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Accelerate Your AI Expertise with the Designing Autonomous AI Agents Training Course at the AI & Smart Automation Conference

A3 Online Marketing Team | 09/27/2024

Explore the revolutionary impact of artificial intelligence in the industrial sector with this live, in-person course.

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“Designing Autonomous AI Agents,” a half-day training course from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), will take center stage on day two of the AI & Smart Automation Conference happening November 12–13 in Atlanta, Georgia. The course will be led by Kence Anderson, CEO and co-founder of Composabl, Inc. and author of “Designing Autonomous AI: A Guide for Machine Teaching.” Anderson was also formerly part of Microsoft’s Bonsai team and has helped hundreds of companies solve their AI and automation challenges.

Designing Autonomous AI Agents

To kick off Wednesday morning, attendees of AI & Smart Automation will take part in this half-day course that delves into the design of autonomous AI agents. The training will focus on the principles, strategies, and methodologies used to create intelligent systems capable of autonomous industrial operations. Through a blend of theoretical instruction and hands-on projects, you will learn how to design, implement, and evaluate these agents.

Who Would Benefit from This Course?

This course is invaluable for anyone in the automation industry, from plant managers, and engineers, to industrial data scientists, business executives, and everyone in between. Those who attend will gain a clear grasp on how to utilize AI within your organization while designing intelligent processes.

What’s Included in the Half-Day Training?

The course is thoughtfully designed to offer tangible guidance on how to implement AI into your operations. Broken out into four segments, “Designing Autonomous AI Agents” will cover:

How Machines Make Decisions
How AI Can Improve Industrial Automation
AI for Perception: How Machine Learning Helps You Understand What's Happening
AI for Taking Action: Reinforcement Learning Decides What to Do

Unlocking Value

Utilizing AI in your automation business can boost efficiency, reduce costs, improve accuracy, enable scalability, enhance safety, and offer many other benefits. This course will offer you the crucial AI knowledge to optimize your systems so that you can achieve these goals. You’ll walk away with a robust understanding of AI capabilities and terminology. You’ll also be equipped with the framework to discuss AI in automation across various organizational levels. Lastly, you’ll understand how AI agents are designed and deployed across operations of various scales.

July 22-23, 2025
Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, MN

About the AI & Smart Automation Conference

The AI & Smart Automation Conference will empower you to unlock the power of AI with informative sessions, inspiring keynotes, and networking opportunities with industry leaders. During the conference, you’ll learn about the latest AI advances in manufacturing and industrial settings covering topics like simulation, LLMs, edge-to-cloud technologies, and more. Learn more and register here.

Conference Agenda Highlights

You won’t want to miss a single minute of what A3 has in store during these transformative two days of learning. The event begins with an introduction to AI for industrial stakeholders, giving you a solid baseline to grow your expertise in this quickly evolving field. Then you’ll hear from industry experts on the practical applications of AI, how to get from strategy to deployment, testing automation systems with photorealistic renderings, the role of generative AI in robotics and manufacturing, and more.

There are multiple opportunities for networking on both days to ensure you have the time to forge crucial connections within the industry to move your projects forward. The event wraps up on Wednesday with talks on cybersecurity, the next-gen research driving industrial AI, and an exploration into how cloud robotics, AI, and platforming are reshaping industrial automation. View the full agenda here.

Reserve Your Hotel Stay

Attendees of the AI & Smart Automation Conference will receive a special rate to stay at the Georgia Tech Hotel, which is connected to the confererance located at the Georgia Tech Learning Center. Be sure to book your room before the cut-off date of October 10 to join us!