Join us for a practical exploration of how agentic AI is transforming the workplace. We’ll start with an honest look at today’s job market, career entry, and how to productively collaborate with AI agents and complex, agent-generated team outputs. After breaking down core concepts—like what AI agents and agentic harnesses actually are, along with their current possibilities and limits—you’ll put theory into practice. Working in groups, you will design a custom agentic workflow using a predefined scenario or your own wildcard project, culminating in a collaborative showcase and feedback session.
Agenda
- Intro
- Working in the Age of Agentic AI: An anecdotal assessment of the current state
- Foundations: What is an agent or an agentic harness in the first place?
- Hands-on Session: Working on use cases you can decide from (e.g. To-Do-List-Manager, Project planning-Agent, Literature-Review-Agent, Shopping-List- Optimizer-Agent)
- Outro
Hard Facts
DATE: 12th November 2026
TIME: 9:00 – 12:00
PLACE: Seminarraum AA 02 – 1 (Map: https://maps.tuwien.ac.at/?q=AA0241)
COSTS: This workshop is offered free of charge to students as part of the BASE:academy.
About the Speaker
Jan Pilsinger is an AI specialist, innovation enabler, and startup ecosystem professional based in Vienna, Austria, currently serving as the AI Enablement Lead at AI Factory Austria (AI:AT), focusing on in-house innovaton, with a passion for sovereign AI and defence.
With a strong technical foundation and experience spanning academia, major industry corporations, management consulting, and startup acceleration, Jan bridges the gap between deep-tech research, enterprise operations, and commercialization.