AI for Dummies

Location: The Ticket 500, 2807 Villa Way, Newport Beach, CA 92663

RSVP'ING HERE DOES NOT REGISTER YOU FOR THIS EVENT. Register at https://www.orangecountyai.com/events/c6fd79adb15d3559 .

An OCAI × The Ticket 500 workshop in Newport Beach.

Everyone's talking about AI — but if you've been nodding along in meetings without quite knowing what a "model," a "prompt," or an "agent" actually is, this night is for you. No jargon, no gatekeeping, no assumption you've ever written a line of code.

We do it backwards from the hype: instead of starting with the technology, we start with real-world business problems and opportunities — the bottlenecks, the busywork, the openings you're not capitalizing on yet — and work back to where AI genuinely moves the needle (and where it doesn't).

What to expect

• Real business problems on the table first — then the AI that actually solves them

• A plain-English tour of the AI landscape — what the tools are and what the words mean

• Live demos of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini doing real, useful work

• The handful of things worth learning first — and what you can safely ignore

• Open Q&A — bring the bottleneck or opportunity you actually want to tackle

Who should come

• Anyone curious about AI who feels a little behind

• Operators and professionals who want to use AI but don't know where to start

• Founders and teams who want their whole crew speaking the same language

The Ticket 500 is Don DiCostanzo's entrepreneur space in Newport Beach. RSVP is free, but the room is limited and subject to approval — apply via the Free RSVP tier.