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Upcoming live online training courses

July 15, 16 & 17, 2024

Microservices Bootcamp

You want to become more of a technical leader and need to better understand how to determine the right solutions for your problems. You're currently struggling with a large monolithic system. ...

July 17, 2024

AI and LLM Cyber Risks and Mitigation

Implement practical defense strategies to protect LLMs from the OWASP Top-10 Risks and other potential threats. Effectively segregate and denote untrusted content within user prompts to limit its influence on LLM ...

July 18, 2024

Effective Project Management Skills

You’re in a technical role and need to manage projects more effectively You’re currently managing projects and are hoping to upskill to become more effective You are looking at moving into ...

July 22, 2024

Linux Security from Basics to Guru

Linux Security from Basics to Guru is a one-day exploration of what Linux security is and how you can incorporate good security practices into your projects. In this course you’ll learn ...

July 22, 2024

Hands-on GitHub Copilot

You’re a business/team/thought leader who wants to evaluate Copilot’s suitability for your projects/clients. Use Copilot for code completion, test generation, natural language queries, K8s manifests generation, regular expression generation, code translation, ...

July 24, 2024

Terraform In the Cloud

You’ll explore Terraform’s architecture and tooling as you learn how it helps reduce lead times to production using immutable infrastructure—and discover how it aligns with the DevOps mindset. Join in to ...

July 25, 2024

Introduction to strategic thinking skills

Focus on the right things, deliver results, and outperform competitors If managing a team or leading a group seems really hectic these days, that’s because it is. The pace of global ...

August 1, 2024

ChatGPT for Project Management

In just three hours, you’ll be ready to apply ChatGPT to your projects. You’re a project manager who’s looking to enhance efficiency and effectiveness by integrating AI tools into your work. ...

August 5 & 6, 2024

PostgreSQL Bootcamp

You’ll review how a hash index and a block range index work and discuss common SQL patterns that can prevent the database from optimizing a query and lead to degraded performance. ...

August 5 & 6, 2024

Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate Certification Crash Course

In-depth and hands-on practice for acing the exam HashiCorp Terraform is the leading open source automation tool for infrastructure as code (IaC) for building and deploying infrastructure to prominent cloud providers ...

August 5 & 12, 2024

Statistical Modeling and Inference with Python Bootcamp

Join expert Chester Ismay to learn and employ critical statistical tools and techniques through Python, a leading language for data analytics. The instruction emphasizes the practical application of these approaches to ...

August 6, 2024

Building your personal brand

Expert Roy Weissman explains how you can raise your profile and be viewed as an authority and leader in your industry. These are the people invited to speak at seminars and ...

August 7 & 8, 2024

System Design by Example

You’re a technical lead or a software, integration, or solutions architect. You’re planning to interview for a system design job. Apply system design methodology to your current projects Apply system design ...

August 8, 2024

Microservice fundamentals

You want to become more of a technical leader and need to better understand how to determine the right solutions for your problems. By the end of this live online course, ...

August 8, 2024

Leveraging AI for Effective Project Management

And you’ll be able to: Assess and identify high-value AI applications to streamline project planning and monitoring for predictive and adaptive projects Master the use of leading AI project assistance tools ...

August 13, 2024

Python® Data Science Full Throttle with Paul Deitel: Introductory Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and Cloud Case Studies

In this live training for Python programmers, Paul introduces some of today's most compelling, leading-edge computing technologies with cool examples on natural language processing, data mining Twitter® for sentiment analysis (updated ...

August 19, 2024

Software architecture by example

In this four-hour intensive course, Mark Richards and Neal Ford—software architects and the authors of numerous books and videos, including the popular video training course series Software Architecture Fundamentals—lead you on ...

August 21, 2024

Generative AI for Business Analysts in 60 Minutes

You’re a business analyst, product owner, business systems analyst, or project manager. You work on project teams changing systems and processes. Identify how to use generative AI to be more productive ...

August 27, 2024

Salary negotiation fundamentals

Best practices that lead to salary negotiation success Negotiation is part of life. We regularly bargain with other people to fulfill our needs—monetary or otherwise (something with which parents are no ...

August 27, 2024

Use Git Like A Pro

You are a project manager or team lead aiming to enhance your knowledge of Git and GitHub for effective team collaboration and project management. You are a student starting your journey ...

August 27, 2024

Collaboration for Effective Teamwork

Whether you lead a team or are a single producer who needs to work cross functionally, these tools can help you elevate your collaboration skills resulting in successful teams and teamwork. ...

September 3, 2024

Practical Project Management Bootcamp

Practical guidance for leading successful projects Understand core project management procedures, methodologies, and practices Learn the process of building a team for a project Learn a streamlined method of managing changes ...

September 4, 2024

Architecture for Modern Engineering Practices

You'll leave with the knowledge and tools to immediately put these ideas into practice in your own projects. You're a software architect who needs to understand modern engineering practices. You're a ...

September 4 & 5, 2024

New Engineering Manager Bootcamp

You’re an experienced engineer who would like to work closely with engineering and product leaders in your organization. Build a happier, more productive engineering team Evolve your team’s processes to improve ...

September 4, 2024

Introduction to Docker and Containers

As a software developer, DevOps or software systems architect you need to be up-to-date with the latest technology As a project leader, you would like to have an overview of the ...

September 9, 2024

Spring AI

You're a technical lead or manager who oversees development teams, project management, and technology strategy, and you want to know the capabilities and limitations of integrating AI into Java-based systems. Configure ...

September 11, 2024

ChatGPT for Project Management

In just three hours, you’ll be ready to apply ChatGPT to your projects. You’re a project manager who’s looking to enhance efficiency and effectiveness by integrating AI tools into your work. ...

September 19, 2024

LLM Safety and Security

Thankfully, systems-oriented thinking can help us identify these risks and hazards, and break out of the task-oriented mindset that has become pervasive in the “move fast, break things” culture. We will ...

September 19, 2024

Leadership Communication Skills for Managers

Executives, project managers, creative directors, team leaders, and other professionals in leadership roles must be able to establish a vision, inspire others to believe and act upon that vision, maintain a ...

Bio

The LEAD Project (Learning through Engineering, Art and Design) promotes hands-on, design-based activities with the creative use of technology and is part of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, a nonprofit educational group with years of practical experience teaching children how to make cool things.