IK Workshop: Agentic AI Accelerator
Overview
Agentic AI is no longer about prompting LLMs. It’s about designing autonomous systems that can perceive, reason, plan, act, and learn — exactly the capabilities outlined in modern agentic architectures.
This workshop is built for technical professionals ready to go beyond “LLM usage” and actually engineer production-grade agentic workflows using proven design patterns such as:
- ReAct-style reasoning loops
- Prompt-chained pipelines
- Routing-based dynamic decision systems
- Parallelized agent execution
- Reflection and self-critique cycles
- Multi-agent collaboration models
If you’ve been experimenting with AI tools, this session helps you cross the gap between experimentation and deployable intelligent systems.
Stop just calling APIs — learn how to architect the next generation of autonomous software.
Why Attend?
Companies are rapidly shifting from “AI as a helper” to AI as a teammate.Teams now expect engineers and product leaders to understand:
- How agents reason across tasks
- How memory, planning, and tool-use interconnect
- How to design safe, robust, multi-step workflows
- How to build modular agent architectures leveraging tools, APIs, and databases
This workshop gives you a high–signal, engineering-focused playbook for:
- Architecting autonomous workflows
- Implementing memory-backed agents
- Integrating decision-making with tool calling
- Designing multi-agent systems with coordination protocols
- Evaluating robustness, safety, and failure propagation
What You'll Learn & Do
You don’t just hear concepts — you build.
1. The State of Play
A clear technical breakdown of how LLMs and GenAI evolved from “micro-taskers” to “autonomous collaborators” .
2. Agentic AI vs. Traditional ML
Why agents differ fundamentally from ML pipelines — moving from prediction to goal-driven autonomous action .
3. Core System Components
A deep dive into the seven architectural pillars that power robust agents: perception, reasoning, planning, memory, action/tooling, communication, and learning.
4. Agentic Design Patterns
You’ll see (and implement) patterns used in real systems today:
- Prompt chaining for sequential logic.
- Routing for dynamic intent classification and tool selection.
- Parallelization for latency reduction.
- Reflection for self-evaluation and improvement.
- Tool-use orchestration
- Multi-agent coordination structures
5. Hands-On Lab 1 — Build a File-System Agent
Using Strands Agents SDK + Llama 3.2.
- File listing and querying
- Reading/writing files
- Reasoning + tool-use cycles
- JSON function calling
- Error handling
This lab helps you internalize perception → reasoning → action loops.
6. Hands-On Lab 2 — Build a Multi-Agent Job Finder
Using CrewAI
- Specialized agents (analyst, strategist, filter, explainer)
- Multi-agent coordination
- Memory-enabled retrieval
- Routing-based decision flow
- Evaluation of results
You'll walk away with a working multi-agent pipeline — directly transferable to enterprise use cases.
7. Shipping to Production
How to evaluate, safeguard, optimize, and deploy agents:
- Avoiding error propagation
- Building safety layers
- Deployment patterns & MCP integration
🎟️ Book your spot now Seats are limited!
Don’t just adapt to the AI revolution - lead it. Get ready to understand career upleveling options like never before.
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Highlights
- 4 hours 30 minutes
- all ages
- In person
- Paid parking
- Doors at 9:00 AM
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Location
111 Town Square Pl suite 313
111 Town Square Place
#suite 313 Jersey City, NJ 07310
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Workshop: Build an Agentic AI Model
Objective: → Evolution of LLMs & GenAI (last 2+ years) → How Agentic AI differs + core components → Design patterns & hands-on labs to build workflows → Guidance for real-world deployment & Q&A
Networking Lunch
Enjoy a delightful lunch while reconnecting with fellow Alumni and expanding your professional circle.
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