Saturday coffee+AI lab: build your first automation

Most of us have a task that comes back every week, like sorting the inbox on Monday morning, preparing for meetings, chasing invoices or writing the same follow-up email after every call.

In this hands-on workshop you pick one of those tasks, map it step by step and build an AI automation that does it for you.

We will use Claude and connect it to your inbox and calendar, so it works with your real emails and meetings instead of text you copy and paste into a chat. You don’t need any coding experience.

What we will do

List the tasks you repeat each week and pick the one worth handing off first
Map that task: what starts it, what information it needs and what a good result looks like
Build your own automation in Claude
Set it to run every week on its own, with drafts waiting for your approval before anything is sent
Show your result to the group and collect ideas for the next task to automate

You will leave with

One working automation for a task from your own week
A one-page task map you can reuse every time you want to automate something new
A one-week challenge to keep your automation running and improve it

Who it is for

Women who run a business, work in a team or are building something of their own, and are curious how AI could help with everyday tasks.

It suits complete beginners. If you’ve never tried an AI tool, you’re in the right place. If you’ve already played around with ChatGPT or Claude, you’ll pick up new ways to make it more useful in your day-to-day work.

💻 Bring your laptop - required to take part in the exercises.

🎟️ The cost of the event - CHF 39 - covers drinks and snacks for the full 2 hours. This fully covers the cost; the organizers aren't paid for this event.

📍 Location: Baci Baci - cosy cafe in the heart of Manegg where local Swiss products meet Italian passion and hospitality :)

Your hosts:
Dorota Tombiska Borlido
With 8+ years as a Program Manager, Dorota helps teams turn ambitious ideas into real digital products, on time and on point.

She's equally passionate about building a more inclusive world - championing women's empowerment and partnering with local NGOs.

Barbara Poblocka
12 years in product design, incl. the last 7 at Google as a UX Researcher. She helps product teams discover new opportunities and shape them through user feedback.

Outside work, she volunteers with Women in Biz Zurich, organizing events for women building their own ventures.

Wendy Look
With over a decade at Google spanning engineering program management and UX research, Wendy enables teams to build the right things, faster. Curious about what motivates people, she asks the hard questions of who we're building for and why, then clears the path so the team can deliver.
She is Vice President of EWAI and outside of work, spends her time tinkering with automation and creating connections between people and ideas through events.

Amra
With 14+ years spanning private equity and go-to-market leadership across Europe and the US, Amra helps AI ventures turn promising technology into scaled businesses. As Head of EMEA at Alife Health, she brings AI to healthcare sector, pairing an investor’s rigour with an operator’s drive to get things done.
She is the founder and Co-President of EWAI and outside of work, spends her time strength training, skiing, reading non-fiction and meditating.

This event is co-organized with EWAI:
European Women in AI is a community where women learn AI on their own terms, critically and practically.