Free Artificial Intelligence Workshop for Kent Based Charities

Kent Community Foundation has partnered with AI expert Tim Cook to offer five free workshops to charities in Kent.

These workshops aim to help organisations understand the potential benefits and risks of AI and learn how to use AI tools responsibly.

The free sessions are being funded through the Kent Community Foundation Infrastructure Support Fund which opened with funding from Kent County Council to support charities in their development.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving change both within organisations and across wider society. Many organisations are finding it difficult to keep up with the change, and understand how AI tools can benefit them, and what risk exist to their organisation and the communities that they are set up to serve.

Delivered by AI expert Tim Cook, founder of social enterprise AIConfident and formerly part of the leadership team for the Government's Office for AI, this is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of AI technologies and how they might impact your organisation, while also learning best practice in using AI tools responsibly.

The three-hour workshop will include:

• An introduction to the strategic implications of AI in the economy and society
  
  
• An ‘Experiment Safely’ session, during which we will:

1.  Introduce the concept of responsible use of AI
2. Run a ‘guided play’ followed by ‘free play’ session, bringing a series of challenges to solve using AI, then encouraging attendees to solve other challenges of their choosing

• Finish with a guided conversation on the ethical principles of responsible AI use, and an 'Ask Me Anything' question session

Outcomes for attendees will be:

• A strategic understanding of the implications of AI for your charity/social enterprise
• A baseline knowledge on AI technologies, and how to use them responsibly, while extending the capabilities of more advanced users
• A shared understanding of some of the responsible AI principles that you might want to employ, which you can then develop into guidelines
• Independent advice from an expert who has been at the heart of National-level Government AI decision making

Workshop dates and locations. Bookings will open soon:

• Thursday 10th October 2024 10am – 1pm Repton Community Trust, Ashford, TN23 3RX Book your place for Ashford 
  
  
• Thursday 17th October 2024 10am – 1pm Aylesham Community Trust, CT3 3AJ Book your place for Canterbury/Dover 
  
  
• Thursday 24th October 2024 10am – 1pm Maidstone Community Support Centre, Maidstone, ME14 1HH Book your place for Maidstone 
  
  
• Tuesday 5th November 2024 10am – 1pm The Bat and Ball Community Centre, Sevenoaks, TN14 5DN Book your place for Sevenoaks 
  
  
•  Tuesday 12th November 2024 10am – 1pm Sun Pier House, Chatham, ME4 4HF Book your place for Chatham 

Places at the workshops are limited to 20 per session, so early booking is advised.

To make sure that as many organisations benefit from this valuable training as possible, there is currently a maximum of one (1) person per organisation for each workshop. We are happy to place additional members of your team on a waiting list should places become available.

About Tim and AIConfident

Tim is the founder of AIConfident, a social enterprise seeking to ensure that the rapid AI transformation is equitable, by helping leaders across society to responsibly embrace the transformative opportunity presented by AI. He has over a decade of applying AI to societal challenges within Government, and four years as the deputy head of the Government's Office for Artificial Intelligence.

AIConfident combines this extensive AI background with leadership coaching, workshop facilitation and a passion for change, in order to empower leaders to create the environment for responsible, confident use of AI technologies.

AIConfident reinvests profits to support those organisations least likely to be able to afford AI expertise, working with charities, schools and other organisations with a social purpose.

These workshops successfully ran in 2024. If you would like to know more about AI and how your charity could use it, please contact AI Confident directly.