Take Your First Step in AI: Build Your Own Company Assistant
April 16, 2025 @ 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Is your business interested in AI but unsure where to start? This beginner-friendly workshop is designed to help professionals with little to no AI experience create their very own assistant.

Learn to build a custom AI assistant to support your sales, customer service, or internal operations, all while gaining valuable insights into the world of AI.
Please bring a laptop as this workshop will be interactive.
9:30 – 10:00: Coffee and Arrivals
Casual networking whilst people arrive and settle in, refreshments provided.
10:00 – 10:15: Welcome and Introduction to the workshop
A quick welcome and overview of the workshop agenda
10:15 – 10:30: Real world AI use cases for business
A look into some real-world, example use cases of AI assistants in action from INV Group
10:30 – 11:00: The process and live build of a Surrey Chambers assistant
How to get started with an AI assistant, what’s the process?
Live build and demo of a Surrey Chambers AI assistant to show how it’s done
11:00 – 11:10: Coffee Break
Casual networking during a quick break, refreshments provided
11:10 – 13:10: Your turn – Build your own company assistant
Each attendee will be given access to their own instance of an AI assistant
We’ll break up into smaller groups, each group will have an INV Group employee on hand to help out
Have a go at building out your own assistant within your groups, be prepared to demo yours!
Finally, we’ll set each Group a fun task as we come to a close
13:10 – 13:30: Next steps and Close
Next steps on how to get started with your own assistant and details on keeping the assistant you build in the workshop
Closing comments and questions
13:30 – 14:30: Networking Lunch (Optional)
Stick around for pizza and more casual networking at our offices