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
2nd December, 2025
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’s mission is to bridge the gap between AI innovation, governance and real-world implementation, ensuring ethical AI adoption that benefits society, academia and industry alike.
He is a highly respected data, AI, technology thought leader and non-executive board director. He was recently named among the Top 100 Global Leaders in Data & Innovation and is renowned for his visionary contributions at the intersection of data, leadership and digital transformation.
Over his 19 years he has built up a formidable track record in executive leadership and brings deep expertise in data/AI strategy, governance and innovation paired with an uncommon ability to translate complex technology trends into boardroom-relevant insights and outcomes. He brings cross cultivated good practice from his extensive work within the Financial Services (all the Big 4 banks), Investment, Insurance, Utilities, Telco, Logistics and Higher Education industries.
Currently a key figure at GEC Prudentia (a pioneering fractional CDAO collective), Gladwin empowers organisations to unlock strategic value from data and AI while navigating the evolving regulatory and ethical landscape. He is also an active member of the Forbes Technology Council, the Association.AI where his thought pieces and advisory work actively influence a global community of senior technology and business leaders.
Gladwin is equally passionate about giving back to the next generation and contributed to over 90 events such as APEC, APAC CDAO/CISO Conferences, ISACA, CAANZ and leading Australian / New Zealand Universities to date. As a regular contributor to university roundtables and industry-academic panels, he plays a vital role in shaping curricula that are relevant, future-focused and industry-aligned. He has worked closely with leading academic institutions in ASPAC to co-create video content and deliver guest lectures, making complex topics like artificial intelligence, data ethics and cybersecurity accessible and engaging for students and faculty alike.
An articulate speaker and a sought-after conference chair, Gladwin brings energy, strategic clarity and inclusiveness to the events he leads. Most recently as the chairperson for a major data, AI and security conferences, where he helped set the agenda on digital resilience and trust.
With a unique blend of boardroom gravitas and a gift for storytelling, Gladwin is more than a technologist, he’s a trusted educator, mentor and advocate for responsible innovation.
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