Automate the Busywork: Practical AI Workflows for Real Teams

A lot of work is not the work itself. It is the follow-up: summarizing conversations, creating tasks, checking statuses, sending reminders, updating systems, and keeping everyone aligned. In this session, we’ll show how AI-powered workflow automation can take on that coordination layer, helping individuals and teams move faster with less manual overhead.

Workflow automation used to mean copying data between two apps. In 2026, it means giving AI a job and letting it run. In this hour-long talk, we walk through what AI-powered workflow automation actually looks like in practice: the patterns, the pitfalls, and the surprisingly small set of concepts that explain every tool in this category.

You'll see a real workflow built live: a meeting transcript flowing in, an LLM extracting action items, and structured tasks landing in a database. We'll cover the tools (n8n, Make, Zapier, and friends), the AI-shaped decisions you should be making about your business right now, and where this whole space falls down.

No prior automation experience required. Bring questions about your own workflows.