AIR Academy ยท The training arm of AIR APAC

Practical AI training for managers and teams

AIR Academy runs practical, instructor-led workshops for organisations, online courses for individuals, and a programme for training providers. The catalogue holds fifteen programmes, including From Answers to Decisions for managers. The programmes teach people to use AI in real work, and to check AI work before they act on it.

Three paths

Which part of AIR Academy is for you

For organisations

Instructor-led workshops

Fifteen practical programmes for companies, government bodies and professional teams, including From Answers to Decisions. Half day, one day or two days, in person, with cases written for your sector. Participants practise decisions on StepSim, the AIR APAC decision simulator built by Exeter Labs. Examples: AI in procurement and governance, team decisions with AI, AI governance for boards.

See all fifteen programmes

For individuals and cohorts

Online courses

Short video courses and live cohorts, starting with AI fluency for city tourism officers and destination organisations. Weekly homework on your own work, an optional weekly clinic, and written comments on what you produce.

See the online courses

For training providers

Deliver AIR Academy programmes

Training companies and consultants can bring these programmes to their own clients. Facilitators can train to run StepSim sessions in their own programmes. You keep your client. We set out the partner terms in a first conversation.

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For organisations

Instructor-led programmes for your team

Choose a programme and a format for your team: half a day, one day or two days. The formats on offer are listed on each programme page. Every session ends with one named action that has an owner.

Half day

Two practice cases and a group review

For 15 to 30 managers. Two practice cases on StepSim, then a group review led by the trainer.

The sponsor receives one named action with an owner and a written session report. Follow-up evidence is collected three to six weeks later.

One day

Seven learning hours in three cycles

Three cycles of teaching and practice drills, each followed by a practice case on StepSim and a review of the evidence.

The day ends with one named action with an owner, and a written change to how the team checks AI work, with an owner and a date.

Two days

Fourteen learning hours across two days

Three practice cases and two 60-minute labs, then a transfer workshop.

The sponsor receives a report, and a manager review follows within ten working days.

How the three lengths work · See all fifteen programmes

Why here

Why organisations train with AIR Academy

Built on your work

Online courses use tasks from your own work

In the online courses, every homework is a task from your own work, so the artefact you finish with is one you use on Monday. The workshops use cases written for each programme, with an optional session on your own work.

Practice on real decisions

Participants practise on StepSim

The cases put the group inside decisions of the kind their own work contains. They are not quizzes or textbook cases.

Taught by the author

The Standard's author teaches the city tourism course

Indhran Seghar, author of AIRS-J/1, the Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work, teaches the Level 1 course and runs every clinic in its founding cohort. From the second cohort, a facilitator trained on this material takes the clinics.

A public Standard

The training is informed by a governed, public Standard

AIRS-J/1 is public, with a named Review Board and an External Academic Reviewer from UNITAR International University. The people behind the Standard

For trainer partners

Deliver StepSim practice in your own programmes

Six to eight weeks online, with one live session a week, practice on test groups, and a capstone session with a real group.

Your client

Your client stays yours

While you are a registered facilitator, AIR APAC and Exeter Labs will not sell training to any client you bring.

Your name

Sessions in your own programmes

StepSim sessions run inside your own programmes, in your own name.

Your standing

Certified and licensed

AIR APAC certifies the trainer on completion, which includes an observed session with a real group. Exeter Labs, which builds StepSim, issues the licence to run StepSim sessions.

Online courses

Online courses and cohorts

Four online courses and cohorts. The fifteen instructor-led workshops for organisations are in the programme catalogue.

On demand

AI Fluency for City Tourism Promotion

Twelve short videos over four weeks on using AI at the tourism desk without breaking trust. Watch in order, one week at a time, on your own time.

Format

Twelve videos over four weeks; see the course page for availability

For

City tourism officers in member cities of the Tourism Promotion Organization for Global Cities (TPO)

Price

Free, permanently, with no account

Receive

Twelve videos, a homework sheet each week and the desk plan template

Instructor

Indhran Seghar records every video

See the course

Cohort, one run only

AI Fluency for City Tourism Promotion, founding cohort

One run for TPO member cities, adding the weekly homework, the weekly clinic and written comments on your one-page desk plan.

Format

Cohort, four weeks, one homework and one optional clinic a week

For

One run only, TPO member cities, 25 places, up to two per city

Price

The founding cohort costs member cities nothing

Receive

A Record of Participation, and your AI desk plan returned with written comments inside a week

Clinic

60 minutes a week, optional, on one fixed weekday

See the course and the enrolment steps

On demand

AI Delegation for Knowledge Work

Ten modules for managers and knowledge workers in any field: the desk discipline from Level 1, rebuilt for a general audience.

Format

On demand, ten modules

For

Managers and knowledge workers, in any sector

Price

Free when it opens

Receive

Ten modules and a workbook to use on your own work

See what the course covers

Cohort, sponsored

AI Fluency for Destination Organisations

Six weeks for a destination organisation and its partners, with a weekly live call, four assessed assignments and a StepSim capstone.

Format

Cohort, six weeks, ten modules, one live call a week

For

Destination organisations and their partners

Price

Per sponsored cohort of up to 25, priced in the proposal

Receive

A Record of Completion, on an assessed capstone

Assessed work

Four assignments, marked, plus a StepSim capstone

See the Level 2 page

The founding cohort

How the Level 1 cohort works

Four things you get in the Level 1 cohort.

Watch

About six minutes each

One idea per video, in plain language, from someone who does the work. Each video teaches one skill you can use at your desk the same day.

Practise

Homework on your own work

Every week carries one task on your own city or your own organisation. No sample data, and no case study from another industry.

Meet

A clinic every week

Sixty minutes a week with the instructor, optional, on one fixed weekday. Bring what you drafted and fix it live.

Keep

An artefact returned with comments

You finish with one page you use on Monday, read by a person and returned with written comments inside a week.

For individuals

An optional assessment leads to certification

Assessment, booked separately

AIRS-J/1 participant certification

An optional assessment on StepSim, booked separately, leads to certification. Exeter Labs operates the sitting and AIR APAC decides the result. If you certify, your result is listed in the free public register for two years.

Format

A separate assessment on StepSim

For

Open to any individual. Booked through a trainer partner or your learning and development (L&D) team

Price

Quoted per sitting

Receive

A report explaining your scores and the evidence behind them

Validity

Two years. Reassessment is a full sitting

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