Applied AI: Agents & Automation - Southwest Florida

AI agents can take action across tools and workflows, but useful autonomy depends on clear triggers, permissions, handoffs, guardrails, and human review. This three-hour class makes agentic systems understandable through practical business examples.

WHO IT’S FOR

Professionals, operators, managers, and business owners ready to move beyond basic AI use and evaluate agents and automation responsibly.

WHAT YOU’LL LEAVE UNDERSTANDING

• Understand how agents differ from prompts, assistants, and traditional automation.

• See how triggers, tools, actions, memory, handoffs, and human review fit together in an agentic workflow.

• Recognize strong automation opportunities and the warning signs that make a process a poor fit.

• Design practical boundaries, permissions, failure handling, and review points before increasing autonomy.

INSIDE THE SESSION

• What separates an AI agent from a prompt, assistant, or traditional automation.

• How agentic workflows are structured.

• Triggers, actions, tools, handoffs, and human review.

• Where agents create leverage and where they create unnecessary risk.

• Designing boundaries, guardrails, and failure points.

• Recognizing strong automation opportunities in real business work.

• Thinking agentically about processes without automating blindly.

• Practical examples of agents and automations in business.

WAYS TO ATTEND

Join us in person at Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Blvd S, Fort Myers, FL 33965, or choose Live Virtual during registration. Virtual access instructions are sent only to Live Virtual ticket holders.

INSTRUCTOR

Fekel Altimeaux, Director, Public Sector Growth at Lichen.

Saturday, October 10, 2026

10:00 AM–1:00 PM Eastern

Registration starts at $199.

Event details: https://licheninc.com/events/applied-ai/agents-automation-southwest-florida

Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/8929857/chk/36f10e8767676887348407eff8fba9ca/