Get in touchAgent Build Club brings students, researchers, educators and businesses together to take on real challenges side by side, through programmes, events and hackathons run with universities, so everyone builds capability and confidence together.
Ecosystem
Agent Build Club is an applied AI ecosystem across education, research, innovation and enterprise. Universities, businesses and learners take on real challenges together, while applied AI educators, technology vendors and speakers bring the teaching, the tools and what’s coming next.
Take part
Host a Crackathon™
Bring applied AI challenges into teaching, research and enterprise, with industry in the room.
Bring it to your universityHost a Crackathon™
Set real challenges, meet emerging talent and see what applied AI can do for you.
Set a challengeJoin a Crackathon™
Follow your curiosity, build with new tools and show what you can do.
Start buildingPower the programmes
Coach at a Crackathon™
Take your teaching into university ecosystems through programmes we run together.
Teach with usSponsor a Crackathon™
Put your tools in the hands of students, researchers and innovation teams.
Back a programme
Bring what your company is doing at the edge of AI to the people who will build what’s next.
Propose a talkIn their words
Thanks very much for a very informative and very useful workshop! … I think that your workshop is ahead of its time and I have a feeling that it will be very successful in the future.
Knowledge Exchange Professional, UIIN workshop
Participating in the Agent Build Club workshop was such a fantastic and interesting experience. I really enjoyed it!
PhD researcher, University of Surrey
Programmes
Programmes bring people together around real problems: cohorts over months, seasons of talks, and hackathons. Each is built with a partner and aimed at a particular group.
Events
Single sessions, open to anyone. Most belong to a programme, so coming to one is the easiest way to find out whether the programme is for you.
A free 45-minute online briefing for engineering firms wondering what agentic AI could do for them, and what it would take to find out with a Surrey MSc student.
A free 45-minute online briefing for engineering firms wondering what agentic AI could do for them, and what it would take to find out with a Surrey MSc student.
Field Notes, coming soon
Agent Build Club helps people learn to build with AI, so we're doing it ourselves. A small team of people works alongside a growing flock of AI agents, each with a name, a species and one job. We write up what works, what doesn't and what we change in our Field Notes.
Blog
Exploring what's changing, questioning what comes next, and sharing what we're learning along the way.
FAQs
The things people usually ask before getting involved.
Learning alongside each other rather than from a stage. Students, researchers, educators and people from businesses work on the same real challenges, side by side, so each learns what the others know. Nobody trained for an AI-shaped future, so we learn it together.
A real mix: students, researchers, educators, founders, practitioners and people from businesses of all sizes. We bring different perspectives into the same room on purpose, because that is how everyone learns more.
Both! Some of our events happen in person and others online, depending on the format. We'll always let you know which it is.
Absolutely. You don't need to be a student or researcher. If you're curious about AI and want to explore it in your work, you're very welcome here.
Not at all. Whether you're brand new to AI or already building with it, there's a way to get involved. If a programme does need specific skills, we'll tell you upfront.
It depends on what you'd like to do. Many programmes are free to take part in, such as AIIA Business Challenge Dissertations, which is funded by Innovate UK, and our public talks and Crackathon editions. You can also book a Crackathon for your own team, or co-design a programme with us. Have a chat with our team and we'll shape something that works for you.
We'd love to hear from you. We invite innovation companies to share how they are using AI at the edge of what's next. Tell us a little about your company and what you'd like to talk about through our For Speakers page, and we'll be in touch when there's a talk that fits.
There are lots of ways to get involved with our events, hackathons and workshops. You could support an event, set a challenge, provide tools or credits, or run a hands-on session.
Partner with us
We're working with universities, employers, technology vendors and educators to shape the future of applied AI education. Bring a theme, your audience or a skills gap. We design the runs, the events and challenges around it, bring in additional partners as needed and run the end-to-end programme with or for you.
Lead partners fund, host or back a programme or a single run, so it can be free to everyone in it. They are credited on it, at its events and in what it produces.
