The AI revolution is not coming — it is already here. Those who understand the fundamentals now will lead. Those who wait will be left behind. There has never been a more important moment to start. We’ve been building for our community: the AI Academy — a multiple-session workshop series designed specifically for us.

No technical background required. No jargon. Just practical, hands-on sessions where you leave with something you actually built.

The series will be facilitated by P&G Alumni Internal Comms Lead: Alina Merchant along with other experts. Series at a glance:

• AI Foundations & Prompt Mastery, Trainer: Alina Merchant,
• AI-Powered Career Accelerator, Trainer: Shams Mawji & Aly Mawji
• Personal AI Chief of Staff, Create Knowledge Management, Trainer: Aqeel Ahmad
• Content & Creativity for Your Business, Trainer: Chris Nwosu
• Personal Finance Management, Trainer: Shams Mawji & Aly Mawji
• AI-Powered LinkedIn Content Creation, Trainer: Krystian Jablonski

Each session is 90 minutes. And every single session ends with you leaving with something tangible you built yourself.

We Start with AI Foundations & Prompt Mastery
📅 [2nd July, 2026] | 🕕 [6:30PM] | 📍 [Venue: Visible when you login the P&G Alumni Portal to register]

The truth is, AI is only as useful as the way you communicate with it. In 90 minutes, we’ll cut through the noise on what AI actually is (and what it isn’t), and then go deep on the skill that changes everything: how to prompt effectively.

We’ll cover the basics of AI foundation, anatomy of a well-structured prompt and explore techniques that most people have never tried. This workshop is for you, if:

• You use ChatGPT or similar tools occasionally, but feel you’re only scratching the surface of what they can do
• You’re a senior professional with limited time and zero interest in learning to code — you just want tools that work
• You’re curious about AI but intimidated by the jargon, the hype, and the pace of change
• You want to understand the fundamentals before everyone else moves too far ahead

Seats are limited to keep the session interactive.

About the Trainer for AI Foundations & Prompt Master: Alina Merchant

Alina is Co-founder and Director of WeCrunch, an AI-powered data analytics company transforming how FMCG brands harness data for smarter decision-making. Before co-founding WeCrunch, she built her career in brand building and marketing leadership at global corporations including Procter & Gamble and The Hershey Company, where she developed deep expertise in consumer understanding, brand strategy, and commercial excellence.

Alina is not a technologist. She is a business leader who discovered, through daily practice and creating solutions for FMCGs, that AI is one of the most powerful tools available to professionals today: for business and for how they run their own lives. It simplifies noise, sharpens thinking, and reclaims time for other things that matter.

That personal experience is what drives her passion for helping others get there too. Her approach is practical, jargon-free, and firmly rooted in the reality of senior professional life: real challenges, real tools, and results you can see the very next morning.

DETAILED AGENDA

• 6.30pm Registration and networking
• 7.00 Welcome and network update
• 7.10 Member spotlights (register your interest in the link below)
• 7.20 Main session
• 8.20 Q&A and closing

CONTRIBUTION:

AED 100. Please bring change – only cash will be accepted.

DETAILS:

2nd July, 2026
 6:30pm sharp (plan for traffic congestions)
 Visible when you login the P&G Alumni Portal to register

RSVP: Kindly register for the event by clicking here.

• If you like to participate in our 3-minute member spotlight, register your interest here.
• If you would also like to volunteer for this event, register your interest for volunteering here.
• If you would like to sponsor the event by providing a discount code or freebies, or host us, click here.
• If you have any issues, drop us an email on uae.chapter@pgalums.com with your full name. 
• Don’t forget to add the event to your calendar!