Business Analysis Educational Opportunities Just for You!
{{Recipient.FirstName}}, Join us for these business analysis educational opportunities developed with you in mind. Bluegrass IIBA Chapter is dedicated to helping business analysis professionals across the region grow their skills, expand their networks, and stay current on industry generally accepted practices. Here is what we have lined up for you this month.
Upcoming Events
Agile After Hours: Pie, Stories, and Simplicity
Monday, August 3, 2026; 7:00 - 8:30 pm EDT
Virtual community event
Join us for a delightfully themed evening as the Bluegrass, Southeast Michigan and Chicagoland IIBA Chapters come together to celebrate what makes both life and agile work a little sweeter — simplicity, community, and the joy of the things we love. We will celebrate Homemade Pie Day, Love Your Bookshop Day and Simplify Your Life Week. In the spirit of Homemade Pie Day, we're honoring the art of making something from scratch. Just like a perfectly crafted pie, great business analysis requires the right ingredients, patience, and a willingness to iterate until you get it just right. We'll also be building our very own Community Cookbook! Bring your favorite pie recipe to share, use the link below to submit your pie recipe ahead of the event to be included in our community cookbook.
AI for Business Analysts: Real Skills, Real Scenarios
Wednesday, August 19, 2026; 6:00 - 7:30 pm EDT
Virtual event
What if you left tonight's chapter meeting already knowing how to use AI as a BA tool? The Bluegrass IIBA Chapter is dedicating an entire meeting to one of the most transformative shifts in the business analysis profession — and you won't just watch it happen. You'll do it yourself. This is a live, hands-on workshop led by Van Miller, CBAP, built around a real-world healthcare scenario: creating a patient portal. Van will guide you through a series of ready-to-use prompts that you'll type into GenAI yourself, in real time, to tackle the kinds of tasks business analysts face every day. No prior AI experience required.
Join the Bluegrass IIBA Chapter for an engaging lunch hour focused on enhancing your business analysis toolkit! Our expert-led session will feature a hands-on demonstration of a practical BA technique you can apply to your work immediately. How many projects have you seen pour months of effort into building the right solution to the wrong problem? It happens more often than anyone likes to admit—and it almost always traces back to a problem domain that was never fully understood before the work began. Join us for this Lunch 'n Learn as Peter Lutz explores one of the most foundational—and most overlooked—disciplines in the business analyst's toolkit: knowing your problem domain before you dive into the details of analysis.
