Friday, September 25, 2026
1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
AOT Technologies office, 1207 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2E7 (open in Google Maps)
Free Event
Presented by AOT Technologies
Featuring: Marie Anik Paradis, Shuo Xu, Abin Antony on LinkedIn
Three back-to-back sessions on putting AI and data to work inside an enterprise. One is pitched at people who do not write code, and the other two at the practitioners who keep the whole thing running afterwards. The track runs in three parts. Marie Anik Paradis, a senior UX and product designer, shows non-technical professionals how to teach an AI to do a task they repeat every week, no code. Shuo Xu, a senior data architect, takes apart why accurate data still takes hours to become a decision. Abin Antony, a principal architect, covers what breaks when an LLM is talked into something and which defences hold. Pizza, drinks and refreshments are provided.
Anu's Take
Good to see AOT on the Tech Week bill, and it is not the first time they have turned up on a local programme this year: two of their people were on the Data Day speaker list back in June. The case for the afternoon is that this is a shop with a product of its own, formsflow.ai, built and maintained in the open, so the three sessions come from people who have to keep something running rather than from people with a deck. Opening their own office to do it is the right instinct too.
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Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn
More than half of one team I trained had never once opened the AI already sitting on their own licence, so a session built for people who do not write code is not a soft opener.