Tim Lovatt | Head of Digital Learning
United World College of South East Asia

Pre-conference Workshops @ 10:00

[M6] 3 Nov (AM) - Mini AI Hackathon - using AI to build a working app to enhance your workflows

Heard about AI transforming workflows, automating repetitive tasks and unlocking new efficiencies, but not sure how to actually make it work in your day to day role? This session is designed to move you from curiosity to creation.

In this fast-paced, hands on mini hackathon, you will use generative AI to design and build a simple, functional app tailored to your own needs. Whether you’re a teacher, school leader, or part of the operations team, you’ll explore how AI can help you streamline processes, better use your data and solve real challenges in your context.

Guided by practical examples and a simplified design process, participants will learn how to prompt AI to generate code, customise features and deploy a working tool within the session. No coding experience is required: just a willingness to experiment and rethink what’s possible.

While examples will include Google Workspace integrations, the workshop is open to all participants regardless of platform or technical background. The focus is on transferable concepts and approaches that can be adapted to different school environments.

To get the most out of this session, participants are encouraged to come prepared with a rough idea of a workflow they want to improve, or a dataset they would like to better utilise.

You will leave with a live prototype and the confidence to continue building and iterating beyond the workshop.

 Key takeaways include:

• Build a functional prototype of an app to support a real workflow in your school or role
• Understand ways to use AI tools to write all the code for you - no coding knowledge required
• Apply simple deployment techniques to launch and test your app quickly