Miami AI School - Advanced Phase
About AI School
AI School is a structured, hands-on education program designed to turn executives, operators, founders, and creatives into AI-native leaders. Built by eMerge Americas and Miami AI Hub, it goes beyond theory and focuses on practical, enterprise-ready application of AI, from core concepts to real automations, working apps, and agentic workflows. Every phase is outcome-driven, with live demos, real use cases, and portfolio-grade deliverables rather than passive learning.
Led by Burhan Sebin, Chief AI Officer at eMerge Americas, with guest speakers from AWS, Microsoft, UHealth, IBM,and high-growth scaleups and more.
Curriculum Structure
Phase 1 · Beginner · AI Foundations Master the tools, prompts, workflows, and automations that make AI part of your everyday work, then build and ship your first app with no code.
Phase 2 · Advanced · AI Agents Mastery Advanced vibe-coding, AI agents and multi-agent systems, evals and observability, safety and guardrails, and shipping to production.
Advanced Phase · AI Agents Mastery
Build the system. Test the system. Defend the system.
Prompting is only the beginning. The advanced work is designing AI systems that can retrieve trusted information, use tools, maintain state, coordinate work, and take bounded action, with evaluations, observability, guardrails, and human control built in.
Miami AI School’s Advanced Phase is an eight-session, build-first program for participants ready to move from AI user to AI system builder.
You will bring one real workflow and develop it from prototype into a controlled agentic system. Each session combines concise instruction, live demonstrations, hands-on building, testing, peer feedback, and practical operating rules.
The goal is not unrestricted autonomy. It is building a useful system with clear permissions, reliable evidence, defined stopping conditions, and a human accountable for the outcome.
What You Will Build
By the end of the program, you will leave with:
A working, complex AI application
An agent workflow connected to approved tools and data
A multi-agent design with clear roles, handoffs, and failure containment
An evaluation framework with representative test cases, graders, and traces
An observability and monitoring plan
A safety, permissions, and human-approval model
A deployment, rollback, and incident-response plan
A final demo that clearly communicates the system’s evidence, controls, limitations, cost, and next step
Curriculum
From Prototype to Application
Scope one real system, define its users, workflow, and acceptance criteria.Advanced Vibe Coding
Build a stronger application architecture and learn how to manage changes without breaking the system.Build Your First Agent
Define its goal, plan, tools, state, stopping conditions, and approval boundaries.Tools, Data, and Workflows
Connect approved resources while applying minimum necessary access and clear data boundaries.Multi-Agent Systems
Design specialized roles, handoffs, coordination rules, and failure containment.Evals and Observability
Create test cases, graders, traces, monitoring, and an improvement loop.Guardrails and Production Readiness
Address security, permissions, red-team scenarios, incidents, rollback, and human ownership.Ship, Demo, and Defend
Deploy a bounded system and defend its performance, controls, cost, limitations, and next decision.
Who Should Apply
This phase is designed for Miami AI School Beginner graduates or professionals with equivalent hands-on AI experience.
It is ideal for executives, operators, founders, product leaders, creatives, and professionals who already use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and are ready to build more capable AI systems around real work.
A traditional software-engineering background is not required. Participants should be comfortable learning by building, testing, debugging, and iterating.
Program Dates
September 14 through October 8, 2026
Eight hands-on sessions across four weeks, concluding with a final system demonstration.
By graduation, you will not simply be able to explain how AI agents work. You will be able to show one working, demonstrate how it was evaluated, identify where it can fail, and defend why it is ready for its next stage.
Cadence
Mondays 6 PM to 9 PM — In Person
Thursdays 6 PM to 9 PM — Virtual
About eMerge Americas
eMerge Americas is a strategic convener and catalyst for innovation, bringing together global enterprises, startups, investors, and government leaders to accelerate advancements in AI, Finance, Health, and National Security. Through year-round programming and its annual global tech conference + expo in Miami, eMerge Americas connects capital, talent, and ideas to drive impactful progress, strengthen industries, and bring transformative and emerging technologies to market. Since 2014 the global tech conference + expo has attracted 20,000+ attendees annually from over 50 countries and catalyzed billions in venture investment.
www.emergeamericas.com
About Miami AI Hub
Miami AI Hub fosters innovation and collaboration in artificial intelligence within the city’s vibrant tech ecosystem. Its mission is to make Miami a global AI powerhouse and to build bridges across the AI ecosystems of the United States, Italy, Spain, and Latin America.
Miami AI Hub has convened over 5,000+ participants, supported more than 50 AI startup showcases, and hosted speakers from major companies including NVIDIA, Apple, Google, AWS, and others. As an innovation catalyst, the Hub champions AI solutions that improve lives and transform industries. As a community platform, it brings together enthusiasts and experts to grow a shared knowledge base. And as a startup launchpad, it supports early-stage ventures with mentorship, funding access, and growth resources.