Academy · Workshops

Workshops on the work we do every day

LangOptima Academy runs hands-on workshops on enterprise AI, knowledge graphs, language technology, and the operating discipline that connects them, alongside sessions on growth, branding, leadership, and continuous improvement. Every session is built around your team and where it wants to get to, not a fixed syllabus.

Tailored
Built around your team, tools, and goals
½ – 2 days
Half-day, full-day, or a short series
Remote or on-site
For one team or a wider group

How it works

Practical, tailored, and grounded in real work

The topics below are a starting point, not a catalog. Most sessions are shaped in a short conversation first, so the examples, exercises, and depth match the room. If a subject you have in mind is not listed, tell us; if two of them belong together, we can combine them.

01

Tell us the goal

A short call or a written brief: who is in the room, what they already know, and what you want them to be able to do afterward.

02

We shape the session

We propose a format, an outline, and worked examples drawn from your domain, then adjust it with you before a date is set.

03

Run it, keep the notes

We run the workshop remotely or on-site and hand over the slides, exercises, and a short summary so the team can carry it forward.

Workshop topics

A starting menu, across four tracks

Pick one, combine a few, or send us a topic of your own. Each session can run at an introductory level for a mixed audience or go deep for a technical team.

AI, data & knowledge graphs

Enterprise AI Foundations

What today's AI can and cannot do inside an organization: where it adds value, where it hallucinates, and why grounding it in your own data changes the result.

For leaders and teams starting to work with AI
Leave with a shared vocabulary and a way to judge a use case

Intro to Knowledge Graphs

A plain-English introduction to knowledge graphs: what they are, how an ontology gives data meaning, and where a knowledge graph helps compared with a traditional database.

For data, engineering, and curious non-technical teams
Leave with a clear mental model and a sense of where a graph could help

Data Readiness for AI

Most AI projects stall on the data, not the model. How to audit what you have, spot the gaps early, and prepare a data landscape an AI initiative can run on.

For data owners and project sponsors
Leave with a readiness checklist for your next project
Language, content & operations

Language Technology & Translation

Where machine translation works, where it breaks in technical and regulated domains, and how knowledge-grounded translation keeps meaning intact across languages.

For localization, content, and language-services teams
Leave with a clearer map of your own translation pipeline

Workflow & Content Orchestration

Connecting the tools you already have (CMS, CRM, translation, and AI) into one orchestrated flow, with human-in-the-loop checkpoints where quality matters.

For operations, marketing, and RevOps teams
Leave with one manual process mapped as an automated flow

LangOps Principles

Running language and content operations as one connected system rather than a set of disconnected steps. It's the operating view behind consistent, scalable output.

For teams scaling content across languages and channels
Leave with the principles applied to your current setup

Compliance in the Age of AI

Keeping AI-assisted content and translation auditable in regulated domains: where the risks sit, and how a knowledge layer helps you check outputs against the rules that apply.

For compliance, regulatory, and quality leads
Leave with the questions to ask of any AI content workflow
Leadership, growth & communication

Building a Growth Function

How marketing, sales, product, and retention connect as one motion rather than four silos, and the small number of measures that tell you whether it's working.

For founders and growth, sales, and marketing leaders
Leave with a first sketch of your own growth motion

Product-Market Fit

What product-market fit really means, why retention is a stronger signal than early growth, and the survey and cohort methods teams use to tell whether they have it yet. Where the common measures help, and where they mislead.

For founders, product, and growth leaders
Leave with a way to measure fit for your own product

Branding

What a brand is beyond a logo: the positioning, the distinctive assets, and the reasons a buyer remembers and chooses you. How a small team builds a brand that compounds over time rather than resetting it with every campaign.

For founders, marketing, and growth teams
Leave with a first read on your positioning and distinctive assets

Team Leadership

Leading technical and growth teams through ambiguity: setting a cadence, making decisions with incomplete information, and keeping standards steady when things go well.

For new and experienced team leads
Leave with an operating cadence you can run next week

Public Speaking

Presenting technical ideas to a non-technical room. How to structure a talk, hold attention, and translate detail into the outcome your audience cares about.

For anyone who presents to clients, boards, or stages
Leave having drafted and delivered a short talk with feedback

From Pilot to Production

Scoping an AI or data pilot so it can reach production: setting success criteria up front, choosing a first use case, and avoiding the traps that keep pilots as pilots.

For project sponsors and delivery leads
Leave with a scoped outline for one real pilot
Operations, change & people

Toyota Kata & Continuous Improvement

Two ways organizations improve: kaizen, the habit of small daily improvements, and kaikaku, the deliberate step-change when a process needs rethinking. Toyota Kata turns improvement into a practiced routine: set a target condition, run small experiments, learn from each one.

For operations, delivery, and team leads
Leave having run one improvement cycle on a real process

Change Management

Why change tends to stall on people rather than plans, and the frameworks that help it stick: Kotter for building momentum across an organization, ADKAR for guiding individuals through it, and Lewin for smaller, well-defined shifts. How to pick and combine them for the change in front of you.

For leaders and teams running a change
Leave with a change plan mapped to a framework that fits

Mentoring Interns & Students

How to set up a mentoring relationship that helps early-career people grow and does real work for the team. Clear goals, useful one-on-ones, feedback that lands, and the difference between mentoring, managing, and sponsoring.

For anyone mentoring interns, students, or juniors
Leave with a simple structure for your next mentoring relationship

Event & Conference Organization

How to plan and run an event or conference that earns its cost: the logistics and the run of show, but also the goal it serves and the follow-up that turns a room of conversations into outcomes. Where the effort pays off, and where it leaks.

For marketing, events, and growth teams
Leave with a plan for one event and a way to measure it

Sign up

Two ways to start

Book a short call and we'll talk it through, or send a brief and we'll come back with a proposed outline. Either way, you speak with Edwin Trebels directly. No forms, no funnels.

Useful to include

  • The topic (or topics) you have in mind, from the list above or your own.
  • Who would attend: their roles, and how much they already work with the subject.
  • Rough group size, and whether you want it remote or on-site.
  • Preferred format: a half-day, a full day, or a short series.
  • Any timeline you are working toward.

What to expect

  • A reply from Edwin directly, not a sales team.
  • A proposed outline shaped around your team before a date is set.
  • A clear no if a workshop is not the right way to solve the problem.

Or write to edwin.trebels@langoptima.com from your own mail client.