12 weeks · Quarterly intakes
Applied AI Fellowship with Private Mentoring
Build practical AI skills through 12 weeks of live weekend learning, hands-on projects and private mentoring focused on what you want to create or improve.
₹1,00,000 + GST · 3 months (12 weeks)
Reserve your seat with ₹5,000. Pay the remaining balance in instalments over the first 8 weeks of your cohort.
Apply first. If you're accepted after your interview, our admissions team sends your reservation link; the ₹5,000 is part of your fee, not an extra charge. See the full payment plan
- weeks of live learning
- 12
- live hours each weekend
- ~6
- AI tools, hands-on
- 25+
- private mentoring on your projects
- 1:1
- Live weekend sessions (Saturday & Sunday), so you keep your job
- Join online, or attend hybrid sessions at our Mumbai centre
- Every session recorded, with lifetime access
- Admission by application and interview
- Interest-free instalment plan from DIT
Private mentoring
Help that's about your work, not just the syllabus.
Alongside the live weekend sessions, you get private mentoring focused on what you want to create or improve.
Individual guidance
One-to-one time with your mentor to plan what you want to build or improve, and to unblock you when you're stuck.
Feedback on your projects
Specific, written and spoken feedback on your assignments and capstone, so each version is better than the last.
AI applied to your work
Help turning what you learn into something useful for your job, team or business, not just a class exercise.
Private mentoring is led by Ali Mehdi Hemani, with DIT's trainers and mentors.
Become an AI generalist
One person, six kinds of work, all with AI.
Design
Interfaces, wireframes and prototypes with AI, without needing to be a Figma expert.
Marketing & growth
Campaigns, SEO, social media, email and sales funnels, planned and produced with AI.
Content & video
Images, video, voice-overs and avatars for professional content.
Agents & chatbots
Assistants, voice agents and automations that take repetitive work off your plate.
Product building
Working AI products and apps built with no-code and AI builders.
Data & decisions
Analysing data, producing reports and using AI to support business decisions.
12-week deep dive
Week by week.
Month 1 · Weeks 1–2
AI foundations & LLMs
- Generative AI and large language models
- Tokens, embeddings and attention, in plain language
- AI agents and custom GPTs: the basics
- Your AI toolkit and workspace
ChatGPTGeminiClaudePerplexity
Month 1 · Weeks 3–4
Advanced prompting & RAG
- Chain-of-thought, few-shot and meta-prompting
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Custom assistants with system prompts
- Prompt optimisation workflows
Google AI StudioDifyCustom GPTs
Month 1 project: a domain-specific assistant that answers with RAG
Month 2 · Weeks 5–6
AI for design, video & content
- UI/UX with AI: wireframes, prototypes, design systems
- Images and brand assets
- AI video, filmmaking and storytelling
- Voice cloning, avatars and talking-head video
MidjourneyRunwayElevenLabsHeyGenSunoKling AIFigma AI
Month 2 · Weeks 7–8
AI marketing, automation & growth
- SEO, content, social media and ads with AI
- End-to-end automation workflows
- Sales funnels, lead generation and CRM
- Voice agents, chatbots and MCP
Make.comn8nZapierVAPIRelevance AI
Month 2 project: a brand identity and an automated multi-channel campaign
Month 3 · Weeks 9–10
Building AI products & businesses
- Finding opportunities with the Lean AI Canvas
- No-code SaaS products
- Databases, APIs and content pipelines
- AI for finance, HR, operations and support
LovableReplitCursorSupabaseFramer
Month 3 · Weeks 11–12
Capstone & Demo Day
- Your own AI product, end to end
- Mentored development of your own capstone
- Scaling and go-to-market
- Demo Day: present to an industry panel
Everything from the programme
Month 3 project: a production-ready AI product for your portfolio
26+ tools, hands-on
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Perplexity
- Midjourney
- Runway
- ElevenLabs
- HeyGen
- Suno
- Kling AI
- Make.com
- n8n
- Zapier
- VAPI
- Lovable
- Replit
- Cursor
- Supabase
- Google AI Studio
- Dify
- Framer
- Relevance AI
- ComfyUI
- Leonardo AI
- Figma AI
- Canva AI
Who it suits
- Professionals leading AI adoption in their team
- Founders building AI-first products or operations
- Graduates who want a portfolio of real AI projects
- Freelancers and creators offering AI services
Commitment
About 10–12 hours a week: 6 hours of live weekend sessions plus 4–6 hours of assignments and project work.
Quarterly intakes. The next start date will be announced to applicants first. Applying early puts you early in the interview queue; mentoring begins when your cohort starts.
The grand finale
Demo Day, then a proper graduation.
You present your capstone to an industry panel at Demo Day. Then you walk the stage at a one-day graduation ceremony, with caps and gowns, to receive your Professional AI Certification from DIT alongside your cohort.
Learn → build → present → graduate
Capstone jury
Judged by people who run real businesses.
At Demo Day you present your capstone to an esteemed panel of industry leaders. They question it the way a client, an investor or a boardroom would.
Hasnain Shroff
Partner, KPMG
One of India's most renowned chartered accountants.
Ali Shroff
Owner, Skin Cottage
President, KSI Jamaat Mumbai.
Aahil Merchant
Director, Crescent Group
A Mumbai real estate developer that has embraced AI.
Surprise judge
To be announced
Our fourth judge joins the panel soon.
Everything included in the fellowship
- Live weekend teaching for 12 weeks
- Private mentoring on your projects
- Every session recorded, with lifetime access
- 4 major projects and a capstone
- An industry visit with your cohort
- Demo Day in front of an industry panel
- A graduation ceremony, with caps and gowns
- DIT's Professional AI Certification
- Lifetime access to the alumni community
- Portfolio and career guidance
- No coding experience required
- Interest-free instalments and no-cost EMI
After the 12 weeks
Build your capstone. Present it at AI Launchpad.
The sessions end, but your capstone doesn't. You get dedicated time to build, test and refine a real product with mentoring, then present it to a panel of industry leaders.
- 1
Learn
12 weeks of live weekend sessions and projects.
- 2
Build
Start your capstone: a real product shaped around your own idea.
- 3
Refine
A capstone sprint after the sessions end, with mentoring at every step.
- 4
Present
Show your work at AI Launchpad, DIT's Demo Day, to a panel of industry leaders.
- 5
Grow
Graduate, join the alumni community and keep building.
Fees and payment plan
One published fee, a ₹5,000 reservation once you're accepted, and the balance in four interest-free instalments.
Programme fee
- Tuition fee
- ₹1,00,000
- GST (18%)
- ₹18,000
- Total payable
- ₹1,18,000
Reserve your seat with ₹5,000. Pay the remaining balance in instalments over the first 8 weeks of your cohort.
- ₹5,000 in total is payable now. It is part of your ₹1,18,000 fee, not an extra charge and not the full price.
- You reserve only after you've been accepted. Applying is free.
Interest-free DIT instalment plan
| Payment | Due | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Seat reservation | After acceptance | ₹5,000 |
| Instalment 1 | End of week 2 | ₹28,250 |
| Instalment 2 | End of week 4 | ₹28,250 |
| Instalment 3 | End of week 6 | ₹28,250 |
| Instalment 4 | End of week 8 | ₹28,250 |
| Total | ₹1,18,000 |
Balance after reservation: ₹1,13,000, in 4 fortnightly instalments due at the end of weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 of your cohort. Exact dates are confirmed when your cohort's start date is announced. No interest or financing charge is added by DIT.
Prefer card EMI? No-cost EMI available on eligible credit cards and select eligible debit cards, subject to bank approval and the offers shown at checkout. This is separate from the DIT instalment plan above and is arranged with your bank, which may charge a processing fee plus GST on that fee. Questions? Ask admissions.
Bootcamp or fellowship?
| 2-day bootcamp | Applied AI Fellowship | |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | 2 days | 3 months (12 weeks) |
| Live teaching | 12 hours over one weekend | About 6 hours every weekend |
| AI tools | 10+ | 25+ |
| Projects | Mini projects | 4 major projects + capstone |
| Certificate | DIT certificate (₹99 add-on) | Professional AI certification |
| Mentoring | During sessions | Private mentoring on your projects |
| Community | WhatsApp group | Lifetime alumni network |
| Demo Day & graduation | — | Yes |
| Career support | — | Portfolio and career guidance |
| Fee | ₹9,999 + GST | ₹1,00,000 + GST (₹1,18,000 total) |
Guest faculty
Faculty who teach in the programme.
Directors, engineers, founders and educators from Morgan Stanley, KPMG, J.P. Morgan, Capgemini and more teach alongside Ali, live, in the weekend bootcamp and the Applied AI Fellowship.
Ali Abbas Merchant
Director, Morgan Stanley
Prompt engineering
- Featured in New York's Times Square
- Co-founder, PlacementRush
- CTO of EDC, VJTI · multiple coding-competition wins
Tausif Panjwani
Director, KPMG
Guest faculty
- Director at KPMG
Ali Raza Panjwani
Ex-Deloitte
Guest faculty
- Formerly at Deloitte
Danish Khan
Ex-Mastercard
Guest faculty
- Formerly at Mastercard
Ayaan Ali Khunt
Founder, TrueTech
Guest faculty
- Founder of TrueTech
Hussain Amreli
AI engineer, Capgemini
Prompt engineering
- Masters in AI & Data Science, KJ Somaiya
- 7 years in AI · ex-Wipro, ex-Teradata
- Toastmasters president
Ali Abbas Kanadia
Software engineer, J.P. Morgan Chase
Ethical and effective use of AI
- Specialised in deep learning
- Neural networks & ML certified
- Backend developer, Unicode
Komail Merchant
Chartered accountant & CA firm owner
AI automations
- Running his CA firm for about 15 years
- Five-star rated corporate trainer
- Trained teams at brands like Air India
Ali Asgar
Founder, GIDS Tech
Setting up a startup
- Regional IT head, Lifestyle International
- IT manager, Shoppers Stop
- Tech manager, Croma
Ms. Yamina
Founder & CEO, Tofu Digital
Organic sales and branding
- Founder, YAMINA Healthcare
- Worked with Masina & Jaslok hospitals
- Visiting faculty, MyCaptain
Murtuza Jaffry
AI analyst, Athetaa Solutions
Co-mentor
- IBM certified data scientist
- Studied at the University of Michigan
- Built an AI financial-fraud detection system
Mustafa Zaidi
Director & Head of School (PYP & MYP)
AI strategy
- AI strategist and educator
- Executive programme, IIT Guwahati (Accredian)
- Former lead programmer, Marvel Infotech
Ali Malpara
App creator & DevOps expert, Canada
Building and shipping apps
- Apps that reached #1 on Google Play
- Creator of Asma-ul-Husna and Synapse Spark
- AWS, DigitalOcean and Vapor projects
Zahra Nayani
Prompt engineering trainer
Prompt and context engineering
- WhiteHat Jr certified trainer
- Google AdWords certified
- Upskilled at IIM, NMIMS, D.Y. Patil, Parul University
Ms. Saba Sayed
Robotics engineer & AI educator
Robotics and AI for kids
- Masters in AI & Robotics
- Has taught 5,000+ children
- Teaches AI in BMC schools
Zia Shroff
Founder of two startups
Vibe coding co-mentor
- Kreative Kiddiez Korner & Kreative Kartz
- Content creator and graphic designer
- Runs workshops for kids
Shabnam Mamdani
Trainer, DIT
Vibe coding
- Trains students at DIT
- Expert in vibe coding
Wajiha Lalani
Occupational therapist & host
Weekend host
- Former HOD, IZM school
- Child psychologist
- AI generalist and public speaker
Kashish Dawoodani
Fintech & taxation expert
Weekend host
- Ex-Amazon India
- Trained finance MIS executives
- AI generalist and public speaker
Sakina Valli
Head of Outreach & Operations, DIT
Co-mentor
- Founder, Inara Creations
- Worked with Alkem Labs
- Graphic designer and host
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Apply for the next cohort.
- 1ApplyTell us about your background and what you want to build.
- 2InterviewAdmission is by interview. Not everyone is accepted.
- 3ReserveIf you're accepted, reserve your seat with ₹5,000 using the link our admissions team sends you.
- 4BeginWeekend sessions and private mentoring start with your cohort.
Reserve your seat with ₹5,000. Pay the remaining balance in instalments over the first 8 weeks of your cohort.
Applying is free and is not an acceptance. The reservation is only for accepted applicants, through the link our admissions team sends after your interview.
No prerequisite: you can apply directly. Prefer something shorter? The two-day bootcamp is a separate programme.
Questions about the Applied AI Fellowship
When are classes?
Weekends (Saturday and Sunday), hybrid: join online or at a DIT centre, so you can learn without disrupting work.
Are sessions recorded?
Yes. Every live session is recorded, usually within 24 hours, with lifetime access. Mentors can help you catch up if you miss one.
I'm not technical. Can I join?
Yes. The fellowship is built for non-coders; you build with no-code tools.
How much time does it take each week?
About 10–12 hours: 6 hours of live weekend sessions plus 4–6 hours of assignments and project work.
Will I get a certificate?
Yes. When you complete the programme and submit your capstone, you receive DIT's Professional AI Certification at the graduation ceremony.
What does private mentoring include?
Individual guidance, feedback on your own projects and help applying AI to your work or business. Private mentoring is led by Ali Mehdi Hemani, with DIT's trainers and mentors. The mentoring schedule is agreed with your cohort.
Is the ₹5,000 reservation an extra fee?
No. It's the first part of your full programme fee. You pay it only after you've been accepted, and the remaining balance is split into four interest-free instalments over the first 8 weeks of your cohort.
Is there card EMI?
Yes, separately from DIT's own instalment plan. No-cost EMI is available on eligible credit cards and select eligible debit cards, subject to bank approval and the offers shown at checkout. Your bank may charge a processing fee, plus GST on that fee.
What if I miss a class?
Every live session is recorded, usually within 24 hours, so you can catch up. Your mentor can help you with anything you missed.
Do I need to do the bootcamp or a workshop first?
No. You can apply directly. The free AI 101 workshop and the two-day bootcamp are separate programmes, not prerequisites.
How is this different from the bootcamp?
The bootcamp is two intensive days. The fellowship is 12 weeks of depth: real projects, private mentoring, a capstone, Demo Day and certification.