Event #18 - Workshop: Build Your Own AI Game Master

📅 Wednesday, 18 November 2026
📍 Abertay cyberQuarter, Dundee
🕕 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (starting promptly at 6!)

🎯 Objective
Build your own AI Game Master using Strands Agents! Once you've got your agent up and running, explore how to extend it into a multi-agent system.

🧠 What knowledge is required?
No prior AWS or AI agent experience is required, but you should have:

• Basic Python knowledge (variables, functions, and libraries)
• Familiarity with using a terminal or command line

You don't need to be an experienced developer, but this workshop is not designed for complete programming beginners.

💻 What to bring

• A laptop (required) with an IDE and Python version 3.10 or later installed
• A willingness to ask questions to other humans, not just chatbots!

🍕 What's provided

• Free food and soft drinks
• Pre-provisioned AWS sandbox environments
• Guidance and support from the workshop organisers

💡 Useful resources

• Workshop materials: Once Upon an Agent AI – AWS Workshop

Feel free to explore the workshop materials in advance.

• New to AI agents?

Here's a helpful introduction to what AI agents are, shared at a recent Dundee Data Meetup: AI Agents: From Perception to Autonomous Action

🎮 Skills you'll explore
Core skills

• Agent fundamentals
• Using and creating tools
• Building your AI Game Master

Further exploration (time permitting)

• MCP integration
• Multi-agent collaboration
• Advanced Strands Agents features

📝 Important: Registration required!

• Spaces are limited to 25 people.
• AWS sandbox environments will be prepared in advance for registered participants.
• Please only RSVP if you intend to attend, and update your RSVP if your plans change so someone else can take your place.