AI & Business Technology Masterclasses for Southern Africa

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Agentic AI Master Class: build your own AI agent

A professional Certificate course for working professionals across Africa. Build your own agent and other agents that assist you with your work while you supervise their actions: an agent that plans, uses your tools, checks its own work and hands over to a named person before anything goes out. Eight modules and a one-week pilot, about six weeks at four hours a week, with facilitator review of every output. No coding needed.

Featured Cohort · Live Online · Starts 6 October 2026

Agentic AI Masterclass — build your own AI agent

Your abilities freed, expanded and accelerated.

Build a hyper-personalised AI chief of staff, a fully working application and a fleet of agents that work together and save you 10+ hours a week. No coding experience required.

No.	Masterclass	What it covers	Days
B1	Data Science Practitioner	What data science is, the data lifecycle, and how organisations use data to improve delivery, efficiency, planning and resource allocation — in corporate and public-sector contexts.	5	Details Enrol
B2	Data Analysis & Visualisation for Business Reporting	Analysing organisational data and building compelling visualisations for executive reporting, board packs, regulatory submissions and public accountability. Participants build a report from their own data.	5	Details Enrol
B3	Statistics Essentials for Evidence-Based Decision-Making	Descriptive statistics, correlation vs causation, sampling, confidence intervals and interpreting research — grounded in customer surveys, KPIs, service indicators and budget variance analysis.	5	Details Enrol
B4	Data Collection, Cleaning & Pre-Processing	Dealing with messy data: incomplete records, inconsistent formats, duplicates and scattered systems. Data wrangling, quality assurance, and preparing data for analysis and reporting.	3	Details Enrol
B5	Applied Data Analytics Using Spreadsheets & Visual Tools	For professionals who work with data daily: pivot tables, VLOOKUP, conditional formatting, basic statistics in Excel and an introduction to Power BI concepts — using a real dataset from your sector.	5	Details Enrol
B6	Big Data Concepts & Open Data for Organisational Innovation	Where big data comes from — customer interactions, IoT sensors, social media, transactional systems — and how to harness it, with open data frameworks and POPIA-compliant privacy practice.	5	Details Enrol

No.	Masterclass	What it covers	Days
D1	Project Management Foundations	The project lifecycle, initiation, planning fundamentals and the project manager's role — contextualised to strategy execution, performance plans, capital cycles and quarterly reporting.	3	Details Enrol
D2	Project Scope, Time & Cost Management	The three core constraints: scope definition and work breakdown structures, scheduling and milestones, cost estimation and budgets — producing real artefacts for a project from your organisation.	3	Details Enrol
D3	Project Risk & Procurement Management	Managing project risk within procurement frameworks: identification, assessment and response, procurement planning aligned to SCM regulations and corporate policy, tender and contract administration.	5	Details Enrol
D4	Project Stakeholder & Communication Management	Managing complex stakeholder landscapes — sponsors, boards, oversight bodies, unions, communities, regulators — with engagement strategies, communication plans and expectation management.	3	Details Enrol
D5	Project Quality Management & Monitoring	Quality planning, assurance and control, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, indicator tracking and corrective action — for corporate governance and public-sector M&E alike.	3	Details Enrol
D6	Project Close-Out, Lessons Learnt & Institutional Memory	The neglected final phase: deliverable acceptance, financial and contract closure, lessons learnt and knowledge transfer — so project knowledge survives staff turnover.	2	Details Enrol

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Masterclass * Select a masterclass… Agentic AI Masterclass — Build Your Own AI Agent (two-week evening cohort, starts 6 Oct 2026) A1 — Essentials of Artificial Intelligence (5 days) A2 — AI Strategy & Readiness Assessment for Leaders (5 days) A3 — Machine Learning Essentials for Decision-Makers (5 days) A4 — Deep Learning & Neural Networks (5 days) A5 — Building AI Solutions with Python (5 days) A6 — AI-Powered Automation for Organisational Processes (5 days) A7 — Prompt Engineering & Generative AI (3 days) B1 — Data Science Practitioner (5 days) B2 — Data Analysis & Visualisation for Business Reporting (5 days) B3 — Statistics Essentials for Evidence-Based Decision-Making (5 days) B4 — Data Collection, Cleaning & Pre-Processing (3 days) B5 — Applied Data Analytics Using Spreadsheets & Visual Tools (5 days) B6 — Big Data Concepts & Open Data (5 days) C1 — Cybersecurity Awareness for All Employees (2 days) C2 — Cybersecurity Governance, Legislation & Compliance (3 days) C3 — Network Security & Cyber Threat Defence for ICT Teams (5 days) C4 — Cybersecurity Risk Assessment & Mitigation (3 days) C5 — Data Protection & Privacy (POPIA) (2 days) C6 — Cybersecurity Incident Response & Recovery (3 days) D1 — Project Management Foundations (3 days) D2 — Project Scope, Time & Cost Management (3 days) D3 — Project Risk & Procurement Management (5 days) D4 — Project Stakeholder & Communication Management (3 days) D5 — Project Quality Management & Monitoring (3 days) D6 — Project Close-Out, Lessons Learnt & Institutional Memory (2 days) E1 — 4th Industrial Revolution & Future Skills (2 days) E2 — Design Thinking & Innovation (2 days) E3 — AI Governance, Ethics & Responsible Use (2 days) E4 — Digital Transformation Strategy (2 days) E5 — Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving with Technology (2 days) E6 — Working Effectively in Multidisciplinary Technology Teams (2 days)

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Number of participants * Just me2–56–1516–3031–50

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