Peak Performance & AI - October Meetup

This month, we are tracing the progression from basic prompt engineering and statistical models towards agentic, autonomous workflows and advanced foundation models. This event examines the trajectory of artificial intelligence adoption within organisations. It explores how workplaces are advancing beyond conversational chatbots into scalable automation, while critically evaluating the reliability, limitations, and output validation of AI-generated forecasts. We are excited to be hosted by the team at The Project Management Training School for an evening of deep insights. Session 1: Predicting the future through AI models, or not Speaker: Matheus J. T. Vargas, PhD. Co-Founder & CEO, CyAura AI About the talk: An accessible journey through how AI attempts to predict sequential events. The talk will explore architectures from statistical models and neural networks to LLMs and time-series foundation models. Includes a deep dive into financial-market forecasting to highlight AI capabilities, limitations, and the true evidence of learning. Session 2: From Prompts to Autonomous Agents: One Year of PPAI and the Next Wave of Workflows Speaker: Jay Roman Miti, JD. Director, Roman Miti Advisory Group About the talk: A look at enterprise AI strategy, governance, and value realisation. Drawing on 20+ years of enterprise transformation leadership, the session will discuss advancing from basic prompt engineering to agentic, autonomous workflows in high-performance workplaces. In addition to the talk, we’re chatting about: • Automating the Boring Stuff: How to offload your "to-do" list to AI. • Your AI Second Brain: Using tech to think faster and stay organised. • Tool Swap: Show and tell your favourite apps and workflows. No ego, no experience required. This is a space for us to learn from one another. We’ll have a short talk to kick things off, but the night belongs to the community. Special thanks to Global AI Certification Council for hosting this event, and thanks to Mortons.biz for sponsoring the refreshments. Call for Speakers: Do you have a cool AI trick or a productivity win? Reach out to our founder, Andie Morton - we’d love for you to share it with the group! Check out the main LinkedIn Group and our website www.ppai.nz