Innovative Frontiers in Operative Science and Technology

Executive and Leadership Development in AI

Target audience: Senior leadership / C-suite level

Maximum participants: 20

How to be a good buyer of AI solutions

(approx 3 hours)
  • Strategic decision-making for technology -- the two types of strategy that make sense
  • Finding commodity vendors vs finding startup partners
  • What is everybody already doing, and what is safe to rely on?
  • Evaluating and working with AI vendors: Warning signs of under-delivery and over-promising
  • AI governance frameworks

The next 5 years

(approx 3 hours)
  • AI's current and future impact on jobs (5-year horizon)
  • AI in 2029: Predictions and projections
  • What jobs are going to be left?
  • White-collar recession, blue-collar boom
  • Impacts on land values and interest rates

Investment primer

(approx 2 hours)
  • Who are the main players and what is their exposure?
  • What does the AI supply chain look like?
  • Deglobalisation risks vs AGI potentials
  • What does the Chinese mainland supply chain look like?
  • How far behind are China/Japan/Europe/others?

For questions or inquiries, please email [email protected].


Organisational AI Enablement

Introduction to Generative AI

Target audience: Team leads and individual contributors

Topics covered (1 hour)

  • Where GenAI helps
  • Problems
  • Capabilities: create, summarise, inspire, critique, educate, role-play, automate, translate, analyse, watch
  • Speech and vision
  • Managing and empowering staff to use AI

Prompt Engineering

Target audience: Team leads and individual contributors

Topics covered (1 hour)

  • How GenAI systems are trained
  • An intuition on how prompting works
  • What is temperature, and what does it do
  • Giving instructions versus assuming a role
  • 7 different levels of expertise
  • Problems: arithmetic, hallucination, thinking ahead, prompt injection
  • Markdown, templates, registers and other magic tricks that do work
  • Alignment, the refresh cycle, and why most other tricks don't work
  • Getting around refusal
  • How to get good at prompting

Ethics of AI

Target audience: Staff in governments and non-profits concerned with AI's impact on diverse communities.

Topics covered (1 hour)

  • Accountability and responsibility
  • Transparency and explainability
  • Data privacy
  • RLHF and where GenAI gets its moral sense from
  • Prompting for fairness reading
  • Environmental impact
  • Hallucinations and explanations
  • Issues when working in other languages
  • Ethics of AI from different religions and perspectives

These courses are mostly tuned for users of OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Versions for Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and local-run models are in development.

For questions or inquiries, please email [email protected].


Software Developer Upskilling in AI

Minimum Viable Software Developer for Text and Language

Target audience: Software developers (any level)

Topics covered (20 hours):

  • Calling ChatGPT and Anthropic APIs
  • Tool calling
  • Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
  • Building information retrieval systems
  • Handling different languages and scripts
  • Generating audio with ElevenLabs
  • Integrating Twilio for telephone bots

On-prem, On-device, On-budget

Target audience: Software developers with experience in OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini APIs

Topics covered (20 hours):

  • Common tasks in text and voice
  • Using and running pre-existing models
  • Fine-tuning existing models
  • Model compression techniques
  • Design principles for language applications

For questions or inquiries, please email [email protected].

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