Building Agentic AI: Essential Design Patterns | Workshop + Challenge

Data Science Portugal (DSPT) is celebrating its 10th anniversary! 🎉

DSPT is officially hitting double digits (watch out, teenage years are right around the corner!) and we are celebrating hard! 🎂

On October 10th (10/10) in Porto, we are taking over the afternoon for a special hands-on session focused on Agentic AI, essential design patterns, and hands-on development with AI agents.

This event is for developers, data scientists, and AI builders who want to stop treating LLMs merely as conversational chatbots and start building real autonomous systems that perceive, decide, and act through tools 💡

🧠 What’s going to happen?
Over the course of the afternoon, participants will:
• Take part in a deep-dive talk and workshop: Building Agentic AI: Essential Design Patterns led by Ricardo Pereira (U. Coimbra)
• Work in teams to tackle a practical challenge
• Use GenAI tools to speed up development and explore creative approaches
• Pitch their final solution in a short presentation
• Vote for the winning project 🎉
🏆 The winning team will receive tickets to Porto Tech Hub 2026!

👥 Who is this event for?
This workshop is geared toward practitioners and builders who want to look under the hood of autonomous agent architectures:
• Intermediate Python knowledge is required
• Curiosity and a willingness to build and experiment with autonomous workflows are essential 💪

You can:
• Sign up with friends in teams of 3–4 people, or
• Join on your own, and we’ll help you form a team on the day.

🗓️ Agenda
14:00–14:30 · Check-in & welcome by DSPT
14:30–15:30 · Building Agentic AI: Essential Design Patterns, with Ricardo Pereira
15:30–17:30 · Team development challenge
17:30–18:15 · Project pitches
18:15–18:30 · Voting & winner reveal

💻 What to bring
• Your laptop and charger
• Python 3.10+ installed and ready

📌 Spots are limited. Join us for an afternoon of learning, building, and meeting other people working with AI!

🎂 Make a day of it!
We’re celebrating 10 years of DSPT with three events across Porto on October 10:

10:00–12:00 · Keeping Communities Alive:
A Roundtable for Community Organizers
📍 Porto Innovation Hub
https://www.meetup.com/datascienceportugal/events/316795011/

14:00–18:30 · Building Agentic AI: Essential
Design Patterns | Workshop + Challenge
📍 Blip
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18:30–22:00 · 10 Years of DSPT: Roundtable + Celebration
📍 JAM Porto
https://www.meetup.com/datascienceportugal/events/316795141/

Each event requires a separate RSVP. Join us for one, two, or all three!