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Changing professions

Spinouts and student entrepreneurship

Applied AI in universities

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Cohorts working on this, over weeks rather than an afternoon.

AI for Lean Spinouts

AI for Lean Spinouts.

AIIA Business Challenge Dissertations: see what AI could do for your business.

For businesses in London and the South East: a University of Surrey student takes on your challenge as their dissertation, supervised by the University. Free to take part.

Open for applications

Short, social AI hackathons for team days, staff development and teaching, alongside any celebration, in person or online. Pull a cracker, open the prompt, crack it as a team.

The Future of the Professions (and Professionals) in the AI Age

Free seasons of talks and sessions on how AI is changing one profession at a time.

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Single sessions. Coming to one is the cheapest way to find out whether the longer thing is for you.

AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers

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.

Open to everyone

AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers

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.

Open to everyone

AI Innovation Accelerator: Work with the next generation of AI engineers

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.

Open to everyone

AIIA AI Engineering Challenge: briefing

[WHY COME TO WRITE] A short online briefing the day before the 2026 Crackathon opens: what it is, how the days work and how to take part.

Open to everyone

Santa's North Pole Productivity Challenge: launch

[WHY COME TO WRITE] The evening launch of the 2026 Crackathon, on the day the first self-guided day opens.

Open to everyone

AIIA AI Engineering Challenge: hackathon day

Teams form and go to work on businesses' draft challenges, so the feedback sharpens the briefs before they reach the University.

Open to everyone

The Innovate UK, University of Surrey and Agent Build Club logos, connected in a collaborative triangle

Innovate UK funds the London and South East AI Innovation Accelerator, led by the University of Surrey in collaboration with Agent Build Club

Innovate UK has funded the AI Innovation Accelerator, led by the University of Surrey, ranked 8th in the UK for developing AI talent, in collaboration with Agent Build Club. It's the first major project since founder Michael Kohn left Surrey and switched hats to start Agent Build Club.

Muninn, a raven, Agent Build Club's news reporter agent

A hand stacking building blocks labelled curiosity, clarity, capability, creativity, caution and confidence

Nobody trained for this future, but nobody has to learn it alone

AI is rewriting the work we all trained for, and nobody was trained for what comes next. Why I started Agent Build Club, and how we plan to turn curiosity into capability, together.

Michael Kohn, founder of Agent Build Club