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AI (for Normal People) with AWS Hero Thorsten Hoger
52 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2026 at 8:26 pm.
Welcome & Introduction
Who Is Thorsten and What Is Normal People AI
The Recipe Database Use Case
Fitness Tracking and Personal Coaching
Building an AI-Powered Personal Project Manager
Using Fireflies and MCP for Meeting Intelligence
Real Business Use Cases Dental Practice and Tax Advisory
Privacy, GDPR, and When to Use Local Models
Getting Started One Task This Week
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Join us as Thorsten breaks down how everyday people - small business owners, retirees, hobbyists, and anyone who isn't a developer - can use AI to get real things done without writing a single line of code.
Thorsten runs an AI roundtable for small and medium businesses in Germany and shares hands-on use cases from his own life and clients: a family recipe database built entirely on a mobile phone, 13 months of fitness data analyzed into actionable coaching, a personal AI project manager that reads his calendar and meeting transcripts, and real-world implementations for a dental practice and a tax advisory firm. You will learn how to think about AI as a team you never had, why prompts are the new apps, how to handle privacy and data regulations, and how to start this week with just one task.
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How to find Thorsten:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoegertn/
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