Engaging stakeholders in AI
Join The Alan Turing Institute for a unique learning experience combining self-paced online courses and interactive live sessions to navigate stakeholder engagement in AI development and procurement.
Overview
The Alan Turing Institute presents a unique, multi-format learning opportunity designed to help organisations navigate the complex landscape of stakeholder engagement in AI development and procurement. This comprehensive program combines self-paced online learning with interactive live sessions to provide both theoretical foundations and practical application opportunities.
Deadline for registrations:
- Introduction Webinar on 28 May: register by 27 May 2025
- Interactive Workshop on 24 June: register by 23 June 2025
Who should attend?
This program is designed for:
- Early adopters of AI solutions, both SMEs and larger businesses
- Businesses and SMEs seeking to procure or build AI solutions and gain insights through stakeholder engagement
- Anyone interested in participatory AI, responsible AI, or business development in AI
Prerequisites: Ideally, you will have done some thinking and mapping of AI risk within your own business/use case, or you are familiar with risk assessment frameworks; however, this is not a hard requirement, and we will introduce you to AI risk concepts and frameworks during the course.
Why should you attend?
Participants will benefit from:
- Risk Mitigation: Ability to foresee and manage AI-related risks before they become problems
- Better Decision-Making: More informed choices about AI procurement vs. development
- Responsible Innovation: Framework to ensure AI deployment aligns with ethical considerations and stakeholder needs
- Practical Application: Reusable, collaborative framework to aid your stakeholder engagement strategy and applicable to any use case
- Industry-Specific Insights: Access to case studies from four industries to inform their approach
- Community Building: Opportunity to contribute their use cases and learn from peers
What will you learn?
This program will help you
- Define stakeholder engagement in the context of AI projects, explaining its purpose, key components, and benefits.
- Identify a range of stakeholders in a business use case, including vulnerable communities.
- Gain an appreciation of how different businesses might build or procure AI solutions, using a solution agnostic AI project lifecycle.
- Critically describe how stakeholder engagement can support your business or organisation in the procurement or build of an AI solution across the AI lifecycle.
- Detail the value proposition to your business or organisation of stakeholder engagement when procuring or building an AI solution.
- Consider stakeholder engagement in the context of AI risk identification and mitigation.
- Map stakeholders to levels of engagement aligning with business objectives and stakeholder needs.
- Transfer the learning in own use case, appreciating the value of collaborative decision making, ongoing stakeholder engagement and subsequent impact assessment.
Structure
The program consists of three complementary components:
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Available through the Turing Online Learning Platform, this self-paced course provides the foundation of stakeholder engagement in AI. Through six carefully structured modules, participants will explore the who, where, why, and how of effective stakeholder engagement throughout the AI project lifecycle. Access to the On-Demand Course will be provided through the Turing’s Online Learning Platform starting in May 2025.
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This live session offers participants the opportunity to meet course instructors Dr. Ann Borda and Mishka Nemes, gain an overview of the course content, and ask questions about the learning journey ahead.
Register by 27 May to secure your place.
Register for 28 May Introduction Webinar
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This three-hour guided session delivers hands-on experience applying the stakeholder engagement framework to real business scenarios. Whether participants have completed the online course or not, the workshop provides a collaborative environment to work through the practical application of the framework.
Register by 23 June to secure your place.
Register for 24 June Interactive Workshop