AI for Business: Fundamentals & Practical Skills
This session is available on request and can be delivered either online or onsite, depending on your location. The session combines theoretical understanding with practical experience.
About This Session: Starting with AI's historical context, this session builds your understanding of key technology distinctions—from traditional AI through to generative models. We'll tackle critical challenges associated with genAI, then move on to applications: creating well-structured prompts for business/market research, evaluating output reliability, and applying these capabilities to strengthen your business position.
Designed For: solo entrepreneurs, small and mid-sized business owners, consultants, and employees across all operational areas. This session serves the AI-curious, current experimenters, and sceptics equally well.
Why Attend:
- Foundational skills: Build an essential understanding of AI's evolution and AI types to cut through marketing hype and make informed decisions;
- Risk awareness: Learn the specific risks associated with GenAI and how to identify and mitigate them in your business context;
- Ethical implementation: Practical frameworks for integrating AI ethically into business workflows, ensuring responsible and safe adoption;
- Practical AI skills: Understand what to consider when working with AI tools, learn prompt engineering fundamentals through examples, and develop skills to curate and refine prompts for reliable business research;
- Quality control: Techniques to minimise hallucinations, bias, and other AI pitfalls that could damage your business reputation or decisions when using GenAI.
For more details, contact: vira@thecuriosity.ai
About the Speaker:
Vira Larina, Vice-President, Engineering Services
My journey began in Ukraine, where I earned my Engineering degree and started my career in tech. Now I live in the UK, where I completed an MBA and am currently studying AI for Business at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.
What drives me is not just the technology itself but its potential to enhance and empower human capabilities. I believe business success and positive societal impact should go hand in hand, which shapes my leadership and community contribution ethos. That's why I'm committed to supporting businesses and individuals as they navigate AI disruption—helping them adopt these powerful tools ethically and responsibly, in ways that strengthen rather than diminish human potential.
