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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.