instructor led courses

The Applied AI Institute offers instructor-led courses designed to equip professionals with practical AI skills. These courses cover advanced prompt engineering, real-world AI applications, and intelligent AI workflows. Participants gain hands-on experience by working on real business applications in the Gen AI Sandbox. Upon completion, attendees earn certifications to enhance their AI credentials. All our instructor-led courses are taught by experienced academic and industry experts with 30+ years of expertise in AI and Analytics. Explore some of our upcoming instructor-led courses below.

Fall 2025 Live, Instructor-Led Courses

Learn the skills to excel in the AI-powered world! Our live, interactive courses combine expert-led lectures, hands-on practice, and homework support to give you the knowledge and confidence to apply AI in real-world scenarios.

🎯 Prompt Engineering Basics

2 Lectures + Practical Exercises

Master the art of prompt engineering and unlock the full potential of AI tools like ChatGPT.

This course teaches you how to write effective prompts for large language models, from the

basics to advanced techniques. Learn powerful strategies such as Flip-Interaction, Chain of Thought,

Tree of Thought, and Prompt Sequencing to design optimized prompts that reduce errors and improve results.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to build high-impact AI applications using cutting-edge models like

GPT-4, Llama, and IBM Granite.

🗓️ Schedule: Learn at your own pace

👥 Ideal For: Beginners and business professionals, tech enthusiasts, and students—including high school students—who are new to prompt engineering and AI tools.

Upon successful completion, students are eligible to join the Generative AI Foundation Course.

📚 Generative AI Foundation Certification

4 Lectures + 2 Homework Support Sessions + Credly Foundation Certificate

This course covers essential techniques like Prompt Engineering, Taxonomy Augmented Generation (TAG), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic Frameworks—key tools for modern AI applications.

You’ll also explore classification methods, embeddings, vector databases, and strategies for scaling AI-driven solutions. With a focus on structured knowledge retrieval, you'll gain the skills to build intelligent, real-world AI systems.

As part of the course, you'll also develop your own AI use cases using the Applied AI Institute’s sandbox environment.

🗓️ Schedule: Mondays & Fridays, 3:30 – 5:00 PM PST

Upcoming Session: Sept 22 - Oct 4, 2025 (completed)

🎓 Certificate: Credly Level Foundation Certificate upon completion

🛠️ Key Topics:

Prompt Engineering for real-world tasks
Taxonomy and knowledge integration (TAG)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for context
Building AI agents for automation

👥 Ideal For: Professionals, students, and tech enthusiasts ready to apply AI in projects

After completing this course, learners can enroll in the Build Agentic Solutions program to design and deploy full-scale AI workflows.

🚀 Generative AI Mastery Certification

4 Lectures + 4 Homework Support Sessions + Credly Foundation Certificate

This intensive four-week course provides AI practitioners with the skills to design, build, and deploy sophisticated AI copilots and orchestrators. Learn to develop intelligent, automated AI workflows using tools like Langchain, Langflow, LlamaIndex, Google Agentspace while mastering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG),taxonomy-augmented generation (TAG), and multi-model orchestration. Content harvesting is supported using Llamacloud.

🗓️ Schedule: Tuesdays 3:30 – 5:00 PM PST

Fall Session: Oct 7- Nov 7, 2025 (In-progress)

🛠️ Key Topics:

✔ Day 1: Introduction to AI-Driven Orchestration & Essential Building Blocks

✔ Day 2: Develop Agents with Langchain, Langflow and Google Agent Development Kit / Agentspace

✔ Day 3: Implement Orchestration with Vectorization – RAG & TAG

✔ Day 4: Advanced Orchestration Concepts – Langsmith & Multi-Model AI Agentic Thinking

🔹 Hands-On Learning – Work through your own real-world business applications

🎓 Earn an Intermediate-Level Credly Certification upon successful completion of all assignments and the final project