Dr. Greg Loughnane, Ph.D., personally guides your first wave of AI leaders.
Building the People
Who Build AI
AI Makerspace helps build the people, engineering capability, internal champions, and systems as organizations move from AI experimentation to production.
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Up Next: AI Engineering Bootcamp is Back!
Starting on November 10th, understand the core concepts and code behind AI Engineering in 6 weeks.
🏆 The longest-running AI Engineering Bootcamp on Maven (since January, 2024)
📚 Every enrollment includes the textbook: The AI Engineering Bootcamp Book, published by Wiley.
We promise to get you building 🏗️, shipping 🚢, and sharing 🚀 live in class, and to get you noticed on LinkedIn.
🧑💻 Guaranteed to get you building a personal GitHub portfolio of projects that you can talk about in detail!
This course is for you if:
- You want to write code every day
- You want to become an AI Engineer
This course is NOT for you if:
- You prefer low-code courses (this is too advanced)
- You want to be a Forward-Deployed Engineer (this course is too basic)
AI has a skills gap between hype and the ability to launch.
No matter if you're new to engineering or a team leader, you are under more pressure to deliver on AI. The tools are available. The talent is there.
What's missing when the returns don't come in is the bridge between AI awareness and production-ready competence.
Most AI training programs you run into stop at education. Teams complete a course, earn a certificate, and return to the same backlog with the same skill gaps. Nothing ships. Nothing inside your organization changes.
You're Invited: Build. 🏗️ Ship. 🚢 Share. 🚀
The AI Makerspace mission takes a different approach. We embed with your technical leadership team, align with your production goals and compliance, run with products in parallel, and build real agent applications alongside you. All while strengthening your AI capability and pipeline.
When we leave, you or your team have shipped working systems, and you are equipped with a reusable framework to build the next ones without us.
Start Where You Are
Build from where you are today. We guarantee to help build you up on the path as an AI engineer, to an FDE, and to help solve your problems or skills gaps as a team leader from there.
01 — LEARN TO BUILD
AI Engineering Bootcamp
You're learning AI engineering and want to go beyond AI prompting and AI slop to production-grade prototypes with best-practice frameworks.
Learn how to build AI applications yourself, from the fundamentals through working systems.
AI Engineering Bootcamp →
02 — BUILD IN THE REAL WORLD
AI FDE Certification
You already know how to ship software. Now you're solving AI problems inside an organization, with real users, data, constraints, security, and stakes.
Ship a real AI product into production at your company in 10 weeks, with a final report delivered to key stakeholders
AI FDE Certification →
03 — LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL AI CAPABILITY
Enterprise Programs
You have 3+ engineers to turn into internal AI champions, and want your team to build AI capability together.
Have your team work side-by-side on a production AI application delivered to users in your org (or your clients) with a final report delivered to you in only 10 weeks.
Enterprise Programs →
THREE Ways to Engage
Our process goes from teaching you AI engineering and how to build, then bringing you into our standard and challenging 10-week AI FDE Engineer Certification to build around the problem and constraints at work, and last, building internal AI champions and teams with custom enterprise programs.
We work directly with aspiring technical leaders like you in financial services, insurance, healthcare, enterprise software, digital products, and technology.
Our proven model to Build. 🏗️ Ship. 🚢 Share. 🚀 is designed for organizations where quality, security, and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable.
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Learn AI Engineering by Building with Live Instruction and a Community in the AI Engineering Bootcamp
You're ready to move beyond prompting and AI slop and learn how to build AI applications. The AI Engineering Bootcamp gives you the foundations, frameworks, and practical engineering patterns to understand what you're building and why it works.
Work through the core concepts of AI engineering and apply them by building a real application yourself, moving from fundamentals and prototypes toward production-grade systems.
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Build AI at Work with an AI FDE Certification (October-December, 2026)(opens in new tab)
Bring a current problem at your company and build the solution with us. We'll supply the education and path. The AI FDE Certification is a 10-week, hands-on program designed for engineers who are ready to move beyond experimentation and start shipping production AI systems. You’ll build, evaluate, and deploy real agentic applications, working across RAG, multi-agent systems, evals, and production infrastructure.
Through weekly projects, live instruction, a community of engineering experts, and a final capstone, you’ll develop the skills and systems thinking required to operate as a production forward-deployed AI Engineer. Former graduates or teams are welcome to keep their AI applications and knowledge fresh. If you're empowered and ready to make a bigger impact, this one's for you!
To qualify for the Certification:
- View our course and complete your AI FDE Certification application.
- Your application will be reviewed by our team to share the next steps.
THREE
A Custom Enterprise AI Engineering Program for Teams: From Pilots to ROI
A fully tailored program to build your internal AI champions and capability to scale. We focus on your organization’s goals, engineering team structure, production environment, product roadmap, and pipeline. An enterprise engagement includes curriculum design, hands-on project-based delivery, agentic AI skills development for your team, and internal enablement planning.
Our growing roster of enterprise clients includes firms in banking, financial services, business consulting, insurance, healthcare, and adjacent organizations with an emphasis on security, compliance and regulatory needs.
Your program can be delivered in-person where we come to you, or online options are available. After you apply, we'll build a roadmap and proposal around your team’s AI capability and availability.
The most popular enterprise AI programming we offer includes a one-week and on-site intensive for $70,000, and a two-week plus a demo day option for $85,000.
About
AI Makerspace
BUILDING THE PEOPLE WHO BUILD AI
AI Makerspace exists to close the gap between knowing about AI and being able to build with it.
Founded by Dr. Greg Loughnane, Ph.D., AI Makerspace grew from Greg’s work in advanced technical education and a community of practitioners learning to build and ship production AI systems. The goal has always been practical: teach people how to build, then help them apply that capability to real problems with real users, data, constraints, security, and stakes.
Today, thousands of AI practitioners participate in the AI Makerspace community, learning alongside others who are actively building and shipping AI systems.
That work has grown into a progression for people and organizations at different stages of their AI journey:
Learn AI engineering. Build AI at work. Lead and build AI as teams.
- Our AI Engineering Bootcamp teaches the foundations and practical patterns for building AI applications.
- The AI FDE Certification takes engineers into a real 10-week build around the problems and constraints they face at work.
- And Enterprise Programs help organizations develop internal AI champions and build stronger engineering capability together.
The model is simple: Build. 🏗️ Ship. 🚢 Share. 🚀
We bring the same production-first, hands-on approach that powers our learning community directly into the work organizations are trying to accomplish.
Why AI Makerspace is Different
Every module is built around shipping working systems, not passing an exam. Your team learns by building applications that go into production.
We train inside your tech stack, your security framework, and your deployment pipeline. Nothing is generic.
We don't train thousands of people at once. Nobody does that effectively. We train the right people deeply so they can bring the rest of the organization along.
Our goal is to make ourselves unnecessary. When the engagement ends, your team operates independently.
Client Outcomes and Testimonials
"Hands-down one of the best investments I've made in my career. AI Makerspace doesn't just teach concepts — you leave having actually built and shipped real, production-grade agentic systems. If you're on the fence, just join; the instructors, the pace, and the hands-on structure make it worth every session."
Mo Majeed
Technical Lead at Manulife
“The reactions from the team were overwhelmingly positive. They learned a lot and liked the way your Bootcamp is structured. Most importantly, they felt pride in completing the challenges… There was blood, sweat, and tears, but a huge sense of accomplishment! I will explore opportunities to work together in the future, so please keep me in the loop on what you’re building over there.”
Robert Fitos
AI & Data Tribe Director @ Hrvatski Telekom
“The AI Engineering bootcamp has significant advantages for enterprise data teams. After having multiple team members complete the bootcamp, our approach to Generative AI projects has become more streamlined and effective, leading to faster prototyping. I strongly recommend this course to any data professional or team eager to upgrade their Gen AI skills and drive impactful innovation within their organization.”
Colin Davis
Sr. Director, Data Strategy @ Kiewit
“AI Makerspace excels where others have come up short, empowering data scientists with the vital practical skills to flourish within the AI landscape. Through collaborations with industry trailblazers, they guarantee a concentration on the most pertinent and crucial expertise. They bring people up to speed on a subject that never slows down.”
Steven Gawthorpe
Associate Director @ Berkeley Research Group
"I kept seeing the same repetitive data work and thinking, there has to be a better way. AI Makerspace gave me the practical knowledge base and builder mindset to start turning those ideas into things I could actually ship, while being surrounded by people who build."
Noor Aftab
Senior Program Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
“Greg and his team were able to make complex subject matter easy to digest and very engaging. In just a few weeks time we were able to complete widely divergent projects to develop AI apps to solve healthcare challenges.”
Zachary Arose
Healthcare Technology Manager @ VA Medical Center
Pre-Order the AI Engineering Bootcamp Book on Amazon Today
Note: The book is included with an enrollment in any AI Makerspace course.
If you want to learn on your time, or you aren't able to join a course, our exciting new option for self-paced learning of systems thinking and production AI is here. Keep a great reference on hand and come back to everything you can learn here.
Whether you're building your first AI application or deploying enterprise AI systems in production, this book provides a solid roadmap for understanding, building, and improving modern AI solutions.
Launch Date: January 2027
Price: $65 USD
🏗️ Build. 🚢 Ship. 🚀 Share.
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Have a question about our AI Engineering Bootcamp, FDE Certification, or Custom Enterprise Programs? Book a call to talk to us, or fill out the form to get started.
- Book a call with AI Makerspace about the AI FDE Certification
- Book a call with AI Makerspace about custom Enterprise AI Programs
For any other inquiries, please use the form on this page, or send us an email about what you're looking for to greg@aimakerspace.io.