PRI AI Training Week: Professional Use of Generative AI
- Event Type
- Conference/Workshop
- Sponsor
- Prairie Research Institute
- Location
- Room 131 ISTC, 1 Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
- Date
- Jan 14, 2026 1:00 - 3:00 pm
- Speaker
- Glenn Heistand, Don Keefer, and Andres Prada
- Registration
- Online form
- Contact
- Allan Jones
- alljones@illinois.edu
- Views
- 2
- Originating Calendar
- PRI Management and Education Training
This session will focus on the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for professional use and enhanced workplace productivity. Topics will include vibe coding, context or prompt engineering, the utility of different LLMs and tools for different purposes, LLM assistants and agents, and connections. Parts of the session will be hands-on, and participants can explore free AI tools (e.g., Copilot or the free version of ChatGPT), while some demos will require subscriptions. Examples will range in context but will mainly focus on using AI to explore publications and topics related to the ICN dataset. Participants will come away with a better understanding of the variety of LLMs and the types of tasks they can enable.