[PMAI][ApexLab Workshop] How to build your first AI-Driven App

​Registration closes at 22:00 ET on Saturday · May 31 (24 hours before we go live).
Questions about joining in-person or online? Just reach out.

​Pioneering Minds AI: 0 % Fluff. 100 % Build.

​P.S. Stick around after the session for an optional NYC viewing-party social and live debugging circle.

​Speaker (Jing Dong) will present online.

​If you’ve sketched an AI idea on a napkin but never shipped a working product, this one-hour “vibe-coding” sprint is for you. We’ll scaffold a Next.js interface in seconds, plug it into Supabase for Google auth and Postgres, drop a Deno edge function that calls OpenAI’s function-calling API, and deploy to Vercel before the hour is up—no prior cloud experience required. You’ll watch every command, clone the repo in real time, and finish with a URL you can share the same day.

​You will walk away with:

• ​A complete, production-ready AI app in your own GitHub repo—built live step-by-step

• ​A repeatable checklist for wiring auth, environment secrets, and rate-limit-safe OpenAI calls

• ​Practical intuition on keeping a “human-in-the-loop” without bottlenecking velocity

• ​A mental map of the modern low-config stack (Next.js + Supabase + OpenAI + Vercel) and where to tweak it next

​About Jing Dong: Jing Dong is a Machine Learning Scientist at Microsoft, where she applies AI techniques to optimize marketing, revenue, and user engagement across Microsoft 365 and Copilot-related products. She also builds indie applications in productivity, mental health, and education. Jing holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and is passionate about bridging cutting-edge AI with real-world social impact. She actively contributes to the tech community as a hackathon judge and open-source contributor.

​About Pioneering Minds AI: We host no-nonsense, hands-on workshops that help builders apply cutting-edge AI in the real world. Our motto: learn it at noon, deploy it by night.

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