AI Series Workshop: AI-Native Technical Practitioners

This is the first session in Mountain Club's AI Series for technical practitioners: engineers, tech leads, DevOps/SREs and SDETs who have moved past AI autocomplete and are now building agents, custom integrations and automated workflows into their daily work. It's led by James Bayly, a Queenstown-based AI product engineer, consultant and technical founder, and focuses on spec, design and early verification. Rather than a lecture, it's an interactive session where peers discuss and demonstrate their approaches to requirements and contract engineering, early architectural validation and threat modelling, keeping PRDs in sync with code using text-to-diagram tools, design system verification, sales demo sandboxes and context management.

It runs from 12pm to 1pm on Wednesday 21 October in the Mountain Club board room at Five Mile in Frankton, Queenstown, with places limited to 12 participants. The workshop is open only to Mountain Club members and their guests, with registration through Mountain Club.