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Our courses
Four certifications · Two leadership programmes
Six programmes in total. Every one of them is taught live by practitioners and assessed on work you produce, not on a multiple-choice paper.
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Certifications
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Leadership programmes
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Shortest programme
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Seats per cohort
Live cohort session
Flagship
Certification programmes
Long-form programmes ending in a credential and a mentored capstone. Cohorts commence monthly and are capped at twenty places.
CAIF · 2 months · $499
Certified AI Foundations (CAIF)
The entry programme, and the foundation the advanced certifications assume: programming, data, the mathematics of AI and how AI systems are actually built. No prior experience required.
- 01Computational thinking and Python
- 02Data with NumPy, Pandas and Matplotlib
- 03Mathematics and software foundations
- 04Build your own AI system
CPAI · 6 months · $2,199
Certified Professional in AI (CPAI)
The Institute's flagship certification: a 12-week live masterclass sequence and an 8-week mentored capstone, training practitioners to build, deploy and reason about AI systems.
- 01Fundamentals of AI and machine learning
- 02Advanced ML and deep learning
- 03Specialization and deployment
- 04Capstone with Heisenberg Research Labs
CPAA · 6 months · $2,199
Certified Professional in Agentic AI (CPAA)
For engineers building autonomous systems: agents that reason, decide and coordinate, using LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen and the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- 01Foundations of agentic AI
- 02Reasoning and multi-agent systems
- 03Production frameworks and safety
- 0412-week capstone project
CAIS · 2 months · $1,499
Certified Professional in AI Security (CAIS)
An intensive programme that teaches the attacks before the defences — adversarial evasion, data poisoning, model extraction, and the hardening that answers them.
- 01Threat modelling across the ML lifecycle
- 02Offensive red team technique
- 03Defensive hardening and monitoring
- 04AI incident response
CAIG · 1 month · $899
Certified Professional in AI Governance (CAIG)
For the people who have to answer for an AI system. The EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001, taught to implementation depth.
- 01Foundations of AI and risk
- 02Global regulatory frameworks
- 03Operationalizing governance
- 04An auditable capstone framework
For leaders and founders
Leadership and acceleration
Programmes for the people deciding what gets built, and for the teams building companies around it.
Gen AI for business leaders and C-suites
Five weeks, live online, no code. Strategic insight and practical knowledge for leaders integrating generative AI across business functions.
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Heisenberg LaunchPad
A six-month accelerator taking AI startups from prototype to market-ready, across technology, talent, commercial strategy and market access.
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Why learn with us
Six things that are true of every programme in the catalogue.
Taught by practitioners
Eighteen industry experts shape the curriculum and mentor cohorts. You are taught by people who are currently building the systems in question.
Assessed on real work
Every certification ends in a capstone with Heisenberg Research Labs or a partner organization, on an actual business problem rather than an exercise.
50+ partner organizations
Universities, research institutes and AI companies across academia and industry, and the introductions that come with them.
Built around working lives
Live sessions run at weekends so a programme can be completed alongside full-time study or work, with recordings for anything missed.
Credentials that carry weight
Certification is issued only on full completion, and every capstone certificate names work you actually did.
Lifetime alumni membership
Access to the alumni network, peer community and ongoing mentorship after you finish.
