Practical AI: Live Online Courses

From the basics to advanced practical applications

Learn how to use AI for everyday tasks, creative work, study, research, and professional responsibilities.

Our live online courses combine demonstrations, guided exercises, and practical examples. You will learn how to give clear instructions, work with your own materials, check AI-generated outputs, and produce resources you can use.

Choose individual courses according to your interests and professional needs.

Trainer: Bilal Naqeeb
Managing Partner, DataBridge Development Solutions

Delivery: Live online
Duration: Three hours per course, including a short break
Time: Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Pakistan Standard Time

1. AI for Beginners

Build confidence in using AI for everyday life, learning, and work.

This introductory course helps you understand how AI platforms work, write useful prompts, and select appropriate features for common tasks. No previous AI experience or coding skills are required.

Who should join: Beginners, professionals, teachers, adult learners, and anyone interested in practical AI use.

Platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and NotebookLM.

What you will learn

• Conversational prompting in ChatGPT: Explain your task, provide context, specify an output format, and improve responses through follow-up instructions.

• ChatGPT Search: Find current information, examine references, and check important claims.

• File uploads and document questions: Summarise a document, extract key information, and prepare questions about its contents.

• ChatGPT Voice and Study mode: Explore spoken interaction and guided learning.

• Gemini Canvas: Draft and revise a short piece of writing.

• NotebookLM source citations: Ask questions about supplied materials and examine supporting passages.

• Claude Projects: See how related documents and instructions can support continuing work.

Practical exercise: Complete an everyday task and prepare a source-checked answer to a question.

What you will take away: A small collection of reusable prompts and completed examples relevant to your needs.

Date: 19 November 2026
Fee: PKR 4,000 individually or PKR 7,000 for two participants.

2. AI Video Creation Using ChatGPT and Google Flow

Turn an idea into effective prompts and AI-generated video clips.

Learn a practical workflow for developing short social media videos, educational explainers, awareness messages, and promotional content. ChatGPT will be used to prepare and refine prompts, while Google Flow will be used for video generation.

Who should join: Content creators, communication staff, trainers, consultants, and small business owners.

Platforms: ChatGPT and Google Flow.

What you will learn

• ChatGPT creative briefs: Define your audience, purpose, message, language, tone, and visual style.

• Structured scene prompts: Specify characters, actions, settings, camera framing, movement, lighting, dialogue, and audio.

• Reference-image input: Use a character image to guide descriptions and maintain consistent appearance.

• Scene-by-scene prompt tables: Divide a video into manageable clips with clear opening and ending states.

• Google Flow text-to-video: Generate a clip from a written scene prompt.

• Reference images and frame controls: Guide video generation using available image-based features.

• Prompt refinement: Identify problems in generated clips and revise the relevant instructions.

• Continuity planning: Connect clips through consistent characters, surroundings, and transitions.

Practical exercise: Prepare a two-scene concept, develop its prompts, and generate a sample clip where account access and credits permit.

What you will take away: A creative brief, reusable prompt template, character description, and connected scene prompts.

Date: 26 November 2026
Fee: PKR 6,000 individually or PKR 10,000 for two participants.

This course focuses on prompt development and video generation. Detailed video editing and final assembly are outside its scope.

3. AI for Updating and Localising Training Packages

Refresh existing training materials for different audiences and local contexts.

Learn how to review an older training package, identify necessary changes, and adapt a selected session for its intended participants. Particular attention will be given to language, literacy, cultural context, accessibility, and participation in conservative settings.

Who should join: Trainers, programme staff, instructional designers, capacity-building specialists, and consultants.

Platforms: NotebookLM and ChatGPT.

What you will learn

• NotebookLM source uploads and cited questions: Compare existing training materials with approved updated references.

• Source comparison: Identify outdated content, inconsistencies, missing information, and areas requiring technical review.

• ChatGPT audience profiles: Structure information about language, literacy, prior knowledge, accessibility, and learning needs.

• Adaptation matrices: Decide what to retain, update, simplify, or replace.

• Audience-specific rewriting: Localise examples, scenarios, instructions, and facilitator guidance.

• Image generation and visual briefs: Develop pictorial learning aids and illustrations for review.

• Low-literacy learning activities: Convert text-heavy exercises into picture discussions, demonstrations, role-plays, and oral assessments.

• Session-plan drafting: Rebuild the selected session with clear objectives, activities, materials, and assessment methods.

Practical exercise: Adapt one training session for two different audiences and prepare a plan for testing it with intended participants.

What you will take away: An adaptation matrix, revised session plan, audience-specific activity, and a pictorial or oral learning resource.

Date: 10 December 2026
Fee: PKR 7,000 individually or PKR 12,000 for two participants.

Localisation should preserve technical accuracy, dignity, and essential rights messages. Materials require human review and audience testing before wider use.

4. NotebookLM for Students, Adult Learners and Researchers

Turn your reading materials into an organised study and research resource.

Use NotebookLM to understand difficult concepts, compare readings, prepare revision materials, and develop preliminary research summaries supported by your sources.

Who should join: University students, adult learners, researchers, and professionals studying new subjects.

Primary platform: NotebookLM.

What you will learn

• Notebooks and source import: Organise a focused collection of readings and reference materials.

• Source selection and cited chat: Ask questions using selected documents and check supporting passages.

• Mind Maps: Explore the structure of a subject and connections between concepts.

• Reports: Develop study guides, briefing notes, and source comparison matrices.

• Flashcards and Quizzes: Practise recall, test understanding, and review explanations.

• Audio Overviews: Explore an alternative format for reviewing source material.

• Cross-source synthesis: Compare arguments, methods, findings, and contradictions.

• Research verification: Identify unsupported conclusions and questions requiring further reading.

Practical exercise: Complete a revision package, professional learning guide, or preliminary literature synthesis.

What you will take away: An organised notebook, a study or research report, and selected revision resources.

Date: 24 December 2026
Fee: PKR 4,000 individually or PKR 7,000 for two participants.

Missing information in your uploaded collection does not, by itself, establish a gap in the wider research literature.

5. AI for Project Planning and Management

Use AI to develop clearer plans and more useful management information.

Work through a practical project case, from reviewing requirements to preparing implementation tools and a progress update.

Who should join: Project managers, programme officers, consultants, proposal writers, and development professionals.

Platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM, and Gemini.

What you will learn

• Claude Projects: Organise project documents and drafting instructions.

• NotebookLM cited questions: Extract deliverables, deadlines, target groups, and requirements from TORs and programme documents.

• Gemini Deep Research: Explore project context, review a research plan, and examine selected sources.

• Claude document Artifacts: Draft and revise objectives, results chains, activities, and deliverables.

• ChatGPT structured outputs: Prepare workplans, responsibility matrices, and risk registers.

• Spreadsheet uploads and analysis: Examine a sample progress tracker and identify delays or missing information.

• Context-based drafting: Turn verified progress information into a concise management update.

• Consistency checks: Review whether the plan addresses the original requirements.

Practical exercise: Develop a planning package for a fictional project.

What you will take away: A requirements checklist, draft results chain, implementation workplan, risk register, and management brief.

Date: 14 January 2027
Fee: PKR 7,000 individually or PKR 12,000 for two participants.

6. AI for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Apply AI to MEL tools, evidence analysis, and reporting.

Explore how AI can support selected MEL tasks while retaining methodological judgement, confidentiality, and verification.

Who should join: MEL/MEAL practitioners, programme staff, researchers, evaluators, and consultants.

Platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, and NotebookLM.

What you will learn

• NotebookLM source review: Examine results frameworks and guidance with source-supported questions.

• Claude Projects and Artifacts: Draft indicator reference sheets using supplied definitions and project requirements.

• Targeted document revision: Improve survey questions, interview guides, and FGD probes.

• ChatGPT data analysis: Explore a small dataset, check missing values, calculate frequencies, and disaggregate results.

• Claude text analysis: Develop preliminary qualitative codes and examine selected excerpts.

• ChatGPT chart generation: Present findings through an appropriate visual.

• Analytical drafting: Separate evidence, interpretation, limitations, and learning questions.

• Verification: Check calculations, quotations, source alignment, and conclusions.

Practical exercise: Develop selected MEL tools and analyse a small anonymised evidence pack.

What you will take away: An indicator reference sheet, short data collection tool, coding example, chart, and findings paragraph.

Date: 28 January 2027
Fee: PKR 7,000 individually or PKR 12,000 for two participants.

7. AI for Office Management: HR and General Administration

Improve routine office documents, coordination, and follow-up.

Learn to use AI for practical HR and administrative tasks, supported by approved policies and clear human review.

Who should join: HR and administration staff, office managers, executive assistants, and managers of small organisations.

Platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and NotebookLM.

What you will learn

• Gemini Gems: Configure reusable instructions for routine office drafting.

• NotebookLM policy questions and citations: Locate relevant clauses in supplied leave, travel, or procurement policies.

• Claude Projects and document Artifacts: Draft job descriptions, interview questions, and induction plans.

• ChatGPT file uploads: Convert prepared meeting notes into minutes, decisions, and action trackers.

• Gemini Canvas: Draft and revise correspondence and administrative SOPs.

• Document comparison: Review quotations or proposals against predefined requirements and identify missing information.

• Structured trackers: Prepare task lists, responsibilities, deadlines, and follow-up messages.

• Quality checks: Review policy alignment, clarity, fairness, confidentiality, and approval requirements.

Practical exercise: Complete an office case using fictional policies and meeting records.

What you will take away: Reusable assistant instructions, an HR document, meeting action tracker, and administrative procedure.

Date: 11 February 2027
Fee: PKR 6,000 individually or PKR 10,000 for two participants.

About the Trainer

Bilal Naqeeb is Managing Partner of DataBridge Development Solutions and a development professional with more than two decades of experience in project management, monitoring, evaluation and learning, research, institutional development, and capacity building.

His work includes developing results-based systems, training materials, operational procedures, and decision-support resources. These courses connect AI tools with practical tasks drawn from professional and development-sector settings.

How the Courses Work

Each course combines facilitator demonstrations with guided practice. Participants will work on a focused task rather than attempt to master every feature in one session.

• Course-specific practice materials and prompt examples will support the exercises.

• Core skills will be practised directly; selected additional features will be demonstrated.

• Fictional, approved, or anonymised materials will be used during classroom activities.

• Important outputs will be checked against source documents, data, or task requirements.

• No coding is required. Basic computer skills are recommended.

What You Need

Join using a laptop or desktop computer with a reliable internet connection. Before the session, create accounts for the platforms listed in your selected course.

Feature availability and usage limits vary by subscription, account, and organisational settings. Account requirements will be shared before training.

Paid AI subscriptions and video-generation credits are not included in the course fee. Where participants cannot access a feature, prepared examples and facilitator demonstrations will support learning.

Registration and Enquiries

Contact us with your name, selected course, and whether you are registering individually or with another participant. We will share registration steps, payment instructions, and joining details.

WhatsApp: +92 300 5009189
Email: bilal.naqeeb@gmail.com
Course details and calendars: https://databridge.pk/courses

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