Arunädal's programme is out: 91 free AI events, and Thursday is the day for office staff

Arunädal, the nationwide AI week run by Eesti.ai, starts on 18 November. When we first wrote about it in October, it had dates and themes. Now it has a programme. On 5 November the Fienta listing showed 91 events. Registration opened on 29 October, public events are free, places are limited and organisers keep adding sessions.

We are an Eesti.ai training partner, so we are not a neutral observer here. The counts below come from the public listing.

Thursday is the day for office staff

Eesti.ai gave Thursday 19 November to business and the economy, with a focus on moving from experiments to daily use and judging what AI adds. On the listing, 22 of the day's 27 events are workshops on AI in office work, in towns from Narva and Kuressaare to Valga and Võru.

One Tallinn workshop page shows what to expect. The session lasts three hours and people bring a laptop and charger. They take a real office task, such as turning meeting notes into a summary with tasks and deadlines, and work it through to a method they can use the following week. The exercises use sample data, and the page tells participants to keep personal data and confidential information out of public AI tools. Different companies run these sessions, so the content varies. Read the description before you send anyone.

Wednesday and the weekend

The opening conference runs at the National Library of Estonia on Wednesday 18 November, from 12:00 to 16:30. The first half covers safety and asks who is responsible when AI gets something wrong. The second half turns to what changes inside companies and whether AI makes Estonia more productive. Libraries in Põlva, Sindi and Kõrveküla have listed joint viewings.

On 21 and 22 November a free hackathon in Tallinn brings young people and entrepreneurs together. Estonian employers set the challenges, the organiser is still adding to them, and teams present concepts and demos to a jury.

One session has already filled up: the Hankearu workshop in Tallinn on Friday 20 November showed as sold out on 5 November. Saturday, which Eesti.ai calls the big volunteer day, had only six events listed that day, so the list may still change.

What to do on Monday

• ✳Open the Fienta listing, filter by county and date, and send your team the link to the nearest Thursday workshop
• ✳Ask each person to bring one recurring job, such as meeting notes or a monthly report, so the three hours end in something they will use again
• ✳Agree beforehand what stays out: no personal data and no client files in public AI tools
• ✳Count the workshop as working time, so people actually go
• ✳To host a session, fill in the organisation form on the Arunädal page. You can teach your own people, run a public workshop with Eesti.ai or share the news in your channels. The form says Eesti.ai replies within three working days
• ✳If a routine eats your team's hours, offer it as a hackathon challenge. The organiser's contacts are on the event page

One three-hour workshop will not change how a company works. Ask everyone who goes to show one colleague what they built by the end of the month.