Build Your First AI System: From AI Tools to Workflows

Bring one real workflow from your job or business. In three hours, design an AI-enabled system around it: people, process, data, decisions, human oversight, and a 30-day plan you can start the next day.

This lab is built for the AI implementation gap: systems that run your work.

Hosted by OnStack AI Labs, Startup Court, and Futurpreneur during Calgary Innovation Week 2026.

What you will do

A guided build process:

BREAK IT: Find a broken, slow, expensive, or inconsistent workflow

MAP IT: Map the people, process, data, systems, and decisions

BUILD IT: Redesign the workflow with AI, automation, and human judgment

CHALLENGE IT: Pressure-test usefulness, feasibility, risk, and value

IMPLEMENT IT: Turn the design into a 30-day roadmap

What you leave with

One defined workflow challenge

A current-state workflow map

An AI Systems Canvas and opportunity map

A responsible AI and human-oversight checklist

A 30-day implementation plan

Who this is for

Founders, entrepreneurs, professionals, small-business owners, nonprofit and community leaders, educators, and tech-curious Calgarians. The work is systems, workflows, and implementation. Coding experience is optional.

Session details

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Classroom 2, Platform Innovation Centre

Capacity: 50

In person only

Arrive with a real workflow: something repetitive, slow, frustrating, expensive, or hard to manage. That is the problem you will design against.

Presented by

OnStack AI Labs · Startup Court · Futurpreneur

Built Here. Backed Here.

Calgary Innovation Week is the city-wide moment that brings Calgary’s innovation ecosystem into full view. Across the week, founders, industry, investors, talent and community organizations come together to share what they’re building, make connections, and show the strength of what’s being built here – and backed – here.

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