Training at scale.
A growing part of my teaching happens outside the undergraduate classroom: with working people and with thousands online.
Outside the classroom.
Since 2021 I have taught courses for the Continuing Education office of Universidad de los Andes, and since 2026 also for Executive Education at its School of Management, for people who already work: professionals from banks, public agencies, laboratories, insurers, the oil industry and technology companies. On top of that comes an open online course with 16,584 learners enrolled. Almost all of these courses are about generative artificial intelligence, and I teach most of them with Juan Carlos Cruz, professor of Biomedical Engineering.
In these courses I see up close what organizations expect from artificial intelligence. Many come looking for productivity, and several of my courses carry that word in their title. The syllabi also cover the limits: the general course for the Contraloría General de la República de Colombia, the national audit office, devotes sessions to limitations, bias and critical thinking, and to the ethics, regulation and governance of artificial intelligence, and the course for Corporación Colombia Crea Talento (CoCrea) closes with the responsible use of automation and quality control.
What it adds up to.
Courses and groups per year.
OpenFor organizations
- 2
open: 1 · for organizations: 1
- 2
open: 1 · for organizations: 1
- 1
open: 1 · for organizations: 0
- 6
open: 3 · for organizations: 3
- 15
open: 5 · for organizations: 10
- 27
open: 3 · for organizations: 24
An open online course.
“Fundamentos del uso de IA generativa” is a massive open online course (MOOC) by Universidad de los Andes on Coursera, published in 2025. At the start of October 2026 it had 16,584 learners enrolled, and 52% of them had completed it, according to the platform’s dashboard.
Its English version, “Fundamentals of Using Generative AI”, came out in 2026 with 227 enrolled and a 21% completion rate, and a third course, “IA Generativa para el Análisis de Datos Estructurados” (Generative AI for structured data analysis), is under construction.
Open courses.
The course I have repeated most is “Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos” (Mastering artificial intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models). It began in August 2023 with Rubén Francisco Manrique, from Systems and Computing Engineering, and with Juan Carlos Cruz. Since 2025 it has been offered by the departments of Chemical and Food Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering, and in 2026 I teach it with Francisco Moya. It has had nine open editions and four more for organizations, with 441 people enrolled in all, and each edition lasts 24 hours. In 2025 it was joined by “IA generativa en acción: del concepto a la práctica” (generative AI in action: from concept to practice).
Before artificial intelligence, my open courses came from food engineering. I coordinated “Perfección cervecera y emprendimiento” (brewing perfection and entrepreneurship) in 2021 and 2022 and “Claves para triunfar con tu cervecería artesanal: Operaciones, finanzas y marca” (keys to a successful craft brewery) in 2024, and in 2025 I taught the workshop “Masa madre: Sabor y ciencia” (sourdough: flavour and science).
For organizations.
Training for organizations began with broad programmes: one on research for regional development with Fundación CeiBA, in 2021, and in 2022 the Seeds for the Future camp of Huawei Technologies and the Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC), Colombia’s ICT ministry, with the twenty best students of Misión TIC, nineteen of whom attended. Since 2024 almost all of it has been artificial intelligence, and demand grew: 3 courses and groups for organizations in 2024, 10 in 2025 and 24 in 2026.
The largest commission comes from the Contraloría General de la República de Colombia: in 2026, ten groups across three courses on the general concepts, tools and models of artificial intelligence for the public sector. For Compañía de Seguros Bolívar S. A. (ARL Seguros Bolívar) we taught two groups in 2025, a lecture for 93 people on generative artificial intelligence and occupational health and safety, and a third group in 2026. The University asked us for training too: a course on leadership in artificial intelligence for its administrative staff, in which I teach the module on prioritizing and designing use cases, and another for the Vice-Presidency for Research and Creation, on artificial intelligence in research, creation and entrepreneurship. With Indra Sistemas, S. A. (Indra Group), the “AI Leadership & Architecture” programme runs in partnership with Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Tecnológico de Monterrey).
With Executive Education at the School of Management, Juan Carlos Cruz, Cristian Rodríguez and I teach the programme “Inteligencia artificial aplicada al negocio Oil & Gas” (artificial intelligence applied to the oil and gas business) for Ecopetrol S. A.: eight groups of 25 people and 24 hours each, in Bogotá, Barrancabermeja, Cartagena and Villavicencio, on the company’s premises. It starts with the fundamentals of language models and Ecopetrol’s copilot, continues with prompt engineering for the value chain, document analysis and the economic evaluation of projects, and closes with a capstone project and an adoption roadmap. In 2026 I teach three of those groups.
Listening to the participants changed at least one of these courses. In the generative artificial intelligence course for the chemists of Abbott Laboratories de Colombia S. A. (Abbott), in 2025, we redesigned the second part after the first session to make it more hands-on and closer to pharmaceutical work: a worked example, then each participant developed their own case and some presented it. At the end, the participants asked for a second edition.
The 20 organizations.
| Organization | Courses or groups | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Contraloría General de la República de Colombia2026 | 10 | 2026 |
| Compañía de Seguros Bolívar S. A. (ARL Seguros Bolívar)2025, 2026 | 4 | 2025, 2026 |
| Universidad de los Andesadministrative leaders and the Vice-Presidency for Research and Creation2026 | 4 | 2026 |
| Bancolombia S. A.2025 | 3 | 2025 |
| Ecopetrol S. A.through Executive Education at the School of Management (Facultad de Administración)2026 | 3 | 2026 |
| Abbott Laboratories de Colombia S. A. (Abbott)2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Armada de la República de Colombia (Armada Nacional)2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Colombia S. A. (BBVA Colombia)2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Banco Davivienda S. A.2026 | 1 | 2026 |
| Banco de la Producción S. A. (Produbanco), Ecuador2026 | 1 | 2026 |
| Corporación Centro de Investigación en Palma de Aceite (Cenipalma)2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Corporación Colombia Crea Talento (CoCrea)2026 | 1 | 2026 |
| Corporación Empresarial Eljuri (Grupo Eljuri, Ecuador)2024 | 1 | 2024 |
| Empresa Colombiana de Productos Veterinarios (Vecol)2026 | 1 | 2026 |
| Fundación CeiBA2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Huawei Technologies and the Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC)Seeds for the Future programme2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Indra Sistemas, S. A. (Indra Group)with Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Tecnológico de Monterrey)2026 | 1 | 2026 |
| Ingenieros Consultores Civiles y Eléctricos S. A. S. (INGETEC)2026 | 1 | 2026 |
| Sutherland Global Services (Sutherland)2024 | 1 | 2024 |
Every course.
The full list, with the Coursera courses and the graduate course with CABBIO. Where a course is in the Continuing Education record, the enrolment figure is the record’s.
Fundamentals of Using Generative AI
Coursera
227 enrolled · 21% completed
Generative AI for structured data analysis
IA Generativa para el Análisis de Datos Estructurados
Coursera
Under construction
Artificial intelligence applied to the oil & gas business · Group 6, Cartagena
Inteligencia artificial aplicada al negocio Oil & Gas
Ecopetrol S. A.
Executive Education, School of Management
25 enrolled
Artificial intelligence applied to research, creation and entrepreneurship · Group 3
Inteligencia artificial aplicada en procesos de investigación, creación y emprendimiento
Universidad de los Andes, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Creación
No figure yet · Under way or upcoming
Artificial intelligence applied to research, creation and entrepreneurship · Group 1
Inteligencia artificial aplicada en procesos de investigación, creación y emprendimiento
Universidad de los Andes, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Creación
No figure yet · Under way or upcoming
Artificial intelligence applied to research, creation and entrepreneurship · Group 2
Inteligencia artificial aplicada en procesos de investigación, creación y emprendimiento
Universidad de los Andes, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Creación
No figure yet · Under way or upcoming
Artificial intelligence applied to the oil & gas business · Group 2, Bogotá
Inteligencia artificial aplicada al negocio Oil & Gas
Ecopetrol S. A.
Executive Education, School of Management
25 enrolled
Artificial intelligence applied to the oil & gas business · Group 1, Bogotá
Inteligencia artificial aplicada al negocio Oil & Gas
The final module: the capstone project
Ecopetrol S. A.
Executive Education, School of Management
25 enrolled
AI tools for writing scientific articles
Programa Herramientas de IA para la Escritura de Artículos Científicos
Ingenieros Consultores Civiles y Eléctricos S. A. S. (INGETEC)
No figure yet
AI fundamentals · Group 5
Generalidades de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
AI fundamentals · Group 6
Generalidades de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
AI fundamentals · Group 8
Generalidades de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
AI Leadership & Architecture
With Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Tecnológico de Monterrey); the Uniandes modules
Indra Sistemas, S. A. (Indra Group)
No figure yet · Under way or upcoming
Transforming corporate productivity with AI: harnessing the potential of generative models in the business environment
Transformando la productividad corporativa con IA: Aprovechando el potencial de los modelos generativos en el entorno empresarial
Compañía de Seguros Bolívar S. A. (ARL Seguros Bolívar)
30 enrolled · Under way or upcoming
AI fundamentals · Group 7
Generalidades de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
Applied generative AI
IA Generativa Aplicada
Empresa Colombiana de Productos Veterinarios (Vecol)
40 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models · Cohort 3
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
36 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: Google Workspace, Gemini and generative tools
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: Google Workspace, Gemini y Herramientas Generativas
Banco Davivienda S. A.
15 enrolled
AI fundamentals · Group 4
Generalidades de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
AI leadership course
Curso Liderazgo en IA
The module on prioritizing and designing use cases
Universidad de los Andes, líderes administrativos
70 enrolled
AI applied to productivity
IA aplicada a la productividad
Corporación Colombia Crea Talento (CoCrea)
40 enrolled
AI fundamentals · Group 3
Generalidades de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
Prompt engineering fundamentals
Fundamentos de Ingeniería de Prompts
Banco de la Producción S. A. (Produbanco), Ecuador
20 enrolled
AI fundamentals · Group 2
Generalidades de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
AI models
Modelos de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models · Cohort 2
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
29 enrolled
AI fundamentals · Group 1
Generalidades de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
AI tools
Herramientas de la IA
Contraloría General de la República de Colombia
35 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models · Cohort 1
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
39 enrolled
Fundamentals of using generative AI
Fundamentos del uso de IA generativa
Coursera
16,584 enrolled · 52% completed
Sourdough: flavour and science (workshop)
Masa madre: Sabor y ciencia
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
26 enrolled
Lecture: generative AI and its impact on occupational health and safety
Conferencia IA Generativa y su Impacto en la Seguridad y Salud Laboral
Compañía de Seguros Bolívar S. A. (ARL Seguros Bolívar)
93 enrolled
Transforming corporate productivity with AI: harnessing the potential of generative models in the business environment · Group 2
Transformando la productividad corporativa con IA: Aprovechando el potencial de los modelos generativos en el entorno empresarial
Compañía de Seguros Bolívar S. A. (ARL Seguros Bolívar)
26 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
37 enrolled
Transforming corporate productivity with AI: harnessing the potential of generative models in the business environment · Group 1
Transformando la productividad corporativa con IA: Aprovechando el potencial de los modelos generativos en el entorno empresarial
Compañía de Seguros Bolívar S. A. (ARL Seguros Bolívar)
15 enrolled
Prompt Engineering 2025
Bancolombia S. A., analítica de datos
33 enrolled
Transforming corporate productivity with AI: harnessing the potential of generative models in the business environment
Transformando la productividad corporativa con IA: Aprovechando el potencial de los modelos generativos en el entorno empresarial
Corporación Centro de Investigación en Palma de Aceite (Cenipalma)
35 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
36 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
34 enrolled
Marine Biotechnology: from bioprospecting to scale-up
Biotecnología Marina: de la bioprospección al escalado
CABBIO course COL09, for master’s and doctoral students, at Universidad de los Andes; taught between Biological Sciences and Engineering
Centro Latinoamericano de Biotecnología (CABBIO), con el Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Minciencias)
19 enrolled
Generative artificial intelligence for chemists
Inteligencia Artificial Generativa para Químicos
Abbott Laboratories de Colombia S. A. (Abbott)
74 enrolled
Prompt Engineering
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Colombia S. A. (BBVA Colombia), Banca Wealth
19 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá
32 enrolled
Generative AI in action: from concept to practice
IA generativa en acción: del concepto a la práctica
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
26 enrolled
Prompt Engineering
Bancolombia S. A.
50 enrolled
Generative AI workshop for vice-presidency leaders
Taller IA generativa líderes vicepresidencia
Bancolombia S. A., Vicepresidencia de Riesgos
20 enrolled
Keys to succeed with your craft brewery: operations, finance and brand
Claves para triunfar con tu cervecería artesanal: Operaciones, finanzas y marca
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
23 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models · Cohort 3
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
45 enrolled
Sutherland Leadership Competencies Program
The module “IA y Transformación Digital” (AI and digital transformation)
Sutherland Global Services (Sutherland)
36 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Corporación Empresarial Eljuri (Grupo Eljuri), Ecuador
38 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Armada de la República de Colombia (Armada Nacional)
25 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models · Cohort 2
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
42 enrolled
Mastering Artificial Intelligence: beyond ChatGPT and generative models
Dominando la Inteligencia Artificial: más allá de ChatGPT y los modelos generativos
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
33 enrolled
Seeds for the Future Boot Camp, Engineering: innovation, leadership and technology
Boot Camp Semillas del futuro Ingeniería: innovación, liderazgo y tecnología
Huawei Technologies y Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC), programa Semillas del Futuro
19 enrolled
Brewing perfection and entrepreneurship
Perfección cervecera y emprendimiento
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
17 enrolled
Research programme for regional development
Programa investigación para el desarrollo regional
Fundación CeiBA
86 enrolled
Brewing perfection and entrepreneurship
Perfección cervecera y emprendimiento
Continuing Education, Universidad de los Andes
25 enrolled
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