Responsible AI Professional Certification
Lead with ethics in an AI-first world.
The Responsible AI Professional (RAP) certification is a four-week online cohort for leaders, executives, consultants, operators, and practitioners who decide how AI gets deployed and need the frameworks to govern it.
The gap between deployment speed and ethical practice.
Last October, 250 people at the Vancouver Planetarium were asked, “How many of you are deploying AI systems at work right now?” Nearly every hand went up. “How many have a governance framework for it?” The hands dropped. Maybe a dozen stayed up.
Every organization is rolling out AI, fast — and the systems we deploy now make decisions that affect real people. The organizations that will lead the AI era aren’t the ones with the fastest models. They’re the ones with people who know how to ask: Should we build this? Who gets hurt if we get it wrong? How do we keep human agency?
— Kris Krüg, Executive Director, BC + AI Ecosystem Association
One intensive, four artifacts.
Each online cohort is built around practical exercises, scenario work, and assessment. Not attendance-based — you pass quizzes and ship real artifacts.
AI & its limits
How these systems work; the accuracy problem; global frameworks.
Bias, privacy, ownership
Fairness that conflicts; consent & surveillance; copyright.
Deployment, labor, environment
When to deploy, when never; labor & carbon costs.
Authenticity & meaning
Deepfakes & trust; AI companions; agency.
You leave with a Custom GPT — your Ethics Practice Assistant
Trained on your four artifacts. It knows how you think about these issues — your practice partner after the program ends.
Frameworks you’ll apply
Technical depth and human understanding.
Kris Krüg
ED, BC + AI. Founder, Vancouver AI Meetup. 25 years across creative + technical worlds — Drupal pioneer to Dead.net.
Martin Lopatka
PhD Forensic Statistics, MSc AI. Mozilla alum. Knows responsible-AI assessment frameworks cold.
Sarah Downey
20+ years nonprofit leadership; grounds the work in values-centered practice.
Nearly 30 professionals, one shared problem: AI is already moving faster than most governance practices.
Who’s in the room
Not a webinar you watch alone. Cohort 1 filled with people mid-decision across tech, film, publishing, higher education, public-sector, and compliance teams — rolling out AI, writing first governance policies, and learning to tell solid practice from sales pitch. They left with frameworks, four artifacts, and a network they’ll still be comparing notes with a year from now.
Ready to join?
Who this is for:
Leaders and executives overseeing AI deployments who need governance frameworks that actually work — not policy documents that sit in a drawer. Career transitioners with upskilling funds, pivoting into AI governance. Practitioners building a practice, not just collecting a credential.
No technical AI experience required. If you’re making decisions about AI — budgeting, deploying, governing — you’re qualified.
Questions? Come to Friday Office Hours (12–1 PM PT, free, open to all) or email [email protected].