Build Software at Agent Speed
AI Forward teaches engineers how to supervise agent-powered software delivery without losing control of the work. Across two days, you’ll design safer agent environments, structure tasks for delegation, enforce quality gates, and build the operating habits required to ship AI-assisted code responsibly.
Individual enrollment Open Now
Next Training
July 23rd & 24th
Save Your Workshop seat
Live AI Engineering Workshop • $995 per attendee • Limited seats
The New Stack for Agentic Coding
AI Forward gives engineers the patterns behind production-ready agent work: skills, context, guardrails, evals, and human gates that keep speed under control.
Agent Skills
Context Engineering
AGENTS.md
Quality Gates
Tool Grounding
Guardrails
Sandboxing
Permission Gates
Secret Scanning
Output Validation
Audit Logs
Rollback Paths
Task Decomposition
Quality Gates
AI Speed Only Matters If the Work Can Be Trusted
“The biggest shift was realizing agentic coding is not about trusting the model more. It is about designing the system around it better. After the workshop, I had a practical way to delegate, inspect, test, and approve work without letting the agent turn the codebase into confetti.”
~Workshop Graduate
JOIN THE NEXT WORKSHOP
Meet Your Instructor
John Arlen De Goes is a highly accomplished technology executive, software architect, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in enterprise software engineering, distributed systems, and platform development. As the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ziverge, Inc., he provides strategic leadership and executive oversight for complex technology engagements, including enterprise-scale artificial intelligence and generative AI initiatives.
Mr. De Goes has deep expertise in designing and delivering scalable, high-performance systems across cloud-native environments. He is widely recognized for his leadership in the open-source ecosystem, particularly in functional programming and the ZIO ecosystem, where he has contributed to the development of tools and frameworks used by global organizations.
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Two Days. One Agentic Coding Operating Model.
Day 1
Morning
Build the Agent
- Learn the agent loop: prompt, LLM call, parse, execute, feedback, repeat. Cover model choice, tool grounding, and failure modes.
Day 1
Day 2
Make It Context-Aware
- Configure persistent instructions, inject project knowledge, manage context limits, compress history, and preserve useful state.
Day 1
Late Afternoon
Constrain the Blast Radius
- Add sandboxing, permission controls, validation wrappers, secret scanning, audit logs, checkpoints, and rollback paths.
Day 2
Morning
Shape the Work
- Turn vague intent into specs, interfaces, acceptance criteria, implementation plans, verification strategies, and quality gates.
Thursday
Day 4
Agents, tool use, and harness patterns
- Externalize SDLC state, enforce transitions, delegate to sub-agents, tune autonomy by phase, and add human approval gates.
Monday
Day 1
Prove It Works • Capstone Exercise
- Complete the capstone by running the full workflow from intent to verified code with human-owned quality.
ZIVERGE CERTIFICATION
Certification Included Upon Successful Capstone Excercise Completion
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work with human-owned quality.
If your capstone does not pass, you receive detailed feedback and coaching.
Earn Your Z Certification
Become an AI Forward Engineer
Learn the operating model for agent-powered delivery: faster execution, controlled autonomy, production guardrails, and human-owned quality.
Live 2-day Agentic Coding workshop
Hands-on software factory exercises
Agent skills, context engineering, and guardrails
Planning, evals, review gates, and verification patterns
Capstone exercise with post-workshop review
Included Certification
$995.00
Per Attendee
Certification Included Upon Successful Capstone Excercise Completion
Do I need to be an experienced engineer?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
Is this a coding workshop or an AI strategy workshop?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
What is the time commitment?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
What does the $995 include?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
Will I learn how to use Claude, Cursor, or other AI coding tools?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
Is this only for individual engineers?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
Will this help my team ship faster?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
Do attendees receive a certificate?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
What happens if my capstone does not pass?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
Can Ziverge train an entire engineering team?
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work.
Ziverge
+1 812 399 3622
1632 1st Ave #20831, New York, NY 10028
Copyright © 2020 - 2026. Ziverge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Build Software at Agent Speed
AI Forward teaches engineers how to supervise agent-powered software delivery without losing control of the work. Across two days, you’ll design safer agent environments, structure tasks for delegation, enforce quality gates, and build the operating habits required to ship AI-assisted code responsibly.
Individual enrollment Open Now
Next Training
July 23rd & 24th
Save Your Workshop seat
Live AI Engineering Workshop • $995 per attendee • Limited seats
The New Stack for Agentic Coding
AI Forward gives engineers the patterns behind production-ready agent work: skills, context, guardrails, evals, and human gates that keep speed under control.
Agent Skills
Context Engineering
AGENTS.md
Quality Gates
Tool Grounding
Guardrails
Sandboxing
Permission Gates
Secret Scanning
Output Validation
Audit Logs
Rollback Paths
Task Decomposition
Software Factory Loops
AI Speed Only Matters If the Work Can Be Trusted
“The biggest shift was realizing agentic coding is not about trusting the model more. It is about designing the system around it better. After the workshop, I had a practical way to delegate, inspect, test, and approve work without letting the agent turn the codebase into confetti.”
~Workshop Graduate
JOIN THE NEXT AI FORWARD WORKSHOP
Meet Your Instructor
John Arlen De Goes is a highly accomplished technology executive, software architect, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in enterprise software engineering, distributed systems, and platform development. As the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ziverge, Inc., he provides strategic leadership and executive oversight for complex technology engagements, including enterprise-scale artificial intelligence and generative AI initiatives.
Mr. De Goes has deep expertise in designing and delivering scalable, high-performance systems across cloud-native environments. He is widely recognized for his leadership in the open-source ecosystem, particularly in functional programming and the ZIO ecosystem, where he has contributed to the development of tools and frameworks used by global organizations.
John A De Goes, CEOZiverge, Golem.cloud, follow on X
Two Days. One Agentic Coding Operating Model.
Day 1
Morning
Build the Agent
- Learn the agent loop: prompt, LLM call, parse, execute, feedback, repeat. Cover model choice, tool grounding, and failure modes.
Day 1
Early Afternoon
Make It Context-Aware
- Configure persistent instructions, inject project knowledge, manage context limits, compress history, and preserve useful state.
Day 1
Late Afternoon
Constrain the Blast Radius
- Add sandboxing, permission controls, validation wrappers, secret scanning, audit logs, checkpoints, and rollback paths.
Day 2
Morning
Shape the Work
- Turn vague intent into specs, interfaces, acceptance criteria, implementation plans, verification strategies, and quality gates.
Day 2
Late Morning
Run the Factory
- Externalize SDLC state, enforce transitions, delegate to sub-agents, tune autonomy by phase, and add human approval gates.
Day 2
Afternoon
Prove It Works • Capstone Exercise
- Complete the capstone by running the full workflow from intent to verified code with human-owned quality.
ZIVERGE CERTIFICATION
Certification Included Upon Successful Capstone Exercise Completion
Show that you can do more than prompt an AI tool. Z Certification recognizes engineers who can guide agents through reviewable, testable, deployable software work with human-owned quality.
If your capstone does not pass, you receive detailed feedback and coaching.
Earn Your Z Certification
Become an AI Forward Engineer
Learn the operating model for agent-powered delivery: faster execution, controlled autonomy, production guardrails, and human-owned quality.
Live 2-day Agentic Coding workshop
Hands-on software factory exercises
Agent skills, context engineering, and guardrails
Planning, evals, review gates, and verification patterns
Capstone exercise with post-workshop review
Included Certification
$995.00
Per Attendee
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be an experienced engineer?
Yes. This workshop is built for engineers who already understand software delivery. You do not need deep AI expertise, but you should be comfortable with code, development tools, reviews, testing, and production constraints.
Is this a coding workshop or an AI strategy workshop?
It is a hands-on Agentic Coding workshop. You will work with the mechanics of AI-assisted delivery: agent loops, context engineering, tool use, guardrails, task design, evals, review gates, and software factory patterns. It is not an executive AI strategy session.
What is the time commitment?
The workshop runs for two days. Day 1 focuses on agent foundations, context engineering, and safety guardrails. Day 2 focuses on planning, task design, software factory workflows, and the capstone exercise.
What does the $995 include?
The $995 registration includes the live workshop, hands-on exercises, practical Agentic Coding workflows, capstone participation, and instruction across context engineering, guardrails, planning, evals, verification, and human-owned delivery practices.
Will I learn how to use Claude, Cursor, or other AI coding tools?
Yes, but the workshop is not limited to one tool. The focus is on transferable operating patterns: how agents process instructions, use tools, manage context, follow project rules, operate inside permissions, and produce work that can be reviewed and verified.
Is this only for individual engineers?
No. Individual engineers can attend the workshop, and Ziverge can also train engineering teams. Team training is the better fit when leaders want shared practices around agent workflows, review standards, quality gates, and production accountability.
Will this help my team ship faster?
Yes, when the practices are adopted with discipline. The workshop teaches engineers how to break work into agent-ready tasks, manage context, run parallel work lanes, verify outputs, and keep humans accountable for what ships. The goal is faster delivery without losing control of quality.
Do attendees receive a certificate?
Engineers who complete the workshop can submit their capstone project to Ziverge for review. Passing participants receive Z Certification, based on demonstrated capacity to supervise AI-assisted work lanes with production-level ownership.
What happens if my capstone does not pass?
You receive detailed feedback and coaching from Ziverge. From there, you can retake the workshop to strengthen the skills needed for certification.
Can Ziverge train an entire engineering team?
Yes. Ziverge can run team training for organizations that want Agentic Coding adopted across a group, not just by individual early adopters. This is useful when teams need common patterns for context, guardrails, planning, review, escalation, and production readiness.
Ziverge
+1 812 399 3622
1632 1st Ave #20831, New York, NY 10028
Copyright © 2020 - 2026. Ziverge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.