University of New South Wales
AI for Organisational Innovation
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Intermediate
- Duration: 3 weeks
- Course Type: Short Course
- Total Price: From $2,300
Leverage AI to drive innovation and growth at your organisation and implement tools with confidence.
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Course overview
Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents organisations with vast opportunity for efficiency, automation, enhanced customer experience, product and service innovation, security and risk management, even decision-making and scalability. Implementing existing AI tools or even developing your own AI products, involves a process of exploration and consideration of the guardrails that must be put in place relevant to your particular organisation.
This course aims to provide a unique perspective of AI as it relates to decision-makers and managers across various functional roles and industries. It does not seek to explain what AI is and how it works; rather explore why and how AI can be implemented in an organisation to spark innovation and achieve sustainable growth.
If you or your team are experimenting with AI, this course is for you. It is designed to explain these key considerations when augmenting with AI to de-risk and set your business up for sustainable success.
- Choose between a 2-day in-person session or an online learning option over 3 weeks.
- Receive a digital badge and 2.00 CEMD points.
- Learn from expert facilitators in data analytics, AI, data governance and cyber security.
Key facts
What you will learn
This course is designed to provide you with knowledge of the frameworks and standards surrounding AI as they relate to responsible use across organisations and industries. You will gain the confidence to deploy AI tools across your organisation for productivity, automation and innovation. Throughout this course, you will:
- Identify business processes that AI can be applied to in your own context and examine these as opportunities for innovation.
- Develop confidence to lead an AI project and know how to get started; from building a team, to scoping, finding and deploying a product.
- Contribute to the development of standardised processes for implementing AI across your organisation that promote safety, security and trust.
- Understand the operational environment in which you're deploying AI tools to know whether to build AI products internally or source/ integrate with external tools.
- Acknowledge and appreciate the potential risks of deploying AI and plan risk management strategies accordingly.
How you will learn
This course is offered in two formats for your convenience: you can choose between a two-day in-person session or an online learning option that spans three weeks.
Throughout the program you will be prompted to reflect and draw connections between the course material and your own organisational context, to provide you with actionable steps to take your learning back into the workplace. You will be required to bring a problem or opportunity you're currently facing at your organisation to develop based on your learnings. This project becomes an action plan for you to take back and deploy in your organisation post-course.
Who You Will Learn From
Gladwin Mendez
Chief Data and AI Officer
Gladwin is one of Australia’s leading voices in data and AI, known for helping organisations adopt artificial intelligence responsibly and effectively. With almost two decades of experience across the Big Four banks, insurance, investment, utilities, telco, logistics and higher education, he specialises in turning complex technology trends into clear, practical strategies.
Recently named among the Top 100 Global Leaders in Data & Innovation, he serves as a fractional Chief Data & AI Officer with GEC Prudentia and contributes to global communities through the Forbes Technology Council and Association.AI.
Gladwin is also deeply committed to education. He has spoken at more than 90 events, from APEC to major CDAO/CISO conferences, and works closely with universities across Australia and New Zealand to shape future-focused curricula in AI, data ethics and cybersecurity. Known for his articulate, engaging style, he regularly lectures and participates in academic-industry panels.
For AFR readers exploring further study, Gladwin offers a clear, grounded view of where AI is heading and the skills that will matter most in a rapidly evolving digital economy.
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