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🌍 AI for ALL: The Next-Gen Creator’s Toolkit
FREE AI Workshop Singapore – Session 1
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🔥 Something You Absolutely Can’t Miss
Welcome to AI for ALL: The Next-Gen Creator’s Toolkit – a once-in-a-lifetime workshop series that’s turning heads across Singapore’s AI community. Whether you’re kiasu about staying ahead, or just AI-curious, this is your golden ticket. Why just use AI, when you can learn to build with it?
🚀 Why Attend?
Get Ahead of the AI Curve – Understand AI beyond TikTok trends & ChatGPT memes.
Hands-On Learning – Try out tools live, not just listen to theory.
Expand Your Network – Meet other students, tech founders, and AI community leaders.
Career Boost – Learn about EPIC Connector Student Ambassador recruitment. Ambassadors get to work directly with AI founders & tech KOLs, help organize events, and open doors to internship opportunities.
🚀 Overview
This workshop series is designed to empower curious minds to move beyond passive AI usage and start actively creating with AI tools in their personal, academic, or professional lives. Across four dynamic sessions (each 2 hours), participants will build the mindset and skillset of a next-generation AI creator.
Whether you’re an artist, entrepreneur, student, or educator—this program is your launchpad into practical, creative, and responsible AI fluency.
🧠 Session 1: AI Unpacked
Demystifying the Core Concepts
📅 Duration: 2 hours
Before you can build with AI, you need to understand what it really is. This session cuts through the buzzwords and confusion to build a clear, shared foundation of how today’s AI works—and what it doesn’t do.
🎯 Learning Objectives:
Identify the key types of AI: traditional AI, machine learning, large language models, generative AI.
Understand, at a high level, how generative AI systems like ChatGPT and image models work.
Participate in guided, hands-on activities to experience how AI produces its outputs.
🧩 Key Topics:
What AI Is (and Isn’t): Definitions without the hype.
The Generative Leap: How modern AI creates content in text, image, and more.
Core Concepts: Models, parameters, training data, and prompts.
Prompting 101: How to communicate with AI effectively.
👨🏫 About the Speaker – Ethan Seow
CEO of Practical Cyber | ISACA SG Infosec Leader 2023 | TEDx Speaker | Educator & Ecosystem Builder
Ethan Seow is an award-winning cybersecurity and GenAI educator, speaker, and ecosystem builder who is passionate about helping people think deeper, act wiser, and grow stronger through technology.
As the founder and CEO of Practical Cyber, Ethan leads an expert team with over 40 years of collective experience in adult training, delivering high-impact programs that make cybersecurity and generative AI practical, accessible, and transformative for both individuals and businesses.
Driven by a strong personal mission—to solve problems that make people better—Ethan has built a career around training the next generation of tech-conscious professionals. He has delivered training and workshops across Southeast Asia in the fields of cybersecurity, AI literacy, and responsible tech adoption.
Named ISACA Singapore's Infosec Leader of 2023 and ISC2's APAC Rising Star, Ethan has also graced the TEDx stage and is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from cybersecurity, GenAI, tech culture to mental health. His philosophy is inspired by Simon Sinek’s "Start with Why," and his work always aims to leave people wiser, more conscious, and more grateful on the other side of the learning journey.