AI Discovery Lab

Part of Information Systems & Technology (IST), the AI Discovery Lab helps everyone at Waterloo explore AI confidently, responsibly, and effectively across teaching, learning, research, administration and innovation.

Every exploration starts with a first step. Here are three ways to take yours, at your own pace.  

AI Pulse newsletter

Your weekly spark: a quick win, University of Waterloo stories, and tool spotlights. Five minutes, one idea to try. 

AI Clinics

Short, drop-in sessions where you bring your questions and leave with confidence, one topic at a time.

AI Studios

Hands-on, in-person workshops where faculty and staff turn ideas into practice using their own real work.

Details coming soon!

Introducing the AI Pulse newsletter

Maybe you've tried an AI tool once and weren't sure what to make of it. Maybe you use one every day and wonder if you're doing it right. Or maybe you just keep hearing about AI and want to know what it means for your work at Waterloo.

Wherever you're starting from, you belong in this conversation. The University of Waterloo has always been a place where people explore new tools with curiosity and courage, and AI is our next frontier to explore together.

The AI Pulse newsletter is where that starts: each week, one quick win you can try in minutes, stories from colleagues across UW, and prompts you can make your own.

AI Clinic offerings

Thursday, November 12, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

From 0 to expert: your quick learn with AI

Ready to go from reading to doing? Bring your questions to our first AI Clinic and explore AI on real tasks alongside colleagues. Choose the offering that fits you.