Generative AI Training,
Without the Fog.
A practitioner-led fluency course for enterprise teams. Walk out understanding the models, the vocabulary, and the fast-moving landscape, including the Copilot already sitting in your Teams sidebar. Then keep up on your own, after the buzzwords change.
Generative AI, Without the Fog is reconn's enterprise fluency course, built for teams who want to speak the language, judge the tools, and keep up on their own once the buzzwords change. Seven modules plus a capstone, no technical prerequisite, and taught by intuition rather than jargon.
Corporate cohorts are delivered on-site in the UAE, with sessions across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the wider GCC on request. For distributed teams, or those in the UK and EU, the same course runs live online in windows that work for the Middle East, the United Kingdom and the European Union. Same trainer, same material, same discipline.
The Vocabulary Module · A Taster
Every Word You Keep Hearing.
Module 2 is the one people screenshot. Every term, explained by intuition rather than jargon, then reinforced through the rest of the course. A small sample below.
Seven Modules · One Capstone
The Full Program.
Structured so each module answers a specific question the last one raised. By module seven you're building the habit that keeps you fluent long after we've left.
The Map
Where generative AI sits inside the wider AI and machine learning family, and what makes it generative: it produces new content instead of classifying a label.
- The whole story in one breath: transformers (2017) to agents (2025-26)
- The idea everything hangs on: predicting the next piece of content
- Where GenAI actually shows up at work today
The Vocabulary
Every term you keep hearing, explained by intuition rather than jargon. The module people screenshot.
- Token, LLM, parameters, context window, temperature
- Hallucination, embeddings, RAG, grounding, fine-tuning
- Multimodal, reasoning model, agent, MCP, Copilot
The Models & Players
The only module that meaningfully goes stale between deliveries, so we re-verify it live every cohort.
- Closed frontier labs vs open-weight models
- Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and the open-weight leaders
- Reasoning is default, million-token context is table stakes, prices keep falling
- Read a model card and a benchmark yourself, without a leaderboard
How It Actually Works
Five intuitions, zero equations. Enough that the model's odd behaviour stops feeling like magic.
- Why it hallucinates: it optimises for plausible, not true
- Why context windows matter: outside the window doesn't exist
- Why it fumbles maths: pattern-matching language, not calculating
- Why the same prompt gives different answers
What You Can Actually Do With It
Capabilities by modality, then the ecosystem layer in order of increasing power. Copilot as the worked enterprise example.
- Text, image, audio, video, code: what each modality is good for now
- Chat, tools, RAG, agents plus MCP: the ecosystem in order
- Copilot in practice: how grounding meets your Teams sidebar
- The shift from AI that talks to AI that does
Limits, Risks & "Should You?"
Where fluency isn't accuracy, where the tools bite, and how serious organizations govern instead of just use.
- Hallucination, bias, IP and copyright uncertainty
- Data leakage: don't paste secrets into public tools
- Shadow AI: staff using unsanctioned tools because sanctioned ones are slow
- The decision framework: tolerant of error? safe data? human check?
- Where the standards layer lives: ISO/IEC 42001, responsible-AI frameworks
Staying Current
The durable payoff. The outcome people actually pay for. "I can finally keep up."
- How to read a model announcement without the hype
- Signal vs noise: who to follow, what to ignore
- How to test any new model yourself in ten minutes
- Building a personal habit that survives the course
Capstone. Apply GenAI to one real task in your own role. Document what worked, what failed, and what you'd trust it with. Accessible to non-technical participants. Produces a shareable artifact. Generates the testimonials.
Who This Is For
Built for Enterprise Teams
Who Want to Actually Keep Up.
No technical prerequisite. If you can use a browser, you can follow this course. What varies is what you'll build on top of the fluency afterwards.
Executives and senior managers
Need to make investment, policy and vendor decisions about AI, and want the vocabulary and instincts to do it without a translator in the room.
Legal, HR, comms and operations
Function leaders whose teams are already using AI, sanctioned or not, and who need enough fluency to set expectations and write policy.
Technology, security and data teams
Practitioners who want a coherent mental model of the landscape before they specialise, and a shared vocabulary with the rest of the business.
Boards, investors and founders
Judging AI-adjacent claims from portfolio companies, vendors or their own team. Want to stop being sold to and start asking better questions.
Where & How We Deliver
One Course.
Two Delivery Modes.
The same seven modules and the same capstone in either mode. Cohorts are private, sized to your team, and never mixed with unrelated organizations.
Corporate Cohort
in the UAE & GCC
Delivered face-to-face at your offices, or at a venue we arrange for you.
- Dubai, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere in the UAE, most weeks
- Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman on request
- Cohort format tuned to your calendar (single day or split)
- Private cohort, sized to your team, quoted per group
- Trainer travels to you, or a Dubai venue is arranged
Live Online
for ME, UK & EU
Same trainer, same material, delivered live over video for distributed teams.
- Session windows that overlap Gulf, UK and EU business hours
- Global inquiries welcome from the ME, UK and the EU
- Live cohort, run over one day or across half-day blocks
- Private corporate cohort, not a public open-enrollment class
- Recording available to the cohort for 14 days after delivery
Format & Logistics
What to Expect.
| Detail | What to expect |
|---|---|
| Level | Zero to fluent. No technical prerequisite. Built for enterprise teams. |
| Format | Live cohort. Delivered as a single day, or split across half-days to fit the calendar. |
| Delivery | Corporate on-site in the UAE and wider Middle East. Live online for the Middle East, UK and EU. |
| Structure | 7 modules plus a capstone applied to a real task in your own role. |
| Group size | Private corporate cohort. Sized to your team. Not a public open-enrollment class. |
| Currency & refresh | Models module (Module 3) re-verified before every cohort. The rest of the material is durable by design. |
| Artifact | The capstone: applied GenAI on your real task, with a documented outcome you can share. |
Learning Outcomes
What Your Team Leaves Able to Do.
Speak the language fluently in any AI conversation, without a translator.
Understand what Copilot can and can't do in their own tenant.
Tell a real capability from a marketing claim.
Pick the right model for a job, and route by cost.
Judge when to trust GenAI output and when not to.
Keep up on their own, long after the course ends.
Delivered By
Taught By Someone Who
Builds and Governs These Systems.
This course is taught by Shenoy Sandeep, founder of reconn. Not a slide-reader. A practitioner who builds and governs AI systems for clients, and publishes long-form field guides on how the standards actually work.
The class is dry, honest about limits, and mildly opinionated on which model to reach for. When something breaks live in class, we treat that as content, not as a bug. It's part of the fluency.
- PECB Certified Trainer, ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer & Lead Auditor
- Founder, reconn: AI-first cybersecurity, GRC advisory and training
- Author of Orbit, reconn's field-guide feed on AI governance
- Based in Dubai, delivering across the UAE, GCC, UK and EU
- Ships production AI, so the vocabulary comes from use, not from a book
What Comes Next
Fluent Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling.
This course is the entry point to reconn's applied and certified tracks. Once fluent, teams typically pick one of the paths below, or run both in parallel.
GenAI Fluency
Zero to fluent. Vocabulary, mental models, models landscape, risks and habits that survive after the course.
Microsoft 365 Copilot for Enterprise
Readiness, licensing, permissions, adoption, agents and governance. Practical, cross-functional and mapped to ISO/IEC 42001.
See the applied course →PECB AI Certifications
CAIM, CAIP, Lead AI Risk Manager, and ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer. Formal AI governance credentials, delivered by reconn.
Explore the certified track →Frequently Asked
Straight Answers.
Do I need a technical background?
Do you deliver this on-site in the UAE?
Can teams outside the UAE take this online?
How is the models module kept current?
How much does a corporate cohort cost?
How does this connect to Copilot?
Is there a certificate?
What language is it delivered in?
Open a Comms Channel.
Tell us who's in the room, where you are, and roughly when. We'll quote a private corporate cohort, on-site or online, and hold a date.