Build Your First AI Agent in 30 minutes (No code)

Lightning Lessons

Practical skills & tools to accelerate your career

Build Your First AI Agent in 30 minutes (No code)

Hosted by Derya Isler and Jacob Bank

154 students

What you'll learn

Creating functional AI agents

Automate repetitive tasks and enhance productivity without writing a single line of code using Relay App

Practical differences between AI assistants and AI agents

Discover the practical differences between AI assistants and AI agents through hands-on demonstrations

Hands on experience building AI Agents

Build an AI agent to uplevel yourself

Why this topic matters

Learning to build AI agents with Relay cuts your daily busywork by automating repetitive tasks like email sorting, meeting scheduling, and data gathering—saving you hours each week. This practical skill helps you delegate digital work that distracts from higher-value responsibilities. As companies increasingly value efficiency, hands-on agent-building experience becomes a standout qualification.

You'll learn from

Derya Isler

AI Executive (Ex-Meta, Ex-Spotify), Startup Advisor

Derya is the CEO and Founder of Strategic AI Leadership, where she helps companies transform through targeted AI investments and scalable AI solutions.

She has served in executive AI roles and led product and engineering teams at multi-billion dollar companies, including Instagram Reels at Meta and Spotify's Personalization team.

She teaches Machine Learning and Product Management at Boston College and draws from over 10 years of experience building AI products. Derya also serves as a startup advisor at multiple global accelerators.

Jacob Bank

Founder/CEO at Relay App

Jacob is the Founder and CEO of Relay.app. Prior to founding Relay.app, Jacob was a Director of Product Management at Google, where he led the product teams for Gmail, Google Calendar, and several other Google Workspace products. Before that, Jacob was the Co-founder and CEO of Timeful (acquired by Google in 2015), a smart calendar that leveraged insights from behavioral psychology and AI to help people spend time on their most important priorities. He has a BA in Computer Science from Cornell University and was pursuing a PhD in the AI Lab at Stanford before dropping out to found Timeful.

Previously at