Birmingham Tech Week – Getting Started with Claude Code – Thurs 22nd Oct

Birmingham Tech Week - Getting started with Claude Code with Ann Stanley and Darren Wynn

Download the slides from Ann Stanley and Darren Wynn’s Getting Started with Claude Code workshop at Birmingham Tech Week: how to progress from ChatGPT to Claude Code and AI agents, without learning to code.

  • Date: Thursday 22nd October 2026
  • Time: 9am – 11am UK time
  • Event: Birmingham Tech Week
  • Speakers: Ann Stanley & Darren Wynn

About Ann & Darren

Ann Stanley is the founder and CTO of Anicca Digital, the Leicester agency she started in 2007, and co-founder of Anicca AI & Insights. For nearly 25 years she has worked as a consultant and trainer across paid media, search marketing, analytics and ecommerce, and much of her time now goes on AI strategy and automation, building practical marketing tools with Claude Code, including the skills, agents and reporting tools shown in this workshop.

Darren Wynn is Managing Director of Anicca Digital and helps run the Thursday AI Club, Anicca’s fortnightly hands-on AI sessions for marketers and managers.

About the Workshop

This two-hour workshop at Birmingham Tech Week started with the role of humans alongside AI and what AI agents are, then moved on to getting Claude Code running on the desktop in around ten minutes.

Ann and Darren explained the three essential elements for using Claude Code, building a CLAUDE.md file with the about me skill, and handovers that take 60 seconds and save an hour. They then covered the six traps every new user falls into and ten tips for getting the best out of Claude Code, before finishing with practical examples, from research to a live blog in 30 minutes, and the three levels of using, connecting and building with Claude Code.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to progress from ChatGPT to Claude Code and AI agents
  • Getting Claude Code running on the desktop in ten minutes
  • The three essential elements, and building your CLAUDE.md file
  • Handovers, and the six traps every new user falls into
  • Ten tips for getting the best out of Claude Code
  • Practical examples, from research to a live blog in 30 minutes

Want to keep going? Join the Thursday AI Club, where Ann and Darren run regular hands-on Claude Code sessions.

Download the slides