About the Program
Learn AI. Build with AI. Lead with AI.
Artificial intelligence is changing how we research, communicate, analyze information and get work done.
The Applied AI Program is designed to help professionals and students develop practical AI skills they can apply immediately, without requiring a technical background.
Participants progress from understanding and effectively using AI to building AI-powered solutions, automations, agents and applications. Each level consists of six two-hour sessions, combining practical instruction with hands-on work.
No coding experience is required to get started.
Build practical AI skills, one level at a time
Participants in the Applied AI Program begin by learning how to use AI effectively, responsibly and productively in everyday work. They then progress into more advanced applications, including research, data analysis, AI-powered tools, workflow automation, agents and solution development.
Who should attend?
AI Foundation is designed for professionals across industries and career levels, as well as students at any stage.
No previous experience with artificial intelligence or coding is required.
Program Structure
Understand AI and use it well
AI Foundation is the entry point to the Applied AI Program.
Over six weekly sessions, participants move from understanding what an AI model is actually doing when it generates an answer to incorporating AI into their everyday work.
The program emphasizes practical use rather than technical theory. Participants learn how to get better results from AI, build reusable tools and workflows and recognize when an AI-generated answer needs to be verified.
No prior AI or coding experience is required.
What you will learn
- Explain how generative AI models produce answers and why they can produce convincing but incorrect information.
- Select an appropriate AI model for different tasks.
- Write structured prompts and refine results through effective follow-up.
- Build a personal prompt library and configure an AI assistant around your work.
- Use AI for common professional tasks including email, meetings, planning and document review.
- Produce writing, reports and presentations using AI while maintaining your own standards and voice.
- Build an AI knowledge assistant grounded in your own documents.
- Verify AI-generated information and identify fabricated citations.
- Apply practical safeguards for confidential information.
- Develop your own ground rules for responsible AI use.
Course Structure
What you will leave with
Every session includes hands-on work and produces something participants can continue using after the program.
By the end, you will have developed:
- Plain-language notes explaining how AI models work
- A personal prompt library
- Your own configured AI assistant
- A recurring work task redesigned around AI
- A report and presentation developed with AI
- A knowledge assistant based on your own documents
- An AI verification checklist
- Written ground rules for your own AI use
Together, these outputs form a practical portfolio of AI-enabled work.
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