AI for Professionals: Leveraging the power of AI and Large Language Models in your work
Unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs)
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Whether you work with qualitative (e.g., texts) or quantitative data, this course provides you with practical skills and knowledge to leverage AI and LLMs in you daily work with data processing, analysis, and visualization. Additionally, the course will provide work-relevant examples on how LLMs can be used to optimize your workflows and assist you in specific data processing tasks.
This course introduces work-related use of LLMs, focusing on how to make use of them in collecting, summarizing, and showcasing information, how to leverage them as writing assistants and content creators, as well as other AI applications, such as natural language processing (NLP), image analysis, and automated transcription. In the course, you will learn how to set up and use the OpenAI API, including account setup, pricing, model selection, and prompt engineering for optimal results. You will also be introduced to an open-source alternative from Hugging Face and how the two compare with regards to performance, data security, and privacy. Lastly, this course will provide you with applied LLM use examples as inspiration for how to leverage the power of AI and LLMs in your specific work context.
The course runs over two days a few weeks apart, specifically designed to provide you with the opportunity to try out your new skills between each course day. The course days will include a mix of introductions, hands-on exercises, and interactive Q&A components. Participants will have access to all course material beforehand and be able to run everything on their computers.
At request, the courses have now been extended with additional teaching time.
This course is organized by the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), in collaboration with The National Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAISA).
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Course information on 'AI for Professionals'
Course dates
6 and 20 May 2026 from 9:00 to 13:30
Benefits for you and your organisation
By the end of this course, you will have:
- Practical, hands-on knowledge on how to apply AI and LLMs in your work
- Inspiration on how to use AI and LLMs in a professional context
- Mastered the use of AI and LLMs for data annotation and analysis
- Set up and understood how to utilize commercial as well as non-proprietary language models
- Learnt prompt engineering for effective LLM interactions
- The skills to automate data analysis, content generation, transcription, and text/image analysis
- Access to translation tools for multilingual research tasks
Who should attend?
This course is designed for professionals in various fields who want to integrate advanced AI techniques and LLMs into their workflows. This includes consultants, ministry deputies, data analysts, market researchers, business strategists, and anyone who could benefit from enhancing and optimizing data processing and analysis through AI and LLMs.
A basic familiarity with scripting programming languages (e.g. Python, R, etc.) and a basic understanding of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is assumed, but programming support will also be available.
We encourage anyone interested in AI-driven processes to join; if you are completely new to programming, however, we suggest that you check our upcoming course “How to use AI, LLMs, and Chatbots in your work: A basic introduction to tools, applications, and pitfalls"
Place
University of Copenhagen
Gammeltoftsgade 15, bygning 35
1353 Copenhagen K
Contact
University of Copenhagen
Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
lifelonglearning@adm.ku.dk