How to Learn Workflow Automation With Make.com Sessions

If you want to master automation, make.com offers a structured way to learn through its Make Waves event sessions. This how-to guide shows you how to use that session lineup as a practical roadmap for improving your skills step by step.

The instructions below are based on the official Make Waves sessions overview from the Make blog. You will learn how to choose the right sessions, follow a learning path, and translate each topic into concrete next steps for your own workflows.

Step 1: Understand What Make.com Make Waves Is

Before you dive in, it helps to understand what the Make Waves sessions actually are and how they relate to your daily work.

• Make Waves is a free online event hosted by the make.com team.
• It features live sessions, demos, and interviews with power users.
• The agenda is split across themes like AI, productivity, marketing, operations, and product updates.

Your goal in this how-to process is not just to watch videos, but to convert each session topic into a concrete experiment in your own workspace.

Step 2: Access the Official Make.com Sessions Page

Start by opening the event overview page from the source:

Make Waves 25 sessions overview on make.com

Keep this page open in a separate tab. You will use it as your navigation hub while following the steps below.

Step 3: Pick Your Learning Track on Make.com

The sessions are grouped by themes. To avoid overload, choose one or two tracks that match your current priorities.

3.1 AI and Automation on Make.com

If your focus is artificial intelligence, use the AI-related sessions as a structured path:

• Start with sessions that explain how AI fits into automation strategies.
• Note examples where AI is used to summarize, classify, or generate content.
• List tools and models mentioned so you can later replicate similar scenarios inside your own make.com workspace.

3.2 Productivity and Operations on Make.com

If you need better internal operations, follow the productivity sessions:

• Look for sessions about cross-team collaboration, approvals, and task routing.
• Pay attention to how speakers reduce manual work with clear trigger and action patterns.
• Write down each real-world scenario (for example, onboarding or requests) and map it to your own processes.

3.3 Marketing and Growth Automations

For marketing teams, the growth track is ideal:

• Identify email, CRM, and social media workflows highlighted in the schedule.
• Notice how data is passed between tools to keep audiences segmented and clean.
• Highlight 1–2 ideas you can implement quickly, such as automatic lead enrichment or follow-up sequences.

Step 4: Prepare Your Make.com Workspace

Before you watch any session in depth, set up your environment so you can follow along efficiently.

1. Create or sign in to your make.com account. Make sure you can access your dashboard.
2. List your current tools. Note the apps you already use (CRM, support, spreadsheets, email, chat).
3. Check available integrations. On make.com, confirm that your core tools are supported and locate their modules.
4. Create a sandbox folder. In your workspace, make a dedicated folder or space for “Make Waves experiments.”

This way, each session you attend can be turned into a scenario prototype without touching production systems.

Step 5: Turn Each Make.com Session Into an Action Plan

To convert sessions into skills, use a simple template while you watch.

5.1 Capture the Core Idea

For each session you attend, write down:

• Problem: What bottleneck or use case is being solved?
• Trigger: What starts the workflow (form submit, new record, message, schedule)?
• Main actions: Which apps and modules are connected in make.com?
• Outcome: What result is delivered automatically?

5.2 Rebuild the Scenario in Make.com

Right after the session, rebuild a simplified version of the scenario:

1. Open your experimental folder in make.com.
2. Create a new scenario and add the same type of trigger used in the session.
3. Add 1–3 core modules that replicate the logic, even if you use different apps.
4. Run the scenario with test data and examine the logs.

This hands-on repetition turns a single talk into practical automation knowledge that sticks.

Step 6: Use Make.com Sessions to Improve AI Workflows

The Make Waves agenda includes multiple AI-focused talks and demos. Use them to build or refine AI-based automations.

6.1 Identify AI Patterns Demonstrated on Make.com

While watching AI sessions, focus on patterns, not tools:

• Text generation for emails, summaries, or reports.
• Classification and tagging of support tickets or leads.
• Routing decisions made by AI output (for example, priority or category fields).

For each pattern, decide whether you can apply a similar flow to your own data or customers.

6.2 Prototype One AI Scenario

Choose one AI pattern that matches a real need and build a prototype:

1. Define a clear, limited use case such as “summarize long tickets.”
2. In make.com, select an appropriate AI module exposed in the sessions you watched.
3. Connect your input source (help desk, forms, or email).
4. Add a destination such as a field update, a note, or a new record with AI results.

Test with sample data and measure whether it saves meaningful time or reduces errors.

Step 7: Collaborate With Your Team Around Make.com Sessions

Make Waves is more powerful when multiple people share insights.

• Invite colleagues to register for complementary tracks.
• After the event, host a short sync where each person explains one automation they plan to build.
• Create a shared document where you list all session-inspired scenarios you intend to test in make.com.

This turns the event into a structured automation backlog for your team.

Step 8: Document and Scale Your Make.com Automations

Once you have prototypes inspired by the sessions, you need a way to scale them.

8.1 Document Each Scenario

For every automation built from a Make Waves idea, document:

• Business owner and stakeholders.
• Exact trigger conditions.
• Connected apps and data fields.
• Expected outputs and alerts.

Good documentation will make your make.com workspace easier to maintain as more scenarios go live.

8.2 Apply Standard Practices

Use the recurring advice mentioned across different sessions:

• Start small and iterate instead of automating entire departments at once.
• Monitor scenarios with logs and error handling.
• Set clear permissions and separate test from production areas.

Step 9: Get Extra Support Beyond Make.com Sessions

If you need additional help designing or optimizing workflows based on what you learned, specialized automation consultants can speed up the process. For example, you can explore expert services at Consultevo, where automation, integration, and AI strategy are combined to help teams get more value from tools like make.com.

Step 10: Build Your Ongoing Learning Plan on Make.com

Finally, treat Make Waves as the starting point for an ongoing learning plan rather than a one-off event.

1. Review the session list every quarter and see which topics still apply.
2. Re-watch or revisit recordings (if made available) to catch details you missed.
3. Regularly add new ideas to your automation backlog and prioritize them by impact and effort.

By following these steps, you transform inspirational Make Waves content into a concrete, repeatable method for building better workflows with make.com. Over time, this approach will help you reduce manual work, connect your tech stack, and deploy powerful AI-driven automations with confidence.

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