AI Project Lab: Turn Your Work in Progress into Practical Solutions

AI Project Lab: Turn Your Work in Progress into Practical Solutions 

The AI Project Lab is a new hands-on workshop series from the AI Workgroup where participants bring their AI projects to completion through expert mentorship, focused collaboration, and practical guidance.

Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Time: 6:30 - 7:30 PM ET

Location: Virtual. Zoom link will be provided after registration.

Have an AI project you've started but want to continue developing? Looking for guidance, feedback, or collaborative space to build alongside others?

Join Edmundo Barrientos, CEO of Grasply, Kaushal Sampat, Co-Founder of Grasply, and Beth Cook, Director of the AI Workgroup at ATDSFL for a new hands-on working session where members can complete AI projects with support from our AI Project Mentors and fellow members. 

Whether you're continuing the AI role-plays introduced in our previous workshop or building on projects from past Beyond the Basics sessions, such as Custom GPTs, you'll have dedicated time to build, ask questions, receive personalized feedback, and collaborate with others.  

What to Expect

In this interactive session, you’ll:

• Continue developing AI projects started in previous AI Workgroup sessions.
• Receive individualized feedback and technical support from AI Project Mentors.
• Troubleshoot challenges and refine AI solutions in a collaborative environment.
• Learn from the experiences and ideas of fellow participants.
• Leave with a completed project ready to implement in your workflow.

Whether you're continuing an existing project or exploring a new idea, the AI Project Lab is designed to help you turn your work in progress into practical AI solutions.

Come build with us!

Questions?

Contact Victoria Brenes, VP of Technology, at tbrenes@atdsfl.org

AI Project Mentors

Edmundo Barrientos, CEO of Grasply

Edmundo is a seasoned engineer and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building high-performance learning solutions across Latin America and the US. As both a founder and investor, he brings a rigorous technical lens to every problem and opportunity. As CEO of Grasply, Edmundo sets the company's vision and leads its technology. That vision is his own: to empower people and organizations worldwide to transform knowledge into effective behaviors.

Kaushal Sampat, Co-Founder of Grasply

Kaushal is the co-founder of Grasply.ai and a product strategist specializing in human-centered design. Following two decades at Google and across the AdTech and EdTech sectors, he has mastered the use of data to solve complex, real-world problems. At Grasply.ai, Kaushal is building AI designed to unlock curiosity and accelerate personal growth. His mission is to empower organizations to scale personalized professional development, creating an AI platform that delivers adaptive learning experiences tailored perfectly to how individual employees naturally prefer to learn.

Beth Cook, Director of the AI Workgroup at ATDSFL

Beth Cook is a seasoned Customer Success executive and AI practitioner with over 20 years of experience building the teams, systems, and training programs that turn new technology into real adopted value for organizations across the US, UK and India. A hands-on builder of custom GPTs and agentic workflows, she brings the same operational rigor to AI adoption that she has brought to scaling enterprise Customer Success organizations from the ground up. She currently serves as Director of the AI Workgroup for the ATDSFL Chapter, where her focus is the one she brings to every room: helping people move past AI curiosity and into confident, everyday use. 

The AI Workgroup Gatherings are FREE for ATD South Florida chapter members.

What is the AI Workgroup

The AI Workgroup is a collaborative community dedicated to exploring and leveraging AI, specifically for talent development professionals, students, and other practitioners. We foster knowledge sharing, skill building, and networking through monthly meetings and our online community. Our goal is to empower you to confidently apply AI tools and strategies in your professional and academic work.

Want to know more?    AI Workgroup Home Page

The ATD South Florida Chapter has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of Certified Professionals in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. This program qualifies for a maximum of 1 point.