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Tue, Aug 4, 2026

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AI Orchestration Certification for Knowledge Workers: Claude Code & Cowork
Sash Mohapatra
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What you'll learn

Know which mode does what

Chat, Cowork and Code each handle different kinds of work. You'll see where a task belongs and how to decide.

Give Claude context, then extend it with skills

Setup layered context with folders, md files and standing instructions.Execute tasks skills and plugins.

Delegate tasks from your mobile with Dispatch

Use Dispatch to execute multi-step agentic tasks from your mobile.

Create Skills with Claude Cowork

Execute full workflows in Cowork and turn them into skills.

Schedule daily workflows and briefs

Use the schedule feature to automate and execute morning briefs, research runs and more.

Why this topic matters

Claude desktop works on the files already on your computer. Cowork runs tasks and returns finished deliverables, including spreadsheets with formulas that work and decks you can send. Dispatch runs the job in the background while you do something else, and none of it needs a terminal. With persistent context and agentic features, Claude desktop gives you the power to delegate actual work to AI.

You'll learn from

Sash Mohapatra

AI Educator & Agentic Practitioner | 20 Years in Microsoft | Founder riftlab.ai

Sash Mohapatra spent 20 years at Microsoft, moving from customer engineering to Director of AI Sales. He led cloud and ML adoption for Fortune 500 clients. After being laid off in 2023, he used AI to navigate his own career transition and built a system for doing it well.

Now he runs riftlab.ai, where consults for companies on AI adoption - training teams, building agents and helping leaders navigate the AI revolution.

He believes that human ingenuity in the AI revolution can be preserved and scaled through participation. Lean in, learn how to orchestrate AI, be the human in the loop and amplify your leverage and capabilities with AI.

Previously at

Microsoft
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