Build in Agentic AI at Harvard

You will not leave with notes about agents. You will leave with a working agent you built yourself. Agentic AI is the shift from chatbots that answer to agents that act — they plan, use tools, check their own work, and get things done. This is a hands-on afternoon and evening built on one principle: AI literacy is a practice problem, not a content problem. You spend the day building, and you walk out with something that runs. Who this is forStudents, young professionals, founders, and business owners — and anyone in between. No coding required for most of what we build. Bring a real problem from your work or studies; you will build an agent that solves a piece of it. What you will doArrive with a problem. Watch one agent built live, end to end. Then pick a track and build your own with mentors at your table: Everyone ends in the same live demo round, then we keep the room open to connect, compare builds, and go deeper. The afternoon2:00 — Check-in and setup2:30 — The agent loop, and one agent built live3:15 — Pick your track, form teams3:30 — Build sprint with mentors5:00 — Ship-it demos, live and unscripted The evening6:00 — Open networking and extended build time7:00 — Office hours for anyone going deeper8:00 — Showcase of the night's best builds9:00 — Close What you leave withA working agent. A clear mental model of how agents actually work. A reusable template you can put to work the next morning. BringA laptop and charger. A setup checklist goes out 48 hours before — complete it in advance so no build time is lost. Seats are limited to keep the mentor-to-builder ratio high. Register below. 用 Agentic AI 动手构建 哈佛 Smith Center · 7月7日 · 下午2:00–晚上9:00 你不会带着一堆关于 agent 的笔记离开。你会带着一个自己亲手构建、并且真的能跑起来的 agent 离开。 Agentic AI 是一次转变：从只会回答的聊天机器人，转向能够行动的 agent——它会规划、调用工具、检查自己的工作、把事情做完。这是一个动手实践的下午到夜晚，核心理念只有一条：AI 能力是练出来的，不是听出来的。整个活动你都在构建,最后带走一个能运行的成果。 适合谁学生、青年专业人士、创始人、企业主——以及介于其间的任何人。当天大部分内容都不需要写代码。带上一个你工作或学习中真实存在的问题,你将构建一个能解决其中一部分的 agent。 你会做什么带着一个问题来。现场看一个 agent 从头到尾被构建出来。然后选择一条赛道,在导师的桌边指导下构建你自己的 agent： 所有人最后都进入同一轮现场演示,随后我们让全场继续开放,用于交流、比较各自的成果、并继续深入。 下午2:00 — 签到与环境配置2:30 — agent 的运行逻辑,以及一个现场构建的 agent3:15 — 选择赛道,组建团队3:30 — 在导师指导下进入构建冲刺5:00 — Ship-it 演示,现场实测,不用幻灯片 夜晚6:00 — 开放交流与延长构建时间7:00 — 面向深入构建者的 Office Hours8:00 — 当晚最佳成果展示9:00 — 结束 你会带走什么一个能运行的 agent。一套关于 agent 真实工作原理的清晰心智模型。一个可复用的模板,第二天早上就能投入使用。 请携带笔记本电脑与充电器。活动开始前48小时会发出一份配置清单,请提前完成,以免占用现场构建时间。 座位有限,以保证较高的导师与构建者比例。请在下方报名。