AI Presentations
Leaders in CPS are constantly advancing AI literacy across the college and in their respective academic and professional communities. The following sample of some areas of expertise within AI are noted below. If you or someone in your organization is interested in learning more, or would like to invite one of our faculty to share their knowledge with your team, please contact us.
AI Presentations
Everyday AI | Balazs Szelenyi, Teaching Professor in the CPS International Programs
Practical everyday ways you can use AI to help you in everything from planning what’s for dinner to planning for retirement.
Accelerating AI | Prashant Mittal, Professor of the Practice and Director of Professional Programs CPS, Portland/Maine)
How to build upon introductory understanding of AI for more advanced application in the classroom and beyond.
Crowdsourcing Professional Knowledge and Wisdom with AI | Chris Unger, Teaching Professor, Graduate School of Education
Spotlight on AI platforms able to deepen professional knowledge and wisdom with a focus on Perplexity, combining it with Claude for information summary and synthesis.
Regulatory Sciences & AI | Jared Auclair, Dean of the College of Professional Studies and Rominder Singh, Professor of the Practice
An introduction to an evolving application of Regulatory Sciences & AI, highlighting opportunities to co-create curriculum for courses with AI as a co-instructor, and invite collaboration as we envision a Center of Excellence (CoE) in this emerging field.
How to Employ AI tools to Support Your Work | Patty G. Hayward, Associate Teaching Professor and Mark Chambers, Director - Enterprise Data Governance University Decision Support
How can AI tools support our work both in administrative functions, brainstorming, developing mini cases and discussion board questions, analyzing data, along with gathering a range of resources.
Navigating New Guidance on AI in Research
Alexis Goltra, Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Privacy Attorney at Northeastern guides us through the university’s AI policy framework and the AI Review Committee’s role, while sharing practical examples of how Northeastern faculty are leveraging AI tools in their research. Learn about the new submission process and hear about university-wide resources and initiatives, including work to create sandbox spaces for safe AI exploration.
There is significant market demand for professional training in the A.I. space.
- 83% of employees say learning opportunities very important / essential to their career 83%
- 71% of employees fear current skills will be obsolete in 5 yrs. 71%
U.S. Continuing Education projected to grow to $98B from $71B by 2030
U.S. Executive Education projected to grow to $74B from $49B by 2029
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87% of executives report major skills gaps in their organizations
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60% of all workers will require retraining by 2027
The statistics above highlight the urgent and growing need for scalable professional learning programs. Together, these figures justify the CPS AI workshops’ design and timing, showing that both individuals and organizations are actively seeking accessible, relevant, and up-to-date professional development options.
Sources:
Continuing Education Growth Trends & Forecasts (2025 – 2030), Mordor Intelligence
Executive Education Program Global Market Report 2025, Business Research Co.
McKinsey & Company Global Survey 2023
Future of Jobs Report, World Economic Forum 2023
LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report 2023
PwC, Hopes and Fears Survey, 2023
I am the Head of AI at one of the world’s largest independent media company spending around $8bn USD for our clients annually.
The vision of Northeastern University AI for Professional Learners is something that is radically needed in the market.
Skilling up our internal leaders is a primary goal of our leadership and while there are plenty of people who say they can do it, when we look under the hood their lesson plans are created by ChatGPT, don’t have any linkage into real world usages, lack value to our organization and frankly lack value to the learners.
We are constantly hiring and no employees thus far have come to us with any kind of AI education certification. Any candidate that would come with a Northeastern University AI for Professional Learners certification would immediately jump to the top of our list as it shows not only their desire to learn but an AI understanding anchored in real life use cases and practical applied knowledge.
As the market sees the possibilities for how AI can change the way we work, senior executives are grappling with how to evaluate talent and their abilities to learn and utilize AI tools.
Leading business schools are beginning to capitalize on this trend, and top executive education programs are surely not far behind.
I see this workshop being critical for students entering professional domains in which AI is key for their work and career.