Applied AI for Industry & Innovation with Lauren Burke-McCarthy
July 8 – 29, 2025 / 6 PM – 8 PM
This program is no longer available for purchase.
$300.00
Explore practical AI and Generative AI applications to drive business insights, innovation, and efficiency.
In just four weeks, you will build on your foundational AI knowledge, focusing on hands-on and practical applications of AI and Generative AI. This program is designed for those ready to leverage AI responsibly to drive impact, business insights, and strategic innovation.
Commitment
Level
2 Hours, Once a Week for 4 Weeks | Online | Every Tuesday
Measured vs.
Learning
Explore a survey of tools that support data-driven decision-making through visualization, analytics, and predictive modeling. Build understanding with in-class demos that evolve into take-home exercises for continued exploration and application. Gain hands-on experience with Generative AI tools that enhance productivity and enable efficiency, developing practical skills ranging from prompt engineering to custom GPT creation.
Earn Your Badge
of Completion
Accelerator programs range from 4-12 hours of contact time. To earn your badge of completion, you must achieve a minimum of 75% in three Key Performance areas: Attendance, Participation, and Activities/Assignments. The instructor will provide a specific rubric outlining the Key Performance areas in the course syllabus.
Meet Your Instructor
Lauren Burke-McCarthy is a Director of Data & AI at Slalom, where she helps organizations translate data and AI opportunities into meaningful impact. With over a decade in data science and AI strategy, she has built systems across highly regulated and consumer-facing sectors to address user needs, improve decisions, and deliver measurable value to organizations and users.
Before joining Slalom, Lauren was Associate Director of Data Science & AI Strategy at Further, where she designed value-driven data and AI solutions, led cross-functional transformations, and operationalized responsible AI.
She is deeply engaged in the Ohio and broader data and AI communities as a TDWI Research Fellow, instructor at Denison University’s Edge, and chair of COSI’s KINETIC Board. Lauren also supports community initiatives at Women in Analytics / DataConnect Conference and was a founding member of scikit-learn’s Communication Team. She is a certified IAPP AIGP and a recipient of the OhioX Trailblazers Award.
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