Innovation Day - Sign Up
Two hands-on AI sessions. Two hours each. No slides, no lectures - you, a chatbot you already use, and a real task. Pick the one that fits your job and grab a slot.
Both sessions teach the same five ways of working with AI. Each puts a different two hours of practice behind them. You only need to attend one - though if you want both, sign up for both and we’ll fit you in if there’s room.
The two sessions
| Build a Skill | Spec-First Build | |
|---|---|---|
| In one line | Turn a recurring task you do by hand into a reusable AI “recipe” | Build a small feature properly - spec first, then code, with a human review gate |
| For | Programme managers, ops, admin, HR, procurement, finance - anyone with a repeatable process | A full product team: Dev, Architecture, QA, Product, UI/UX |
| You’ll leave with | A one-page Skill you can paste into any chatbot and reuse next week | A feature built to the API contract, an ADR, and a tested change |
| Tech needed | None - just a chatbot you can log into | None - just a chatbot you can log into (the team builds together) |
| Confidence | Mixed welcome - first-timers thrive here | Comfortable building or shipping software |
| Walk away able to | Stop re-typing the same prompt; standardise it for your team | Apply spec-first discipline and the human-signs-the-work gate to real delivery |
Not sure which one?
Tie-breaker: If your day involves code or owning a delivery, take Spec-First Build. If your day is about process or people, take Build a Skill.
Still on the fence? Build a Skill is the safer first step for anyone non-technical or new to AI. Nobody is in the wrong room - facilitators will redirect you on the day if it’s a better fit.
The one hard prerequisite
Bring at least one working AI chatbot you can log into. That’s it. That’s the whole bar.
Everything in both sessions is tool-agnostic - the techniques work the same in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot Chat, or whatever your team has. We don’t care which one you bring.
Mixed tool estate? Good - that’s the real world. Roughly 70% of you have one tool; the rest are on OpenAI or Gemini, and most of our Madrid HR/Procurement colleagues are on Gemini. None of that matters here. We deliberately built both sessions to run on any mainstream chatbot. You will not be at a disadvantage for being on a different tool than the person next to you.
What does matter: that you can actually log in on the day. A licence you’ve never activated, or one stuck behind an approval, is the one thing that will sit you out. We check this before you arrive - see Tooling & Onboarding for the 2-minute pre-flight test.
No licence at all? Still sign up. We have a fallback ladder (a no-login free tier, pairing you with someone as a spec-writer, or a supervised shared login) so a missing licence never blocks you. Details in Tooling & Onboarding.
What we’ll ask when you sign up
Keep it quick - this is the whole form.
| # | Field | Type | Why we ask |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Name | text | Roster + name card |
| 2 | Function / team | dropdown (Programme, Ops, Admin, HR, Procurement, Finance, Dev, Architecture, QA, Product, UI/UX, Other) | Balances the rooms; routes the tie-breaker |
| 3 | Session | radio (Build a Skill / Spec-First Build) | Which room you’re in |
| 4 | Slot | radio (AM / PM) | Capacity planning |
| 5 | Which AI tool will you bring? | dropdown (ChatGPT / Gemini / Claude / Copilot Chat / Other / I don’t have one) | Spot tool-less people early; pre-stage the right fallback |
| 6 | Can you log into that tool today? (yes/no) | radio | The single biggest day-of risk - surfaces it now, not at 09:00 |
| 7 | Data-handling consent | checkbox (required) | “I understand I will use only synthetic or public data in this session - no real names, client data, PII, or confidential figures.” See Way #3. |
If you answer “no” or “I don’t have one” to 5 or 6, that’s fine - it just flags you for the pre-flight check so we sort it before the day, not on it.
Capacity, deadline & how places are allocated
- ~15 places per bucket. Four buckets in total: each session (Build a Skill, Spec-First Build) runs AM and PM. That’s
2 sessions × 2 slots × ~15 = ~60 places. - Whitelist gate. Places are confirmed against the approved attendee whitelist for this cohort. Signing up registers your interest; you’ll get a confirmation once your place is allocated.
- Sign-up deadline: end of day Monday. We freeze rosters Monday evening to run the pre-flight tool checks and balance the rooms. Late sign-ups go straight to the waitlist.
- Waitlist. Buckets fill fast. If your first choice is full, you’ll be offered the other slot (AM/PM) or the waitlist. We release waitlist places as drop-outs come in - keep an eye on your inbox the week of.
Sign up
[SIGN-UP LINK]
Questions, access problems, or licence worries? Reach out to [ORGANISER NAME / CHANNEL] before Monday - the earlier we know about a login problem, the easier it is to fix.
Both sessions are built on the company’s five ways of working with AI. Read those two minutes before you arrive and you’re already ahead.