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've made it simple to choose your next step. Learn AI engineering and how to build on your own, ship a production AI solution in your role at work, or develop your team's ability to deliver production AI at scale.
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 certification and final report you can share with key stakeholders
AI FDE Certification →
03 — LEADING TEAMS AND AI CAPABILITY
ENTERPRISE AI FDE CHALLENGE SPRINTS
If you have 3+ engineers to turn into internal AI champions, bring an accelerated AI Makerspace curriculum to you.
In a one-week sprint, have your team work side by side on a production AI application for 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 with our AI FDE Challenge Sprints for enterprise teams.
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
When you're ready to move beyond prompting and AI slop and learn how to build AI applications, start with this bootcamp. 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.
To Join the Next Cohort
- View our course dates, syllabus, and enroll for the next AI Engineering Bootcamp.
- Get ready for an AI engineering challenge and technical setup to do on your time before the cohort begins.
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Build AI at Work with an AI FDE Certification (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 individual engineers or small groups 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
AI FDE Challenge Sprint 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.
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.
An enterprise engagement includes curriculum design, hands-on project-based delivery, agentic AI skills development for your team, and internal enablement planning. Book a one-week sprint on-site for $70,000.
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.
Pre-Order the AI Engineering Bootcamp Book on Amazon Today
Note: The book is included with an enrollment in any AI Makerspace course. Start learning AI engineering here, or reinforce what you're building with our book.
The AI Engineering Bootcamp: Build, Ship, Share, brings you self-paced learning on how to build production AI.
Whether you're building your first AI application, getting promoted, 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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Recap What Forward-Deployed Engineers are Learning
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FDE Cohort 1 Session 2: Thinking Like a Product Person (Before You Write Any Code)
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FDE Cohort 1 Kickoff: Setting Up Your Enterprise Development Environment to Build with AI
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The AI FDE Onramp: How to Become a Forward-Deployed Engineer
Over 150 engineers signed up for The AI FDE Onramp, a free lightning lesson we ran on Maven on September 29, 2026….
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Enterprise AI Capability Benchmarking is Here: What Are Your Scores?
If you’re here, then you’ve probably seen this happen. Whether in the initial days of adopting AI, or wondering where the impact…
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Best Multi-Agent Frameworks for Enterprise Teams in 2026
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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 and work in smaller groups, 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
Start a New Conversation with AI Makerspace
Let's get you on the right path!
Have a question about our AI Engineering Bootcamp, FDE Certification, or AI FDE Challenge Sprints for enterprise teams?
Book a call to talk with us and get started with a 1:1 walkthrough and onboarding.
For any other general inquiries, you can contact us, or send an email about what you're looking for to greg@aimakerspace.io.