Next stop WASHINGTON, DC| july 23-34
Impact Lab is a two-day, hands-on AI build experience that brings professionals from across government and the private sector together to solve a real-world problem.
Participants aren't working through hypotheticals. They're applying new AI-coding skills to a real-world problem with actual stakes, on real infrastructure Rise8 provides, with Rise8 facilitators in the room for two full days.
July 23–24. Two days, real AI tools, and a working app your team ships to production—no engineering degree required.
AI fluency-tiered cohorts
Participants self-select into beginner or intermediate tracks and work alongside peers at the same level. Everyone enters at their level. Everyone leaves beyond it.
Address a real-world problem
Every Impact Lab is built around a real challenge with real stakes so the experience maps directly to you mission.
We bring everything
Rise8 provides the tools, infrastructure, tokens, APIs, environments, curriculum, and facilitators. You show up. We handle the rest.
Real outcomes in two days
Every participant, regardless of AI-skill level, leaves with a working app shipped to a real environment. Real outcomes in production.
Coaching in small cohorts
At a 7:1 student-to-instructor ratio, Rise8 practitioners work alongside you for two full days, meeting you where you are.
Confidence you can build on
You leave having built real software with AI. That changes how you evaluate tools, write requirements, and lead AI conversations going forward.
Acquisition and Contracting Organizations
Your people are reading AI proposals, evaluating vendor claims, and writing requirements that shape how AI-native software is built and bought. Impact Lab gives them the technical muscle memory to do it well. There’s a real difference between someone who has read about AI tools and someone who has built with them.
Government Program Offices
Your entire workforce needs AI fluency, not just your developers. Impact Lab gets program managers, analysts, financial managers, and operations staff building real software alongside engineers, in the same room, over two days.
Teams Moving from AI Strategy to AI Execution
If your organization has a plan but not yet the fluency to execute it, Impact Lab is where that changes. Two days of hands-on building does more for adoption than a year of slide decks.
Software Factories
Standing up AI-native delivery and need a forcing function for your teams? Impact Lab puts your people in front of real AI-native tooling with practitioners who've shipped to production in environments as complex as yours.
Tickets to Impact Lab are $995. This gets you your seat at Impact Lab, the full two-day AI-build experience. Lunch, snacks and a happy hour are included as well.
No. Participants self-select into beginner or intermediate cohorts based on their current AI fluency and work alongside peers at the same level. Everyone enters at their level. Everyone leaves beyond it.
Yes. Government attendees can get CPE or CLP credits. The final agenda determines total awardable credits.
We’re constantly adding new dates and locations. Reach out to Adam Furtado, VP Mission OS, at afurtado@rise8.us to find out what's coming up next.
Yes. We’ve done private cohorts and would love to tailor one for your team. Reach out to Adam Furtado, VP Mission OS, at afurtado@rise8.us to start the conversation.
Hands-on experience building real software with AI, and the confidence that comes from it. Two days of using AI-native tools to build and ship makes the technology feel far less intimidating than it looked from the outside. You leave knowing you can do this, because you already did. Oh, and probably some Rise8 swag.
Rise8 provides everything including laptops, cloud and AI infrastructure, AI tokens, APIs, curriculum, and facilitators. You show up and build. We handle the rest.
Most AI training puts people in seats with slides. Impact Lab puts them in front of a real working AI-native software factory with Rise8 practitioners in the room.
