevant to project management.
- Recognize the trajectory of AI toward agentic workflows and assess what organizational data readiness looks like for project teams preparing to manage AI agents.
- Evaluate which AI capabilities are worth investing in, versus which are already met by free or built-in tools.
Agenda:
10 AM - Registration
10 AM - 11 AM - Networking and continental breakfast served
11 AM - 12:30 PM Presentation and hands-on workshop
12:30 - 1:30 PM Networking and social impact exercise
Speakers
Caltech CTME AI Strategy & Partnerships | AI Executive in Residence
Jen García is the founder of Ingrained.ai, which provides AI tools training to businesses, educators, governments, and social impact organizations. A learning platform launching in Spring 2026 will extend this work, offering accessible, neuroscience research-informed AI education at scale.
She also serves as the AI Strategy and Partnerships Lead at Caltech's Center for Technology and Management Education, cultivating corporate partnerships across AI, systems engineering, and program management programs. She designs and delivers Caltech CTME's AI literacy curriculum for non-technical professionals, equipping organizations with Caltech expertise.
With over 20 years of teaching and workforce development experience, Jen has designed and delivered AI literacy programs for hundreds of organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits, educators K-12 and higher ed and public agencies.
She is a Microsoft Certified AI Engineer Associate and a sought-after speaker known for her engaging approach to making AI practical, ethical, and approachable for diverse audiences.
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