The Prompting Lab: Integrating AI into Your Public Sector Work
January 2027
Fridays at 2 PM
About the Series
How can you move from experimenting with AI to using it confidently and responsibly in your everyday work?
This Winter, the Prompting Lab focuses on helping public professionals integrate AI into their daily tasks and workflows. Through six hands-on workshops, progress from the fundamentals of effective prompting to practical applications for working with documents, conducting research, analyzing information, and developing repeatable workflows.
Whether you're just getting started or looking to build on your existing skills, learn step by step through guided demonstrations, practical exercises, real government examples, and peer learning. Each workshop combines instruction with opportunities to practice using AI tools, ask questions, and receive feedback. The biweekly format gives you time to apply what you've learned between sessions and bring your experiences and challenges back to the group.
Join individual workshops based on your experience or follow the full series to develop, test, and refine an AI-supported workflow you can apply in your own work. Throughout the series, learn to evaluate results and apply appropriate safeguards while keeping professional judgment and accountability at the center.
The Prompting LabComing UpFinding Where AI Fits Your Work
Learn how to identify opportunities to use AI in your daily responsibilities and distinguish between tasks where AI can add value and those where it may not be appropriate. Through guided exercises and public sector examples, identify a practical task you woul…
The Prompting LabComing UpPrompting for Better Results: A Step-by-Step Workshop
Practice writing, testing, and refining prompts for common public sector tasks. Learn how to provide context, structure instructions, specify output formats, and improve results through guided exercises using the AI tools available to you.Practical outcome: De…
The Prompting LabComing UpWorking with Documents and Information
Learn how to use AI to summarize reports, compare documents, extract relevant information, and prepare initial drafts. Practice step by step with common government materials while learning to preserve context, verify accuracy, and protect sensitive information…
The Prompting LabComing UpUsing AI for Research and Analysis
Practice using AI to formulate research questions, organize evidence, compare sources, and synthesize information. Learn how to verify AI-generated outputs, recognize unsupported claims, and combine AI-assisted analysis with professional judgment to support pu…
The Prompting LabComing UpFrom Individual Prompts to Repeatable Workflows
Move beyond isolated tasks and learn how to integrate AI into recurring work processes. Through guided exercises, practice breaking down a workflow into manageable steps, connecting AI-assisted activities, and identifying where human review and decision-making…
The Prompting LabComing UpTesting, Improving, and Sharing What Works
Bring together what you've learned throughout the series to test and refine an AI-supported workflow. Learn how to compare results with your current practices, assess quality and reliability, address limitations, and share effective approaches with colleagues.…
The Prompting LabThe Prompting Lab Office Hours: Bring Your AI Questions
After learning the basics of prompt structure, the next step is practice. This follow-up office hours session gives you a chance to bring your questions, test prompts, troubleshoot challenges, and learn from peers who are also beginning to use generative AI in…
The Prompting LabPrompting Lab: The Elements of a Good Prompt
Getting useful results from generative AI starts with knowing how to ask the right question. For public professionals who are new to AI tools, prompting can feel like guesswork: What information should you include? How much context is enough? How do you ask fo…
The Prompting LabPrompting Lab Office Hours: Bring your AI Questions
Join Jus for Prompting Lab Office Hours, a live space for public sector professionals to ask questions, test ideas, and troubleshoot how generative AI fits into daily work. Bring what you’re working on and walk away with clearer, more confident next steps.
The Prompting LabUsing Source-Grounded AI to Turn Sources into Presentation, Video, and Oral Communications
Through live examples and guided practice, participants will learn how to use selected materials to produce presentation-ready outputs, as well as audio and video-style content that supports stakeholder communication, internal planning, and team decision-makin…
The Prompting LabUsing Source-Grounded AI to Turn Sources into Written and Visual Communications
Public professionals are often required to interpret complex programs, analysis, and large volumes of information, and translate that material into clear, usable communication for different audiences. This session focuses on using source-grounded AI to generat…
The Prompting LabGetting Started With Source-Grounded AI
The session will examine both the opportunities and limitations of source-grounded AI in public sector contexts. Participants will learn how to set up a secure workspace, upload and organize documents, and use core NotebookLM features—such as Mind Maps—to expl…
The Prompting LabPrompting Lab Office Hours: Bring your AI Questions
Join us for Prompting Lab Office Hours, a live space for public sector professionals to ask questions, test ideas, and troubleshoot how generative AI fits into daily work. Bring what you’re working on and walk away with clearer, more confident next steps.
The Prompting LabAI for Coding: From Zero Experience to a Working Website
In this hands-on Prompting Lab, participants will use AI to build a simple website for showcasing a project, program, or initiative. Designed for beginners, the session walks step by step through how to prompt AI to generate code, shape the structure and conte…
The Prompting LabPrompting Lab Office Hours: Bring your AI Questions
Join Ray Bell, AI/ML Product Director, State of Maryland, for Prompting Lab Office Hours, a live space for public sector professionals to ask questions, test ideas, and troubleshoot how generative AI fits into daily work. Bring what you’re working…
The Prompting LabPrompting Lab Office Hours: Bring your AI Question
Join Deborah Stine for a peer-to-peer Prompting Lab office hours session where public professionals bring real workflow questions, share use cases, and get practical feedback on using generative AI responsibly to improve everyday government work.
The Prompting LabPrompting Lab Office Hours: Bring your AI Questions
Join Jorge Valens, Innovation Manager at the Miami-Dade County IT, Florida, for Prompting Lab Office Hours, a live space for public sector professionals to ask questions, test ideas, and troubleshoot how generative AI fits into daily work. Bring what you’re w…
The Prompting LabAI for Product Management: Hands-On Prompting for Government Teams
Explore how generative AI can support core product management work in government, from synthesizing user needs to drafting requirements and prioritizing backlogs. Test real prompts with peers and leave with reusable patterns you can apply immediately.
The Prompting LabPrompting Lab Office Hours: Bring your AI Question
Join David Smith, IT Director, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT), for Prompting Lab Office Hours, a live space for public sector professionals to ask questions, test ideas, and troubleshoot how generative AI fits into daily work. Bring…
The Prompting LabUsing Generative AI to Improve Everyday Workflows for Public Professionals
Join Deborah Stine for a hands-on session on using generative AI to improve everyday government workflows. Participants will explore structured prompting techniques to transform complex information, improve clarity, and use AI responsibly in routine public ser…
The Prompting LabWelcome to the Prompting Lab: A Practice Space for Public Sector AI Use
In this kick-off session, co-hosts Jorge Valens, Davyd Smith, and Harrison McRae introduce the purpose, structure, and learning approach of The Prompting Lab.