AI Engineering Workshops Canberra
A full classroom day on the entire AI-assisted engineering stack, in the centre of Canberra. Agentic coding tools compared, prompt engineering for production code, evals, MCP and AI across the whole SDLC. Built for engineers and dev teams, and led by Rye Smith, Claude Ambassador for Australia.
The full AI-assisted engineering stack
This is broader than a single-tool course. Over one classroom day in Canberra you cover every layer of AI-assisted engineering — from picking the right agentic tool to evals, security and governance — with hands-on labs on your own machine.
Pick the right agentic tool for the job
A clear-eyed comparison of Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot — strengths, trade-offs and where each one actually wins. Leave knowing what to standardise on.
Prompt engineering for real code
Repeatable prompting patterns for generation, review, refactoring and test-writing — plus context management with CLAUDE.md and the equivalents in other tools.
Agentic workflows you can trust
Multi-step tasks, autonomous file editing, MCP servers and custom tooling — and a practical framework for deciding when to trust automation and when to keep a human in the loop.
AI across the whole SDLC
Embed AI at every stage — planning, code review, documentation, test generation and incident response — not just the autocomplete in your editor.
Evals, security and governance
Test the quality of AI-generated output, spot the security pitfalls, and set the team conventions and guardrails that make AI safe to ship in a production engineering org.
Measure productivity honestly
Cut through the hype. Learn what AI-assisted engineering genuinely speeds up, what it doesn't, and how to measure developer productivity without fooling yourself.
Five modules, one day
We move from the agentic tooling landscape through prompt engineering and agentic workflows to embedding AI across the SDLC and governing it safely — all in one classroom day, with a hands-on lab after every module.
The AI-Assisted Engineering Landscape
Map the field. We compare the leading agentic coding tools head-to-head and get every laptop in the room set up with a working toolchain you can take back to your team.
- Claude Code vs Cursor vs Copilot — a head-to-head comparison
- Where each tool wins, and where each one falls short
- Setting up your toolchain — CLI, editor and account configuration
- Choosing what to standardise on across an engineering org
Prompt Engineering for Code
The core craft. Repeatable prompting patterns for generating, reviewing, refactoring and test-writing code — and the context management that makes them reliable.
- Prompting for generation, review, refactor and test-writing
- Context management — feeding the model the right code
- CLAUDE.md and equivalents — persistent project context
- Prompt patterns that hold up across a real codebase
Agentic Workflows
Beyond autocomplete. Multi-step autonomous tasks, file editing, MCP servers and custom tooling — plus a framework for when to trust the agent and when not to.
- Multi-step agentic tasks and autonomous file editing
- MCP servers — connecting AI to your tools and data
- Building custom tools and integrations
- When to trust automation, and when to keep a human in the loop
AI Across the SDLC
Embed AI at every stage of the software lifecycle — not just in the editor. Planning, code review, docs, tests and incident response, all AI-assisted.
- AI in planning and technical design
- AI-assisted code review and pull-request workflows
- Documentation and test generation at scale
- AI in incident response and on-call workflows
Evals, Security & Governance
Make it safe to ship. Test the quality of AI output, understand the security pitfalls, set team conventions, and measure developer productivity honestly.
- Evals — testing the quality of AI-generated output
- Security pitfalls of AI-assisted engineering
- Team conventions and governance for AI in engineering
- Measuring developer productivity honestly
Built for the Canberra engineering scene
Canberra is a govtech town, and that single fact shapes how AI-assisted engineering has to be approached here. Software teams across the federal departments, the Digital Transformation Agency's orbit, and the long list of government-digital contractors are building systems where security classification, auditability and procurement compliance are not optional extras — they are the brief. Engineers in the ACT are keen to adopt agentic coding tools, but only inside guardrails that hold up to a security assessment.
Defence software is the other half of the story. Russell Offices, the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Canberra engineering arms of Thales, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman make national-security software a major local employer, and that work sits under some of the strictest governance in the country. Add the research-software community around the ANU, UNSW Canberra and CSIRO's Data61, and you have a market where the evals, security and governance module of this workshop is the part that matters most — alongside an honest, tool-agnostic comparison of Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot.
We run AI Engineering Workshops in central Canberra, close to Civic and the Barton and Russell government precincts, so a whole engineering team can attend together in one day. It is a 1-day, hands-on intensive — bring a laptop and a real codebase for the labs. If your team wants a deeper, dedicated day on Claude Code specifically, see our Claude Code Training in Canberra.
Rye Smith
Claude Ambassador for Australia & Lead Workshop Trainer
Rye is Australia's Claude Ambassador and an AI strategist who has helped thousands of professionals understand and ship with Claude. He runs hands-on, classroom-style workshops in every capital city — demystifying Claude Code, Claude Coworker, and the agentic workflows that are reshaping how Australian teams work.
Claude Ambassador for Australia
Anthropic-recognised community lead
Certified Claude Code trainer
Hands-on agentic workflows since 2024
n8n Ambassador (APAC)
Cross-tool automation expert
1,000+ professionals trained
Workshops in 11 Australian cities
The day at a glance
Duration
1-day intensive
Format
Classroom + hands-on (laptops required)
Audience
Engineers, dev teams, tech leads
Class size
Up to 12 seats
Certificate
Included (Spruik / Claude Ambassador AU)
Location
Canberra CBD
Want Claude-Code-specific depth?
This workshop covers the whole AI-assisted engineering stack. If your Canberra team wants a deep, dedicated day on Claude Code specifically — the CLI, agentic workflows, MCP and the Agent SDK — see our dedicated Claude Code Training.
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Level up your Canberra engineering team
A 1-day classroom intensive in Canberra CBD on the full AI-assisted engineering stack. Up to 12 seats per cohort.
A$1,295 per seat · A$995 per seat for groups of 3+ from the same organisation.