Name: Mastering Prompt Engineering + Building Hybrid Apps
Start: 2025-05-21T17:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-21T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Accso South Africa (Pty) Ltd

**Accso is in Suite 302 in the Clock Tower building. Nearest parking is in the Clock Tower parking.**

*This event is 17:30 for 18:00. The session content will start promptly at 18:00 PM. Attendees are welcome to arrive earlier for networking and snacks!*

This is an in-person only event!

**Agenda**

18:00 - Community Intro and Welcoming

18:05 - Mastering Prompt Engineering – Unlocking the Power of AI

Curious about how to get the most out of today’s powerful AI tools? Join us for an engaging session on Prompt Engineering, the essential skillset for anyone working with large language models and generative AI. We’ll demystify prompt engineering—what it is, why it matters, and how you can use proven techniques to achieve more accurate, efficient, and creative results.

Discover hands-on strategies including zero-shot, few-shot, system, role, contextual, and chain-of-thought prompting. See real-world examples and learn how to design prompts that guide AI to deliver exactly what you need—whether it’s code, text, or images. Whether you’re a developer, designer, or tech enthusiast, this talk will give you practical tools to master the art and science of communicating with AI.

Speaker: Abed Matini

Senior Backend Developer at Ogilvy South Africa

19:00 - **Hybrid Apps: More Than Just WebViews—Unlocking True Flexibility**

**Have you ever built an app and wished you could easily mix languages or technologies—perhaps combining native C++ with C# or JavaScript? Have you ever wanted AI-powered features but needed them to work offline? What about designing apps that seamlessly switch between local and cloud data storage?**

When you hear "hybrid apps," you might picture **a native wrapper around a WebView running JavaScript**—but hybrid development is **so much more** than that. It’s about **blending technologies** in ways that allow apps to **seamlessly integrate native and managed code, local and cloud data, web and mobile UI components, and even AI models that function both online and offline**. Hybrid isn’t just about mixing web and native tech—it’s about **unlocking new capabilities** that wouldn’t be possible with a single approach.

To bring these ideas to life, I’ll demo some cool examples of **how hybrid approaches unlock new possibilities**. You'll see how AI models work even when disconnected, how web technologies extend native apps, and how offline-first design ensures a smooth user experience. Whether you're a web developer curious about native integration or a mobile developer eager to integrate cloud solutions, **this session will give you fresh insights into the endless possibilities of hybrid development!**

Speaker: Matthew Leibowitz

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

20:00 - Closing and SWAGS exchange

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