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Turn rough notes into useful work
Watch one messy request become a polished email, a practical checklist, and a clear summary.
Tickets go on sale October 1, 2026Thursday, November 19, 2026 · 6:30–8:30 p.m. · Core21, Oshawa
A practical AI workshop for real life
Make AI useful.
Make it yours.
A lively, hands-on 90-minute session that helps small businesses and everyday professionals put AI to work—without the jargon or the hype.
No coding requiredReal-work demosTake-home starter kit
90minutes
to practical AI
to practical AI
Save timeon repeat work
Communicatewith more confidence
Find the next stepin all that information
Use AI wiselykeep human judgment in charge
The featured session
AI for the Rest of Us
Practical AI for small business and everyday work. You don’t need to be technical; you just need one task you’d love to make easier.
See what happens when you give AI a real job. Mark walks through live examples, explains how to get better answers, and shows where a human needs to stay firmly in the loop.
See what we’ll work onThe promise
“I could use that.”
Leave with one useful idea you can try this week.
Useful from the first demo
Bring a task.
Leave with a better way.
Five live demos turn familiar work into a hands-on introduction to AI. No magic claims—just practical examples you can adapt.
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Get past the blank page
Build a marketing idea into ready-to-adapt posts, customer messages, and headlines.
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Make information easier to act on
Ask better questions about long documents, reports, and spreadsheets, then check the answer.
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Know where to pause
See when simple automation is enough, what not to paste into AI, and what always needs review.
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Leave with a next step
Bring one annoying task. Leave with a prompt and a small, realistic way to try AI this week.
Stump the AI Guy
Bring a real-world task and we’ll see if AI can help solve it—without sharing confidential information.
Grounded, not dazzled
AI drafts.
You decide.
Learn a simple way to give AI context and clear instructions. Then learn what to check, what not to paste, and when a plain old rule is the smarter tool.
Personal information, passwords, health details, and confidential business material stay out of live demos.
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Ask better
Who, what, context, format.
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Check carefully
Facts, names, numbers, and rules.
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Start small
Choose one repeat task and win once.
Your friendly guide to AIMeet your host
Mark Salonius
aka Sparky Marky
Mark makes technology feel approachable. As an IT leader and educator, he’s spent years helping people move from “I’m not sure where to start” to “I can do this.”
Expect plain language, hands-on examples, useful takeaways, and enough humour to keep the robots from getting too full of themselves.
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Ready to make
AI work for you?
Tickets go on sale October 1, 2026. Join us in person at Core21 in Oshawa.
WhenThursday, November 19, 2026 · 6:30–8:30 p.m.
WhereCore21, Oshawa
Ticket options
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Early birdIntroductory rate
$39RegularGeneral admission
$49Last minuteIf seats remain
$59