This course is for you if you want to embrace AI but don't really know where to start, or if you're on the journey and want it to work better for you. Very inclusive and engaging for the non-technical people as well as those with more experience. Nothing scary in this course!
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This half-day, beginner-friendly training helps you and your team build confidence with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude.
Whether you’re exploring AI for the first time or want to sharpen your prompting skills, we’ll show you how to use generative AI more effectively, ethically and creatively in your day-to-day work. We cover more than just the basics, we go through structured examples to get you confident in prompt engineering, context engineering, model selection, and vibe-coding, while making time to share and reflect about the impact and ethics of adopting this technology in the workplace.
Through hands-on activities and demos, you’ll learn how AI tools reason, how to reduce hallucinations, and how to prototype useful outputs like a public-facing article in your tone of voice, to making a working interactive quiz app, in just minutes.
No coding skills required.
Conversations with AI: A foundations course
October 17, 2025
Learn how to think, prompt and prototype with large language models like ChatGPT and Claude, clearly, creatively and responsibly.
$495
Date: OCTOBER 17 2025
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM AEDT
- Describe how AI has significantly impacted daily life, altering how we work, communicate, and interact with technology.
- Understand what's needed to engage with AI in a way that's responsible and ethical.
- Apply AI conversation principles to create practical and helpful responses.
Meet our facilitators
Emily and Sarah have over 30 years of combined experience and are thought leaders in effective and ethical AI. They use sophisticated collaboration techniques to solve problems and harness new technologies for good.
Emily MacLeod
Senior Design Strategist
Sarah Kaur
Principal
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What you'll get out of it
We've designed our training sessions to provide industry-leading value
- Understand how language models work and how to reason with them effectively.
- Use context engineering to shape clearer, more grounded and useful outputs.
- Practise prompting techniques like vibe coding through real-time interactive exercises.
- Build confidence using AI with practical tools, ethics and creative structure.
- Connect with peers exploring human-centred, responsible ways to use AI.
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