2024 Sapporo AI Dojo Global Course（Highly Skilled Foreign IT Engineers and Students）

OPEN FOR FREE REGISTRATION！
Acquire practical AI skills through PBL
Shift from AI professionals “just with knowledge” to “with practical skills”
Highly skilled foreign IT engineers employed by companies inSapporo or aiming to work for companies in Sapporo

Targetapplicants
How to recruit

Public advertisement

Number ofapplications

Around ５
Face-to-face + online (online)
Approx. 4 hours of seminars and exercises per week

Training methods

・Having a certain level of programming skills
・Having a certain level of knowledge about AI
・Being able to contribute to the project in good faith

Criteria forselection※In addition to the above, selection will be strictly conducted by some experts,
considering roles in the team.
※Japanese language skill to be considered.

Sapporo City offers such advanced services to build a preferable
working environment for people coming from overseas.
The Process from Entry to Participation
Application Period(6/20～7/19)

7/8
Opening
Ceremony

The following schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Selection

Kick-off MTG(until late Aug)(late Aug)

PBL
ParticipationOutcome
Presentation
Event(Sep - Feb)

（ 2025 Feb ）Apply Here→ https://forms.gle/Y9hoyYX3ied2gJDN7【Organizer】（Management Office：Sapporo City／SAPPORO ELECTRONICS AND INDUSTRIES CULTIVATION FOUNDATION）【Contact Information】
Operations Office: (CHOWA GIKEN Corporation) TEL: 011-717-7017 E-mail: ai_dojo@chowagiken.co.jp

The Sapporo AI Dojo is a program that simultaneously provides PBL to develop human resourceof AI and PoC to demonstrate AI development based on real-world problems in companies. We
are pleased to invite both participants who would like to learn AI and companies which would
like to solve problems with AI through the public advertisement for the AI Dojo.

Point 01

Solve real-world problems of local companies with AI by collaboration of AI
talents and those companies.

Point 02

Acquire practical development skills through case studies.

Point 03

Visualize roadmap to implement AI through PoC.

Overall image

Actual data
Companies facing
challenges

Real-world
Problems

Sapporo AI Dojo
Engineers / Students
who want to learn AI(Monkasei）

Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
Proof of Concept (PoC)

High-Skilled AI
Engineers/Researchers（Shihan）

Guiding
Late AugSep - JanPBL exercises

Preliminary preparations
Builddevelopment
environment,
learn AI

Kick-off MTG

Interview andsort out
problems,
decide scope

Feb

Investigate
methodology,
Study system

Collect Data,
CreateTraining data

DevelopAI model

Regular plenary meetings / seminars (approx. 10 times)
Team meetings

Presentation

Evaluate model,
Improve quality

Interim Report

Review
presented
proposals

Presentation

Open for Registration!
Why not try AI to solve business problems of your company?
TargetapplicantsCompanies that want to solve business problems with AI.

Number ofapplications

Around 5 companies

Criteria forselection●Whether AI is truly expected to grow the company●Cooperative for hearing process to ensure smooth implementation of the exercises.
●Willing to consent to publication of activities in AI Dojo.
●Able to provide actual data to be used in the program.
※In addition to the above, the level of difficulty and feasibility of tasks will be consideredduring the selection process.

*Eligible for companies outside Sapporo. To be determined by selection.