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Two New Applied AI Tracks Are Coming to AI Week
The Enterprise Technology Association is adding Applied AI: Microsoft and Applied AI: Claude Code and Agents to every AI Week market and to the ETA online portal, built with Nexigen, Microsoft, YNDR, and Anthropic partners.
AI Week exists to put a region's business and innovation community in one room, then send people home able to do something they could not do the week before. The two tracks announced today are built for that second part.
Applied AI: Microsoft and Applied AI: Claude Code and Agents are hands on, tool specific learning paths that run inside AI Week programming and stay available year round through the ETA online portal. Attendees pick a track, work in the actual tools, and leave with a credential that documents what they can do.
The Tracks
Pick a stack. Learn it in the room.
Each track is a sequenced set of working sessions led by practitioners, not a survey lecture. Bring a laptop and a real problem from your organization.
With Nexigen and Microsoft
Applied AI: Microsoft
For teams standardizing on the Microsoft stack and the professionals who have to make it work day to day.
- Copilot in the tools people already live in
- Building and governing agents in the Microsoft ecosystem
- Securing AI workloads and managing data access
- Deployment patterns that survive contact with a real IT environment
With YNDR and Anthropic Partners
Applied AI: Claude Code and Agents
For builders, technical operators, and the non engineers who are about to become builders.
- Working in Claude Code from first prompt to shipped output
- Designing agents with clear goals, inputs, outputs, and guardrails
- Automating real workflows across the tools you already use
- Human approval, evaluation, and safe handoff patterns
Why These Tracks
From AI Ready to AI Enabled, in real time
Most AI programming stops at readiness: you understand the landscape, you can name the risks, you have a point of view. That is the starting line. These tracks are built to carry attendees across it during the event itself, so the work back at the office starts Monday instead of next quarter.
What You Walk Away With
Two credentials, one transcript
Track participants earn an ETA certificate tier based on their pathway, plus a track specific credential that names the tools and the work. Both are issued through ETA and carry into the online portal.
Certificate Tier
- AI ExplorerFoundational fluency and applied basics
- AI Empowered ProfessionalRole based application in daily work
- AI Empowered LeaderStrategy, governance, and team enablement
Track Credential
- Applied AI: MicrosoftIssued with Nexigen and Microsoft
- Applied AI: Claude Code and AgentsIssued with YNDR and Anthropic partners
- Stackable by marketContinue a track online between events
Where To Find Them
Every AI Week market, plus the online portal
Both tracks roll out across the AI Week calendar and run continuously through the ETA online portal, so participants can start in one market and finish in another.
2026
Remaining markets this year
- Columbus AI WeekSep 10 to 11
- Tampa AI WeekOct 13 to 15
- Great Lakes AI WeekNov 10 to 12
2027
Full calendar, dates announced on a rolling basis
- Louisville AI WeekFebruary
- Cincy AI WeekDates soon
- Columbus AI WeekDates soon
- Dayton AI WeekDates soon
- Great Lakes AI WeekDates soon
- Nashville AI WeekDates soon
- Atlanta AI WeekDates soon
- Tampa AI WeekDates soon
- US AI CongressWashington, D.C.
Claim your track
Registration, agendas, and track schedules for every market live on the AI Week site. Portal access and track enrollment run through ETA.
Interested in bringing a track to your market, or partnering on delivery? Reach the team at hello@joineta.org.
