Dr. Greg Loughnane, Ph.D., personally guides your first wave of AI leaders.
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Helping you become the leaders who drive your production AI systems and outcomes from within. Join our hands-on, industry-standard experience that creates internal AI champions.
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Registration Now Open: AI Engineer Certification
Build. Ship. Share. Our next 10-week program starts on September 22nd, 2026 through December 7th, 2026.
The next cohort of the AI Engineer Certification by AI Makerspace is officially open, and this one is different.
It’s for people ready to build, ship, and share production-grade AI systems and teams. It's also for past graduates who want to keep their applications and knowledge fresh.
To join us this fall:
- Take the AI Engineer Challenge
- Complete your AI Engineer Certification application
AI has an adoption gap between hype and the ability to launch.
Enterprise technical teams are under pressure to deliver on AI. The tools are available. The talent is there. What's missing 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, compliance, and build real agent applications alongside your engineers.
When we leave, your team has shipped working systems, and you are equipped with a reusable framework to build the next ones without us.
How it Works
Unlike a standard lecture series, you or an enterprise team can build real agent applications alongside the learning journey. A solution is shipped using your models, your APIs, your security systems, and your production environment. Every project is tied to a use case from your backlog.
The ideal outcome is a self-sustaining cycle of building, shipping, and sharing production AI knowledge across your organization.
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Phase 1: An Engineering Assessment and Alignment
We start everyone out with The AI Engineer Challenge or a custom prepared team assessment. This helps us understand you or your organization.
Your team structure, your current technical capabilities, your production backlog, and the AI use cases that matter most to your business.
Every engagement is scoped around outcomes that are specific, measurable, and aligned to engineering and business impact.
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Phase 2: Building the First Wave of Production AI Experts
If you're an individual or small group, we can train you in one of our AI Engineering Certification group cohorts. Our actively engaged community is made up of over 3,500 technical leaders and developers becoming today's AI engineers.
For deploying agentic solutions within enterprises, we train a larger group of your 30+ nominated technical leaders through an intensive, project-based program focused on your systems and our practical AI implementation path.
Participants work on meaningful use cases while building the skills they need to lead AI initiatives and train others inside your organization.
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Phase 3: Scaling Through Your People
Once you're trained by us, you're ready to train others. You can become the leader of your internal AI learning community, able to onboard new engineers, processes, evaluate use cases, and sustain development velocity at scale.
The first employees who get training are your team of internal AI champions, who will anchor your organization’s AI capability and pipeline going forward.
Hear about the AI Makerspace learning experience and what people are building with AI in our community of certified graduates.
Two Ways to Engage
AI Makerspace works by bringing you into our standard and challenging 10-week AI Engineer Certification and by building internal AI champions and teams with enterprises.
We work directly with 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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Get an AI Engineer Certification (September 22nd -December 5th, 2026)
The AI Engineer 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, and a final capstone, you’ll develop the skills and systems thinking required to operate as a production AI Engineer. Former graduates or teams are welcome to keep their AI applications and knowledge fresh at special discounted rates.
To qualify for the Certification:
- Take the AI Engineer Challenge
- Complete your AI Engineer Certification registration
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Custom Enterprise AI Engineering Training Programs that Create Builders
A fully tailored training and implementation program designed around your organization’s goals, team structure, and production environment. An enterprise engagement includes curriculum design, hands-on project-based training, agentic AI skills development for your team, and internal enablement planning.
Our growing roster of enterprise clients includes firms like Morgan Stanley, Informa, and Accenture. This is delivered online with live instruction, with preferred in-person and on-site options available. We come to you and build around your team’s availability.
The most popular enterprise AI programming we offer includes a one-week and onsite intensive for $50,000, and a two-week plus a demo day option for $60,000.
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AI Makerspace Onramp (Free Training from 2025)
The AI Makerspace “Onramp” and this open-sourced LLM-Ops-Cohort curriculum is designed to take students like you from AI-curious developers into practical AI engineers who can build and ship production-grade LLM applications. If you're interested in our agentic AI solutions or the AI Engineer Certification, but haven't built a production AI application yet, we suggest you begin here.
The material from this training evolved into what later became the AI Engineering Bootcamp and Certification programs.
AI Makerspace Bootcamp (Retired in 2026)
For organizations that want to get started quickly, our standard and original bootcamp program provides a structured path to production AI competence. Engineers join alongside practitioners from other companies in a cohort-based format with live instruction and project-based learning.
The original AI Makerspace bootcamp moving forward is now the AI Engineer Certification, and you can preorder the AI Engineering Bootcamp Book on Amazon today
About
AI Makerspace
AI Makerspace has built one of the world’s leading production AI learning communities and an industry-standard AI Engineering certification.
Founded by Dr. Greg Loughnane, Ph.D., who spent over a decade in advanced technical education, AI Makerspace was created to bridge the gap between AI knowledge and real production capability. Greg comes with more than a decade of experience in advanced technical education and is the founder of one of the world’s leading production AI learning communities, ensuring your program is built on a foundation that lasts.
Today, the community includes thousands of AI practitioners actively building and shipping real systems. Our custom enterprise AI engineering training program brings that same hands-on, production-first approach directly inside your organization.
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
"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)
“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
“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 Our AI Engineering Bootcamp Book on Amazon Today
Whether you're building your first AI application or deploying enterprise AI systems in production, this book provides a practical roadmap for understanding, building, and improving modern AI solutions.
Launch Date: October 6, 2026
Price: $65 USD
🏗️ Build. 🚢 Ship. 🚀 Share.
If you are looking for extra support or have a question about our production-AI-focused training and certification, feel free to begin here.