Responsible AI Professional Certification: 8/6
(Starts August 7, 2026)
Every organization is deploying AI. Most are doing it without governance frameworks, without ethics training, and without asking the hard questions early enough.
RAP is a four-week Responsible AI Professional certification for people who need to make better AI decisions at work: leaders, consultants, operators, builders, policy people, and teams moving from experimentation into accountable deployment.
WHAT YOU’LL GET
\-> Four live online sessions -> Weekly practical exercises -> Four portfolio artifacts: AI Inventory, Ethics Assessment, Deployment Checklist, Impact Assessment -> A practical grounding in UNESCO, OECD, NIST, IEEE, and other responsible-AI frameworks -> A cohort of professionals wrestling with the same deployment, governance, and trust questions -> RAP certification recognized by BC + AI Ecosystem
THE CURRICULUM
Week 1: Foundations Understanding AI, the accuracy problem, and global responsible-AI frameworks.
Week 2: Core Ethics Bias and prediction, privacy and consent, copyright and creative work.
Week 3: Societal Impact Deployment ethics, labor and work, environmental impact, and accountability.
Week 4: The Human Element Authenticity, social life with AI, human judgment, and final certification work.
This is practical ethics for real AI decisions. Not theory. Not vendor pitches. A working practice.
WHO THIS IS FOR
- Executives and leaders overseeing AI initiatives
- Consultants and advisors building responsible-AI services
- Professionals who budget for their own development
- Product, operations, HR, nonprofit, public-sector, and creative leaders
- Anyone who needs to assess AI risks before deployment
No technical AI experience required. If you’re making decisions about AI – budgeting, deploying, governing, communicating, or evaluating – you’re qualified.
DETAILS
Date: Friday, August 7, 2026 Draft session dates: August 7, August 14, August 21, August 28 Session time: [TBD – confirm in #100 before publishing] Format: Online Draft capacity: 25-30 participants Draft pricing: $1,500 CAD standard / $750 CAD BC + AI member Member discount: confirm active BC + AI membership status before publishing
YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Kris Krüg – Program Lead National Geographic photographer, longtime technology community builder, CTO of Indigenomics Institute, and founder of the Vancouver AI meetup. Kris brings the creative, community, and governance lens behind RAP.
Martin Lopatka – Curriculum Lead / Advisor PhD in Forensic Statistics, M.Sc. in AI, Mozilla alumni, and responsible-AI practitioner with expertise in model assessment, governance, regulatory alignment, and technical risk.
Sarah Downey – Facilitator / Instructor AI consultant and strategist based in Victoria with 20+ years in nonprofit and social impact leadership. Sarah helps mission-driven organizations adopt AI responsibly through the ethos: Stay Curious. Stay Connected. Stay Human.
Final public instructor roles will be confirmed before this page is published.
WHAT MAKES RAP DIFFERENT
\-> Four weeks, built for working professionals -> Practical artifacts, not attendance-only certification -> Technical foundations through human values -> Cohort-based discussion and applied work -> Multi-framework, globally applicable approach -> Built by BC + AI for people who want a responsible practice, not just a credential
REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTIFICATION
[x] Attend all four live sessions or complete the async equivalent [x] Pass all four weekly quizzes [x] Complete practical exercises and portfolio artifacts [x] Complete the final assessment or capstone project
ABOUT BC + AI ECOSYSTEM ASSOCIATION
BC + AI Ecosystem Association is a nonprofit strengthening BC’s AI ecosystem through community, education, and collaboration.
\-> bc-ai.ca -> [email protected]
About BC + AI Ecosystem Association
BC + AI is the province-wide layer: a community-driven, nonprofit industry association built to create public-interest infrastructure for AI in British Columbia.
Not a corporate lobby. Not a think tank. A commons where meetups turn into working groups, prototypes turn into shared tools, and community values turn into governance.
Join / support: https://bc-ai.ca/membership/
