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SUMMARY:2026-06-16 Duq SBDC AI Small Business Conference
DESCRIPTION:BizBurgh Presents: AI Small Business Conference\n\n\nThank You to Our Title Sponsor:\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nFrom Practical Prompts to Automated Workflows\n\nA hands-on AI conference for small and mid-sized businesses ready to move from experimentation to execution.\n\nThis is an in-person conference (Breakfast\, lunch\, and parking included)\n\n\n\nMost AI events explain what AI could do. This one helps you build what AI should do for your business.\n\nYou'll work through a realistic business scenario and leave with:\n\n A repeatable AI decision framework\n A reusable prompt pack\n Draft content and multimedia assets\n A starter AI workflow\n A clear 30-day implementation plan\n\nNo hype. No theory-only sessions. Just practical\, reusable work.\n\n\n\nWho It's For\n\n\n Business owners and operators\n Managers and team leads\n Marketing\, operations\, training\, and admin staff\n SMBs/SMEs looking for immediate\, low-risk AI impact\n\nNo technical background required.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\nThrough short presentations and guided Skills Labs\, you'll progress step-by-step:\n\n Choose the right AI use case (value\, feasibility\, risk\, ROI)\n Build better prompts for real business outcomes\n Create content and multimedia assets with guardrails\n Map a simple AI workflow using the tools you already use\n\nEverything is designed for day-one reuse after the conference.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Leave With\n\nConference Implementation Kit (digital)\n\nPrinted Skills Lab Workbook\n\nReusable business prompts\n\nA starter AI workflow\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n In-person experience\n Structured instruction + guided labs\n Bring a laptop or table\n\n\nDetailed agenda (morning + lunch + early afternoon)\n\nTotal program time: 8:30 AM 3:00 PM (includes breakfast\, lunch)\n\n\n\n8:30 9:00 AM Arrival\, coffee\, exhibitor networking\n\n\n Check-in\, Wi-Fi\, seating\n "Tool readiness" (participants encouraged to bring laptop/tablet)\n Exhibitors open\n\n\n9:00 9:15 AM Welcome + outcomes\n\n\n What participants will leave with\n How the Skills Labs work (structured\, guided)\n\n\n9:15 9:30 AM Futurecasting (grounded): what's changing and why it matters\n\n\n What's shifting in the AI market for SMBs in the next 12 24 months\n "What to do in the next 90 days" framing\n\n\n9:30 10:05 AM The practical AI landscape for SMBs (what it is / isn't)\n\n\n Where SMBs get real value vs hype\n Core capability map: text\, search\, summarization\, planning\, content generation\n Limitations and common failure modes\n\n\n10:05 10:45 AM The SMB AI decision framework (use-case selection + guardrails)\n\n\n Pick the right use case (volume\, repeatability\, risk\, ROI)\n Resource assessment (people\, process maturity\, data readiness\, budget)\n Guardrails: privacy\, IP\, client data\, and basic regulatory considerations\n How to run pilots safely and measure outcomes\n\n\n10:45 11:00 AM Break + exhibitor touchpoint\n\n \n11:00 AM 12:00 PM Skills Lab Sequence (Part 1): Text Strategy Assets\n\nStructure: guided individual work with timed checkpoints (no ambiguity) \n\n \n\n- Lab 1 (30 min): Prompting for business outcomes\n\n\n Build a reusable "Business Prompt" (inputs constraints voice output) \n Produce: a 1-page plan (e.g.\, campaign\, SOP\, onboarding outline) \n\n\n- Lab 2 (30 min): Content Velocity Sprint (quality-controlled) \n\n\n Turn the plan into a week/month content outline + draft assets \n Apply quality checks: brand voice\, claims\, compliance flags\, review steps\n\n\n12:00 1:00 PM Lunch + guided practice\n\n\n Participants continue the Lab exercises\n Optional table "show-and-tell" moments\n Exhibitors open\n\n\n1:00 1:40 PM Skills Lab Sequence (Part 2): Multimedia content engine\n\n- Lab 3 (40 min): Image\, audio\, and video generation for SMB use cases\n\n\n Produce: a short onboarding/training script + visual concept\n Optional: intro to AI avatars for training/onboarding\n Guardrails: permissions\, brand safety\, disclosure norms\n\n\n1:40 2:55 PM Skills Lab Sequence (Part 3): From tools to workflows (agentic AI mapping)\n\n\n What "agentic" means in business terms (multi-step\, multi-tool execution)\n Guided workflow build:\n \n Define the task end-to-end\n Identify inputs\, outputs\, approvals\, and integrations\n Map to a simple multi-tool workflow (email/docs/scheduling/content pipeline)\n \n \n Ecosystem note: why Microsoft and Google matter for many SMB workflows\n\n\n2:55 3:00 PM Wrap + next steps\n\n\n Distribution of Implementation Kit + prompt pack\n How to continue learning (resources + local vendor support)\n Optional: book availability if completed in time\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister now and leave with AI tools you can use the very next day.\n\n\n\nSpeaker/Moderator: Ray Sidney-Smith\, Digital Marketing Strategist\, Hootsuite Global Brand Ambassador\, Google Small Business Advisor for Productivity\, and Managing Director of W3C Web Services
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\nThank You to Our Title Sponsor:\n\n\n \n \n \n 
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\n \n
\nFrom Practical Prompts to Automated Workflows
\nA \;hands-on AI conference for small and mid-sized businesses ready to move from experimentation to execution.
\nThis is an in-person conference (Breakfast\, lunch\, and parking included)
\n
\nMost AI events explain \;what AI could do. \;This one helps you \;build what AI should do for your business.
\nYou&rsquo\;ll work through a realistic business scenario and leave with:\n\n - A repeatable AI decision framework
\n - A reusable prompt pack
\n - Draft content and multimedia assets
\n - A starter AI workflow
\n - A clear 30-day implementation plan
\n
\nNo hype. No theory-only sessions. Just practical\, reusable work.\n\n\n
\nWho It&rsquo\;s For\n\n\n - Business owners and operators
\n - Managers and team leads
\n - Marketing\, operations\, training\, and admin staff
\n - SMBs/SMEs looking for \;immediate\, low-risk AI impact
\n
\nNo technical background required.\n\n\n
\nWhat You&rsquo\;ll Do
\nThrough short presentations and guided Skills Labs\, you&rsquo\;ll progress step-by-step:\n\n - Choose the right AI use case \;(value\, feasibility\, risk\, ROI)
\n - Build better prompts \;for real business outcomes
\n - Create content and multimedia assets \;with guardrails
\n - Map a simple AI workflow \;using the tools you already use
\n
\nEverything is designed for \;day-one reuse \;after the conference.\n\n\n
\nWhat You&rsquo\;ll Leave With
\nConference Implementation Kit (digital)
\nPrinted Skills Lab Workbook
\nReusable business prompts
\nA starter AI workflow\n\n
\nFormat\n\n\n - In-person experience
\n - Structured instruction + guided labs
\n - Bring a laptop or table
\n
\n\nDetailed \;agenda (morning + lunch + early afternoon)
\nTotal program time: 8:30 AM&ndash\;3:00 PM (includes breakfast\, lunch)
\n
\n8:30&ndash\;9:00 AM &mdash\; Arrival\, coffee\, exhibitor networking
\n\n\n - Check-in\, Wi-Fi\, seating
\n - &ldquo\;Tool readiness&rdquo\; (participants encouraged to bring laptop/tablet)
\n - Exhibitors open
\n
\n\n9:00&ndash\;9:15 AM &mdash\; Welcome + outcomes
\n\n\n - What participants will leave with
\n - How the Skills Labs work (structured\, guided)
\n
\n\n9:15&ndash\;9:30 AM &mdash\; Futurecasting (grounded): what&rsquo\;s changing and why it matters
\n\n\n - What&rsquo\;s shifting in the AI market for SMBs in the next 12&ndash\;24 months
\n - &ldquo\;What to do in the next 90 days&rdquo\; framing
\n
\n\n9:30&ndash\;10:05 AM &mdash\; The practical AI landscape for SMBs (what it is / isn&rsquo\;t)
\n\n\n - Where SMBs get real value vs hype
\n - Core capability map: text\, search\, summarization\, planning\, content generation
\n - Limitations and common failure modes
\n
\n\n10:05&ndash\;10:45 AM &mdash\; The SMB AI decision framework (use-case selection + guardrails)
\n\n\n - Pick the right use case (volume\, repeatability\, risk\, ROI)
\n - Resource assessment (people\, process maturity\, data readiness\, budget)
\n - Guardrails: privacy\, IP\, client data\, and basic regulatory considerations
\n - How to run pilots safely and measure outcomes
\n
\n\n10:45&ndash\;11:00 AM &mdash\; Break + exhibitor touchpoint
\n \;\n
11:00 AM&ndash\;12:00 PM &mdash\; Skills Lab Sequence (Part 1): Text &rarr\; Strategy &rarr\; Assets
\n\n
Structure: guided individual work with timed checkpoints (no ambiguity) \;
\n \;
\n\n
- Lab 1 (30 min): Prompting for business outcomes
\n\n
\n - Build a reusable &ldquo\;Business Prompt&rdquo\; (inputs &rarr\; constraints &rarr\; voice &rarr\; output) \;
\n - Produce: a 1-page plan (e.g.\, campaign\, SOP\, onboarding outline) \;
\n
\n\n
- Lab 2 (30 min): Content Velocity Sprint (quality-controlled) \;
\n\n
\n - Turn the plan into a week/month content outline + draft assets \;
\n - Apply quality checks: brand voice\, claims\, compliance flags\, review steps
\n
\n\n
12:00&ndash\;1:00 PM &mdash\; Lunch + guided practice
\n\n
\n - Participants continue the Lab exercises
\n - Optional table &ldquo\;show-and-tell&rdquo\; moments
\n - Exhibitors open
\n
\n\n
1:00&ndash\;1:40 PM &mdash\; Skills Lab Sequence (Part 2): Multimedia content engine
\n\n
- Lab 3 (40 min): Image\, audio\, and video generation for SMB use cases
\n\n
\n - Produce: a short onboarding/training script + visual concept
\n - Optional: intro to AI avatars for training/onboarding
\n - Guardrails: permissions\, brand safety\, disclosure norms
\n
\n\n
1:40&ndash\;2:55 PM &mdash\; Skills Lab Sequence (Part 3): From tools to workflows (agentic AI mapping)
\n\n
\n - What &ldquo\;agentic&rdquo\; means in business terms (multi-step\, multi-tool execution)
\n - Guided workflow build:\n
\n - Define the task end-to-end
\n - Identify inputs\, outputs\, approvals\, and integrations
\n - Map to a simple multi-tool workflow (email/docs/scheduling/content pipeline)
\n
\n \n - Ecosystem note: why Microsoft and Google matter for many SMB workflows
\n
\n\n
2:55&ndash\;3:00 PM &mdash\; Wrap + next steps
\n\n
\n - Distribution of Implementation Kit + prompt pack
\n - How to continue learning (resources + local vendor support)
\n - Optional: book availability if completed in time
\n
\n
\n
\nRegister now and leave with AI tools you can use the very next day.
\n
\nSpeaker/Moderator: \;Ray Sidney-Smith\, Digital Marketing Strategist\, Hootsuite Global Brand Ambassador\, Google Small Business Advisor for Productivity\, and Managing Director of W3C Web Services
\n \;
LOCATION:Duquesne University Power Center Ballroom 1015 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh\, PA 15219
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URL:http://business.lawrencecounty.com/events/details/2026-06-16-duq-sbdc-ai-small-business-conference-558
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