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  • Program Recap

    • 20-week training program
    • Self-paced/online learning mode
    • Online live office hours delivered by instructors
    • Online live technical sessions
    • Real-life challenges

    Eligibility Criteria

    • Emirati or Arab nationals residing in the UAE.
    • Meeting the prerequisites for the dedicated track
    • Recent graduates having a university degree or senior year students.
    • Committed to dedicating 15 hours per week to the program.
    • Aged between 20 to 35 years old.
    • Fluent in English.
  • Explore the tracks

  • Overview

  • Machine Learning

    An advanced program for participants with strong technical backgrounds. It covers ML algorithms, deep learning, and production deployment.

  • Business Analytics

    Teaches data storytelling, dashboard creation, and analytical thinking. Ideal for data and business-focused participants.

  • AI for Marketing

    Focuses on campaign optimization, prompt engineering, audience segmentation, and generative content.

  • AI for Healthcare

    Designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the integration of AI in healthcare, covering real-world applications, operational impact, ethical considerations, and hands-on tool demonstrations.

  • AI for Legal

    Transform the legal landscape in MENA by fostering LegalTech education, empowering legal professionals with AI and digital tools, and building a future-ready legal ecosystem.

  • AI for Finance

    A practical program introducing the application of AI in the financial sector, exploring use cases in fraud detection, credit scoring, algorithmic trading, and risk management, while equipping participants with hands-on experience using real financial data and AI tools.

  • Outlines

    • Machine Learning Outline 
    • Module 1: Data Science Foundations (1 week)


      Participants will gain skills in data preparation, visualization, manipulation, transformation, working with databases, and handling varying data types. By the end of this module, they will have explored the Data Science lifecycle, understood the basics of databases, and learned about different data types and their treatment methods.

      Module 2: Machine Learning Foundations (2 weeks)


      This module focuses on algorithm design, working with supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, and selecting the best algorithm for specific problems. Participants will gain insights into the mathematical formulations of popular algorithms and learn to build and train models for real-world scenarios.

      Module 3: Statistical Model Validation & Testing (1 week)


      Participants will cover evaluation criteria, statistical hypothesis testing, fair model comparison, and techniques for improving machine learning models. They will learn to avoid common evaluation pitfalls and ensure accurate, statistically sound comparisons.

      Module 4: Neural Networks & Deep Learning for (1 week)


      This module equips participants with knowledge of neural network architecture, backpropagation, Python’s Keras library, and techniques for debugging and improving deep learning models. Participants will also understand the mathematical foundations of neural networks and their significant impact on Machine Learning advancements.

      Module 5: Deep Learning in Advanced Data Types (2 weeks)


      Participants will focus on processing advanced data types such as images, text, and time-series data, exploring Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks for these applications. This module provides a strong foundation in fields like Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Time-series analysis.

      Module 6: Transformers & Large Language Models over (1 week)


      This module dives into Transformers in NLP and their application in Computer Vision, fine-tuning large language models, and mastering prompt engineering. Participants will develop practical skills in working with Transformer architectures and LLMs, including understanding their self-attention mechanism and optimization techniques like LoRA and QLoRA.

      Module 7: Machine Learning in Production (2 weeks)


      Participants will explore best practices in machine learning development, deployment, and scaling models for real-world use. They will learn how to maintain and monitor deployed models, overcome deployment challenges, and leverage cloud-based ML solutions to implement scalable machine learning systems.

    • Business Analytics Outline 
    • Module 1: Data Analytics Foundations (2 weeks)


      Participants will gain proficiency in R programming, particularly using Jupyter Notebooks, and explore the data analytics process, including data collection, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and visualization. They will develop skills in conducting EDA using libraries like tidyverse and ggplot2. By the end of this module, participants will have a foundational understanding of how to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data using R.

      Module 2: Data Wrangling with R (1 week)


      This module focuses on assessing data quality, identifying data issues, and applying various data cleaning techniques using R. Participants will also learn how to transform data into formats suitable for analytics. These skills will prepare participants to handle real-world data challenges effectively.

      Module 3: Statistical-Based Analysis (2 weeks)


      Participants will gain a solid understanding of statistical concepts, including probability, distributions, the central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and A/B testing. They will also explore linear and logistic regression and their applications in data analysis, equipping them to perform statistical analyses confidently.

      Module 4: Data Analytics with Excel (1 week)


      In this module, participants will learn how to explore and prepare data using Microsoft Excel’s built-in features such as filtering, sorting, conditional formatting, and formulas. They will acquire the skills needed to reshape and clean data for analytics, gaining a strong foundation in using Excel for data analysis.

      Module 5: Machine Learning Basics (1 week)


      This module introduces participants to Artificial Intelligence and its applications, focusing on foundational machine learning algorithms. Participants will develop the skills to assess the performance of machine learning models using metrics such as accuracy, precision, and recall, preparing them to apply machine learning techniques to various tasks.

      Module 6: Exploring Databases (2 weeks)


      Participants will explore different types of databases and learn to distinguish between relational and non-relational databases. They will gain a basic understanding of SQL, including its usage for querying and manipulating databases, providing them with essential database management skills.

      Module 7: Storytelling with Data (1 week)


      Participants will revisit the data science lifecycle in the context of production, focusing on data collection, labeling, processing, analytics, model training, debugging, deployment, and monitoring. They will explore the challenges of real-world implementations and best practices for scaling solutions.

    • AI for Marketing Outline 
    • 1) AI Foundations: What Marketers Need to Know


      Focus: Understand what AI can do for marketing and turn raw signals into useful customer and competitor insights.

      What AI is good at in marketing today: research, creative help, targeting, and reporting
      Where your data lives: CRM, analytics, ad platforms, reviews, social listening, support tickets
      Leveraging AI for competitor monitoring and trend analysis.
      Turning comments and conversations into themes, pain points, and opportunities
      Use approved tools only and avoid pulling or storing personal data without clear consent


      2) Shaping Brand Identity with LLMs


      Focus: Use AI to sharpen your value proposition, positioning, and message map in a brand-safe way.

      What are Large Language models and how they work
      Prompt engineering essentials for marketers: context, audience, tone, must-include and must-avoid
      Message maps that link customer pains to claims, proof points, and clear calls to action
      Claim integrity: require substantiation (references, data, or testimonials) before publishing
      Adapting tone and voice for different segments and stages of the customer journey
      Leverage AI to brainstorm product features, packaging, and user experience elements aligned with brand identity.

       

      3) Content Strategies Reinvented with AI


      Focus: Produce channel-ready copy and visuals that match your goals and brand voice.

      SEO and web: topic ideas, briefs, outlines, and landing page sections that convert
      Visuals: creative prompts for images or short videos, consistent style cues, reuse across formats
      Email and ads: subject lines, body copy, hooks, and multiple versions to test
      Social: calendars, post ideas, community replies, and simple guidance for creators or partners
      Matching each asset to a channel, a goal, and a simple success metric
      Brand safety pass: respect IP, avoid misleading claims, and label AI visuals if your policy requires

       

      4) Metrics that Drive Change


      Focus: Link business goals to the right metrics, use customer feedback to spot opportunities, and turn insights into ongoing improvements to campaigns and journeys.

      Building a clear line from business goals to channel targets and daily KPIs
      Choosing a sensible way to measure impact and avoid misleading results
      Writing practical test plans with a hypothesis, a basic sample estimate, and success criteria
      Fair testing: compare results across key segments to spot skewed outcomes before scaling
      Simple scenario planning to see how budget changes affect reach, cost, and volume
      Using AI to analyze customer feedback and performance data in real time.
      Spotting churn/upsell signals and campaign optimization opportunities.
      Transparency: using feedback responsibly, minimizing intrusive targeting.

       

      5) Workflow Automation for Marketers


      Focus: Speed up everyday tasks using the tools you already have, without technical setup.

      Turning intake forms or templates into consistent briefs for creative and media
      Using automation to schedule welcomes, follow-ups, and re-engagements
      Keeping a tidy review and approval process so assets go live faster
      Reducing manual copy-and-paste work with folders, templates, and checklists
      Respect preferences: honor consent and frequency caps; log approvals for automated sends
      Setting simple rules for who sees what, when, and how progress is tracked

       

      6) Agents in the Loop


      Focus: Use AI helpers to watch performance, spot issues, and suggest next actions you can approve.

      What an “AI agent” means in marketing and when it is useful
      Daily summaries that highlight wins, problems, and recommended adjustments
      Evidence-first suggestions: require links to sources (dashboards, pages, tickets) for quick review
      Proactive checks like broken links, price mismatches, or off-brand phrases
      Guardrails so agents suggest changes but people make the final call; block high-risk actions from auto-execution
      Keeping a short audit trail so you know what was suggested and why

    • AI for Healthcare Outline 
    • 1) AI Foundations for Healthcare Teams


      Focus: What AI really does in healthcare and where it helps today.

      AI essentials: what AI is (tools that learn patterns) and what it isn’t (a final decision-maker).
      Short history: key milestones from early rule-based systems to today’s generative AI.
      Why it matters now: better documentation, triage support, imaging assistance, scheduling, patient communication.
      AI domains in healthcare
      Benefits vs. limits: speed and consistency vs. hallucinations, bias, and stale information.


      2) Healthcare Data & the ML Process 


      Focus: Understand your data and how AI tools learn.

      What data looks like: EHR fields, vitals and labs, imaging files, clinical notes, wearables, patient messages.
      Data quality basics: complete and correct entries, consistent units, up-to-date meds/allergies, fewer free-text surprises.
      ML lifecycle at a glance: collect → train → validate → test → monitor
      What this means for practice: capture cleaner inputs, read outputs critically
      Patient data privacy: PHI stays in approved systems; access control, minimal necessary use, simple logging

       

      3) Prompting Essentials for Clinical Communication & Insights


      Focus: Use Gen-AI safely for notes, patient explanations, and evidence summaries.

      What prompting is: state your role, the clinical context, and the exact task and format you want.
      Clinical documentation: request structured outputs for HPI, assessment, plan, discharge notes, and referrals.
      Patient communication: ask for plain language, appropriate reading level, and respectful, culturally aware wording.
      Evidence summary: frame the question (PICO), ask for study type and key findings, include limitations and certainty.
      Quick literature matrix: population, intervention, outcomes, key finding, caveats
      Data analysis prompts: dataset/timeframe/units/normals; ask for QC (missing values, outliers, unit mix-ups) first
      Descriptives & trends: counts/means/medians/ranges; time trends; simple cohorts (pre/post)
      Charts to request: lines (vitals over time), bars (category counts), scatter (simple relationships)
      Nursing workflows: SBAR, shift handoffs, care plan updates, patient instructions
      PHI rules in plain language (HIPAA/GDPR, residency, approved vendors)
      Why LLMs hallucinate (plain English): predictive text, gaps in training data, outdated knowledge cutoffs, and no live EHR access

       

      4) Computer Vision in Clinical Practice


      Focus: How AI assists radiology, pathology, dermatology, dentistry.

      Core tasks: detection (find an abnormality), classification (type), segmentation (outline), localization and measurement.
      Feature extraction: turns pixels into simple features (edges, shapes, sizes, densities, textures) that support the suggestion.
      Workflow uses: triage and prioritization, second-reader checks, structured measurements for reports.
      Limitations: false positives/negatives, image quality and artifacts, device or site differences, lack of clinical context.
      Role notes: radiology (worklist triage), dentistry (caries/periapical), derm (lesion triage)


      5) Automation in Care Operations 


      Focus: Reduce manual admin work by automating repeatable tasks in existing systems.

      Where to start: repetitive, rules-based, high-volume, low-risk workflows
      Map the path: trigger → inputs → steps → output → owner
      Low-lift automations: Set up appointment reminders and follow-ups that send the right message at the right time and log the outcome automatically.
      Automate discharge check-ins and medication reminders to improve adherence and reduce missed follow-ups.
      Reliability and safety: approvals where needed, clear error paths, retries, audit logs, PHI kept inside approved tools

       

      6) AI Agents in Healthcare Workflows


      Focus: Deploy AI helpers that plan multi-step tasks, monitor signals, and propose actions with human approval.

      What agents add beyond automation: planning, tool use, memory, self-checks
      AI agents vs LLMs: what is the difference and when to use each
      Common use cases: inbox triage, lab/radiology follow-ups, care-gap monitoring, benefits checks
      Guardrails: Keep humans in the loop by sending suggestions for approval before anything is scheduled, ordered, or communicated to patients.
      Evidence discipline: link suggestions to EHR entries, labs, or imaging and note confidence; record approvals

    • AI for Legal Outline 
    • 1) AI Foundations for Lawyers 


      Focus: Understand what AI can (and can’t) do in legal work and set up clean, confidential data practices.

      Where AI helps today: research, drafting, review, summarization, client communications
      Matter data basics: DMS versions, emails, transcripts, privilege tags, sources of truth
      Confidentiality boundaries: what never goes into public tools; approved enterprise tools only
      Success measures for pilots: quality, speed, cost, risk (define before/after)


      2) Prompt Engineering for Legal Drafting & Research


      Focus: Write prompts that produce reliable, on-jurisdiction, cite-ready outputs you can verify fast.

      Prompt structure: role, facts, jurisdiction, date cutoff, tone, constraints
      Retrieval-aware prompts: require sources (cases/statutes/regs/firm docs) and pin-cites/sections
      Structured outputs: issues lists, tables, checklists, risk matrices, clean drafts
      Research workflows with AI: framing issues, identifying keywords, and targeting authoritative sources.
      Self-audit techniques: test assumptions, flag missing facts, and record confidence notes.
      Bias & hallucination awareness: why models miscite or skew outputs — and how to catch it before it reaches a client.


      3) Contracts, Due Diligence & Negotiation Support


      Focus: Accelerate contract review/drafting with clear risk views and firm playbooks.

      Clause extraction/compare; risk scoring and fallback suggestions
      Red-flag scans across many docs (change-of-control, indemnity, assignment, non-compete)
      Clause retrieval from DMS: pull prior negotiated language/playbook clauses and cite them
      Generate partner-ready clean drafts from redlines, with a brief “sources used” note
      Fact-check language: watch for fabricated clause summaries; compare against actual text before redlining


      4) Litigation Evidence & Case Building


      Focus: Turn documents and transcripts into a defensible storyline and preparation materials.

      Chronology framework: date/time, event, Source/Bates, element/claim, reliability score
      Transcript analytics: admissions, inconsistencies, impeachment cites, follow-ups
      eDiscovery triage (no code): issue tags, privilege screens, PII flags; chain-of-custody basics
      Motion/brief prep kit: fact section scaffold, exhibit index, pin-cite discipline
      Retrieval in practice: ensure chronology/briefs link back to exhibits and page:line quotes


      5) Workflow Automation & Knowledge Operations 


      Focus: Streamline matter workflows without coding and make knowledge easy to find and reuse.

      Approvals, reminders, and filing rules to reduce manual handling and delays
      Light automations with existing tools (no scripting): routing, notifications, checklists
      Knowledge ops: naming/tags/folders so past memos/clauses are retrievable in seconds
      Human check-points: require approvals where risk exists; one-click rollback for mistakes


      6) AI Agents for Legal Workflows


      Focus: Deploy agent assistants to handle multi-step legal tasks with human approval and full source evidence.

      Agents vs. automations: planning steps, using tools, handing off for approval
      Candidate workflows: intake → issues list → draft → cite-check → billing narrative; daily digest/alerts
      Guardrails: thresholds, human-in-the-loop, blocked data, brand/voice limits
      Source discipline: agent outputs include links/pin-cites and brief rationale
      Operations: logs, ownership, KPIs (time saved, error rate, review time), pilot → scale

    • AI for Finance Outline 
    • 1) Foundations & Data in Finance


      Focus: What AI/Gen-AI really means in finance and why clean data drives useful outputs.

      Financial data landscape: transactions, P&L, balance sheet, cash flows, GL, CRM
      Data quality: granularity, mapping, period alignment, currency/FX handling
      Where AI adds value today: Close and reporting prep, variance explanations, anomaly and fraud cues, narrative drafts, scenario planning.
      Privacy/compliance in practice: client data stays in approved/enterprise tools; minimal-access & auditability


      2) Prompting for Finance 


      Focus: Write prompts that yield accurate numbers, clear structures, and audit-ready outputs.

      What are large language models and how they work
      Finance tasks LLMs are good at
      Prompt patterns: context, dataset scope, period, units, constraints, required formats (tables, bullet rationales)
      Risk & credit prompts: risk matrices, PD/LGD reasoning, covenant checks, “unknown acceptable” to avoid made-up figures
      Fraud cues via prompting: request rule-based red flags (dup invoices, round-number spikes, weekend activity) + rationale
      Source discipline: ask for cell refs, query names, or calc steps so numbers are traceable


      3) Financial Reporting and Budgeting with AI


      Focus: Build faster reports, explain variances, and produce simple forecasts you can defend.

      Variance analysis: drivers, mix/price/volume splits, waterfall-style narratives
      Ratio analysis: liquidity, leverage, efficiency; trend commentary in plain English
      Forecasting essentials: scenario prompts (base/upside/downside), assumption tables, sensitivity notes, time-series forecasting
      Fraud & anomaly pass: outlier scan before sign-off; flag and park suspicious entries for review
      Auditability: require a “numbers trail” (data source, calc, date) in every AI summary


      4) Investment & Market Intelligence with AI


      Focus: Research a space or ticker, synthesize signals, and spot opportunities (not advice).

      Company and sector scan: earnings call takeaways, consensus themes, competitive moves
      Screeners via prompting: filters for growth, margin, leverage, cash generation; watchlists
      Thesis notes: catalysts, risks, valuation angles (qualitative), “what would change my mind”
      Ethics/compliance: distinguish facts vs. model text; cite sources/dates; avoid undisclosed use of restricted info


      5) AI-Powered Automation in Finance Ops


      Focus: Remove swivel-chair work in reporting, reconciliations, and stakeholder updates.

      Automate: data pulls, refreshes, schedule-based summaries, stakeholder digests
      Reconciliations: exception queues, match suggestions, status updates to owners
      Workflow controls: approvals, logs, failure paths, segregation of duties
      Consent & comms: respect contact preferences and frequency; log who approved automated sends


      6) AI Agents in Finance Workflows

       

      Focus: Use agents for multi-step monitoring and recommendations with human approval.

      What agents add beyond automation: planning, tool use, memory, self-checks
      Use cases: transaction monitoring (fraud/anomalies), regulatory scanning, portfolio or KPI watch
      Guardrails: blocked actions, thresholds, timeouts, role-based approvals; evidence links required
      KPIs: suggestion acceptance rate, time saved, false-positive rate, audit completeness

  • Test your understanding of the program and tracks!

  • One of your answers is wrong, please make sure to select the right answers

  • Please confirm that you have the required background/goals for your selected track:

    • Machine Learning → Familiar with Python programming language and having a background in software/computer.
    • Business Analytics → Comfortable with handling data and motivated to apply analytical thinking to solve business problems.
    • AI for Healthcare → Strong interest in healthcare or life sciences and motivated to explore how AI can improve patient care and medical decision-making.
    • AI for Legal → Interest in legal studies or practice and motivated to understand how AI can enhance research, compliance, and decision support in the legal field.
    • AI for Marketing → Interest in marketing, consumer behavior, or digital campaigns and motivated to learn how AI can optimize engagement and strategy.
    • AI for Finance → Interest in finance, banking, or investment and motivated to explore how AI can improve forecasting, risk assessment, and financial decision-making.
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  • Your age should be between 20 and 35

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