AI for IT Professionals

TH06 The Art & Science of AI Prompting

August 6th, 2026

9:30am - 10:45am

Level: Introductory

Mike Nelson

Principal Technical Evangelist & Architect

Pure Storage

Many people believe that just telling and AI Agent that you want it to do something for you using the simplest language will get them good results. Um, no, that's not how it works. So, let's learn the right way to prompt AI for the most creative, descriptive, concise, and intelligent answers that you need and want. Using prompt structures and outlines, we will show real time comparisons with different types of prompts and get some suggestions from the audience on some prompts to try.

You will learn:

  • How AI Agents & LLM personas interact with prompts
  • About crafting a really bad prompt & making it a really great prompt
  • Different types of prompting techniques for different purposes