Description

Want to move into AI but aren't sure where your existing experience fits? You don't need to become an ML researcher to build a career in AI. Companies increasingly need product managers, solutions architects, engineers, forward deployed engineers, technical GTM leaders, consultants, and operators who understand how to apply AI to real problems. In this session, we'll take your existing experience and create a realistic strategy for repositioning your career toward AI. We'll work through: - Your current profile: Your experience, technical skills, domain expertise, strengths, gaps, and career goals. - AI career landscape: Which roles exist and which ones actually make sense for your background. - Role selection: Whether you should target AI product, solutions architecture, FDE, engineering, technical GTM, strategy, or another path. - Gap analysis: What you're currently missing — and which perceived gaps actually aren't important. - AI knowledge: Which concepts and technologies you should understand for your target roles without wasting months studying unnecessary material. - Hands-on experience: Projects you can build to demonstrate practical AI experience even if your current employer isn't giving you that opportunity. - Positioning: How to reframe your existing experience so recruiters and hiring managers understand why it's relevant to AI. - Resume & LinkedIn direction: What should become more prominent, what should be de-emphasized, and which keywords or experiences matter. - Company targeting: Which types of AI companies and stages are likely to value your particular background. - Job-search strategy: How to overcome the classic problem of needing AI experience to get a job that gives you AI experience. - Concrete roadmap: What to do over the next several weeks or months to become a substantially stronger candidate. This is particularly useful for people coming from software, cloud, solutions architecture, sales engineering, product, consulting, enterprise technology, or adjacent technical backgrounds.