Caltech Primer: Beyond Prompt Engineering: The New Toolkit for Project Managers

Speaker: Jen Garcia

Title: Caltech Primer - Beyond Prompt Engineering: The New Toolkit for Project Managers

October 10, 2026

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Description of Event

Workshop: Getting Started with AI Prompting / Use Cases for AI as Assistant

This interactive workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of crafting effective AI prompts and explores practical ways AI can serve as a powerful assistant in everyday tasks. Through real-world examples and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to communicate with AI tools to get accurate, creative, and context-aware responses. Whether for research, content creation, organization, or problem-solving, this session will equip you with the skills to unlock AI’s potential and integrate it seamlessly into your workflow.

Biography of Speaker

WILLIAM VINCENT

I build the bridge between operational rigor and emerging technology — and I've spent 21+ years proving it pays off. As a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP, and industrial engineer, I've led initiatives that delivered $29M in annual savings through facility consolidation, $860K in warehouse cost reductions, and audit process improvements adopted enterprise-wide. I've briefed Inspector Generals, congressional stakeholders, and national leadership on complex, high-stakes initiatives — and gotten them aligned.

Over the past few years, I've applied that same discipline to AI. I taught myself tools like NotebookLM, Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude, then started teaching others — training colleagues across my organization, sitting on our AI Task Force, and consulting externally with organizations from large foundations like the American Red Cross on AI-driven transportation network solutions to smaller international cutting edge research and development firms like Kerrow Energetics. I don't just understand AI conceptually; I've driven its adoption inside a large, complex organization and watched it change how teams work.

I'm now looking for a senior leadership role — AI strategy, transformation, or enterprise technology leadership — where that combination is the point: someone who can set the AI vision and execute it operationally, with the track record to back both halves. If your organization needs someone who can turn AI ambition into measurable ROI, let's talk.

Registration Fee

Member Pricing FREE
Non Member Pricing $10.00
   
Registration Cutoff Date and Time: Session 1 - Friday, October 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Session 2 - Friday, October 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Session 3 - Friday, November 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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