TALLINN – AI in office work (workshop 1)

An introductory practical workshop on how AI can become a close colleague and helper in office work: not someone who does your job for you, but a partner who helps you organise your thoughts, suggest options, prepare drafts and find important information faster in large volumes of material. We look at how large language models (LLMs) work, how to describe your task clearly, and how to check and develop the result.

We practise on real office examples: correspondence, documents, meetings, tables, presentations, information search and daily workflows. It suits beginners and people who already use ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude or another AI tool now and then and want to make it a more deliberate work tool.

You will learn to recognise which office tasks genuinely benefit from AI and when it is better to do the work yourself; to write good task descriptions for letters, documents, summaries, instructions and other texts; to use AI to organise, compare, shorten and adapt long or scattered information for different audiences; to prepare meetings, agendas, questions, notes, action lists and follow-ups; to work with Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and tables; and to create a personal AI assistant for recurring office work and learn to check its output.

You leave with practical prompts, sample workflows and a model of AI use adapted to your daily work. The workshop is hands-on and participant-centred: you work on your own laptop and try everything on examples from your own work. Bring your laptop; a paid LLM for a month is recommended, so that you can build an AI assistant through to the end. The workshop is free, there are 40 places and a feedback form is required. The trainer is Henn Sarv, a consultant and trainer, IT Koolitus trainer of the year 2022, Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1996 and Microsoft MVP for data science from 2004 to 2018.

Thursday 19 November, 10:00–13:00, Kadaka Conference Centre, Kadaka tee 4, Tallinn.