AI Career Accelerator
Build practical, applied AI skills to improve how you work, solve problems, increase productivity, and pursue new opportunities in an AI-enabled economy.
Build practical AI capability for today’s workplace.
The AI Career Accelerator is an applied learning program for professionals who want to confidently use artificial intelligence to improve how they work, solve problems, and create value. Through live instruction, practical exercises, and guided projects, participants develop capabilities in prompting, research, analysis, productivity, workflow automation, responsible AI, and AI agents.
The program concludes with a capstone project and Demo Day, where participants demonstrate an applied AI solution addressing a workplace, research, or service-delivery challenge.
WHO THIS IS FOR
- Professionals integrating AI into their work
- Career builders preparing for AI-enabled opportunities
- Consultants improving productivity and client delivery
- Managers supporting responsible AI adoption
- Researchers and analysts strengthening AI-assisted work
- Nontechnical professionals seeking a practical starting point
Seven weeks of hands-on learning with projects built to demonstrate your skills.
Each week combines live instruction, guided practice, and applied exercises. Your learning builds toward an AI solution presented during the Week 7 Demo Day and Project Showcase.
Generative AI Foundations and Opportunities
Build a practical understanding of generative AI and identify where it can create value in your work.
- How generative AI and large language models work
- Exploring tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot
- Identifying AI opportunities across roles and industries
- Understanding AI capabilities, limitations, and risks
Prompt Engineering and AI Productivity
Develop structured prompting techniques that produce clearer, more useful, and repeatable results.
- Zero-shot, few-shot, and structured prompting
- Providing context, constraints, examples, and output formats
- Creating reusable prompt templates
- Using AI for communication, planning, and productivity
- Evaluating outputs for accuracy and quality
Applied AI for Research, Analysis and Automation
Use AI tools to organize information, generate insights, create content, and improve everyday workflows.
- AI-assisted research and document analysis
- Summarizing information and extracting insights
- Working responsibly with workplace data
- Creating reports, presentations, and professional content
- Identifying and automating repetitive tasks
Agentic AI and Intelligent Workflow Design
Understand how AI agents work and learn how to design structured agentic workflows.
- From prompts and chatbots to AI agents
- Agent goals, instructions, tools, memory, and actions
- Mapping tasks into multi-step agent workflows
- Human oversight, approvals, and guardrails
- Designing an agent for a defined workplace challenge
Building and Testing AI Agents
Build a functional AI agent using accessible no-code or low-code tools.
- Configuring agent instructions and knowledge sources
- Connecting tools, documents, and workflows
- Building single-agent and introductory multi-agent solutions
- Testing outputs, handling errors, and improving performance
- Applying agents to research, operations, client service, and productivity
Responsible and ethical AI at work
Refine your applied AI solution while addressing responsible use, implementation, and organizational value.
- Privacy, security, bias, transparency, and accountability
- Evaluating risks and setting responsible-use controls
- Defining the problem, user, workflow, and expected value
- Developing and documenting the capstone solution
- Preparing the project demonstration and presentation
Demo Day and Project Showcase
Present an applied AI solution that addresses a workplace, research, business, or service-delivery challenge.
- Demonstrate the completed AI solution
- Explain the problem, approach, workflow, and value
- Present responsible-use considerations
- Receive feedback from instructors, peers, and invited guests
- Add the completed project to your professional portfolio
Capabilities you can apply and demonstrate.
Applied AI Capability
Use AI for research, analysis, productivity, communication, and workflow improvement.
AI Agent and Capstone Project
Design, build, test, and present an applied AI solution addressing a defined challenge.
Certificate and Digital Badge
Receive a Black AI Centre certificate and digital badge upon successful completion.
Professional Community
Connect with a growing community of professionals, instructors, mentors, and AI practitioners.
Who this program is, and isn't, for.
Being honest about fit means you get the most from your seat, and so does everyone else in the cohort.
This is for you if
- You work in any field and want to apply AI to your actual job
- You learn best by building, not just watching
- You can commit a few hours a week for seven weeks
- You want proof of skill, not just exposure
This may not fit if
- You're looking for a deep technical ML engineering course
- You want a fully self-paced, no-live-sessions format
- You can't set aside any time for the weekly project work
- You're under 18 (see the AI Youth Lab instead)
A format built to fit a working life.
Cohort-based
You move through the seven weeks with a group, building accountability and network.
Live online
Weekly live sessions you can join from anywhere, with recordings if you miss one.
Project-driven
Every week builds toward the capstone you own at the end.
Mentor-supported
Access to an instructor and mentors who apply these skills for a living.
Expanding access to practical AI capability.
The Impact Scholarship supports eligible Black professionals to participate in the AI Career Accelerator at no tuition cost. Each scholarship provides program sponsorship valued at $3,500 per participant, helping more professionals develop practical AI skills, build applied solutions, and access emerging opportunities in the AI economy.
ELIGIBILITY APPLIES · LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLEHands-on Skills. Real Outcomes.
Our impact is reflected in the learners supported, practical capabilities developed, programs completed, and growing network of mentors and instructors advancing applied AI learning.
Program FAQs.
The program is designed for professionals, career builders, consultants, managers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and other individuals who want to apply AI within their work or professional practice.
No. The program is beginner-friendly and starts with the foundations before progressing into applied AI, workflow automation, and AI agents. No coding experience is required.
The program runs for seven weeks, including six weeks of hands-on classes followed by the Demo Day and Project Showcase in Week 7.
Participants attend two live online classes each week. The confirmed class days, times, and time zone will be communicated before the cohort begins.
Participants should plan for minimum of four hours of live classes each week, along with additional time for hands-on activities, project development, and capstone preparation.
The program is delivered through live, instructor-led online classes, guided demonstrations, practical exercises, collaborative learning, and applied project work.
Participants develop practical skills in generative AI, prompt engineering, AI-assisted research and analysis, productivity, workflow automation, responsible AI, and the design and development of AI agents.
Yes. Participants develop an applied AI solution addressing a workplace, research, business, or service-delivery challenge. The project is presented during the Week 7 Demo Day and Project Showcase.
Participants work with selected generative AI, productivity, automation, and agent-building platforms. The required tools and setup instructions will be provided before the program begins.
Class recordings and learning materials will be available for review. Participants are expected to catch up promptly and remain actively engaged with weekly activities and project work.
The program is valued at $3,500 per participant. Impact Scholarships are available to eligible Black professionals selected for program sponsorship.
The Impact Scholarship enables eligible Black professionals to participate at no tuition cost. Scholarship availability is limited, eligibility requirements apply, and selection is completed through the application process.
Yes. Participants who meet the completion requirements receive a Black AI Centre certificate and digital badge.
Participants must meet the attendance requirements, complete assigned hands-on activities, develop their capstone project, and participate in the Demo Day and Project Showcase.
Applications are reviewed for eligibility, program fit, readiness, and available cohort capacity. Selected applicants will receive admission and onboarding instructions by email.
Build practical AI capabilities for what comes next.
Develop hands-on skills in generative AI, workflow automation, and AI agents. Learn to apply AI responsibly, solve meaningful professional challenges, and build a solution you can present with confidence.
Impact Scholarships are available for eligible Black professionals.