Join Wasib Mohammed and Zaheer Khan for an inspiring evening that combines expert insights, student stories, live demos, and interactive discussions to deepen your understanding and engagement with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Whether you’re a beginner curious about AI, a developer, or serious about immersing yourself in the topic, this talk welcomes everyone.
Sunday, Oct. 19 | 7 p.m. to 8:45 pm (Maghrib to Isha) | MCC Conference Room | Join us in-person or watch live at mcceastbay.org/live
We’re running an experimental workshop at MCC East Bay on building AI-native products. This isn’t another “intro to prompting” session—we’re teaching the bridge between traditional product management skills and cutting-edge AI techniques that distinguish products people actually use from impressive demos that fail.
We’ll build a real tool together using YOUR challenges as context, then deploy it and use it immediately for feedback. This demonstrates a key principle: dogfooding—using the tools you build helps you quickly discover what works and what doesn’t. You’ll see how adding context transforms generic AI output into something actually useful, and experience firsthand why iteration matters more than getting it perfect on the first try.
What you’ll learn:
1. Why “context engineering” matters more than prompt engineering
2. The three-phase framework: Discovery → Engineering → Sustained Improvement
3. How to bridge traditional PM skills with frontier AI techniques
4. Live demonstration: watching a generic AI output transform with proper context
5. The biggest failure mode: building high-fidelity prototypes before validating assumptions
6. Why prototypes are <20% of the way to production (and what’s missing)
7. How evals become “living PRDs” for AI products
Questions? events@mcceastbay.org