August 6 - 8 2025 Roosevelt University | Chicago, IL

BUILD BETTER. TOGETHER - CHICAGO

Pre-Conference Workshop

AI Agents: Brainstorming Your Product Discovery and Development

What You’ll Learn

  • How to effectively integrate AI agents into your software development workflow

  • AI Agent frameworks to leverage product discovery and development

  • Strategies for building specialized AI agents with custom tools for product discovery

  • Real-world applications of AI agents in market research, technical architecture, and coding

About the Workshop

This hands-on, practical workshop cuts through the AI hype to deliver actionable knowledge about implementing AI agents in your development process. 2025 is called the “Year of AI Agents,” as these tools have evolved from experimental concepts to practical assets that can significantly enhance your team’s capabilities. You’ll participate in live demonstrations showing how AI agents can transform brainstorming sessions, accelerate development cycles, and improve product quality. Rather than theoretical discussions, we’ll focus on concrete implementations and real problem-solving using AI agents as “brainstorming” partners in your software development lifecycle. Come prepared with your challenges and questions—we’ll tackle them together using the latest AI Agent technologies. This is about using AI to deliver tangible benefits to your team and products.

Who Should Attend

  • Product Managers and Product Owners seeking enhanced market research and feature ideation through AI-driven intelligence

  • Engineering Managers looking to optimize development teams with AI-powered innovative ideas to deliver solutions aligned with business goals

  • Solution Architects interested in AI-assisted feasibility analysis, rapid architecture exploration, and continuous validation against evolving requirements

  • Developers curious about integrating AI into workflows for intelligent code generation, automated testing, and autonomous pair programming support

  • Scrum Masters wanting to improve team collaboration through AI-enhanced meeting facilitation, retrospective analysis, and sprint planning optimization

Workshop Duration

This is a half-day workshop

What to Bring

  • Your laptop

  • A specific product or development challenge that you’d like to explore

  • An open mind about the future of software development

Bill allen

Founder/Principal Consultant at agile Innovation Labs

Meet Bill - an experienced software developer, consultant, and Dojo coach. He applies AI Agents to Product Discovery and Development to transform business challenges into strategic advantages. Bill started his career as an assembler programmer at Sears Roebuck & Co., which is considered the Amazon of its day. Later, he spent over two decades as a software consultant for many financial exchanges in Chicago. He shares his knowledge by speaking at conferences and presenting on topics such as AI, Product Discovery, Software Crafting, and Learning Organizations (Dojos).

Bill resides in Chicago. When he's not spending time with his family, biking, tennis, or working, he actively mentors the next generation of software engineers. He understands the importance of sharing knowledge through Mob Programming hangouts and founded the Chicago Agile OpenSpace user group in 2012.