Upskill AI: Repositioning For The New Economy
A 4-hour intensive workshop designed for people navigating change, uncertainty, or curiosity around AI.
JUL
23
Thursday, July 23, 2026
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
Silver Spring, United States
BOOK YOUR SPOT
The Job Market Changed. Have You?
Reposition yourself for the new economy in one transformational afternoon.
If your industry feels uncertain, opportunities feel harder to reach, or AI has made you question where you fit next — this workshop was built for you.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy is a hands-on, high-impact workshop designed to help professionals stop reacting to disruption and start using it to their advantage.
You won’t leave with more theory.
You’ll leave with clarity, practical tools, and something real you built for your next move.
Limited to 30 Seats • SELLING OUT SOON!
Does this sound like you?
You’ve been doing everything “right”… and it still feels like the ground is shifting.
Maybe:
- You’ve sent countless applications and heard nothing back.
- You keep hearing about AI changing everything, but still aren’t sure what it means for your career.
- You know you need to reposition — you just don’t know where to begin.
- You feel like the market moved faster than you did.
- You know you have value, but struggle to articulate it in today’s economy.
- You’re tired of consuming advice and ready for something practical.
If any of this feels familiar, you are exactly who this workshop was built for.
The Workshop Agenda
1. The New Economy
Led by Yao | 30 Minutes
A clear-eyed look at what has actually changed — and what it means for knowledge workers today.
Understand why the old playbook no longer works, where new leverage exists, and why this moment may be a bigger opportunity than it appears.
2. The Build
Led by Jake | 2.5 Hours
The core of the workshop.
Bring a real personal challenge and use AI to work through it live — whether that’s refining your story, improving a resume, strengthening positioning, redesigning workflow, or shaping a new opportunity.
Not practice. Your actual work.
You’ll iterate, refine, and leave with something finished in your hands.
3. Human-Centered Design Is the Answer
Closing Session | 1 Hour
As AI reshapes execution, human-centered thinking becomes more valuable — not less.
Learn why empathy, systems thinking, and understanding people may be your strongest competitive advantage in an AI-shaped future.
Leave with a clearer sense of what makes you irreplaceable.
Followed by open conversation and networking.
What you walk away with
You won’t leave inspired. You’ll leave equipped.
You’ll walk away with:
- A finished output you created during the workshop
- Clearer positioning for today’s changing economy
- Better language for interviews, networking, and opportunities
- A repeatable framework for using AI in your career growth
- One practical next move you can take immediately
- The confidence that comes from doing, not just learning
This is not information. It is momentum.
Meet Your Workshop Experts
Jake DiBattista: Google Award Winning Developer and Entrepreneur
Jake brings over a decade of UX, product, and startup experience spanning companies from Walmart to DrChrono, alongside the perspective of a 3x funded founder building at the frontier of AI.
With an MBA/MA in Design Leadership from Johns Hopkins and MICA, and as founder of Buddy Tech, a computer vision and AI company serving youth sports organizations, Jake operates where strategy, technology, and human-centered innovation meet.
He built this workshop for people trying to understand where they fit in a changing economy — and how to move forward with clarity.
In this session, you won’t just hear ideas. You’ll build with someone using them every day.
Yao Adantor: UX Research Leader | Strategist | Community Builder
Yao Adantor brings deep expertise at the intersection of research, innovation, and human-centered strategy, with experience shaping products and research practices across organizations including Ford Motor Company, Capital One, Toyota, and the U.S. Federal Government.
A researcher, educator, and entrepreneur, Yao has spent his career helping people and organizations navigate change through better thinking, stronger systems, and human-centered problem solving. He has co-founded innovation ventures, taught as an adjunct professor, and built communities advancing the future of UX and emerging technology.
As co-founder of User Experience University, Yao has helped create spaces where professionals don’t just learn about the future of work — they prepare for it.
Evan Katz: Founder | Human-Centered Design Strategist | Product Advisor
Evan Katz is the Founder and CEO of The HCD Experience, a human-centered design consultancy focused on helping organizations reduce risk, increase adoption, and build solutions people actually want to use. With a background in UX, usability, accessibility, and product strategy, Evan helps businesses uncover what their users truly need before time and money are wasted building the wrong thing.
His work has helped transform underperforming digital products into high-adoption solutions by combining stakeholder alignment with real end-user insight. Evan is passionate about showing founders, teams, and leaders how human-centered design can drive better products, stronger outcomes, and smarter growth.
This Is Your Next Step. Take It.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy
July 23rd, 2026
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
GET YOUR TICKET
UXU is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing user experience through learning, events, and applied practice.
Upskill AI: Repositioning For The New Economy
A 4-hour intensive workshop designed for people navigating change, uncertainty, or curiosity around AI.
JUL
23
Thursday, July 23, 2026
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
Silver Spring, United States
BOOK YOUR SPOT
The Job Market Changed. Have You?
Reposition yourself for the new economy in one transformational afternoon.
If your industry feels uncertain, opportunities feel harder to reach, or AI has made you question where you fit next — this workshop was built for you.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy is a hands-on, high-impact workshop designed to help professionals stop reacting to disruption and start using it to their advantage.
You won’t leave with more theory.
You’ll leave with clarity, practical tools, and something real you built for your next move.
Limited to 30 Seats • SELLING OUT SOON!
Does this sound like you?
You’ve been doing everything “right”… and it still feels like the ground is shifting.
Maybe:
- You’ve sent countless applications and heard nothing back.
- You keep hearing about AI changing everything, but still aren’t sure what it means for your career.
- You know you need to reposition — you just don’t know where to begin.
- You feel like the market moved faster than you did.
- You know you have value, but struggle to articulate it in today’s economy.
- You’re tired of consuming advice and ready for something practical.
If any of this feels familiar, you are exactly who this workshop was built for.
The Workshop Agenda
1. The New Economy
Led by Yao | 30 Minutes
A clear-eyed look at what has actually changed — and what it means for knowledge workers today.
Understand why the old playbook no longer works, where new leverage exists, and why this moment may be a bigger opportunity than it appears.
2. The Build
Led by Jake | 2.5 Hours
The core of the workshop.
Bring a real personal challenge and use AI to work through it live — whether that’s refining your story, improving a resume, strengthening positioning, redesigning workflow, or shaping a new opportunity.
Not practice. Your actual work.
You’ll iterate, refine, and leave with something finished in your hands.
3. Human-Centered Design Is the Answer
Closing Session | 1 Hour
As AI reshapes execution, human-centered thinking becomes more valuable — not less.
Learn why empathy, systems thinking, and understanding people may be your strongest competitive advantage in an AI-shaped future.
Leave with a clearer sense of what makes you irreplaceable.
Followed by open conversation and networking.
What you walk away with
You won’t leave inspired. You’ll leave equipped.
You’ll walk away with:
- A finished output you created during the workshop
- Clearer positioning for today’s changing economy
- Better language for interviews, networking, and opportunities
- A repeatable framework for using AI in your career growth
- One practical next move you can take immediately
- The confidence that comes from doing, not just learning
This is not information. It is momentum.
Meet Your Workshop Experts
Jake DiBattista: Google Award Winning Developer and Entrepreneur
Jake brings over a decade of UX, product, and startup experience spanning companies from Walmart to DrChrono, alongside the perspective of a 3x funded founder building at the frontier of AI.
With an MBA/MA in Design Leadership from Johns Hopkins and MICA, and as founder of Buddy Tech, a computer vision and AI company serving youth sports organizations, Jake operates where strategy, technology, and human-centered innovation meet.
He built this workshop for people trying to understand where they fit in a changing economy — and how to move forward with clarity.
In this session, you won’t just hear ideas. You’ll build with someone using them every day.
Yao Adantor: UX Research Leader | Strategist | Community Builder
Yao Adantor brings deep expertise at the intersection of research, innovation, and human-centered strategy, with experience shaping products and research practices across organizations including Ford Motor Company, Capital One, Toyota, and the U.S. Federal Government.
A researcher, educator, and entrepreneur, Yao has spent his career helping people and organizations navigate change through better thinking, stronger systems, and human-centered problem solving. He has co-founded innovation ventures, taught as an adjunct professor, and built communities advancing the future of UX and emerging technology.
As co-founder of User Experience University, Yao has helped create spaces where professionals don’t just learn about the future of work — they prepare for it.
Evan Katz: Founder | Human-Centered Design Strategist | Product Advisor
Evan Katz is the Founder and CEO of The HCD Experience, a human-centered design consultancy focused on helping organizations reduce risk, increase adoption, and build solutions people actually want to use. With a background in UX, usability, accessibility, and product strategy, Evan helps businesses uncover what their users truly need before time and money are wasted building the wrong thing.
His work has helped transform underperforming digital products into high-adoption solutions by combining stakeholder alignment with real end-user insight. Evan is passionate about showing founders, teams, and leaders how human-centered design can drive better products, stronger outcomes, and smarter growth.
This Is Your Next Step. Take It.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy
July 23rd, 2026
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
GET YOUR TICKET
UXU is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing user experience through learning, events, and applied practice.
Upskill AI: Repositioning For The New Economy
A 4-hour intensive workshop designed for people navigating change, uncertainty, or curiosity around AI.
JUL
23
Thursday, July 23, 2026
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
Silver Spring, United States
BOOK YOUR SPOT
The Job Market Changed. Have You?
Reposition yourself for the new economy in one transformational afternoon.
If your industry feels uncertain, opportunities feel harder to reach, or AI has made you question where you fit next — this workshop was built for you.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy is a hands-on, high-impact workshop designed to help professionals stop reacting to disruption and start using it to their advantage.
You won’t leave with more theory.
You’ll leave with clarity, practical tools, and something real you built for your next move.
Limited to 30 Seats • SELLING OUT SOON!
Does this sound like you?
You’ve been doing everything “right”… and it still feels like the ground is shifting.
Maybe:
- You’ve sent countless applications and heard nothing back.
- You keep hearing about AI changing everything, but still aren’t sure what it means for your career.
- You know you need to reposition — you just don’t know where to begin.
- You feel like the market moved faster than you did.
- You know you have value, but struggle to articulate it in today’s economy.
- You’re tired of consuming advice and ready for something practical.
If any of this feels familiar, you are exactly who this workshop was built for.
The Workshop Agenda
1. The New Economy
Led by Yao | 30 Minutes
A clear-eyed look at what has actually changed — and what it means for knowledge workers today.
Understand why the old playbook no longer works, where new leverage exists, and why this moment may be a bigger opportunity than it appears.
2. The Build
Led by Jake | 2.5 Hours
The core of the workshop.
Bring a real personal challenge and use AI to work through it live — whether that’s refining your story, improving a resume, strengthening positioning, redesigning workflow, or shaping a new opportunity.
Not practice. Your actual work.
You’ll iterate, refine, and leave with something finished in your hands.
3. Human-Centered Design Is the Answer
Closing Session | 1 Hour
As AI reshapes execution, human-centered thinking becomes more valuable — not less.
Learn why empathy, systems thinking, and understanding people may be your strongest competitive advantage in an AI-shaped future.
Leave with a clearer sense of what makes you irreplaceable.
Followed by open conversation and networking.
What you walk away with
You won’t leave inspired. You’ll leave equipped.
You’ll walk away with:
- A finished output you created during the workshop
- Clearer positioning for today’s changing economy
- Better language for interviews, networking, and opportunities
- A repeatable framework for using AI in your career growth
- One practical next move you can take immediately
- The confidence that comes from doing, not just learning
This is not information. It is momentum.
Meet Your Workshop Experts
Jake DiBattista: Google Award Winning Developer and Entrepreneur
Jake brings over a decade of UX, product, and startup experience spanning companies from Walmart to DrChrono, alongside the perspective of a 3x funded founder building at the frontier of AI.
With an MBA/MA in Design Leadership from Johns Hopkins and MICA, and as founder of Buddy Tech, a computer vision and AI company serving youth sports organizations, Jake operates where strategy, technology, and human-centered innovation meet.
He built this workshop for people trying to understand where they fit in a changing economy — and how to move forward with clarity.
In this session, you won’t just hear ideas. You’ll build with someone using them every day.
Yao Adantor: UX Research Leader | Strategist | Community Builder
Yao Adantor brings deep expertise at the intersection of research, innovation, and human-centered strategy, with experience shaping products and research practices across organizations including Ford Motor Company, Capital One, Toyota, and the U.S. Federal Government.
A researcher, educator, and entrepreneur, Yao has spent his career helping people and organizations navigate change through better thinking, stronger systems, and human-centered problem solving. He has co-founded innovation ventures, taught as an adjunct professor, and built communities advancing the future of UX and emerging technology.
As co-founder of User Experience University, Yao has helped create spaces where professionals don’t just learn about the future of work — they prepare for it.
Evan Katz: Founder | Human-Centered Design Strategist | Product Advisor
Evan Katz is the Founder and CEO of The HCD Experience, a human-centered design consultancy focused on helping organizations reduce risk, increase adoption, and build solutions people actually want to use. With a background in UX, usability, accessibility, and product strategy, Evan helps businesses uncover what their users truly need before time and money are wasted building the wrong thing.
His work has helped transform underperforming digital products into high-adoption solutions by combining stakeholder alignment with real end-user insight. Evan is passionate about showing founders, teams, and leaders how human-centered design can drive better products, stronger outcomes, and smarter growth.
This Is Your Next Step. Take It.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy
July 23rd, 2026
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
GET YOUR TICKET
UXU is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing user experience through learning, events, and applied practice.
Upskill AI: Repositioning For The New Economy
A 4-hour intensive workshop designed for people navigating change, uncertainty, or curiosity around AI.
JUL
23
Thursday, July 23, 2026
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
Silver Spring, United States
BOOK YOUR SPOT
The Job Market Changed. Have You?
Reposition yourself for the new economy in one transformational afternoon.
If your industry feels uncertain, opportunities feel harder to reach, or AI has made you question where you fit next — this workshop was built for you.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy is a hands-on, high-impact workshop designed to help professionals stop reacting to disruption and start using it to their advantage.
You won’t leave with more theory.
You’ll leave with clarity, practical tools, and something real you built for your next move.
Limited to 30 Seats • SELLING OUT SOON!
Does this sound like you?
You’ve been doing everything “right”… and it still feels like the ground is shifting.
Maybe:
- You’ve sent countless applications and heard nothing back.
- You keep hearing about AI changing everything, but still aren’t sure what it means for your career.
- You know you need to reposition — you just don’t know where to begin.
- You feel like the market moved faster than you did.
- You know you have value, but struggle to articulate it in today’s economy.
- You’re tired of consuming advice and ready for something practical.
If any of this feels familiar, you are exactly who this workshop was built for.
The Workshop Agenda
1. The New Economy
Led by Yao | 30 Minutes
A clear-eyed look at what has actually changed — and what it means for knowledge workers today.
Understand why the old playbook no longer works, where new leverage exists, and why this moment may be a bigger opportunity than it appears.
2. The Build
Led by Jake | 2.5 Hours
The core of the workshop.
Bring a real personal challenge and use AI to work through it live — whether that’s refining your story, improving a resume, strengthening positioning, redesigning workflow, or shaping a new opportunity.
Not practice. Your actual work.
You’ll iterate, refine, and leave with something finished in your hands.
3. Human-Centered Design Is the Answer
Closing Session | 1 Hour
As AI reshapes execution, human-centered thinking becomes more valuable — not less.
Learn why empathy, systems thinking, and understanding people may be your strongest competitive advantage in an AI-shaped future.
Leave with a clearer sense of what makes you irreplaceable.
Followed by open conversation and networking.
What you walk away with
You won’t leave inspired. You’ll leave equipped.
You’ll walk away with:
- A finished output you created during the workshop
- Clearer positioning for today’s changing economy
- Better language for interviews, networking, and opportunities
- A repeatable framework for using AI in your career growth
- One practical next move you can take immediately
- The confidence that comes from doing, not just learning
This is not information. It is momentum.
Meet Your Workshop Experts
Jake DiBattista: Google Award Winning Developer and Entrepreneur
Jake brings over a decade of UX, product, and startup experience spanning companies from Walmart to DrChrono, alongside the perspective of a 3x funded founder building at the frontier of AI.
With an MBA/MA in Design Leadership from Johns Hopkins and MICA, and as founder of Buddy Tech, a computer vision and AI company serving youth sports organizations, Jake operates where strategy, technology, and human-centered innovation meet.
He built this workshop for people trying to understand where they fit in a changing economy — and how to move forward with clarity.
In this session, you won’t just hear ideas. You’ll build with someone using them every day.
Yao Adantor: UX Research Leader | Strategist | Community Builder
Yao Adantor brings deep expertise at the intersection of research, innovation, and human-centered strategy, with experience shaping products and research practices across organizations including Ford Motor Company, Capital One, Toyota, and the U.S. Federal Government.
A researcher, educator, and entrepreneur, Yao has spent his career helping people and organizations navigate change through better thinking, stronger systems, and human-centered problem solving. He has co-founded innovation ventures, taught as an adjunct professor, and built communities advancing the future of UX and emerging technology.
As co-founder of User Experience University, Yao has helped create spaces where professionals don’t just learn about the future of work — they prepare for it.
Evan Katz: Founder | Human-Centered Design Strategist | Product Advisor
Evan Katz is the Founder and CEO of The HCD Experience, a human-centered design consultancy focused on helping organizations reduce risk, increase adoption, and build solutions people actually want to use. With a background in UX, usability, accessibility, and product strategy, Evan helps businesses uncover what their users truly need before time and money are wasted building the wrong thing.
His work has helped transform underperforming digital products into high-adoption solutions by combining stakeholder alignment with real end-user insight. Evan is passionate about showing founders, teams, and leaders how human-centered design can drive better products, stronger outcomes, and smarter growth.
This Is Your Next Step. Take It.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy
July 23rd, 2026
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
GET YOUR TICKET
UXU is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing user experience through learning, events, and applied practice.
Upskill AI: Repositioning For The New Economy
A 4-hour intensive workshop designed for people navigating change, uncertainty, or curiosity around AI.
JUL
23
Thursday, July 23, 2026
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
Silver Spring, United States
BOOK YOUR SPOT
The Job Market Changed. Have You?
Reposition yourself for the new economy in one transformational afternoon.
If your industry feels uncertain, opportunities feel harder to reach, or AI has made you question where you fit next — this workshop was built for you.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy is a hands-on, high-impact workshop designed to help professionals stop reacting to disruption and start using it to their advantage.
You won’t leave with more theory.
You’ll leave with clarity, practical tools, and something real you built for your next move.
Limited to 30 Seats • SELLING OUT SOON!
Does this sound like you?
You’ve been doing everything “right”… and it still feels like the ground is shifting.
Maybe:
- You’ve sent countless applications and heard nothing back.
- You keep hearing about AI changing everything, but still aren’t sure what it means for your career.
- You know you need to reposition — you just don’t know where to begin.
- You feel like the market moved faster than you did.
- You know you have value, but struggle to articulate it in today’s economy.
- You’re tired of consuming advice and ready for something practical.
If any of this feels familiar, you are exactly who this workshop was built for.
The Workshop Agenda
1. The New Economy
Led by Yao | 30 Minutes
A clear-eyed look at what has actually changed — and what it means for knowledge workers today.
Understand why the old playbook no longer works, where new leverage exists, and why this moment may be a bigger opportunity than it appears.
2. The Build
Led by Jake | 2.5 Hours
The core of the workshop.
Bring a real personal challenge and use AI to work through it live — whether that’s refining your story, improving a resume, strengthening positioning, redesigning workflow, or shaping a new opportunity.
Not practice. Your actual work.
You’ll iterate, refine, and leave with something finished in your hands.
3. Human-Centered Design Is the Answer
Closing Session | 1 Hour
As AI reshapes execution, human-centered thinking becomes more valuable — not less.
Learn why empathy, systems thinking, and understanding people may be your strongest competitive advantage in an AI-shaped future.
Leave with a clearer sense of what makes you irreplaceable.
Followed by open conversation and networking.
What you walk away with
You won’t leave inspired. You’ll leave equipped.
You’ll walk away with:
- A finished output you created during the workshop
- Clearer positioning for today’s changing economy
- Better language for interviews, networking, and opportunities
- A repeatable framework for using AI in your career growth
- One practical next move you can take immediately
- The confidence that comes from doing, not just learning
This is not information. It is momentum.
Meet Your Workshop Experts
Jake DiBattista: Google Award Winning Developer and Entrepreneur
Jake brings over a decade of UX, product, and startup experience spanning companies from Walmart to DrChrono, alongside the perspective of a 3x funded founder building at the frontier of AI.
With an MBA/MA in Design Leadership from Johns Hopkins and MICA, and as founder of Buddy Tech, a computer vision and AI company serving youth sports organizations, Jake operates where strategy, technology, and human-centered innovation meet.
He built this workshop for people trying to understand where they fit in a changing economy — and how to move forward with clarity.
In this session, you won’t just hear ideas. You’ll build with someone using them every day.
Yao Adantor: UX Research Leader | Strategist | Community Builder
Yao Adantor brings deep expertise at the intersection of research, innovation, and human-centered strategy, with experience shaping products and research practices across organizations including Ford Motor Company, Capital One, Toyota, and the U.S. Federal Government.
A researcher, educator, and entrepreneur, Yao has spent his career helping people and organizations navigate change through better thinking, stronger systems, and human-centered problem solving. He has co-founded innovation ventures, taught as an adjunct professor, and built communities advancing the future of UX and emerging technology.
As co-founder of User Experience University, Yao has helped create spaces where professionals don’t just learn about the future of work — they prepare for it.
Evan Katz: Founder | Human-Centered Design Strategist | Product Advisor
Evan Katz is the Founder and CEO of The HCD Experience, a human-centered design consultancy focused on helping organizations reduce risk, increase adoption, and build solutions people actually want to use. With a background in UX, usability, accessibility, and product strategy, Evan helps businesses uncover what their users truly need before time and money are wasted building the wrong thing.
His work has helped transform underperforming digital products into high-adoption solutions by combining stakeholder alignment with real end-user insight. Evan is passionate about showing founders, teams, and leaders how human-centered design can drive better products, stronger outcomes, and smarter growth.
This Is Your Next Step. Take It.
Upskill AI: Repositioning for the New Economy
July 23rd, 2026
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza
GET YOUR TICKET
UXU is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing user experience through learning, events, and applied practice.