AI PRO Technical Implementation & Automation
A three-day, live online engineering course: fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, LLM security and production deployment. Prepares you for the ICO Artificial Intelligence PRO exam. For developers and data professionals with basic Python.
Agenda
- 1Day 1 · Nov 1 · 09:00 – 16:30Foundations, models and adaptation
- Modern AI architectures: transformers, LLMs and embeddings
- Choosing models: open versus hosted, cost and latency trade-offs
- Data for AI: selection, preparation, validation and bias reduction — hands-on
- Fine-tuning in practice: parameter-efficient methods, evaluation — hands-on
- 2Day 2 · Nov 2 · 09:00 – 16:30Retrieval and grounded systems
- RAG architectures: chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval quality
- Hands-on: build a working RAG pipeline over real documents
- Reducing hallucination: grounding, citations, systematic evaluation
- LLM security: the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs — attack and defence, hands-on
- 3Day 3 · Nov 3 · 09:00 – 16:30Agents, production and compliance
- AI agents: tool use, function calling, API and MCP interfaces — hands-on
- Multi-agent structures and orchestration
- To production: deployment patterns, monitoring, CI/CD for AI systems
- Technical compliance: anonymisation, filtering, hosting choices
- Closing project and exam preparation