AI WorkshopOne afternoon from zero to making your own AI work
DayDreamer co-hosted an AIGC beginner workshop with Alibaba Cloud Malaysia — a hands-on day at Alibaba Cloud's Kuala Lumpur office on 6 August 2026, led by Simson Lee, taking participants with no prior AI experience through AI creation from scratch. It ran twice that day and filled both times: 40 seats a session, both sold out, at RM150 a seat including dinner and model credits.
Overview
DayDreamer and Alibaba Cloud Malaysia co-hosted an AIGC crash course for complete beginners at Alibaba Cloud's Kuala Lumpur office — two hands-on sessions in one day, 40 seats each, both sold out, taking 80 people with no AI background through creating with AI themselves. The premise: AI isn't the hard part. Having nobody to walk you through the first step is.
Background
Malaysia's AI conversation is loud, but the on-ramp is missing. The tools are open to anyone with a browser, and still most people who want to make something with generative AI stall in the same place — in front of a blank prompt box, unsure what to type, or why one phrasing works and the next one doesn't. It's the gap DayDreamer keeps meeting in client work: the models are rarely the bottleneck, the fluency around them is. So we teach it. Alibaba Cloud Malaysia brings the venue, the platform and the model credits; DayDreamer brings a studio that works with these models daily and a Raya campaign already shipped with them; and together that became a day in Kuala Lumpur where eighty complete beginners — two sessions of forty, both sold out — were walked through AI creation hands-on, and went home having made something themselves rather than having watched someone else make it.
What we delivered
AIGC Crash Course
Workshop design & delivery
A beginner-level AI creation workshop co-hosted with Alibaba Cloud Malaysia and led by Simson Lee, who brings 12 years in creative and innovation education and 6,500 students taught. The afternoon covers what AI prompting actually is, how to take AI language apart and put it back together, how to steer your own creative ideas through it, and the foundations of text-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video — closing with a set of prompts to take home. Capped at 40 seats a session so everyone in the room got walked through it — and run twice on the day, both sittings full.
Outcomes
80
Beginners trained in one day
2
Sessions run, both sold out
- →Both sessions sold out — the course ran twice in one day rather than once
- →Eighty complete beginners left having made something with AI themselves, not having watched a demo
- →Delivered with Alibaba Cloud Malaysia's venue, platform and model credits, so participants worked on real models rather than a sandbox
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Frequently asked questions
Does DayDreamer run AI workshops or training?+
Yes. With Alibaba Cloud Malaysia we co-hosted an AIGC crash course for complete beginners at Alibaba Cloud's Kuala Lumpur office — two sold-out sessions in one day that took eighty people from no AI background to creating with AI themselves. We run this kind of training alongside client work, for teams as well as open sessions.
Do I need any AI experience for a session like this?+
No. It was built for zero prior experience — it started from the first step and stayed hands-on throughout, so the room spent the day making things rather than watching slides. It covered what AI prompting actually is, how to steer your own ideas through it, and the foundations of text-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video.
When and where was the DayDreamer × Alibaba Cloud AIGC workshop?+
6 August 2026, at Alibaba Cloud Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur office, led by Simson Lee. Two sessions of 40 seats, both sold out, at RM150 a seat including dinner and model credits.