The Dynaimix AI Bootcamp returned to MidAtlantic Employers’ Association on May 6 and 7, 2026, for a two-day immersive training experience led by Dan Callahan. The sessions brought together professionals from a wide range of companies and industries, all of them looking to get more comfortable with AI tools and walk away with practical skills they could put to use immediately.
The group worked across three of the leading large language model platforms: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini. Rather than treating the tools as separate categories, the training focused on helping attendees understand how each platform works, where they excel, and how to get real value out of them in day-to-day professional tasks.
One of the areas that generated the most discussion was the growing landscape of autonomous and agentic AI tools. Each of the major platforms is rolling out new capabilities in this space, and the attendees were clearly paying attention. The interest was genuine and pointed, which reflects a broader shift happening right now across industries. People are moving past basic prompting questions and starting to ask bigger ones: what can these tools actually do on their own, and how do we use that responsibly?
The training also spent significant time on custom GPTs, custom Agents, and Google’s custom Gems. These features allow organizations to build purpose-built AI tools tailored to specific workflows, roles, or functions. For a group made up of professionals from such a wide variety of industries and organizational contexts, that resonated. The ability to build something specific, something that fits how your team actually works rather than a generic use case, is where a lot of the practical efficiency gains live. Attendees left with a clear sense of how to approach that for their own organizations.
By the end of the two days, everyone in the room had moved from wherever they started to a solid foundational level of AI literacy. Some came in with more experience than others, but the format was designed to meet people where they were and bring the whole group forward together. That is what the Bootcamp is built to do.
About MidAtlantic Employers’ Association
MEA has been supporting employers across the Mid-Atlantic region for more than a century. Founded in 1903, the organization has grown into a comprehensive HR resource serving organizations across a wide range of industries, including non-profits, architecture and engineering firms, manufacturing, and professional services. MEA provides tailored, hands-on HR support to help employers navigate workforce challenges and build stronger organizations.
