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Valley EntrprenHERS presents: AI Without the Hype: What Actually Works for Entrepreneurs
Are you using AI day-to-day and just kind of hoping you're doing it right? Are you seeing the results that others are getting from their AI use and wondering how you can get there, too? Are you driving the AI, or is the AI driving you?
Join us for an evening with local AI consultant Eric Fadden where we'll dig into the answers to these questions and a whole lot more. Part presentation, part hands-on workshop, we'll skip past the buzzwords and hype and go straight into what makes for effective, safe AI usage. We’ll drill down into the things you actually need to know to make it work for your business, not just "doing AI for the sake of doing AI.”
Bring your curiosity, bring your questions, and bring your laptop if you want to get your hands dirty. You'll walk away with new ideas, real things to try, and a much better handle on who's actually in charge — you or the AI.
About Eric Fadden:
Eric Fadden is the founder of Forged Cortex LLC, a Simsbury-based AI implementation and architecture consultancy built on one core belief: AI needs to be useful to the organizations using it, not just a pretty demo. With over 20 years of IT experience spanning enterprise systems administration, operations, development, and client-facing strategy, Eric brings a practitioner's mindset to AI adoption and is focused on cutting through the hype and figuring out what actually moves his clients forward through this incredible shift in technology.
Before launching Forged Cortex, Eric supported IT infrastructure at scale in a wide variety of environments including global corporations, government, non-profit, and consulting arrangements. He has built hands-on expertise in AI implementation through projects ranging from custom enterprise information retrieval systems to multi-agent orchestration pipelines. Eric holds certifications in advanced prompt engineering, advanced prompt security, and AI automation, and enjoys reading, music, and playing video games in his spare time.
Valley EntrprenHERS presents: AI With...Date and Time
Thursday May 14, 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDTMay 14, 2026
6-8 PMLocation
The Lucky Gut Collective
10 Wilcox St, Simsbury, CT 06070Fees/Admission
Free
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