Right Mindset + Right AI Stack = Thriving You, Thriving Business

AI can do more and more for us, and yet things feel more hectic. There's more work to do, a franticness about things, and a lot of hype about what's going on with AI. This talk takes a look at the landscape and what's practically available right now, from models to harnesses and agents, along with the core concepts worth knowing: RAG, context management, prompt engineering, and context engineering.

The bigger issue this talk addresses is mindset, the mindset that leads to successfully deploying and using AI in a business. With the wrong mindset and the right tools, a business simply gets busier without anything to show for it. With the right mindset, you can actually get really far ahead right now, since not everyone is approaching AI well yet. That mindset is both business and personal: how to put the stack to work, and how to relate to a technology moving this fast without letting the pace run you ragged. Done right, the business gets ahead and you do too.