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Skills Workshop - Smart Prompts, Smarter Work: AI Skills for Apprentices

Thu, Feb 26 • 12:00pm – 12:45pm GMT
 

We invite you to this 45 -minute interactive AoA Skills Workshop – Smart Prompts, Smarter Work: AI Skills for Apprentices, sponsored by Lynx Education designed for current and former apprentices.

You will come away from this interactive workshop with:

  • A draft LinkedIn About Me you can actually use

  • Practical skills for prompting and refining AI outputs

  • A clear understanding of what AI is good for (and what it’s not)

Meet your hosts: Kostas Saridakis, Head of Product at Lynx Educate

Kostas is the Head of Product at Lynx and a PhD Candidate in Computer Science, specialising in applied AI and SaaS platforms. He has 15+ years of hands-on experience in technology startups across EdTech, HealthTech, PropTech, and marketplace platforms, leading product strategy and platform design with a strong focus on applying AI in real-world products. He lives in Athens, Greece and is married with two children.

Joyce Yang, Learner Success Manager at Lynx Educate.

Joyce is Learner Success Manager at Lynx. She has 7+ years in the education sector, spanning classroom teaching, non-profit work, and EdTech. With a background in both pedagogy and policy, she specialises in translating complex ideas — like AI — into human-centered learning experiences. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching and a Master of Public Policy.

Jan Richardson-Wilde

CEO, Occupational Awards Limited

Jan is the CEO of Occupational Awards Limited, a Director of the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink and an FE College Governor. She has over 35 years’ experience in the education sector in strategic and operational management of training programmes with colleges, private training providers, local authorities the voluntary sector and not for profit organisations. Jan has previously been a board member of the Learning and Skills Council, chair of the North Yorkshire Training Provider network and Vice-Chair of Yorkshire Coast College and a Governor of the Grimsby Institute for Further and Higher Education. She has extensive experience of education policy, apprenticeships, qualification, and curriculum development as well as business improvement.

Jan joined OAL in 2019, a leading non-profit industry-focused Awarding and End-Point Assessment Organisation, supporting a wide range of employers and of key stakeholders to succeed and surpass expectations. Jan is committed to continuous improvement and enthusiastic about improving the effectiveness, impact and quality of apprenticeships, education, and training in the UK and internationally. She has a wide range of experience of working in a collaborative context with employers and training providers to develop End Point Assessment, apprenticeships, and a wide range of vocational programmes.