AI Workshops

AI workshops

Fast-track months of strategic conversations—Pythian’s AI workshops help you accelerate AI adoption across your entire organization and build the right strategic AI roadmap for your business. Our team of AI consultants have decades of experience helping customers see measurable results from their AI investments. We ensure AI strategies are not just innovative but grounded in a secure, scalable, and data-driven reality.

95%

AI proof of concept (PoC) projects fail

Despite massive investment, the journey from pilot to production is where most AI initiatives stall, not achieving measurable financial return on investment.

$600K+

Global investment in AI by 2028

Projected worldwide spending on artificial intelligence (AI) by 2028—growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.0% over the 2024-2028 forecast period.

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Executives are confident in their AI strategy

Leaders call their companies "mature" on the deployment spectrum. Many companies are investing heavily in AI tools, but few have an executable strategy that aligns the boardroom with the daily workflow.

What AI workshops does Pythian provide?

AI workshops for business leaders and teams

Pythian’s AI consultants cut through the noise to deliver streamlined AI and automation solutions. Our collaborative AI workshops are fully customized to your business needs, enabling executive alignment and accelerating your digital transformation. Pivot from months of internal deliberation to high-impact strategic AI decisions and employee training completed in a matter of hours. Gain a clear, actionable AI roadmap that delivers measurable business outcomes—faster.

Enterprise AI strategy workshop for executive alignment

Fast-track months worth of conversations in a matter of hours. Our enterprise AI strategy course accelerates executive alignment—defining your AI use case and transformation roadmap. Gain a competitive edge by mastering the strategic, ethical, and operational aspects of AI.

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AI training workshop to upskill your employees

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the value of AI is not in the technology itself, but in how their workforce is equipped to use it. Fast-track AI adoption, across your entire organization, to boost productivity, drive better data-driven decision making, automate operations, and mitigate risk.

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Hands-on AI prompt engineering training workshop

Pythian's AI prompt engineering training is a specialized program designed to equip IT professionals and executives with the skills to effectively communicate with and leverage generative AI models. It focuses on the "art and science" of crafting precise, clear, and context-rich prompts to generate accurate, relevant, and valuable outputs from AI tools like large language models (LLM).

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Google AI and Gemini integration workshop

Pythian's Google AI workshop is a hands-on, strategic training session that focuses on integrating Google's cutting-edge AI tools directly into an organization's daily workflows. The workshop goes beyond theoretical concepts, providing practical skills and real-world scenarios to help teams leverage Google's AI capabilities, such as Gemini, NotebookLM, and AI-powered Google Workspace applications, to boost productivity and efficiency.

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AI for software development: SDLC optimization

Pythian's AI for software development workshop is a strategic session designed to help IT executives and their teams leverage the power of AI across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). This workshop isn't just technical training; it's a collaborative session that provides a framework for integrating AI to boost productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate time-to-market.

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Who delivers Pythian's AI workshops?

C-Suite level executives with decades of AI experience deliver our enterprise AI workshops

Grounded in real-world business leadership, our executives have successfully navigated the complexities of integrating AI into large organizations—helping hundreds of executives build their enterprise data and AI strategy. Their experience extends beyond technical implementation to encompass the strategic decisions that truly drive value, such as identifying high-impact use cases, building a data-driven culture, and managing ethical and security risks at an executive level.

Paul Lewis | Chief Technology Officer

As CTO, Paul Lewis drives Pythian’s technology strategy, helping customers scale their data and cloud assets to deliver valuable business outcomes throughout their digital transformation journey.

Karen Pfeifer | Field Chief AI Officer

As Field CAIO, Karen Pfeifer leverages her deep technical insights experience in formulating AI and data strategies that directly address critical business needs and drive innovation.

Ernest Solomon | Field Chief Information Security Officer

As Field CISO, Ernest Solomon consistently aligns technology strategy with real-world objectives, ensuring customers gain operational resilience and a definitive competitive edge.

Jeff DeVerter | Field Chief Technology Officer

As Field CTO, Jeff DeVerter leverages his deep expertise across platforms to guide organizations through complex evolutions to achieve tangible business outcomes.

Defined data and AI roadmap

Pythian's AI workshop rapidly moves your organization from month-long internal discussions to a clear, customized AI roadmap, developed in a matter of hours to days. Pythian ensures you walk away with a clear transformation plan, effectively fast-tracking internal strategic deliberation to a defined data and AI roadmap.

Clear, high ROI AI use cases

Pythian's AI workshop guides your teams in identifying the most relevant and profitable applications for AI within your unique business context. The AI workshop focuses on selecting use cases—from predictive analytics to custom AI development projects—that align with strategic goals, ensuring AI efforts are focused on delivering faster ROI like cost reduction or revenue growth.

Stronger data quality and foundation

A key outcome is a candid assessment of your existing data ecosystem and maturity. The workshop helps reveal if your data infrastructure is ready to fuel AI initiatives. It provides a clear, prioritized path—often starting with a robust data governance strategy—to ensure your data is the "right grade" for AI, maximizing the performance and accuracy of future models.

Mitigate risk and ethical AI implementation

The AI workshop addresses the crucial elements of responsible AI, including security, ethical considerations, and data privacy. By establishing early governance and best practices, your enterprise can avoid the pitfalls of "shadow AI" and unvetted tools, protecting intellectual property and ensuring compliance with a secure, strategic adoption framework.

Drive AI adoption and literacy, increasing productivity

Pythian's AI employee workshops train and equip your workforce, from IT professionals to executives, with the practical skills to leverage AI tools effectively. Our hands-on, role-specific training boosts individual and team productivity, streamlines processes, and fosters a data-driven culture that accelerates overall AI adoption across the entire organization.

Gain competitive and market advantage

By moving quickly from strategy to implementation, the workshop enables your enterprise to build custom AI solutions and models on your proprietary data—assets that competitors cannot easily replicate. This results in faster time-to-value compared to going it alone, allowing your business to launch innovative products sooner, personalize customer experiences at scale, and maintain a distinct market edge.

GigaOm partners with Pythian for AI strategy

GigaOm needed to help customers make decisions faster—using AI to summarize their dense and impartial analyst reports.

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Day & Ross scales operations leveraging AI

Pythian assists trucking giant to ensure real-time data visibility and data accuracy for a better customer experience.

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Fresno Unified draws on AI consultants to explore AI

Fresno Unified School District was intent on leveraging AI to support its financial processes—our AI workshops offered the support needed.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about AI workshops

AI workshops help organizations create customized AI investment plans and roadmaps, accelerating strategic conversations. They define AI use cases, align executives, boost productivity, improve data-driven decisions, automate operations, and mitigate risk. Pythian offers various AI workshops, including:

Enterprise AI strategy workshop for executives: Defines AI use cases and roadmaps, covering strategic, ethical, and operational AI aspects.
AI training for employees: Equips the workforce to use AI effectively, accelerating adoption.
Generative AI workshop: Defines tangible, valuable, and low-risk generative AI use cases.
AI prompt engineering training: Teaches IT professionals and executives how to craft precise prompts for generative AI.
Google AI workshop: Provides hands-on training on integrating Google's AI tools for productivity.
AI for software development: Helps IT executives and teams leverage AI in the software development lifecycle to boost productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate time-to-market.

Pythian's AI workshops aim to help organizations build a clear, customized plan for their AI investments. They cover various aspects of AI, including:

Strategic AI roadmap development: Accelerating internal deliberation into a strategic AI roadmap, focusing on actionable planning to ensure measurable results.
Expert guidance: Workshops are delivered by expert AI consultants who guide organizations in realizing their unique business goals related to AI.
Tailored workshop options:
- Enterprise AI strategy workshop for executives: Defines AI use cases and transformation roadmaps, accelerating executive alignment, and mastering strategic, ethical, and operational AI aspects.
- AI training for employees: Focuses on equipping the workforce to use AI for boosted productivity, data-driven decision-making, operational automation, and risk mitigation.
- Generative AI workshop: Helps understand and define tangible generative AI use cases that deliver measurable value and mitigate risk.
- AI prompt engineering training: Equips IT professionals and executives with skills to effectively communicate with and leverage generative AI models by crafting precise, clear, and context-rich prompts.
- Google AI workshop: A hands-on strategic training session for integrating Google's cutting-edge AI tools (like Gemini, NotebookLM, and AI-powered Google Workspace applications) into daily workflows to boost productivity and efficiency.
- AI for software development: Provides a framework for integrating AI across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) to boost productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate time-to-market.
Real-world impact: The workshops offer insights into how Pythian's experts collaborate with teams to achieve targeted goals, with a focus on streamlining solutions for AI and automation challenges.
Executive-led training: The enterprise AI strategy course is delivered by AI executives with real-world business leadership experience in integrating AI into large organizations, focusing on strategic decisions, high-impact use cases, building a data-driven culture, and managing ethical and security risks at an executive level.

AI workshops are crucial for your business because they fast-track strategic conversations, helping you build a clear, customized AI roadmap that ensures your investments deliver measurable results. They provide expert guidance to define AI use cases and transformation roadmaps, accelerating executive alignment and equipping your workforce to effectively use AI. This leads to increased productivity, better data-driven decision-making, automated operations, and mitigated risks. Workshops can help you understand how generative AI solves specific business problems, provide training in prompt engineering for IT professionals, and offer hands-on sessions for integrating AI tools into daily workflows. Ultimately, AI workshops help your organization gain a competitive edge by mastering the strategic, ethical, and operational aspects of AI, leading to significant reductions in processing time and accelerated time-to-market.

What We Do

AI workshops

Accelerate your AI roadmap: Strategic AI workshops that deliver measurable results

AI proof of concept (PoC) projects fail

Global investment in AI by 2028

Executives are confident in their AI strategy

AI workshops for business leaders and teams

Enterprise AI strategy workshop for executive alignment

AI training workshop to upskill your employees

Hands-on AI prompt engineering training workshop

Google AI and Gemini integration workshop

AI for software development: SDLC optimization

C-Suite level executives with decades of AI experience deliver our enterprise AI workshops

GigaOm partners with Pythian to empower customers to make faster decisions with AI

Accelerate executive alignment, build the right data and AI strategy for your business, and drive AI adoption

Defined data and AI roadmap

Clear, high ROI AI use cases

Stronger data quality and foundation

Mitigate risk and ethical AI implementation

Drive AI adoption and literacy, increasing productivity

Gain competitive and market advantage

Start with Pythian's AI workshop to maximize your investments in AI

See how Pythian’s AI workshops have streamlined AI success for our customers

GigaOm partners with Pythian for AI strategy

Day & Ross scales operations leveraging AI

Fresno Unified draws on AI consultants to explore AI

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about AI workshops