Info-Tech Research Group

AI Workforce Development – Accelerate Your AI Architecture Journey

May 14, 2026, 3-6pm | Austin, TX

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Join your peers for an Info-Tech LEVEL-UP AI Event

Event Highlights:

  • High-impact, half day session focused on accelerating your AI architecture journey.
  • Key Takeaway: AI Architecture Reference Map.
  • Based on foundational AI content from Info-Tech's AI Workforce Development Program .
  • Connect with fellow participants at a Dinner Reception after the training.
  • This event is a complimentary training program offered at no cost to participants.

Program Overview

Designed for Technology Managers, IT Practitioners, and Business Analysts.

Level up your practical knowledge and skills. Join this half-day interactive group session led by Info-Tech facilitator Amalia Barthel.

Defining a successful AI architecture can be daunting, but it communicates critical decisions around use case requirements and strategy. In this insightful session, learn not only the fundamental ideas needed to make key AI decisions, but more importantly how to quickly translate these core concepts into a rapid AI architecture that bridges your technological and strategic needs.

Learning Outcomes

  • Compare and contrast Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI.
  • Distinguish between sensationalized and practical AI uses for today's organizations.
  • Explain how AI solves common real-world business problems.
  • Identify how AI fits within your business and technology stack.
  • Translate core AI concepts into a reference architecture for implementing an AI use case.
  • Info-Tech-endorsed CPE qualifying credit hours.

Program Schedule

3:00 - 4:15 PM Part 1
 
  1. AI Key Concepts & Suitability 
  2. From Machine Learning to Applied AI
  3. Generative AI & LLMs
4:15 - 4:30 PM 15-minute break
4:30 - 6:00 PM Part 2
 
  1. Responsible AI & Security
  2. AI Architecture Case Study and Project Workshop
  • Use an LLM - based AI Tutor to walk through "choose-your-own-adventure" applications, scenarios, and case studios for each topic.
  • Walk through the steps of drafting an accelerated AI Reference Architecture map.

Deliverable: AI Architecture Reference Map.
6:00 PM Onward Networking Dinner Reception 

 

Meet Your Facilitator

Donald McGillivray, Artificial Intelligence Instructor

Donald McGillivray is an AI/ML researcher, developer, and educator whose work bridges deep technical experimentation with practical enterprise adoption. With a decade of research experience and a PhD in physical chemistry, Donald has translated machine-learning methods from materials science into industrial applications, becoming a recognized expert in building AI systems that are explainable, measurable, and deployable at scale.

As an AI instructor, Donald brings a hands-on, systems-thinking approach to teaching. Blending academic rigor with an educator’s clarity, he guides organizations in transforming AI from experimental prototypes into disciplined, value-driven practices that advance both innovation and trust.

 

Event Location:
Eddie V’s Prime Seafood
9400 B Arboretum Blvd
Austin, TX
78759

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