For Founders and Employees Who Want to Thrive in the AI Age
Learn AI for Your Life.
Use It Everywhere.
AI Tea Talks is a free weekly hands-on training program for Capital Region founders and employees who want to understand and use AI in their personal life, their career, and their business. You will learn the fundamentals here. Once you have the skill, you take it with you into whatever system your job uses.
The Format
What to Expect
Every session, Kara walks you through one practical AI skill from scratch. You build it yourself, on your own personal device, with your own free account. No work laptops. No company systems. This is yours.
You will leave each session knowing how to do something you could not do when you walked in. The skills are transferable. Once you learn to use AI for one task, you can apply that same thinking to any platform, any tool, and any workflow your employer uses.
Come Prepared
What to Bring
A personal laptop or tablet and your personal email address. We will help you set up a free ChatGPT account in the room. No prior experience needed. No account needed before you arrive. We do it together.
The Series
Sessions
Session 1: What AI actually is and how it works for everyday tasks and projects.
Session 2: Build your personal AI assistant from scratch. You leave with it ready to use tonight.
Session 3: Put your AI to work for your actual life and workflow.
Session 4: Coming June 2026.
From the Facilitator
A Note From Kara
I built AI Tea Talks because the tools exist but the practical starting point does not. These sessions are for people who want to actually use AI, not just hear about it. Come with your personal device, come with your questions, and come ready to build something. We figure it out together.
Open to the Public
Who This Is For
You are a founder, an employee, or anyone in the Capital Region who knows AI is not going away and wants to get ahead of it on your own terms. Free to attend. In person in Troy, NY and online. Open to the public June 4th, 2026.