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Turn your curiosity about AI into capability, confidence, and direction

Find opportunities to explore emerging AI, experiment with new tools, work on meaningful problems, and learn alongside people from different disciplines and stages of their journey.

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What we hear

The AI challenge for learners

AI is changing how we learn, work and create, faster than any course can keep up with.

The tools you will use at work are changing faster than your course can.

The pace of change can make it difficult to know what to learn, where to start, and whether you are keeping up. Students also have few ways to prove what they can do, rather than just claim it.

Applying AI to your own field means learning by doing.

Whether you are applying AI to your research or testing an idea for a new venture, there are few places to experiment alongside people who are building the same way.

Keeping up with AI alongside your day job can feel overwhelming.

As new tools and possibilities emerge, it is easy to feel uncertain about what matters, overwhelmed by how much there is to explore, or unsure where your own capabilities fit.

Why ABC

You will not be working this out on your own

Agent Build Club is a co-learning community that bridges academia and business, with applied AI educators, technology vendors and guest speakers bringing the teaching, the tools and the practice. Undergraduates, researchers, people running businesses and people changing career all turn up to the same sessions, because nobody has this figured out yet. A room like that is a great place to learn alongside your course or your work, and you meet people who will tell you honestly when something does not work.

What we do

What we offer learners

Ways in, whether you have an afternoon or a term.

Workshops

Hands-on building from wherever you are starting, in a room where nobody pretends to have it figured out.

Hackathons

Build something working in a weekend, with a team you just met.

Innovation Talks

See what people a few steps ahead are actually doing.

Business Challenge Workshops

Work on a real company problem, and meet the people whose job depends on solving it.

Employability Clinics

Turn what you built into something employers recognise.

ABC Community

Somewhere to ask the question you think is too basic.

How we work

How we help you find your way in

Three ways to take part, whether you are new to AI or already building with it.

Drop in

Join a single workshop or event to try new tools and meet people exploring the same questions.

Build with others

Take part in a hackathon or challenge and leave with something you can show.

Go deeper

Work on an applied project with an organisation and build evidence of your capability over time.

Who we help to LEaRN

Co-learning open for everyone

Wherever you are starting from, there is a way in. Find the one that sounds like you.

Undergraduates

Build something real alongside your degree, and leave with evidence you can show an employer.

Postgraduates

Apply AI to your specialism and turn your masters project into something employers recognise.

PhD Students

Apply emerging AI to your research, and explore whether it could become something more.

Researchers

Bring emerging AI into your research practice and connect with others doing the same.

University Staff

Build practical AI capability for a professional services role, without a technical background.

Industry Learners

Keep pace with changing tools alongside your job, with people doing the same.

Student Entrepreneurs

Test an idea, build a prototype and find out whether it has legs, while you are still studying.

Spinout Founders

Explore whether your research could become a product, and what that would take.

Latest reading for learners

What we have been writing that bears on where you are heading.

We are curious about you!

What are you exploring? What are you finding difficult? What would help you learn, experiment, and build with AI? Tell us a little about where you are in your journey.