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Upcoming Workshop: AI Essentials - Empowering Professionals for Business Success.

May. 1, 2025

Is your business ready to tackle artificial intelligence and leverage it to move you forward?

Lakeland University’s Center for Professional and Personal Development can help with a half-day workshop entitled AI Essentials: Empowering Professionals for Business Success.

Workshops are set for Wednesday, June 18, from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. or 1-5 p.m. at Lakeland’s Sheboygan County campus.

Attendees will discover how artificial intelligence is reshaping the business landscape—and how they can harness it to drive innovation, efficiency and smarter decisions. AI Essentials is a fast-paced, hands-on workshop designed for professionals who want to understand AI without needing a technical background.

The workshop will be led by Lakeland adjunct instructor Indrajith Wasala Mudiyanselage, Ph.D., a data scientist and educator who is passionate about helping others develop a strong quantitative intuition and confidence in applying data-driven solutions to real-world challenges.

In this session attendees will:

• Understand what AI really is (and isn’t)
• Learn how AI is being used in real businesses across industries
• Master the basics of prompt engineering to get better results from AI
• Try out leading free tools like ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Jotform AI, and more
• Understand the ethical risks and responsibilities of AI use
• Leave with practical strategies, tools and resources you can apply immediately.

The workshop is suited for folks working in marketing, management, HR, finance or operations seeking the knowledge and confidence to lead with AI.

Mudiyanselage’s work spans statistics, machine learning, deep learning and data science. He has hands-on experience developing AI models and analyzing complex datasets using tools such as R, Python and SQL. His training covers a broad range of topics, including statistical modeling, forecasting, optimization and data visualization.

He has taught a variety of courses in statistics and data science. He has a bachelor's degree in statistics from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, as well as master's degrees in mathematics from Western Illinois University and statistics from the University of Texas-Dallas and a Ph.D. in data science & statistics from UT-Dallas.

Learn more at his LinkedIn profile.

Click here to register or to learn more. Sign up before June 1 to take advantage of the early bird discounted price of $299.

Learn more about upcoming workshops or Lakeland University by emailing sachsej1@lakeland.edu.