APPLICATIONS CLOSED
Apply to join our multi-month, interactive workshop series designed for technical professionals eager to explore, develop, and deploy AI solutions. Unlike traditional masterclasses, our sessions are highly hands-on and collaborative.
Participants will be encouraged to bring their own challenges and ideas, and together, we build solutions. This approach caters to different skill levels and interests, ensuring everyone gains valuable insights from the shared problem-solving process.
The workshop runs from April to September, with one face-to-face session in the evening and one remote session per month.
Upon applying, you will receive additional questions to help the tutors determine your eligibility for the course. Candidates must be able to attend the majority of the course dates listed below.
May 27th – 6pm – 7.30pm – Online
June 17th – 6pm – 8.30pm – Digital Jersey Academy
June 24th – 6pm – 7.30pm – Online
July 15th – 6pm – 8.30pm – Digital Jersey Academy
July 29th – 6pm – 7.30pm – Online
August 12th – 6pm – 8.30pm – Digital Jersey Academy
August 26th – 6pm – 7.30pm – Online
September 16th – 6pm – 8.30pm – Digital Jersey Academy
September 30th – 6pm – 7.30pm – Online
Free – APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED
This course is divided into two main components: Theory & Exploration, and Practical Collaborative Sessions.
Theory and exploration
In the Theory & Exploration segment, we cover a range of topics including identifying business challenges that AI can solve, discussing high-level AI tasks, optimizing interactions with AI through effective prompt engineering, and exploring various AI development environments tailored to different skill levels. We also delve into crafting successful AI strategies, advanced AI concepts like distillation and fine-tuning, building trust with observability and guardrails, and utilising the open-source ecosystem.
Practical collaborative sessions
The Practical, Collaborative Sessions focus on idea incubation, live coding, and co-creation. Participants are encouraged to submit their ideas or challenges ahead of time, and we build solutions together in real-time. There is also dedicated time for personalized development, where participants work on their own projects with guidance and support from the group. Additionally, we provide hands-on experience using the NVIDIA DGX compute available at the local AI Forum.
Inclusivity
Our course is designed to be flexible and inclusive, with sessions accessible both in-person and via remote participation. We have space for 18 participants who wish to develop locally. Remote participation is also available for those just keen to learn. This ensures that we are not strictly limited to 18 participants, although local compute resources are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Even when a solution doesn’t fully come together, the process is a valuable learning opportunity, and discussions and divergent ideas are encouraged. This course will also deliver occasional online theory sessions and Q&A.
Upon applying, you will receive additional questions to help the tutors determine your eligibility for the course.
Malcom Mason
Highly motivated professional with over 20 years of IT experience within the Cloud, Data Science, Software, Managed Services, Global Telecommunications and UK Defence arenas. Passionate about driving the continued evolution of IT to where it becomes a natural extension of the customer. Carries a successful track record in architecting and evolving Cloud, Data, Managed Service and Software products to meet customer business and IT needs. Consistently pushing the boundaries for next generation IT Services including Deep Learning and Narrow AI solutions. Author and co-author of papers for the ITU-T AI for Environmental Efficiency working group. A lifelong learner, devoting the majority of time, outside of work and family life, to advanced Data Science activities.
Vincent Sider
Vincent has 19 years experience as a digital strategist and marketing practitioner, helping organisations define and build their digital strategies and improve their digital marketing. He has worked globally with some of the world’s leading organisations developing world-class digital marketing as Head of Strategy for British Telecom then Vice President for Social Media at the BBC and Head of TopGear.com, Adviser at the Royal Foundation and Board Member of its digital steering group. He is an award-winning lecturer and an alumnus of Mines ParisTech.
Comfortable at the command prompt, and computer literate. Access to a commercial LLM, such as Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini or ChatGPT. Basic python skills may be beneficial, but not essential.