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AI for Event Planning
Plan timelines, run-of-show, and promotion for events with AI.
What you’ll learn
- Generate event timelines, checklists, and a run-of-show with AI
- Draft budgets, vendor emails, and promotion copy from a single brief
- Use a reliable context → draft → verify → refine prompting workflow
- Know what AI gets wrong — numbers, dates, and local logistics — and verify it
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What AI is (and isn’t) good at for events
Planning an event means juggling a hundred small things at once — a timeline, a vendor list, a budget, an emcee script, a promotion plan, and a stack of emails.
5 min Quiz Interactive - 2
The prompt workflow: context → draft → verify → refine
The single biggest difference between people who get junk out of AI and people who get gold is the prompt.
6 min Quiz Interactive - 3
Timelines, checklists & the run-of-show
This is where AI shines brightest. Two of the most tedious planning artifacts — the backward-planning timeline (what must happen 8 weeks out, 4 weeks out, the day…
6 min Quiz Interactive - 4
Budgets, vendor emails & promotion copy
Beyond schedules, AI is a strong drafting partner for three more event jobs: rough budget structures, the endless vendor and confirmation emails, and promotion copy…
5 min Quiz Interactive - 5
FAQ chatbots & post-event survey analysis
Two AI use cases bookend your event. Before: a smart FAQ that answers attendee questions so your inbox doesn’t melt. After: turning a pile of survey responses into…
5 min Quiz Interactive - 6
Putting it together: plan an event with AI
Let’s run the whole workflow on one event.
4 min Quiz Interactive
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