AI Business Growth Lab: Turn Ideas Into Customers & Opportunities — Dallas
About this Event
AI Business Growth Lab: Turn Ideas Into Customers & Opportunities — Dallas
When: September 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Central Time)
Where: Workbox Event Space - Victory Park
Turn a real business challenge into a practical AI action plan.
AI is changing how businesses find customers, solve problems, develop ideas, and get work done.
But knowing that AI exists isn't the same as knowing how to use it effectively in your business.
AI Business Growth Lab — Dallas is a hands-on evening for entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants, freelancers, sales and marketing professionals, and ambitious professionals who want to move beyond simply experimenting with AI and start using it to create practical business value.
This is not another AI lecture.
Bring your laptop and a real business idea, challenge, or workflow.
Throughout the evening, you'll work through guided exercises designed to help you identify where AI can make the biggest difference, develop a practical approach, and turn what you learn into clear next steps.
You'll also meet Dallas-area business owners and professionals through structured networking and small-group activities.
THE LAB
The evening is built around three practical stages:
1. FIND THE OPPORTUNITY
Identify where AI could make the biggest difference in your business.
Explore opportunities around:
- Finding and understanding customers
- Improving sales and marketing
- Developing new business ideas
- Streamlining repetitive work
- Improving customer experience
- Researching markets and opportunities
You'll choose one real business challenge or opportunity to work on during the Lab.
2. BUILD THE APPROACH
Turn your challenge into something actionable.
Using guided AI exercises, you'll work on:
- Defining the real business problem
- Understanding your target customer
- Clarifying your value proposition
- Exploring possible solutions
- Identifying practical AI-assisted actions
- Developing a simple customer or growth strategy
The goal isn't to explore dozens of AI tools.
It's to determine how AI can help you make progress on something that actually matters to your business.
3. CREATE YOUR 30-DAY PLAN
Ideas only become valuable when they're implemented.
Before leaving, you'll turn your work into a simple:
30-Day AI Business Action Plan
You'll identify:
- What you want to improve
- What AI can help with
- Your first action
- What you'll test
- What success looks like
- Your next 30-day milestone
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
By the end of the evening, you'll have:
✓ Identified practical AI opportunities for your business
✓ Developed one actionable AI business use case
✓ Created a clearer customer and value proposition
✓ Built a simple AI-assisted business or growth strategy
✓ Practiced explaining your business in 60 seconds
✓ Created your own 30-Day AI Action Plan
✓ Connected with Dallas-area entrepreneurs and professionals
Most importantly, you'll leave knowing what to do next, rather than simply having learned more about AI.
STRUCTURED BUSINESS CONNECTIONS
This isn't just a workshop.
Business growth often comes from the people you meet.
You'll participate in short, structured networking exercises designed to help you quickly understand who other attendees are, what they do, and what kinds of connections they're looking for.
Use the simple:
I AM...
I HELP...
I'M LOOKING FOR...
framework to introduce yourself.
You'll also practice a 60-second business pitch in small groups and receive feedback from other attendees.
The goal isn't to pitch to the entire room.
It's to help you explain your business clearly while discovering potentially valuable customers, collaborators, referral partners, and professional connections.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This event is especially useful for:
- Small business owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Consultants
- Freelancers
- Sales professionals
- Business development professionals
- Marketing professionals
- Startup teams
- Professionals developing a new business idea
- Professionals looking to use AI more strategically at work
You do not need a technology or coding background.
This is a practical business workshop, not a technical AI class.
WHAT TO BRING
Please bring:
- Laptop: Most exercises are designed to be completed during the event.
- AI account:
A free account with a commonly available AI assistant is sufficient. Paid AI subscriptions are not required. - One real challenge:
Come with a business idea, customer problem, sales challenge, marketing challenge, or repetitive workflow you'd like to improve. - Business cards / LinkedIn QR code:
You'll have several opportunities to connect with other attendees. - An open mind:
You don't need to arrive with the perfect business idea. The Lab is designed to help you develop one.
Agenda
🕑: 05:45 PM
Doors Open & Check-In
🕑: 06:00 PM
Open Business Networking
🕑: 06:20 PM
Welcome: How the AI Business Growth Lab Works
🕑: 06:30 PM
LAB 1 — Find Your AI Opportunity
🕑: 06:50 PM
LAB 2 — Turn the Problem Into an AI Use Case
🕑: 07:15 PM
LAB 3 — Customer & Value Proposition Sprint
🕑: 07:40 PM
Build Your AI-Assisted Growth Strategy
🕑: 07:55 PM
60-Second Business Pitch Exchange
🕑: 08:10 PM
Build Your 30-Day AI Action Plan
🕑: 08:20 PM
Final Connections & Closing
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 129.00
