AI Applied Edge Training Program

We recognize the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in reshaping business operations and driving growth. Our AI Education Programs make this change practical. The AI Applied Edge Training Program: From AI Awareness to Adoption is a program customized for your organization. Through hands-on training, businesses, nonprofits, and Indigenous organizations learn to build AI skills, streamline processes, and apply Generative AI tools like ChatGPT directly to their work. Four progressive workshops guide participants from awareness to adoption, ending with applied learning in real workflows and the creation of an AI Community of Practice.

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During the Applied AI Edge Training Program’s progressive workshops, participants learn how to:

  • Build AI literacy and confidence with everyday tools

  • Apply advanced AI features like custom GPTs and workflow design

  • Map and improve current processes with AI-enabled decision frameworks

  • Practice department-specific applications supported by an AI Community of Practice

The program emphasizes applied learning, direct workplace integration, and measurable outcomes. Each session is tailored to organizational priorities, ensuring participants leave with actionable skills that reduce repetitive work, improve efficiency, and enhance both internal operations and client service.

  • The program is designed to meet the immediate needs of small and medium-sized businesses, nonprofits, and Indigenous organizations in British Columbia. These organizations often face limited resources, competitive pressures, and rapid technological change. While AI adoption remains low, demand for AI skills, digital fluency, and productivity improvements is growing.

    This program directly addresses that gap by equipping participants with practical, job-ready skills in Generative AI. Through progressive, hands-on workshops, participants learn to apply tools such as ChatGPT and others to real workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and strengthen decision-making. Training emphasizes practical application over theory, ensuring participants can immediately reduce manual work, improve efficiency, and prepare their organizations for AI adoption.

    A key feature is the creation of an internal AI Community of Practice (AI CoP). This ensures AI literacy develops into long-term organizational capability rather than remaining a one-time training event. The Community provides a structured space for employees to share experiences, test tools, exchange best practices, and address challenges together, building organizational resilience and accelerating responsible adoption.

  • Summary of the Program

    The program consists of four progressive workshops, each building upon the last:

    Workshop 1: AI Applied Edge: Foundations

    • Introduces core AI concepts, including data privacy and effective prompting.

    • Applies AI to practical use cases such as reducing manual tasks, drafting documents, and automating communication.

    • Builds baseline AI literacy and a confident AI adoption mindset.

    Workshop 2: AI Applied Edge: Advanced

    • Expands skills into advanced features of Generative AI tools.

    • Guides participants in designing AI-driven workflows that automate up to 10% of daily work.

    • Enables teams to achieve measurable time savings and create repeatable use cases tailored to operations.

    Workshop 3: AI Applied Edge: Operational Processes

    • Provides a structured framework for mapping and analyzing workflows at the role and team level.

    • Equips participants to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.

    • Supports informed decision-making on when to optimize processes, adopt AI tools, or introduce other technologies.

    Workshop 4: AI Applied: Integration & Adoption

    • Department-specific sessions that integrate learnings from the first three workshops into real workflows.

    • Facilitator led: hands-on problem-solving in each department (e.g. marketing, HR, finance, customer service, or operations).

    • Provides participants with applied learning support as they navigate integration and adoption

    • Builds the internal AI Community of Practice (AI CoP)

    Each organization receives a customized ROI calculator snapshot, which quantifies the annual efficiency gains and cost savings based on the team’s actual workload. This tool demonstrates the tangible business value of training investment and supports long-term decision-making around AI adoption.

    Certificate of Completion: Once finished, a certification of completion for each participate will be provided and feedback report will be created for the employer.

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  • Program Details and Rates

    Time Frame: 4 months

    Duration:

    Workshops 1–3: 4 hours each (12 hours total)

    Workshop 4: 11 hours per participant

    Total Participant Commitment: 23 hours

    Delivery: Virtual (online) or in-person formats available

    Participants: Up to 25 employees per cohort

    Investment per Participant: $2,999 + GST = $3148.95

    Travel for in person delivery

    Note: As a B.C.-based program, employers may be eligible for the B.C. Employer Training Grant (ETG), which reimburses up to 80% of eligible training costs to a maximum of $10,000 per participant.

Why This Program Matters

This program builds AI literacy and fluency, reducing fear and resistance while increasing digital and AI tool confidence. Participants learn not only the technical skills required to use AI tools, but also the communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed to interact with these tools and how to integrate them into daily work.

The outcome is greater efficiency, reduced stress, and more capacity for creative and client-focused work. Instead of replacing jobs, AI is reframed as a tool to secure jobs, support and empower employees. Employees gain new, transferable skills that help them stay relevant as industries and the AI landscape change. For employers, the program helps fill resource gaps when hiring is constrained, strengthen existing teams, and build resilience for the future.

What Makes This Program Different

  1. AI Expertise – Led by one of Canada’s leading AI educators.

  2. Adult Education Expertise – Led by Learning & Development specialists with advanced backgrounds in adult education, instructional design, and facilitation.

  3. Organizational Customization – Each program begins with a discovery call to confirm business priorities, define success metrics, and tailor applied exercises and AI demonstrations to the organization’s context.

  4. Focus on AI Adoption – By embedding a Community of Practice, organizations gain a sustainable structure for ongoing learning, collaboration, and integration of AI into daily work.

Alignment to Employee Role Outcomes

This training program is strategically designed to improve participants’ job performance, confidence, and adaptability in an AI-integrated work environment. All workshops are grounded in real-world applications and directly support outcomes that align the objectives of upskilling, job security, and advancement.

Key Alignment Areas

  • Improved Job Performance – Participants apply AI tools such as ChatGPT to reduce manual tasks, generate ideas, conduct research, and support decision-making. This directly increases daily productivity and operational efficiency.

  • Job Security Through Relevance – As AI becomes integral across industries, foundational and advanced AI skills help employees stay current and resilient. Training mitigates job displacement risk by equipping staff to work with AI tools rather than be replaced by them.

  • Opportunity for Advancement – Skills in automation, critical thinking, and AI-assisted communication enable participants to move into more strategic, creative, or leadership-oriented roles within their organizations.

  • Adaptability to Role-Specific Needs – Content is tailored to organizational and role requirements. Participants, such as in administration, communications, customer service, operations, or leadership, apply AI to workflows directly relevant to their jobs.

  • Increased Capacity and Business Impact – By automating workflows and extracting insights efficiently, employees expand organizational capacity without adding headcount, directly contributing to sustainability and growth.