Prompt-a-thons and agent-a-thons can create excitement around AI, but the best events do more than teach people how to write prompts or build agents. They help participants identify valuable business problems, experiment with real work, learn from their peers, and leave with something they can continue using.

In this practical session, Tiffany shares lessons from designing and facilitating prompt-a-thons and agent-a-thons across healthcare, manufacturing, retail, financial services, and other enterprise environments.

Attendees will learn how to choose the right format, identify participants and business scenarios, prepare facilitators and knowledge sources, structure hands-on challenges, troubleshoot common issues, and connect event outputs to adoption, governance, and measurable business value.

Whether you are planning a one-hour prompt challenge or a multi-session agent build, you will leave with a repeatable framework for moving from AI curiosity to practical experimentation, reusable solutions, and a sustainable pipeline of high-value use cases.

By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
- Determine whether a prompt-a-thon or agent-a-thon is the right format for their audience and goals.
- Design an event around role-relevant business problems rather than generic AI demonstrations.
- Create challenges, teams, support roles, judging criteria, and participant deliverables.
- Anticipate common prompting, knowledge, access, and agent-design problems.
- Convert event outputs into reusable prompts, pilot-ready agents, adoption stories, and prioritized next steps.

How to Design and Run a Prompt-a-thon or Agent-a-thon That Produces Real Business Value