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Boston AI Week 2026
Workshop

AI for Construction Trades & Green Tech

Hosted by Renewable Renegades & RenegAIDE Collective

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

6:00 PM–7:00 PM ET

About

The phone rings while you're under a sink, up on a roof, or hooking a car on the shoulder of Route 128, and the job goes to whoever picks up first. Estimates go out late, invoices wait for Sunday night, and the office help you'd hire is hard to find: construction alone needs 349,000 more workers in 2026 (Associated Builders and Contractors). That's Broken Leg Syndrome. Every trades business stands on three legs, People, Systems, and Money, and when one cracks, the whole business limps. This free, hands-on Zoom workshop fixes the limp. Find your broken leg with the Broken Leg Diagnostic™. Pick your hire from five Digital Helpers (Patch the Dispatcher, Tim the Estimator, Biddy the Bid & Proposal Writer, Bookie the Bookkeeper, Promise the Promoter) and build it live in about 15 minutes on Base44 with The RenegAIDE Method™, with breakout rooms for hands-on tech help. Already use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini? Your Digital Helper Work Order works there too. You leave with a working Digital Helper and your Repair Plan. For plumbers, HVAC and heat pump techs, electricians, solar installers, locksmiths, towing operators, contractors, remodelers, property managers, energy auditors, green tech founders, and trades educators. No tech skills required. What to bring: a laptop or desktop and a strong internet connection. You will build live, and a phone will not be enough. Meet your host: (Dr.) Beth Griffith has worked in the trades and construction since she was a teenager. She is a Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor (HIC), Building Analyst Professional (BAP), Green Infrastructure Professional (GIP), LEED Green Associate, and certified Base44 advanced builder instructor who built RetrofitIQ, a software-as-a-service platform for the trades built specifically for one-to-four family decarbonization. A featured AI speaker at the 2026 Mass Black Expo, a 2026 Boston Tech Week Hackathon winner, and accepted into Harvard Business School Foundry, she is also President and co-founder of NEPAI, a veteran, and Boston born, raised, and rooted. Hosted by Renewable Renegades and RenegAIDE Collective. From Beth: I started in the trades as a teenager, a handywoman helper on my uncle's properties. I learned early that a property is a big responsibility: safe, affordable, quality housing for families, children, and elders, and an income for the person who keeps it standing. My dad, the Bajan MacGyver of handyman work, taught me the rest: how to be resourceful, keep costs down, and think outside the box. That's the spirit of this workshop. People First. AI Second. Impact Always. Source: Associated Builders and Contractors, 349,000 workers needed in 2026 (Construction Executive, Jan 16, 2026): https://constructionexec.com/?p=62523

Speakers

  • (Dr.) Beth Griffith, AI Advisor and Architect, Founder of Renewable Renegades and RenegAIDE Collective
  • She holds the trade credentials. She builds the software. And on October 20, she builds your first Digital Helper with you, live.
  • She has worked in the trades and construction since she was a teenager, so she knows exactly how hard it is: the calls that never stop, the estimates that go out late, the invoices that wait for Sunday night, a company that runs on one person's back. The principles she teaches were built for construction owners and contractors by someone who has lived the work.
  • In the field, she is a Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor (HIC), Building Analyst Professional (BAP), Green Infrastructure Professional (GIP), and LEED Green Associate. At the keyboard, she is a certified Base44 advanced builder instructor who built RetrofitIQ, a software-as-a-service platform for the trades built specifically for one-to-four family decarbonization and co-awarded a MassCEC FY25 EmPower Innovation and Capacity Building grant.
  • As an educator, she has taught AI for Product Market Fit and AI for Project Management in Construction and Clean Energy. Twenty-eight of her AI training courses are listed in the Workforce Training Fund Express Program directory of Commonwealth Corporation, the Massachusetts workforce development agency, including courses on construction project management, bids and proposals for contractors, safety culture and toolbox talks, and green building. She is an adjunct with Browning the Green Space, helping women and others in the trades start and scale renewable energy businesses. She has trained and mentored more than 1,400 individuals and business owners, facilitated nearly 3,600 tax returns that brought $7 million in refunds to low- and middle-income households, and helped gig workers secure over $2 million in forgivable funding.
  • The work has been noticed. She was a featured AI speaker at the 2026 Mass Black Expo, hosted by the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA). She is a 2026 Boston Tech Week Hackathon winner and was accepted into Harvard Business School Foundry for one of her software-as-a-service products. Her mentor is Alicia Lyttle, "The Queen of AI," and she was a panelist at Lyttle's in-person AI event at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. She earned the AI Certified Authority (Thought Leadership) credential, with Honors, through Lyttle's AI InnoVision.
  • Her roots run deep and her work runs wide. She is President and co-founder of NEPAI (Northeast Professionals in Artificial Intelligence), a Massachusetts nonprofit in its founding year making AI accessible to everyone across eleven Northeast jurisdictions; co-founder and founding worker-member of the Boston Community Solar Cooperative; and a member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Latinas in Tech, and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).
  • A veteran, a proud alumna of Roxbury Community College and Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, and Boston-born, raised, and rooted, she studied entrepreneurship through a Cornell University certificate program and is pursuing an MBA with a specialization in AI.
  • On Tuesday, October 20, she brings all of it to your screen: the Broken Leg Diagnostic™ to find what is holding your business back, The RenegAIDE Method™ to hire, train, and prove your first Digital Helper, and a live 15-minute build you leave with.
  • People First. AI Second. Impact Always.

Host

Renewable Renegades & RenegAIDE Collective

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