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IK Workshop: Agentic AI Accelerator

By Upward & Onward

Overview

Practical, hands-on workshop in NJ/ NYC designed for engineers, product managers, and technical leaders ready to move beyond basic LLM usage


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


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Don’t just adapt to the AI revolution - lead it. Get ready to understand career upleveling options like never before.

Category: Science & Tech, High Tech

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Highlights

  • 4 hours 30 minutes
  • all ages
  • In person
  • Paid parking
  • Doors at 9:00 AM

Refund Policy

No refunds

Location

111 Town Square Pl suite 313

111 Town Square Place

#suite 313 Jersey City, NJ 07310

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Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Check-in

9:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Workshop: Build an Agentic AI Model

Sanjay Dhar

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

1:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Networking Lunch

Enjoy a delightful lunch while reconnecting with fellow Alumni and expanding your professional circle.

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Dec 6 · 9:30 AM EST