Some AI workshops show you how to produce things like cleaner emails or faster summaries. In this one, we'll use AI for an unexpected job: helping you spot the small, repetitive tasks you do so automatically you've stopped noticing them and then build a fix for each one. The surprise is that many don't need AI at all; a scheduled reminder or a simple rule often does the job better and is safer.

In this hands-on session, you'll audit your own work, look at what's worth automating, and leave the workshop having put at least one fix in place (a rule, a template, or an automation), plus a way to tell whether it actually saved you time.

Spotting and Automating the Work that Eats Your Week

with Rachel Bastian

Friday, July 17, 2026

2:00pm

RS 261 OLIVE ROOM

Participants will need a computer and Copilot (though they are welcome to use ChatGPT or Claude, if that’s what they prefer). Additionally, some actions will be demonstrated in Microsoft 365 apps, so participants will need to sign with their WSU credentials to try it themselves.