Program Lead
Kris Krüg
NatGeo. Getty. TED. Indigenomics Institute. Twenty-five years in the room when technology meets the people it changes.
Responsible AI Professional Certification
Lead the room when AI walks in.
A 4-week certification for the people who have to answer for the AI decisions their organizations make.
Built by BC + AI Ecosystem Association · In partnership with TheUpgrade · 25–30 seats per cohort
Why thirty
We cap every cohort at 30 seats.
Not because we have to. Because at 31, you stop being a person and start being a name on a screen.
Every cohort is small enough that the instructors learn your work, your context, the actual decisions you have to walk into on Monday.
What it buys you
Conversation, not consumption.
Live cohort calls. Office hours. A discussion thread per module where your peers — not a chatbot — push back on your thinking.
The certificate is the paper trail. The cohort is the actual upgrade.
From the first cohort
The people who finished it, in their words.
I came in having already studied AI, but I was looking for something deeper on the ethics side, and this course gave me exactly that. It was honestly amazing. It changed how I think about my work, and I left feeling proud of how I show up with AI.
Brittney Ashley
Founder, people-first consulting & marketing agency · Creative Dynamics
RAP gives you a zoomable drone's-eye view of the entire AI ethics and governance landscape. You learn enough about the tools and frameworks you need to succeed when you're down in the weeds of a specific project, without losing the big picture view that pulls it all together.
Daniel Bashaw
Learning-experience designer
RAP pointed out a wholistic view of AI for me. I was focused on what AI could do to increase productivity, making more sales, etc. Thought that as long as we had an enterprise account and our IT dept signed off on it we were good for security. Viewing AI with this new lens has made me think hard about the ethics surrounding AI usage, and how I now look at developing tools.
Bruce Ratzlaff
Sales & operations leader, industrial sector
The shift
Three things change when you finish RAP.
You understand AI well enough to argue with it.
You can name the harms before they ship.
You have the frameworks to govern what you can't predict.
Curriculum
Martin Lopatka
PhD Forensic Statistics. Mozilla alumni. The person who can tell you exactly where the model is lying — and what to do about it.
Guest Instructor
Sarah Downey
Twenty years of nonprofit leadership. AI governance for mission-driven orgs. Stay curious. Stay connected. Stay human.
What the first cohort did
The receipts.
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graduates certified
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governance tools shipped
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shipped a working tool by week 4
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would recommend RAP
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rated it valuable to their work
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sectors represented
2026 cohorts
Three windows. Pick one.
Cohort 1
May 22 – June 19, 2026
- Format
- Online · 4 weeks · Fridays 3:00–4:30 PM PT
- Capacity
- Graduated · 20 alumni
- Pricing
- Founding rate
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Cohort 2
Aug 7 – 28, 2026
- Format
- Online · 4 weeks · Fridays 3:00–4:30 PM PT
- Capacity
- 30 seats
- Pricing
- Standard rate
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Cohort 3
Sep 18 – Oct 9, 2026
- Format
- Online · 4 weeks · Fridays 3:00–4:30 PM PT
- Capacity
- 30 seats
- Pricing
- Standard rate
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Cohort 4
October 2026 · Festival Week · venue pending
- Format
- In-person · 2-day weekend · venue pending · Vancouver
- Capacity
- 20 seats · interest list
- Pricing
- Intensive rate
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