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Session Description
Most people approach AI tools the same way: type something in, get something generic back, feel underwhelmed, and walk away convinced that artificial intelligence isn't for them. Or they paste the first output directly into their work and wonder why it sounds nothing like them.

The problem isn't the tool. It's the process. One-shot prompting almost never works. What does work is iteration, and that's exactly what most people have never been shown.

In this practical, lively workshop on AI transformation, AI speaker and practitioner Ari Gunzburg pulls back the curtain on what it actually takes to get real results from AI. Drawing from his own daily workflow and years of hands-on experimentation with tools like ChatGPT and Claude, Ari breaks down his Prompt. Refine. Repeat. framework in a way that makes AI feel approachable, useful, and genuinely fun for any audience regardless of technical background. Expect humor, live demonstrations, and relatable use cases that make the learning stick.

This session isn't about becoming an AI expert. It's about becoming someone who uses AI confidently and effectively, without the overwhelm, the jargon, or the fear of being left behind. Ari shows the difference between one-shot prompting and iterative collaboration, helps audiences understand how AI models actually think, and gives everyone in the room a method they can apply immediately, whether they're writing emails, building presentations, brainstorming strategy, or just trying to figure out what to have for dinner.

Bonus: Yes, parts of this description were written by AI and refined by a human.

Available for remote and distributed teams. When possible, the live demonstration format translates naturally to virtual delivery: seeing AI outputs appear in real time on screen is engaging even virtually.

In addition to the formats you see here, we can likely accommodate whatever format is best for you.

There is a gap between how most people use AI and how AI actually works, and that gap is why so many people feel underwhelmed, frustrated, or quietly convinced that the tool isn't for them. The gap isn't intelligence or technical ability. It's process.

Specifically, it's the assumption that AI works like a search engine, you put a query in, get a useful answer out. It doesn't. AI works like a collaborator. And collaboration requires iteration, not one-shot requests.

The Prompt. Refine. Repeat. framework is built around that reality. Three steps that sound simple and, with a little practice, change the entire experience of using AI tools. Here is the framework:

Prompt — to start with a clear, specific request that gives the AI enough context to be useful.

Refine — assess the output honestly, identify what's working and what isn't, and adjust the prompt based on what you learned.

Repeat — iterate through that cycle until the output is actually good.

In this workshop, Ari (an AI transformation speaker) draws from his daily workflow as someone who has used AI tools extensively across writing, strategy, presentations, research, and creative projects to show participants exactly what that iteration looks like in practice. The live demonstrations are the heart of the session, watching a prompt go from generic to specific, and an AI output go from mediocre to genuinely useful, in real time is what shifts people from skeptics to users faster than any explanation could.

Ari also addresses the concerns that most AI workshops skip over. How do you keep your own voice when using AI to write? How do you know when to trust the output and when to question it? What do you do when AI confidently gives you something wrong? These are the questions that keep hesitant users hesitant, and this workshop answers them practically rather than theoretically.

The session closes with participants having applied the framework to at least one real use case from their own work, so they leave not just having learned something but having done something. That practical experience is what converts understanding into genuine confidence, which is the real goal of this workshop.

Available for conference breakout sessions, corporate training days, team development events, technology conferences, innovation summits, and professional association events nationwide. This workshop is a of the most requested practical AI workshops for corporate and professional audiences across the United States and Canada.

This program description was written by AI and refined by a human. Could you tell before we pointed it out?

Working together with Ari Gunzburg as your speaker is quick and easy. It's a smooth process from start to finish. Here's how it works: