Responsible AI Professional Certification: 9/18

Description

Every organization is deploying AI. Most are doing it without governance frameworks, without ethics training, and without asking the hard questions early enough. What Participants Say What's included in this course? The syllabus & curriculum. Week 1: Foundations: Understanding AI and Its Limits Week 2: Core Ethics - Bias, Privacy, and Ownership Week 3: Societal Impact - Deployment, Labor, and Environment Week 4: The Human Element: Authenticity, Relationships, and Meaning Who is this for? No technical AI experience required. If you're making decisions about AI - budgeting, deploying, governing, communicating, or evaluating - you're qualified. Meet your instructors. Sarah Downey: Instructor - AI consultant and strategist based in Victoria with 20+ years in nonprofit and social impact leadership. Hosts facilitated conversations for nonprofit leaders on ethical AI governance. Course creator focused on helping mission-driven organizations adopt AI responsibly with her ethos: Stay Curious. Stay Connected. Stay Human. Brings nonprofit sector expertise, facilitation skills, and values-centered approach to AI governance. BC + AI Founding Member #138. Martin Lopatka: Curriculum Developer - PhD in Forensic Statistics, M.Sc. in AI. Mozilla alumni with production ML systems experience. Expertise in responsible AI assessment frameworks, model governance, regulatory alignment. Voluntary contribution to curriculum design. BC + AI Founding Member #31. Kris Krug: Program Lead - Kris Krüg is a digital strategist and community builder specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence, creativity, and technology. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Kris leads AI-focused initiatives that bridge technical innovation with practical applications across various industries. Responsible AI Capstone Projects The first RAP cohort 20 AI professionals produced working responsible-AI governance tools: policies, risk matrices, intake systems, AI-use gates, workforce assessments, and sector-specific governance kits. Kerris Hougardy: AI Skill-Displacement Risk & Reskilling Navigator: Watch the capstone walkthrough Brittney Ashley: Using AI With Intention - a People-First AI Policy: Watch the capstone walkthrough Bruce Ratzlaff: Industrial Sales-Prioritization Governance Matrix: Watch the capstone walkthrough The Movement: BC + AI Ecosystem Association This meetup is part of BC + AI a member-driven nonprofit where meetups turn into working groups, prototypes turn into shared tools, and community values turn into governance. We are building the public-interest infrastructure for AI in British Columbia ensuring that our local-first intelligence outlives its creators and powers the next era of West Coast innovation. Vancouver AI was just the start. The ecosystem keeps growing across BC... Surrey, Victoria, Comox, Kelowna, and beyond... each node bringing its own culture, needs, and experiments.