Overview
Turn an AI idea into a working prototype in six practical sessions, with support from Jersey’s leading AI experts.
Let’s Build AI picks up where the classroom ends. Across six evening sessions, two expert facilitators will work directly with your team to help build and progress your AI project.
There are no lectures or repeated course content. Each session follows a practical build-and-unblock format, focused on resolving challenges, guiding technical decisions and keeping your project moving.
The programme is designed to address a common challenge identified through Let’s Build AI Season 1 and similar programmes: participants leave with strong ideas but can struggle to turn them into working solutions.
Session 1: Project Kick-off & Blueprint
- Come along with your idea, even a rough one, and we’ll work through it together. We’ll help you shape the scope, sanity-check your assumptions, and figure out what’s feasible. You’ll leave with a clear project blueprint and a sense of the tools you’ll use.
Session 2: Tooling Setup & Hello World
- Set up the accounts, APIs, connections and environments needed for your project. You leave with a working development environment, an initial workflow and finalised requirements.
Session 3: Prototype v1.0
- Build the core journey of your solution, with facilitators helping to resolve technical issues and guide architecture decisions. You leave with a thin vertical slice working from end to end.
Session 4: Production Readiness & Governance
- Test your prototype against data policies, human oversight, access controls, security and relevant JFSC and JCRA considerations. You leave with a Risk and Governance Canvas and a practical deployment plan.
Session 5: Agents, Memory & Iteration
- Where appropriate, add agentic capabilities, logging, feedback loops, observability and governance guardrails. You leave with an improved Prototype v1.5, including error handling and feedback mechanisms.
Session 6: Showcase & Handoff
- Present your final prototype to a panel and receive peer feedback. You leave with an adoption plan and a 90-day commitment to continue progressing the project.
Dates
Wednesday 9th September – 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Wednesday 16th September – 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Wednesday 23rd September – 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Wednesday 30th September – 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Wednesday 7th October – 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Wednesday 21st October – 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Who it's for
Let’s Build AI is for teams ready to move from planning into building.
You’ll get the most out of it if you:
- Have an AI idea in mind, even a rough one
- Understand the problem you’re trying to solve
- Can bring both business and technical perspectives to the table
- Have backing from your organisation to take part
- Can commit a couple of hours between sessions to keep the project moving
- Prior AI training or experience is a bonus, not a requirement.
Before you apply
Come with as much of this as you can – we’ll help you fill in the gaps:
- An AI idea you’d like to explore, even if it’s not fully scoped yet
- Some initial thinking on the business case, however early-stage
- A sense of what data you have (or might need) to work with
- Backing from your organisation to give this some time
- Willingness to put in a couple of hours’ build work every fortnight
- Don’t worry if it’s not all fully formed. Session one is designed to help you test, refine, and sharpen your idea together, not to expect a finished proposal on day one.
How it works
Let’s Build AI includes six two-hour evening sessions, held every two weeks at Digital Jersey.
Each session follows a practical build-and-unblock format. Facilitators work directly with teams to resolve technical issues, challenge assumptions and guide key decisions.
Supported technologies include:
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- VS Code
- Jupyter
- GitHub
- Hugging Face
- PyTorch
- Standard Python data and machine learning libraries
Using something else? Speak to us when applying.
What you'll walk away with
- A working AI prototype
- An adoption plan
- A 90-day ownership commitment
- Practical guidance on tooling, infrastructure, machine learning and data strategy
- Support with governance and production readiness
Cost
Free to Digital Jersey Members
Meet the Facilitators
Malcom Mason
Malcolm Mason is a Cloud and Data Consultant and founder of the Jersey AI Forum, with over 12 years’ experience in AI model creation and fine tuning. He holds an MSc in IT and is a certified Azure Data Scientist Associate, specialising in unsupervised, supervised, self-supervised and reinforcement learning. He has delivered educational workshops and knowledge-based content and, in collaboration with Digital Jersey, delivered Jersey’s first AI deep learning education programme over eight years ago and more recently collaborated to deliver the island’s first AI Hackathon. He has represented Jersey internationally, contributing for two years to the ITU-T AI for Environmental Efficiency programme through whitepaper authorship, collaboration, and presentations at ITU AI4EE seminars across Europe.
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.