Price: Free

Delivery Method: Online

Course Overview

We are living in an increasingly automated world. Your deliveries, your online activity, how we interact in almost every way is changing based on the increasing use of computer algorithms. We are moving to a world where more and more suggestions and choices are being made for us by computers. This presents great opportunities but also great dangers. This skills bootcamp will enable you to better understand this rapidly evolving area by focusing on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in society.

Most of the practical work you will do will involve using AI techniques in the context of a business seeking to keep up to date with these technological developments. For example:

• How can we communicate better with our customers and suppliers using AI?
• How can we capture and use data better from our email system and protect ourselves from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks?
• How will computers help us be more efficient and effective in storing and distributing our products?
• How can robots also help us improve our business performance?

Alongside this we will also provide lots of other areas for you to explore to understand legal, ethical and social issues associated with this transformation, and we will also prepare you for interview and employment by asking you to review and develop your current CV using what you learn on the course. Reflection will play a big role in your development as will your ability to engage with a broad range of related content so that you understand how the world is developing and how you can help support this development.

We’re also offering these courses as Continued Professional Development (CDP) programmes for employees who wish to change their focus to digital careers.

Course Content

First four weeks are orientation:

• Getting up to Speed
• Skills Audit
• Employability Skills
• Legal, Social, Ethical and Professional Issues
• Artificial Intelligence Supply Chain Process Improvement Use Cases
• Start Python Programming

Followed by 12 weeks covering a broad range of Artificial Intelligence applications and concepts including applying Python Programming to the following:

• Information Security (algorithms, data, features, training, testing)
• Building an email spam filter and reviewing other security applications
• Natural Language Processing
• Developing a Chatbot
• Stock Control/Management using Machine Learning
• The use of Robotics in Supply Chains
• Personal Development, Interview Preparation, Reflective Practice, CV Development
• Summary Report and AI Simulations

You will be expected to combine work on the above activities with suggested background content to inform your wider understanding and capability in this area.

Eligibility

Learners must:

• Be aged 19+
• Have the right to live and work in the UK
• Be looking for a new role, opportunities or increased responsibly/promotion to a different role which utilises the skills acquired through their Skills Bootcamp
• Agree to provide data and be contacted up to 8 months after the end of the Skills Bootcamp for follow up on employment outcomes

Be either:

• Employed/ self-employed, or
• Career changers/returners / redeployed, or
• Unemployed within the last 12 months

Employers who wish to upskill existing employees through the Skills Bootcamp will need to pay 30% of the total fees that would normally be charged for this course, please contact us for more information.