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September 18, 2025
Leveraging AI for Effective Project Management
Expedite project management work using intelligent systems like ChatGPT 4o Explains the role of AI across the project execution domains Provides clear tutorials and case study examples of AI in project ...
September 25, 2025
LLM Safety and Security
Planning and Mitigating Safe LLM Systems Course Outcomes: Understand the role of context and larger systems in the safe usage of LLMs Apply concepts of ground truth and trust in the ...
September 25, 2025
AI and LLM Cyber Risks and Mitigation
A hands-on approach to safeguarding AI systems and managing vulnerabilities Explore the emerging challenges of securing Language Model Models (LLMs) in the AI landscape Gain unique insights into protecting the very ...
October 2, 2025
Ethics, Empathy, and AI
Build human-centered AI skills grounded in empathy and ethics Combines ethical principles with practical empathy tools for the business environment. Designed for diverse professional audiences to improve interpersonal communications skills in ...
October 3, 2025
Use Git Like A Pro
Level up your software development workflow with Git and GitHub Gain indispensable skills required for effective collaboration, version control, and project management in software development teams. Covers the entire spectrum from ...
October 6, 2025
LangChain4j
Build AI-based applications and implement RAG in Java Course outcomes Install and learn the basic capabilities of LangChain4j Set up applications that use the framework Learn how to employ prompt templates, ...
October 7, 2025
Job Search Strategies: How to Identify and Land Your Next Job
Join in to learn a better way: a system that, if followed with discipline, can open doors and get you the interviews that will lead to the job you want. Expert ...
October 7, 2025
Hands-on GitHub Copilot
Practical tips and best practices Course outcomes Learn how Copilot works, what it can be used for, and its advantages and disadvantages Experience Copilot hands-on across a variety of languages and ...
October 9, 2025
Hugging Face Fundamentals for Machine Learning
Explore the extensive suite of tools for multimodal AI development Learn Hugging Face's multimodal AI capabilities, including NLP, image, video, and audio models. Gain practical, hands-on experience and build an AI ...
October 9, 2025
The AI Powered Leader
Supercharge your power skills through smart human+AI collaboration Understand the sometimes-counterintuitive ways in which AI can improve your capability to be empathetic. Enhance leadership power skills, such as team building, negotiation, ...
October 10, 2025
Architecture for Modern Engineering Practices
Best practices to support structuring deployment pipelines for continuous delivery and continuous integration Yesterday's best practice is tomorrow's anti-pattern. Everything in software continues to shift and move including architecture, a painful ...
October 13, 2025
Copilot for Microsoft 365
Work smarter with generative AI in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams Course outcomes Optimize communication and scheduling in Outlook Enhance document creation in Word Enhance presentation development in PowerPoint Simplify ...
October 14, 2025
Python® Data Science Full Throttle with Paul Deitel: Introductory Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and Cloud Case Studies
A One-Day, Presentation-Only, Case-Study-Intensive Seminar Leverage your Python skills to dive into some key Python data science, AI, big data and cloud technologies Study many Python code examples, from individual snippets ...
October 14, 2025
AI-Powered Project Management
Essential prompting techniques to accelerate project success Course outcomes Understand the basics of ChatGPT and its capabilities Learn how to create and manage effective meeting agendas Explore ChatGPT for tracking meeting ...
October 16, 2025
AI Insights: Frontiers of AI Reasoning
Your Monthly AI Debrief with host Shaun Wassell Cut through the hype with expert insights that separate game-changing developments from marketing noise. Get the insider perspective on breakthrough research, industry moves, ...
October 17, 2025
Introduction to Docker and Containers
How to Containerize Docker, as a company and technology, has been adopted quickly by so many entities, at a user and industry level. With its powerful and easy to use approach, ...
October 17, 2025
Engineering Value and Mastering Software Trade-Offs
A Tech Lead's Survival Guide to Decoding the Business Mindset Learn real-world approaches to addressing business value in your software projects based on decades of experience from startups to Fortune 500 ...
October 21, 2025
Microservice fundamentals
Understanding the power and complexity of microservice architectures Microservices—they’re everywhere! Microservices help organizations achieve autonomy at scale and mix technologies. They can put software in the hands of users faster than ...
October 21, 2025
Leadership Communication Skills for Managers
Learn how to best support, respond to, persuade, and inspire your team In this course, you’ll: Understand how communication affects workplace culture and productivity Identify best practices for communicating in leadership ...
October 21, 2025
Tech Leadership Tuesday: How to Work on What Truly Matters to the Business with Lena Reinhard and Noha Shafik
Practical guidance on strategic leadership that drives real impact Nothing feels worse than spending months building something that doesn’t move the business forward. Yet countless engineering leaders struggle with this exact ...
October 27 & 28, 2025
Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate Certification Crash Course
In-depth and hands-on practice for acing the exam HashiCorp Terraform is the leading open source automation tool for infrastructure as code (IaC) for building and deploying infrastructure to prominent cloud providers ...
October 31, 2025
Effective Project Management Skills
Senior product manager and business strategist Megan Andrew covers the foundational and professional skills you need to upskill and feel empowered to successfully manage any project. You’re in a technical role ...
October 31, 2025
SQL Foundations for Data Analysis
Improve your PostgreSQL and SQL skills in just four hours Learn the most essential SQL queries and PostgreSQL concepts for data analysis. Build real-world projects using SQL to extract, clean, and ...
November 3, 2025
AI Insights: The Job Market in the Age of AI
Your Monthly AI Debrief with host Shaun Wassell Cut through the hype with expert insights that separate game-changing developments from marketing noise. Get the insider perspective on breakthrough research, industry moves, ...
November 3, 2025
Fundamentals of DevOps
Learn the tools, processes, and culture of successful DevOps Course Outcomes Understand the core principles, values, and key practices of the DevOps methodology Learn how to foster a culture of collaboration ...
November 3, 2025
Building AI Workflows and Agents with n8n
Data and operations professionals seeking to automate repetitive AI tasks. Product managers and technical leads exploring internal AI agents and tools. AI enthusiasts looking to combine LLMs with low-code tools like ...
November 3, 2025
Generative AI for Finance
Understand the capabilities and use cases of AI tools Course Outcomes: Understand the Fundamentals Explore Practical Use Cases Evaluate Leading Tools Analyze Limitations and Risks Develop Mitigation Strategies Strategize for the ...
November 4 & 5, 2025
Enterprise Architecture Modernization with Generative AI, RAG, and Agents
Integrate AI and automation for innovation, risk mitigation, and measurable ROI Course outcomes Understand how to use enterprise architecture (EA) AI principles to build a long-term IT strategy that aligns with ...
November 5, 2025
Hugging Face in 4 Hours
Contribute to and Grow with the AI Community: Tap into the shared wisdom of a global network of AI practitioners and enthusiasts, enhancing your own projects with contributions and discoveries from ...
November 7, 2025
Mastering AI and ML Fundamentals
Understand the basics of AI & ML algorithms through real-world use cases Explore the mechanics of AI and Machine Learning in a way that is intuitive and easy to grasp. Understand ...
November 10, 2025
Use AI Like a Pro
Level up your AI developer skills with LLMs, prompts, APIs, and tools like OpenAI and Claude Goes beyond theory with live coding, real-world APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Ollama), and project-based demos using ...
November 11 & 12, 2025
Microservices Bootcamp
From fundamentals to deployment Microservices—they’re everywhere! Microservices help organizations achieve autonomy at scale and mix technologies. They can put software in the hands of users faster than other styles of architecture ...
November 14, 2025
AI and LLM Cyber Risks and Mitigation
A hands-on approach to safeguarding AI systems and managing vulnerabilities Explore the emerging challenges of securing Language Model Models (LLMs) in the AI landscape Gain unique insights into protecting the very ...
November 17, 2025
Optimizing Snowflake
Fixing performance bottlenecks and reducing costs Course outcomes Understand common performance issues in Snowflake and how to solve them Fine-tune SQL queries to achieve the best possible performance Ingest data into ...
November 18, 2025
AI Catalyst: Enterprise Agent Deployments
commercially successful, enterprises need thoughtful agentic AI architectures, systems, and governance in place. With recent MIT research indicating 95% of enterprise AI projects never lead to a positive return on investment, ...
November 19, 2025
Software architecture by example
Learn how to apply the fundamentals through real-world examples Software architecture is a participation sport. While you can learn a great deal about practices, patterns, coupling, cohesion, and all the other ...
November 24, 2025
Generative AI for Business Analysts
Learn How AI is Reshaping the Role and How to Prepare Course outcomes Learn how business leaders are thinking about generative AI and what business analysts need to do to evolve ...
Bio
The LEAD Project (Learning through Engineering, Art and Design) promotes hands-on, design-based activities with the creative use of technology and is part of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, a nonprofit educational group with years of practical experience teaching children how to make cool things.