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Course Description

The Agentic AI Certificate de-mystifies the technology and clarifies ways to leverage it for business value.  

This certificate equips professionals with the skills to design and deploy autonomous AI agents that proactively solve problems, optimize workflows, and drive strategic outcomes. The focus will be on the approach, logic, and operational value. Participants will learn to architect solutions with vendor-independent blueprints, and to leverage cutting-edge tools like large language models (LLMs), vector databases, and decision-making frameworks to build AI systems that operate with limited human oversight. 

This highly interactive program emphasizes real-world applications, enabling businesses to reduce operational costs, improve decision velocity, and unlock new revenue streams. Graduates will understand how to integrate agentic AI into enterprise systems, from customer service to supply chain optimization, accelerating digital transformation initiatives. 

The curriculum balances technical fluency with ethical considerations and governance strategies, ensuring AI adoption aligns with corporate responsibility. Ideal for business managers, innovation leads, data professionals, and business strategists, this certificate turns theoretical AI knowledge into tangible business value

 

Course Outline

Module 1: Agentic AI Essentials for Business Leaders

Explore the foundations of agentic AI and why it matters to modern organizations. Discover what sets agentic AI apart from traditional automation and how it's transforming business as we know it.

Module 2: Strategic AI Opportunity Mapping
Description: Learn how to identify, evaluate, and prioritize agentic AI use cases across your business functions. Create opportunity maps that align with broader business strategy.

Module 3: Building ChatGPT Business Agents
Hands-on immersion into designing, testing, and refining ChatGPT agents. You’ll move beyond prompts to design full workflows, define memory, and prototype autonomous tools.

Module 4: Ethics, Trust, and Governance of Agents

Explain the extensive ethical and regulatory implications of autonomous agents. Develop risk mitigation strategies for your organization and build guardrails into your GPTs.

Module 5: Leading Agentic AI Adoption

How to build, support, and upskill teams, and manage organizational change around AI agents. Develop leadership strategies to turn tech vision into adoption reality.

Module 6: Capstone: From Prototype to Practice
Integrating the prior AI agent work to date, design, build, and present a polished AI agent prototype powered by ChatGPT for a real-world business task—with strategy, ethics, and change planning in mind.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of the certificate, you’ll be able to:

  • Build and Deploy Autonomous Agents- Learn to design, prototype, and launch AI agents using tools such as LangChain, OpenAI APIs, and vector databases—delivering real-world automations in customer support, research, or task delegation.
  • Integrate Agentic AI into Business Workflows -Identify high-impact use cases in their organization and embed AI agents into processes such as lead generation, internal reporting, or knowledge management to increase efficiency and reduce manual workload.
  • Quantify ROI of Agentic AI Solutions -Develop the ability to measure and articulate the value of AI agents through KPIs such as time saved, response quality, reduced cost-to-serve, or increased conversion rates—translating technical output into executive-ready metrics.
  • Leverage Decision-Making Frameworks for Autonomous Agents - Apply planning and reasoning frameworks (e.g., ReAct, AutoGPT-style agents) to enable agents to complete multi-step tasks aligned with business goals, from summarizing competitor intelligence to auto-generating marketing briefs.
  • Ensure Ethical and Responsible Deployment -Implement protocols for AI safety, data privacy, and bias mitigation, ensuring AI agents align with corporate governance policies and compliance standards.
  • Deliver an AI Agent Capstone for Immediate Use - Each student will leave the program with a functioning, business-relevant agent or agent prototype—ready for testing or rollout within their organization, showcasing direct applicability of skills learned

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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Type
Online
Dates
Nov 03, 2025 to Dec 14, 2025
Contact Hours
32.0
Course Tuition
Tuition non-credit $2,995.00
Potential Discount(s)
Section Notes

Online Self-directed Learning Plus (SDL+)

Designed to maximize flexibility for your weekly learning schedule, while also providing opportunities for real-time engagement and networking with our faculty and other professional learners.There is a required Zoom class session each week.

Professional learners who cannot attend a class session will have the opportunity to satisfy the course requirement by making arrangements with the instructor. Each course module will have assignment and assessment deadlines to support students in progressing in a timely manner to the successful completion of the certificate

Offered in small class sizes (< 24) to provide quality instructional and social interactions with the instructor and other students.The required class meetings on Zoom will be on Wednesday evenings from 7:00-9:00 PM ET.

 

For assistance in answering your questions and registration, please contact the Enrollment Team PDCprograms@georgetown.edu

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