ChatGPT 5.4: Outstanding New Features (Projects, Custom GPTs, and Advanced Workflows)

Many people use ChatGPT as a conversational assistant. Power users use it as a structured workspace for organizing work, building reusable tools, and supporting complex tasks.

This session focuses on the advanced features that help transform ChatGPT into a practical productivity environment. Participants will explore tools such as Projects and custom GPTs, along with strategies for managing longer workflows, structuring prompts, and creating AI assistants tailored to specific needs.

Through demonstrations and guided exercises, participants will experiment with organizing ongoing work inside Projects, designing specialized GPTs, and developing repeatable workflows that support research, writing, planning, and analysis. 
Examples will highlight how these tools can be applied across academic, administrative, and creative contexts.

Objectives
You will have the opportunity to:
1. Organize ongoing work and conversations using ChatGPT Projects
2. Explore creating and configuring custom GPTs for specialized tasks
3. Develop reusable prompts and workflow structures
4. Apply ChatGPT to research, writing, and analysis activities
5. Examine practical ways to incorporate ChatGPT into everyday work processes
 

Topics
- Overview of advanced ChatGPT capabilities
- Structuring and managing work with Projects
- Creating and customizing GPTs
- Prompt frameworks for complex or repeatable tasks
- Managing conversation context and longer interactions
- Building simple AI-assisted workflows for common tasks
- Examples of practical applications across different types of work