Building with Intelligence: AI-Powered Website Design, Analysis, & Updates

Event Summary

Join us in person for an interactive workshop on how modern AI is transforming the way we create, evaluate, and maintain websites.

Discover how modern artificial intelligence is transforming the way we create, evaluate, and maintain websites. This hands-on Austin Forum workshop begins with a clear, accessible look under the hood of Large Language Models (LLMs), unpacking how they function and why their multimodal coding and design capabilities make them uniquely powerful partners for modern web development.

Next, attendees will see AI in action with live, complimentary analyses of their own websites. Leveraging LLMs to audit design, copy, structure, and user experience, this segment demonstrates how to quickly pinpoint high-impact opportunities for optimization and accessibility.

The workshop wraps up with a practical walkthrough of the next frontier: agentic web development. Attendees will learn how to design, build, and update live websites using natural language prompts, including simple email updates, without writing a single line of code. We'll showcase this workflow using SWATS, the innovative agentic development system used to build the new Austin Forum website, giving you the practical tools and techniques to deploy these capabilities for your own projects and organizations.

What we'll cover

• Demystifying Multimodal LLMs in Web Development: An accessible breakdown of Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on how their multimodal coding and design capabilities make them powerful tools for building and maintaining modern websites.

• Live Website Audits & UX Optimization: Hands-on, real-time evaluations of attendees' existing websites using LLMs to analyze design, copy, structure, and accessibility for quick, high-impact improvements.

• No-Code Agentic Development via SWATS: A practical walkthrough showing how to build and update live websites through natural language prompts and simple email updates, featuring the SWATS system used to develop the new Austin Forum website.

Event Agenda

• 2:30 PM | Check-in & Pre-Event Networking begins

• 3:00 – 4:30 PM | Workshop

Attendance Instructions

In-Person Only

Parking Options

• City Hall Parking Garage: Located just a block away at 301 W 2nd St.

• AMLI Downtown Parking: Located nearby at 201 Lavaca St.

• Street Metered Parking: Available along surrounding streets.

Please note: Parking in Sail Tower Garage is not open to the public until 6:00pm.

When you arrive

Head inside to the check-in table and provide your first and last name. (please register ahead of time)

Doors open at 2:30 PM for check-in and pre-event networking, and the workshop runs from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. We look forward to seeing you and talking about tech face-to-face!